Telegraphic.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1005, 22 July 1881, Page 2

Telegraphic.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN London, July 13. Intelligence has been received from Tripoli that several Turkish ironclads have arrived off the Capital. The French war ships in the same waters are watohir - the movements of the Turkish vessels.

Further telegrams state that the revolt of the Arabs is spreading. The tribes at Gabes, a seaport in the Gulf of the same name, on the Tunisian coast have risen. The French and other European residents in the tow nhave taken refuge on board the shipping in port. ... July 14.

The anniversary of the French Republic was celebrated to-day as a public holiday throughout France. Festivities were organised in all parts of Paris, and passed off with groat eclat. Telegrams are to hand to-day from Tripoli announcing that certain emissaries despatched by the French Government to the Governor-General of Tripoli have been placed under arrest on their arrival at the capital. July 15. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain a) this date is 1,720,000qr5, July 5. In the House of Commons, Sir C. Dilke stated that the Government had no intention of asking the Government of China to restrict the immigration of Chinese to Now South Wales. July 6. The complications arising out of the Frauco-Tunisian trouble arc assuming an alarming aspect. It is feared they will give rise to an European eruption. The heat in England has been unusually severe, especially in London. At a military review at Aldershot four soldiers were killed by sunstroke, and between thirty and forty wore affected with it, some of them [seriously. July 7. July 4th and sth were fearfully hot in America, and numerous cases of fatal sunstroke are reported from Now York. July 9. The police have succeeded in arresting the supposed perpetrator of the horrible murder recently committed in a railway carriage on the Brighton line. July 16. News has just been received that the French have been successful over the insurgent tribes at Sfax. Under cover of a heavy bombardment by the ships, a strong stormiug party effected a landing this morning. The Arabs offered a Arm defence, but after heavy fighting they were driven back, and the French forces are now in full possession of the town. Washington, July 16. This morning’s bulletin reports that President Garfield progresses favorably. He is rapidly gaining strength, anil his complete recovery now seems assured. Calcutta, July 18. Ayoub Khan has left his camp at Ferrah, and crossed the frontier into Indian territory. He is now at Hyderabad, in the Province of Scinde. His motive for acting thus has not yet transpired. Paris, July 16. Don Carlos, the well-known claimant of the throne of Spain, who has been residing in France in the termination of the Spanish civil war, has been accused by the French Government of the intriguing with the Legitimist Party. He was arrested today and conducted to the frontier, and forbidden to re-outer the country. Lp'.s'Pavuly 18. Agitation in favor oftenants, which was recently ..mongst the Irish laboring classes in England, is now showing signs of revival. There are grounds for believing that the reported commutation of capital sentences upon the murderers of the late Sultan is incorrect, the Sultan having declined to spare the lives of Midhat and his confederates.