CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1357, 18 September 1883, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

(From our own Correspondent.) LONDON, September 14. At to-day’s wool auction 9,200 bales were offered. There was a firm and active demand. September 15. Marquis Tseng and M. Waddington have been deputed by the French Cabinet to conduct the negotiations with reference to the France-Chinese difficulty in Tonquin. They B have arrived in England, and have gone to t Walmer Castle, the seat of Earl Granville, to confer with the British Foreign Minister, with a view to arriving at a settlement of the difficulty. At to-day’s wool auction 11,400 bales were catalogued, Ihe market is.firm. PARIS, September 15. The latest reports from Tonquin claim that the French troops have carried the principle positions occupied by the Annamese at the point of the bayonet. General Bunet has retired upon Hanoi, leaving the garrison in possession of various forts recently captured. HONG KONG, Sept. 14. News has been rec-ived that hostilities have been resumed between the French troops and Annamite force known as the Black Flags.” Accounts to hand state that fighting, Listing fully 8 hours, took pla. e at Phoukai. The engagement was very rpevere one, and resulted to loss of 52 to the French. The “ Black Flags ” are reported to Have lost fully 500 men. Intelligence from Canton states that Europeans in that city are very uneasy in inconsequence of voilenc Anti-Foreign placards which have been extensively posted there.

September 15. Sir George Bowen Governor, of this colony, has gone to Pekin, lut nothing has yet {transpired as to the nature of his mission.