LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 20, 2 August 1887, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

...vi "■ - ♦ ~ j ' ..[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] : f aSUTPBS's TBriBOBA_IB\ I \l ; Londoh, July3o. Sir J, Pope Heniiessy. baa. iasned ]n writ ' againkt The Times for libeLnnd claims L 20.000 damages for alleged de* famation of character in na article respecting his restoration to the Governor* .ship of Mauritius. ■ . 7 ; ' ' ?'■ V* - & * '> •■ ' \ France ban consented to be repreV seated at the 'Sugar Bounties ! Confer* ence. ' Shews team . incindes Shrewabmry, ' Lohmann, Bead, Flyett, Calaton, Pogi her, Briggs.and Pilling.. No amateur* have been selected. Mr' Lilly white willpao. company the team as umpire, and 'the tour will include country matches Y AY Sir Hercules Bobirison has declined the Governorship of Hong which h^a riae to some aurprise, ' Itisanho^need in connection with the settlement of the Afghan frontier quest tion that the Bussians will receive fifteen thousand versts on tht Biver Xuak, and Afghaniataa ; about ? twenty^ vents in the Ehoj a Salsb district, :; ii China is pr)aparing:to seize Port Ham* ilton directly it is evacuated by England; nnd the Japanese w^ll consider this a direct -menace, being a breach ef the 1 treaty concluded between the two count tries, under which each should refrain from sending troopa to Corean territory: The pacification of Tonquin is being rapidly effected by the Frenoh. though the Black Flags continue to puah tbei^ victories over the < hinese troopa.