REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN. London, August 3. The steamship protos arrived to-day from Me!bourne. Her cargo of meat, consisting of 200 carcases of beef and 4000 sheep, is so far us can be as-cer-tained in excellent condition. P,\i:rs, September 1. Telegrams are (o hand fr<>m Tunis reporting that a severe conflict between French troops and a strong l.odv of Arab insurgents lias taken place at Herniiialea (.-do), resulting in n defeat of the former, after several hours hard fighting. The losses are not rep-.ft d. Svnee the. receipt of the above intelligence the French Government ha< issued orders tor the immedute despatch of reinforcements for the anuv in the Tunisian territory, and slie embark,iti n of troops is now proceeding at Toulm and Marseilles.
Telegrams received to-day from Algiers report that vast . conflagrations, which are known to have been caused by Arab insurgents' have broken out in many parts of the Province. The threatening-attitude of the Aral' fanatics is causing great alarm.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1540, 3 September 1881, Page 2
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