REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 592, 20 August 1878, Page 2

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

TO PRESS AGENCY. PROROGATION OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. THE KAFFIR WAR. London, August 16. Parliament was prorogued to-day. The speech from the throne praises the patriotic offers of military assistance from the Colonies. Adairs in South Africa are causing anxiety, but it is thought that serious troubles are ended. THE AUSTRALIAN 0 RICKETS R 3 Y LANCASHIRE. London, August lb. First innings of the Australians against eleven of the Lancashire Club, closed for 140 runs. Lancashire, second innings, six out for 129. Wicket dead. August 17. The match with Lancashire resulted in a draw. LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS. THE WAR IN BOSNIA. London, August 17. The pretended ultimatum from Germany to the Porte is discredited. Huidel has been beheaded. Colonel Stanley stated in the House of Commons that the news from Cyprus was favorable, bub did not explain the differences from the Daily News account, which says that the efficiency of the corps was paralysed by fever. Twothirds of the medical staff are down, very ill. Five deaths. The relations between Austria and Tarkey continue unsettled. No convention has yet been signed. Great military preparations continue in Bosnia. Three Amtrian regiments refusing to advance were decimated, and, continuing mutinous, more executions followed. Those remaining were then sent pi Loners to Austria. A Servian loan of 24,000,000 francs has been negotiated with a Paris baker. The Moniteur announced a change of the Egyptian Ministry to-day. The administration of the country is entirely in the hands of the Khedive ; Rivers Wil son, Finance Minister. St. Petersburg, August 17.

The Director General of Police has been stabbed by an assassin and killed. Constantinople, August 17. Thirty Turkish hutallious have joined the Bosnians.