LATE CABLE MESSAGES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 145, 28 May 1883, Page 2

LATE CABLE MESSAGES.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH; — COPYRIGHT.) (rEUTEr's TELEGRAMS.) - r-- London, May 27. The steamship British .King; from New Zealand, arrived herd yesterday. • Major Evelyn Baring, who is about' to proceed to Egypt, goes thither as British Minister, m succession to Sir B. Malet* ; '/..-'.'■'■''/[ _.' / ' ; : . : .< < ..', Paris, May 26. Despatohes -to: 'hand'" from 'Co6hin China report that the French recently made a sortie against Hanoi, the Annamese capital, but were repulsed with considerable loss. Commodore River e, commanding the French naval force being killed. The Annamese subse« quently surrounded tin French fortress at Haiphong, and are now besieging it. Reinforcements^ are asked" fdr b^r the French commander. St. Petersburg, May 26. The Czar has issued a manifesto on the eve of his coronatian. The proclation announces that a qualified amnesty to Polish insurgents who took part m the revolt of 1863, with Dartial.remis-. sion of penalties and arrears of taxation; no mention is made m the manifesto of Constitutional reforms. 1 ; Cairo*: May 26.. News is to hand from Soudan announcing the .death of Abdel Kadir Pasha, commander of the Egyptian expedition against El Mahdi. ; : .;.i ... ; ; toraoir, May 27..U Latest intelligence from China reports that much excitement prevai's m consequence of the action of theiFrench: m Tonquin and it is believed that a rnpture of diplomatic relations between China and France is imminent' j