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Kumara Times, Issue 2543, 28 October 1884, Page 2

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[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] I!v Electric Telegraph—Copyright. > < THE REFORM QUESTION. IMMENSE MEETING IN HYDE PARK. PROPOSED ABOLITION OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS. MASSACRE OF COL. STEWART AND PARTY. MODIFICATION OF THE FRENCH RECIDIVISTS BILL. “THE TIMES” ON THE MODIFIED BILL. INSTRUCTIONS WITH REGARD TO SOUDAN. (Received October 28, noon.) London, October 27. An immense demonstration took place to-day at Hyde Park on the Reform question, when resolutions were passed in favour of the Abolition of the House of Lords. Fully one hundred thousand people were present. The proceedings passed off in an orderly manner. Cairo, October 27. News is to hand from Dongola that messenger a who have returned there

from the direction of Berber state that no doubt can now be entertained that Colonel Stewart and the whole party were massacred by the rebels at Wad-el-Homar. Paris, October 27. The Senate has modified the Recidivistes Bill so as to leave Government the choice of settlements to which criminals shall be transported. London, October 27. The Times to-day approves of the action of the French Senate in regard to the Recidiviste Bill, and expresses a hope that Government will see its way to exempt New Caledonia from tiie list of places to which criminals will continue to be sent. Papers in regard to Soudan, laid before Parliament, show that Gordon considers it impossible to leave Khartoum ungoverned ; that Wolseley’s instructions are to bring away General Gordon and Colonel Stewart from Khartoum, and that he is forbidden to take any ulterior operations. It is further shown that England and Egypt have decided to refuse Governors to the territory of Soudan lying south of Wady-Halfa. Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriter’s Association:— London, October 27. Arrived, the ship Port Adelaide, from Lyttelton, June 27.