LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2359, 20 March 1884, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

♦ [REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. THE FRENCH IN TONQUIN. UTTER ROUTE OF CHINESE AND NATIVE TROOPS. ESTABLISHMENT OF A LINE OF OUTPOSTS WITH HANOI. THE REPUBLICAN CONSPIRACY IN SPAIN. ARREST OF THREE GENERALS. COUNTENANCE IN SWITZERLAND TO ANARCHIST CONSPIRATORS. FORMAL PROTEST OF THE AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT. SHIP ARRIVALS. (Received March 20, 1 a.m.) Paris, March 18. Official despatches from Tonqnin state that the Chinese troops have been utterly routed - at all points, and that General Mellot is now returning to Hanoi, having established a line of outposts in the neighborhood of Bacninh, which is now occupied by a French garrison. Madrid, March 18. Three General officers have been placed under arrest for complicity in the recently-discovered military conspiracy. Vienna, March 18. The Imperial Austrian authorities have addressed a formal protest to the Swiss Federal Government complaining of the countenance which is being given by the Republic to anarchist conspirators, who are permitted to find an asylum and carry out their intrigues in Swiss territory. Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association : —London, March IS—Arrived, at Plymouth, the P. and 0. steamship Carthage, from Melbourne January "I ; and the steam-hip i •••: , irom Millington Jannaiy IvHh, with a cargo of frozen mutton.

[special to press association.] London, March 15. It is rumored that Earl Granville has received information that the rebel tribes at Khartoum have risen in rebellion. A meeting of the Cabinet was held to-day. March 17. A number of disappointed Spanish officers, including two generals, have been arrested on a charge of conspiring against King Alfonso'o Government.

The following special telegrams have been published in the Melbourne Age: London, March 5. The St. James Gazette states that the British Government intend to prohibit the Messageries Maritimes Company from despatching their steamers to Australian ports unless the Recidiviste Bill is abandoned by the French authorities. The Republique Francaise ridicules the threatened prohibition. Le Pays, another journal published in Paris, discusses the matter in a similar vein, and says that the agitation is a cunning excuse on the part of England for the annexation of the New Hebrides on her own account. The report of the proceedings at the Federation Convention in Sydney has been published in a blue-book, which also contains further papers relative to New Guinea and the French Recidivistes. The difficulty which arose in connection with the Victorian gunboats Victoria and Albert, on account of their being neither merchantmen nor men-of-war commissioned by the Imperial Government has been removed by the issue of an Order-in-Council dealing with the matter. Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of Cape Colony, who has been residing in England, sailed from London to-day on his return to the Cape. March 8. An inquiry has been held by the Board of Trade with reference to the collision which took place between the two ships City of Lucknow and Simla in the English Channel on 25th January last. It resulted in the Captain and officers on duty on board the City ot Lucknow at the time of the collision being adjudicated blamable. The Board of Trade have also held an inquiry into the cause of the fatal explosion which occurred near Gravesend on the night of March 1, on board the iron steamer Aberdeen bound from London to Australia. The Board find that the ignition of a consignment of explosives, which caused the fatality, was the result of accident. Captain Mathieson, master of the Aberdeen, who was seriously injured by the explosion, died on March 4. An inquest was held, and a verdict of " Accidental death " was returned, The Earl and Countess of Rosebery returned to London last night. The Messrs Redmond addressed a meeting of the Irish National Land League last night. In the course of their speeches both denied that during their Australian tour they called for cheers for the Queen. A sculliug match for £2OO a side took places on the Thames between Wallace Ross (of Canada) and Bubear (of London). Bubear received 10 sec. start but was beaten by Ross by about 15 lengths. The British Government disapprove, it is said, of the nomination of Zobehr as successor to the Mahdi. Latest advices state that numerous cases of sunstroke are occurring among the British troops, the heat being intense.