Telegraphing news.

Dunstan Times, Issue 989, 1 April 1881, Page 3

Telegraphing news.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

. . London, March 22nd Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales started to-day on a visit to St Petersburg!!.. Parts, March 22nd. The Opera House at Nice was totally destroyed by fire to-night. The co-flagra-tion broke out during the performance, and nearly one hundred persons perished in the flames. London, March 24th. It is announced that orders have been telegraphed from the Horse Guards to General Sir Frederick Roberts at the Cape, instructing him to return to England without proceeding to the Transvaal, in accordance with instructions issued to him on his departure from England. In the House nf Commons to-day, it was stated that one nf the first acts of the Czar Alexander 111., had been to definitely recall General Skobeloff, and| order the permanent cessation of hostilities against the Turcomans. March 25th. In the course of the debate last evening, the Marquis of Hartington stated in his speech that a rupture of diplomatic relations between England and Russia would result if the Government of the latter interfered with the affairs of Afghanistan. March 2Sth. Mr Parnell is now engaged in the formation of a Land League in England. The wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2,230,000 quarters. Constantinople, March 28th. In view of the possibility of hostilities breaking out between Turkey and Greece, the Sultan has asked the Khedive that a contingent of Egyptian troops may be sent for service in Turkey if war is declared. The funeral of the late Czar took place to-day.