LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 3067, 1 September 1886, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. PRINCE ALEXANDER’S RECEPTION AT SISTOYA. ENTHUSIASM OF THE PEOPLE OF BULGARIA. DEPARTURE OF THE MARIPOSA FROM SAN FRANCISCO. (Received August 31, 5.15 p.m.) Constantinople, August 30. Telegrams to hand from Sistova report the arrival there, from Rustchuk, of Prince Alexander, who was received by the people with great enthusiasm. The horses of his carraige were unyoked, and the vehicle drawn by the people through the streets on the Prince starting for Tirnova, his next destination. San Francisco, August 30. Sailed, on the afternoon of the 28th inst., the Union Company’s Royal Mail steamship Mariposa, for Auckland. [special to press association. | London, August 26. Great enthusiasm now prevails in Roumeiia in. favour of Prince Alexander, and it is considered likely that the status quo will be restored, Russia being thereby deprived of a chance to intervene in Roumelian affairs. August 27. The Russian Government disavow any complicity in the kidnapping of Prince Alexander. Owing to quarrels which have arisen between Sir J. Pope Hennessy, Governor of Mauritius, and Mr Clifford Lloyd, Lieutenant-Governor and Colonial Secretary of that island, Mr E. Stanhope has ordered the latter gentleman to Seychelles Island, a dependency of the Mauritius Government. August 28. Mr Gladstone has issued a pamphlet dealing with the Irish question, in which he abandons the land purchase schtm*. He asserts that the sense of nationality of Scotland and Wales has bestirred Ireland, and that the latter country only needs to persevere to obtain her demand.