REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1516, 6 August 1881, Page 2

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

London, August 2. The homeward Australian arid NeW Zealand mails via San Francisco, which left Auckland on the. 21st June, were delivered in London on the Ist instant } and those via Suez and Brindisi, which left Melbourne on June 21, were delivered to-day. August 3. Bradlaugh, it has transpired, will, on Friday, apply to the Police Court for a summons against the police in* spector, for illegally removing him from the House of Commons. It is announced that the Cabinet Council has been summoned for the special purpose of reconsidering the Parliamentary Oaths question. L. H. Courtney, M.P. for Liskeard, will succeed M. E. Grant Duff, as Under-Secretary for the Colonies. THE TRANSVAAL CONVENTION. Capetown, August 3. Telegrams are to hand from Pretoria, announcing that the Royal Commissioners having received a communication from the British Government, approving of the draft convention for the settlement of the. Transvaal question, have now signed the document, and have left Pretoria for their various homes. The formal transferor Government from British officers to Transvaal authority will not, however, take place until Monday, Bth inst. News is to hand from Pretoria that after the conclusion of the labors of the Royal Commission, Sir Hercules Robinson convened a meeting of the native chiefs of the Transvaal. His Excellency explained to them at length the decision arrived at by the Royal Commissioners and Boer leaders for the future Government of the Transvaal. The chiefs express themselves dissatisfied with the decision, and threaten to resist the exercise of Boer authority in the country. + LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS, Melbourne, August 4. In both Houses of Parliament to-day, the Address in reply to the Governor’s speech was agreed to without opposition. Sydney, August 5. The child Woods, who has been suffering from small-pox since July 25th, died at the Quarantine station to-day. The Premier, the Hon. Sir Henry Parkes is indisposed, and has retired to Falconbridge, to recruit his health.