LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2356, 17 March 1884, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright, HOMEWARD ’FRISCO MAILS. ARRIVAL OF THE AORANGI FROM LYTTELTON. SOUDAN WAR POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. GENERAL GRAHAM NOT TO ADVANCE TO BERBER. THE FRENCH IN TONQUIN FOLLOWING UP THEIR VICTORY AT BACNINH. CHARGE OF INCITING ANARCHY IN BUDA-PESTH. ARREST OF THIRTY-SIX MEN. (Received March 16, 11 a.m.) London, March 14. The Homeward mails via San Francisco, from Auckland February 5, were delivered to-day. March 15. The steamship Aorangi, from Lyttelton January 31, has arrived at Plymouth. (Received March IV, 11.45 a.m.) In the House of Commons to day Lord Hartington, Secretary of State for War, replying to a question, announced that intelligence had been received that the telegraph wire between Shendy and Khartoum had been cut and that a steamer from Khartoum had been fired upon. It was assumed, his Lordship added, from these facts that the tribes inhabiting the country between Shendy and Khartoum were now in rebellion. Lord Edmond Fitzraaurice, Political Secretary to the Foreign Office, replying to a question, stated that an order had been issued to General Graham not to advance to Berber. Paris, March 15. Telegrams from Trnquin announce that the French troops are following up their recent victory, and are pursuing the Chinese and driving them from their various positions in the neighborhood of Bacninh. The Press generally urge that the troops should advance toward the Chinese frontier. (Received March 17, 2.30 p.m.) The Parisian and other French papers continue to urge that the victory of Bacninh should be promptly followed up, and recommend that the French army should forthwith advance upon and occupy Hanghoa and other towns to the westward of Bacninh. Vienna, March 16. The police at Buda-Pesth have effected the arrest of fhirty-six men on a charge of plotting to incite anarchy iu that city.