LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2838, 5 November 1885, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

♦-►♦ [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] I'Y KUX'TR.'O ThM-JORAPII Col'VlUfillT. THE STEAMSHIP COPTIC AT THE CAPE. LOSS OF TWO PROPELLER BLADES EMBARKATION OF TROOPS FOR BURMAH. (Received November 4, 2.30 p.m,) London, November 3. Lloyds' telegrams from Capetown announce the arrival at that port of the steamship Coptic, with the loss of two blades of her propeller. The Coptic left Plymouth on October 10th, for Auckland. (Received November 4, 10 p.m.) Later. The Coptic will be docked at Capetown in order that the necessary repairs to her propeller may be effected. (Received November 5, 1.10 a.m.) November 4. Arrived, at Plymouth, the steamship Garonne, from Australia. Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association : Arrived, the ship Mosley, from Auckland, July 20th. i

(Received November 5, 2.20 p.m.) Later. The International Conference on Roumelian affairs will assemble tomorrow, November sth. The representatives of Germany, Russia, and Austria favont the convention of Great Britain, France, and Italy, and oppose [?] the simple restoration of the status quo ante in Bulgaria and Routnelia. (Received November 5, 2.20 p.m.) Madras, November 4. Major-General Predergast and the corps under his command, forming the second detachment of the expeditionary force for service in Burmah, embarked to-day for Rangoon. ♦ (Per s.s. Waihora, at the Bluff.) London, October 20. The returns in connection with the French general elections show that 200 members pledged to anti-Republican principles have been elected. The Grand Jury, having considered the case brought against Mr W. T. Stead, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, for the abduction of the girl Lily Armstrong, on which charge he was committed for trial at the preliminary investigation, has found a true bill against the accused, and the case will be accordingly proceeded with in the Criminal Court. „ Serions rioting has occurred at Copenhagen, the capital city of Denmark, and a revolution is regarded as probable. October 25. Parliament will be formally dissolved on 18th November next. Mr Gladstone is announced to opeu his electioneering campaign at Midlothian on 12th November. The English Government have agreed to the proposal of the Porte for holding a conference of representatives of the Great Powers for the consideration of the Roumelian question. [special to press association. I London, October 29. Mrs Garrett Anderson, M.D., who was formerly a member of the London School Board, aud who is again seeking election to the Board, has issued an address, in which she refers in eulogistic terms to the New South Wales educational system. Obituary—Mr Christopher Newton, head of the firm of NewtOn Bros., Australian merchants. October 30. An inquiry is to be held as to the sanity of the insurgent Riel, who now lies under-sentence of death. Obituary—General M'Lellan. October 31. Staff-Commander Frederick W. Jarrad has been appointed to Admiral Tryon's staff on the Australian station. The Union Bank of Australia offers to receive inscribed stock as deposits, with interest at 4 per cent. The Roumelian archives have now been removed to Sophia in Bulgaria. Cholera has made its appearance at Bilboa, the principal port in the north of Spain. November 1. The Council-General of New Caledonia have petitioned the French Government to annex the New Hebrides. The latest news from the Soudan shows that the rebels are steadily advancing to the northwards. Abu Hamed is now threatened by them, as well as Korosko, a town between the first and second cataracts of ihe Nile.