LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2350, 10 March 1884, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. THE GARRISON AT KASSALA. FRANCHISE REFORM BILL.—PROPOSED AMENDMENT. WESTERN PACIFIC COMMISSION FINAL REPORT. FIRM OP INSOLVENT SOLICITORS ABSCONDING. THE DYNAMITE PLOTTERS. ARRIVAL OP THE REDMONDS AT QUEENSTOWN, IRELAND. GENERAL GRAHAM AND OSMAN DIQUCH REBELS. BRADLAUGH IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. REVOLT OP BEDOUIN ARABS IN ARABIA. OPENING OP THE GERMAN PARLIAMENT. (Received March 8, 7.35 p.m.) London, March 4. In the House of Commons this afternoon, Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated, in reply to a question, that Government did not intend to order the British troops in Soudan to relieve the garrison at Kassala, a town near the border of Abyssinia, and which was reported to have been threatened by hostile natives, as it was now believed that the garrison would be able to withdraw without molestation. The Right Hon. Lord John Manners has given notice of an important amendment to the Premier’s Reform Bill. The amendment declares the proposed reform of the franchise to be unacceptable unless it be accompanied by a bill for the redistribution of seats. (Received March 9, 11 a.m.) March 5, evening. The final report of the Western Pacific Commission has been laid before Parliament. It condemns the supervision of labor traffic by the Colonial Agents, and urges that the latter should be appointed by the Crown. A recommendation was made that the labor traffic should be more closely watched by the naval authotities of Australia, and that resident deputy commissioners should be appointed to the various islands; Opposition was expressed to the control of the Polynesian and New Guinea races being vested in the Colonial Governments. It further recommends that the High Commissioner of the Western Pacific should be disconnected from the Governorship of Fiji, and that a High Commissioner should reside at New Guinea. March 6. A firm of solicitors, Messrs Parker, of Bedford Row, have become insolvent, and the partners have absconded. Their liabilities are not fully known, but they are believed to be heavy. It is supposed that the men implicated in the recent dynamite outrages at the metropolitan railway stations have made their way to France, and several police officers have gone to that country with a view to detect them. Representations having been made to the French police on the subject, every assistance is being afforded to the English officers to effect the arrest of the offenders. In the House of Commons to-day, the Marquis of Hartington, Secretary for War, in reply to a question, stated that it had been left to the option of Majcr-General Graham, whether an attack should be made upon' the rebels under Osman Diquch, who were now menacing Souakim. March 7. At the instance of the Government proceedings have been commenced by Attorney-General Sir Henry James, Q. 0., against Bradlaugh, for illegally sitting and voting in the House of Commons on the 11th February. (Received March 10, 11.30 a.in.) March 8, morning, | The Messrs Redmor.d have arrived ; at Queenstown from New York, They ’

were warmly welcomed by a large con. course of Leaguers. Mr J. E. Redmond made a speech in which he dwelt upon the success of their mission to the Australian Colonies and America, and announced that the National League would continue to maintain its position—no compromise with landlords; and expressed the opinion that until the latter were abolished, crime and outrages in Ireland were not likely to cease. Arrived, the steamship Potosi, from Melbourne January 26th. (Received March 9, 11 a.m.) Cairo, March 7. News has been received from Jeddah, a seaport in Arabia, on the eastern shore of the Red Sea, that the Bedouin Arabs living in the neighborhood have broken out in revolt, and have already committed great excesses. Constantinople, March 4. In consequuence of the outcry raised by the inhabitants of Candia against the Musselman Governor of that island, the Porte has agreed to accede to the demand of the people, and has revoked the appointment of (he Governor. Berlin, March 6. The German Parliament was opened to-day by the Emperor, whose speech on the occasion dwelt on the strengthening of the hereditary friendship between Germany and her neighbours, which, his Majesty said, was the security for the peace of Europe.