LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2694, 11 May 1885, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[RBDTBE’S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. *>» THE FORMATION OF A COLONIAL NAYY. DEATH OF SIR WATKIN WIL-LIAMS-WYNN. SHOCKING CRIME IN BULGARIA. THE STEAMSHIP TONGARIRO. (Received May 11, 1,40 a.m.) London, May 9. Earl Derby, Colonial Secretary, stated in the House of Lords last night that the Government were quite willing to produce the papers relating to the correspondence between the Admiralty and the Colonies on the subject of the Colonial Navy. May 10. The death is announced, at the age of 65, of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn,. Baronet [M.P. for Denbighshire]. (Received May 11, 1.40 a,m.) Constantinople, May 9. A shocking crime is reported from Bulgaria. A number of soldiers outraged the governess and lady’s maid in the employment of Mr Lascelles, Consular Agent of the British Government at Sofia, capital of the county. The offenders were immediately pursued and arrested. Capetown, May 2. The New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamship Tongariro left for New Zealand yesterday afternoon, [Note. —The above telegram has been delayed by interruption to the line.] THE SYDNEY CONTINGENT AS MOUNTED SCOUTS. [Per Reuter’s Special Correspondent.] (Received May 11, 3 p.m.) Suakin, May 10, Lord Wolseley has expressed his great appreciation of the offer of the Australian troops for service as a body of mounted scouts. *- [special to press association.] London, May 6. Stocks have fallen. Obituary Dr. Nachtigal, special German Commissioner on the West Coast of Africa. Louise Michel, the Communist, is lecturing in Paris. The French paper, “Paris,” in an article on Australia and the Pacific question, fears that the Germans will try to oust the French from the Pacific. It also praises the vine culture of Australia. The University of Oxford confers the degree of D.D. on the Rev. William Webber, Bishop of Brisbane. Earl Granville has thanked Mr J, B. Thurston, Colonial Secretary of Fiji, for his services in connection with the recent Commission of Inquiry into the German land claims of that island.

A firm of eminent engineers and contractors have offered to provide the necessary capital for the construction of a large ocean dock at Adelaide if the local Committee approves.

Ayoub Khan, ex-Ameer of Afghanistan, was arrested by the Persian authorities on demand of the British Minister at Teheran. He was arranging to join the Russian troops at Askabad.

Lord Augustus Loftus, Governor of New South Wales, has written an article to the Pall Mall Gazette, in which he suggests (hat a Council similar to the Austrian Reichsrath should be formed on a basis of federation.

Twenty thousand persons of all classes have signed the memorial thanking the colonies for their generous offers of assistance in the Soudan.

The Rev. Wm. Webber, Bishop of Brisbane, will be consecrated on June 11th.

It is reported that the Australian Contingent will come to England to await orders.

The Canadian forces have defeated the Indians at Brattlefordt, the latter losing fifty men.

May 7. The Standard considers that the Victorian and Queensland loans, as just announced, will hardly be felt in the present condition of the money market. A firm at Birmingham has made two million cartridges during six months, for China.

Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, is now in London, and purposes to visit the United States at the end of April. Two hundred and fifty thousand Yorkshire colliers struck against a reduction of wages on March 31,