LATENT ENGLISH NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 73, 26 March 1881, Page 2

LATENT ENGLISH NEWS.

[Rboibr'b Tblbqbams pbk Pbbsh association.] London, March 24. It is announced tbat orders have been tele graphed from <he Horse Guards to General Sir Frederick Roberts at the Cape, instructing him to return to England without proceeding to Transvaal, in accordance With instructions issued from England. Arrived— Waipa, frbia Port Chalmers; sailed December 4. There is little enquiry for beat sides Australian hides, and prices are l£d lower. At the wool sale to-day 9000 bales were catalogued. The tono of the market continued firm. 2100 bales have been withdrawn from the sales since tbe opening. A motion similar to that pasied by the House of Lords in favor of the retention of a British force in Candabar is now being debated in the House of -Commons. , ""\ lv the House of Commons to-day a question, was. put to the; Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs with the object of ascertaining whether tbe Government were in possession of any information as to the intentions of the Russian Government in regard to Central Asia. ..ln reply, Sir Charles Dilke stated that the Government had learned that one of tbe first acts of the Czar, Alexander ' 111, had been to definitely recall General Skobeloff and to order the permanent cessation of hostilities against the Turcomans.