LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Kumara Times, Issue 2292, 2 January 1884, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN

INTELLIGENCE. 1 — [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. REPORT OF THE WESTERN PACIFIC COMMISSION. CHAIRMAN VICTORIAN RAILWAY BOARD. HOMEWARD MAILS. FAILURE OF THE BROGDENS. RIOTING IN NEWFOUNDLAND. RIVAL MEETINGS OF .PARNELLITES AND ORANGEMEN. REPULSE OF SOUDAN REBELS. CAPTURE OF AN EL MAHDI FOLLOWER. MURDER OF COLONEL SUDEIKEN, BY NIHILISTS. (Received December 31, 0.50 a.m.) London, December 29. The report of the Western Pacific Commission is published to-day. The report commends the supervision of the trade and labor traffic by the Colonial Agents, and urges that the agemts should be appointed by the Crown. It recommends that the labor trade should be more closely watched by the naval authorities in Australia, and that resident deputy Commissioners should be appointed to the various islands. The report is opposed to the control of the Polynesian aud New Guinea race being vested in a Colonial Government. Mr Speight, the newly-appointed Chairman of the Victorian Railway Board, has sailed for Australia. The Homeward mails via San Francisco, from Auckland November 8, were delivered here to-day. Obituary.—Sir John Bayley Darrall, K.C.G., formerly Attorney-General and member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales. (Received January 2, 1.5 a.m.) December 31. Messrs Alexander Brogden and and Henry Brogden, the well-known railway contractois of Wednesbury, have filed petitions in insolvency. The liabilities of each are set down at three quarters of a million sterling. Telegrams which have arrived from Newfoundland report that the town of Harbor Grace, the scene of the recent riots between Orangemen and Catholics, is now quiet, and a recurrence of the disturbance is not anticipated. (Received January 2, noon.) January 1. Rival meetings of Parnellites and Orangemen having been announced to be held to-day, Dr. Moore, County Down (Ireland) Executive, has despatched a large force of troops numbering a thousand men to the scene with the object of stopping any disturbance. (Received January 2, 1.5 a.m.) Cairo, December 30. Despatches received from Soudan state that the garrison at Zezirch, near Berjeck, were recently attacked by a large force of rebel fanatics; but the latter, after several hours' fighting, were repulsed with heavy loss. (Received January 2, noon.) December 31. News is to hand from Soudan that Baker Pasha has captured one of the followers of El Mahdi, and seized letters written by the robel leader which contains statements leading to the belief that an advance against Egypt proper was contemplated by Mahdi. (Received December 31, 3.30 p.m.) St. Petersburg, December 30. Colonel Sudeiken, of the Russian gendarmerie, was murdered to-day by Nihilists. No trace of the assassins has yet been obtaiued.