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Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1080, 31 August 1883, Page 2

LATEST NEWS.

: HOME AND FOREIGN. IjRJEOTEU—COPYRIGHT.] (Received Aug 81, 0.50 a.m.) PARIS, Aug 29. It is announced that the French Government has assumed the control of the finances and customs of the Kingdom of Annam, in accordance with the terms of treaty recently made with the monarch of that country. A circular, signed “ Philippe Comte De Paris,” has been issued to-day, formally notifying The Courts of the death of the late Comte De„Chambord. VIENNA, Aug 29. Count Kalnoky, Minister for Foreign Affairs, has gone to Satzbu r g Prince Bismarck. Nothing pined as to the object.of tlie' interview; ; (Received August 31, 12.50 p.m.) CALCUTTA, August 30. . Major Evelyn Baring, lately a financial member of the Viceroy’s Council, has left India to take up the position to which he was. appointed in May last, viz, British Resident and : .ConsulGeneral in Egypt.,

AUSTRALIAN.: f lIEUTBR —COPYRIGHT. J (Received Aug 31,.0.50 a.m..) : : SIDNEY, Aug,Bo. ;A seyere ; shock of ; earthquake ; was experienced at midnight at Kiama, a seaport 90 miles south, of this city. The dwellings in the town and neighbourhood were severly shaken. . At a meeting of the Diocesan Synod to-day,; it was resolved i that a Synod .Hall should be erected as a memorial to thedate Bishop Barker. ; ;; , ; ; : r (Received Aug12.50 p,ra.) . MELBOURNE, Thursday. The Rev Charles Strong has resigned the charge of the Scots’ Church ; at the same, time intimating be does so from a desire, to spare his congregation the Inconvenience arising from, an 'action for libel, which he, understands the Presbytery intend to institute against him in consequence of the speech he made on Wednesday last.