REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1355, 3 February 1881, Page 2

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. London, January 31. In the House of Commons to-day, Sir Charles Dilke, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, was questioned as to the present state of negotiations for the settlement of the Greek frontier difficulty. In reply he stated that the question of holding a ence was no longer under consideration, but that it had been agreed that the Ambassadors of the Powers at the. Turkish and Greek Courts should negotiate in. the matter, and there wasevery hope that the invited action would bring out a peaceful solution of the frontier difficulty. In the House of Commons, Mr Childers, Secretary for War, in reply to a question, said that the total reinforcements expected to arrive at Durban, Natal, by Fabruary 10th, for service in Transvaal, would be 4500. He added that the Boers had not committed any outrages, and would be treated- according to the rules of civilised warfare. February 1. The death of, Mrs Anna Maria Hall, the Irish authoress, is announced today. The debate in the House of Commons on the Irish Coercion Bill, was resumed last evening. Gladstone refused to agree to the compromise which was demanded by the opponents of the measure, and insisted that a division should be taken. The Irish members have, however, resumed their obstruction, and the debate continues. A ladies’section of the Irish Land League will be initiated in Dublin. News has come to hand to-day that the Fenians have caused placards to be posted throughout Ireland, setting forth their rights iu inflammatory tones. The police have, however, acted promptly, and have destroyed all placards which had been posted, and a quantity intended for further distribution. + . LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Albany, Februay 2. The P. and O. Company’s steamship Peshawar, with the inward Suez mail, has arrived in King George’s Sound en route for Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney. Brisbane, February 2. An enthusiastic meeting was held last evening under the Presidency of the Hon. Mr O’Dougherty, M.L.C., at which resolutions were adopted that branches of Irish Land League should be formed. A vote of thanks to Parnell was also passed.