HOME AND FOREIGN.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1132, 31 December 1883, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN.

rphg TTVencln Attitude towards China.

Orange Riots; at New-

foundland

Death, of" Professor Holloway.

Western Pacific Com-

mission.

The Mails.

Desperate Fighting in Tonquin.

Heavy Losses on Both Sides,

Accident to General

Grant.

Xlie Oaar Recovering.

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LONDON, Dec 28.

It is now stated to be probable that the Islands of Hainan, Formosa, and Chilean, sitnaied off the Chinese coast, and forming part of the Empire, will be seized by Franco as a guarantee for the payment by China of the French war expenses at Tonquin. Latest intelligence from Newfoundland states that twenty-eight persons were seriously Wounded in the riot which occurred at Harbour Grace between Orangemen and Catholics. As a renewal of disturbances is feared, the authorities have asked the Imperial Gorcrnmcnt to despatch some troops and a gun boat to the scene of the rioting.

Dec 29. Obituary—Thos Holloway, proprietor of Holloway’s pills and ointment. rppnrt ot_th« WasternPacific Commission was nnblished 10-day. flbo report condemns supervision of the labour * traffic by a colonial agent, and mges that the agents should be np pointed by the Grown. It recommends that Ibe labour trade should be more closely watched by the naval authorities in Australia,. f*nd that resident Etepri' yGommissioners should be appointed to the various islands. The report is opposed to the control of the Polynesian and New Guinea rices' being vested in Colonial Governments. Mr Speight, the newly-appointed chairman of -the Victorian Railway Board, has sailed forAiistralhfT'' 'fbte lioiiieward mails via San Francisco fram Auckland, November 8, were delivered here to-day. Obituary-—-Sir John Bayley Darrall, K.C.M.G., formerly Attorney-General and member.of tlie Legislative Council ol New South Wales. ; _

PARIS, Dec 29. Despatches from ! Tqnquin state that desperate fighting took place at Sontay and That heavy loss was sustained on either side before the fortress was captured. The French lost, twenty-six officers and folly a thousand men. The attacknpon Bacninh will not take place until the arrival of the ve-inforcements recently despatched from France tinder General Millot. NEW YORK, Dec 28 v General Grant has met with a painful Occident, having slipped in the street and fallen heavily, seriously injuring his 1)10# ST. PETERSBURG, Dec 28. A bulletin issued to-day states that the Czar is recovering from the accident to his shoulder, recently sustained while hunting.