REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1987, 11 January 1883, Page 2

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. DEATH OF SIR SAMUEL MARTIN. THE BOERS AND NATIVES. FLOODS AND LOSS OF LIFE IN HUNGARY. TERRIBLE FIRE AT AN HOTEL, MILWAUKEE. SEVENTY-SIX PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH. ARRIVAL OF ARABI AND REBELS AT CEYLON. London, January 10. The death is announced of Sir Samuel Martin, formerly one of the Barons of the Exchequer, aged 82. Cape Town, January 9. News is to hand that further engagements have taken place between the Boei’S and the Natives on the western frontier of the Transvaal, under Mapoch, resulting in the defeat of the former. Buda-Pesth, January 9. Heavy rains have fallen in Hungary, and serious floods have resulted, causing great destruction of property and the death of many people. (Received January 11, 1.15 p.m.) Paris, January 10. The French press, in discussing the circular issued by England to the Powers explaining its intentions in regard to Egypt, urges that France should hold fast to its position in that country. New York, January 10.

The Princess Louise is now at Charleston, South Carolina, and remains there for the winter. Her Royal Highness has greatly improved in health.

A serious lire occurred to-day at one of the leading hotels in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The building was completely destroyed and seventy-six persons perished in the flames. Colombo, January 10.

Arabi and the leading Egyptian rebels who have been exiled to Ceylon, arrived to-day from Suez.

[special to press association.] London, January 5, The Rhine is falling slowly, but the Danube is rising. The floods throughout Baden, Hungary, and the Palatinate, have been most terrible, and they have also been felt to a serious extent in Prance, Belgium, and Austria.

M. Jules Ferry will probably succeed to the leadership of the Gambettist party in France. The Bill for the reform of the American Civil Service, and securing its independence of politics, has passed through Congress. The exportsof British produce last year represented a value ot £242,000,000, and the imports were valued at £411,000,000. January 7. The Statist advises the Australian Banks to terminate the war rate. The Pall Mall Gazette suggests that investors should teach Victoria and Hew Zealand that their loan minimums are too high by not applying for them. Two hundred thousand persons viewed the body of M. Garabetta while lying in state in the Palais Bourbon. The funeral can be compared favorably with the ceremony on the occasion of the transfer of the ashes of Napoleon. All trade was suspended, and the statue of Strasburg was draped with black. Twenty-four regiments of the line kept the route of the funeral procession, and three cars loaded with wreaths of immortelles, I’oceived from the remotest parts of France, preceded the hearse, which was followed by members of Parliament, by hundreds of deputations from public bodies throughout the Empire, by the carriages of the Ambassadors of Foreign Powers, and upwards of 50,000 mourners. There was an enormous crowd of on-lookei’s, and the cemetery was not reached until five hours after the procession started. At the cemetery, M. Brisson addressed tho.se assembled, and urged the necessity of nuioft-in order to achieve M. Gambetta’s aspirations.