LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2622, 31 January 1885, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright, HOMEWARD MAILS. BANK RATE OF DISCOUNT REDUCED. APPOINTMENT TO THE SEE OF LONDON. EGYPTIAN FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES. THE OCCUPANCY OF BECHUANALAND. MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING ARRIVED AT. GERMAN MAIL STEAMSHIP LINES TO AUSTRALIA. (Received January 20, 1.20 p.m.) London, January 28. The Royal Mail steamship Kaikoura with New Zealand mails dated Wellington, December 21, left Madeira for Plymouth on the 2nd inst. (Received January 30, 12.35 p.m.) January 20. The Bank rate of discount has been reduced from 5 to 4 per cent. (Received January 30, 9.55 p.m.) January 30. The Right Rev. Frederick Temple, D.D., Bishop of Exeter, has been translated to the See of London, vacant l>y the death of Dr, Jackson. Preliminary parleying is still pro-

ceeding between the British Government and the other European Powers with a view of arriving at a satisfactory settlement of the Egyptian financial difficulties ] and the last proposals of the English Cabinet, which include a loan to Egypt under a British guarantee and the rejection of the principle of multiple control by the Powers, of Egyptian finance, as proposed by France, have now been accepted as the basis for further negotiations, (Received January 30, noon.) Capetown, January 28. Telegrams from the Transvaal state that Colonel Warren, commanding the expeditionary force to Bechuanaland has informed President Kruger that no white men will be allowed to remain in the land of Goschen, which the Boer raiders attempted to occupy without permits from the British authorities.

(Received January 30, 9.55 p.m.) January 29. A telegram from Potcheferstrom announces that a mutual understanding has been arrived at between Colonel Warren and President Kruger, of the Transvaal, regarding the settlement of Bechuanaland and the Land of Goshen. It has been decided to order off all Goshenite freebooters who still remain on the land they occupied outside the Convention boundary, Berlin, January 28. The subcommittee of the Reichstag appointed to consider the proposals to subsidise certain lines of mail steamers trading from German ports have adopted the projected line to Australia, but rejected the one to Samoa,

Per Merchant Shipping and Under writer's Association:—

London, January 29. Arrived, the ship Crusader, from Auckland, October 19.

[special to press association.]

London, January 22. The Committee of the German Reichstag have recommended the subsidising of an African-Australian line of steamers.

Mr Parnell, speaking at Cork, urged the laborers and farmers to pay no rent, and also advocated the protection of Irish industries.

It is expected that the dividend in the Oriental Bank estate will be paid in a fortnight. It is believed that the Victorian Government claims against the Oriental Bank estate will be settled by the payment of 20s in the £, without interest.

It is rumoured that the Conference respecting the Pacific Islands will be held in London, and that it will lead to mutual intercourse between Germany and England respecting these islands.

January 23. The Austrian authorities are inquiring into the advisableness of establishing a trans-ocean penal settlement. January 24. The Government of the Transvaal have concluded a commercial treaty with Germany. Germany has annexed North Sierra Leone, on the West Coast of Africa. January 25. The policeman who attempted to remove the parcel of dynamite which exploded at Westminster Hall is dying from the injuries he sustained. Over a hundred apertures were made in the roof of the hall near where the explosion occurred. The contents of the banqueting hall, Council Chambers, and Tower, were much damaged by water during the extinguishing of the fiie caused by the explosion. A Canadian sailor, who was suspected of complicity in the outrage and arrested, has since been released, and an Irish American has been arrested on suspicion. The whole country is intensely indignant at the outrage.