["Age" Special."]

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 28, 15 December 1883, Page 3

["Age" Special ."]

London. No\ ember 20. -It is reported that the measure w Inch recently passed the Fiench Chamber of Deputies for the deportation of oiiminals to the inlands of the Pacific will probably be abandoned. ( The measure now before the French ! Senate for the deportation of criminals to the Pacific has been further considered in Committee, and after a prolonged debate a clause was adopted giving judges dis- , cretionary power to banish ciiimnnK The visit Mhich Baron de Le^seps ha& made to Liverpool with the object of confen ing with the large owners. upon the question of the proposed second Sue/. Canal has terminated \\ ithout any practicable re&ults. Earl Derby has decided to refuse the application of certain German owners of property in Fiji who had appealed for com pensation for alleged loss of their land. | The terrible disaster which has befallen | the Egyptian tvoops in the Soudan has. t caused great excitement throughoutEiu ope. The followers of the FaLe Prophet (Mahomed El Mahdi) lay in ambush for the Egyptian forces, and suddenly surrounded them. It is feared that O'Donovan, the special correspondent of the " Daily News " with the force, 3ms been killed. The "Times," in an article this morning upon the disaster, insists that England shall .send troops to assist the Khedive in suppressing the rebellion. The Agents-Oeneral of several Australasian colonies have had another interview with Earl Derby in reference to the annexation question. It is generally considered that His Lordship's attitude was less firm than it was at the previous interview, and that he is beginning to display considerable vacillation on the question. M. Jules Ferry, the French Premier has decided to despatch M. Courmeaux on a special mission to the Australasiun colonies and New Caledonia. The report that 300 Chinese troops had attacked the French position at Haiphong, and had been defeated after an engagement lasting for several hours, proves by later advices to have been unfounded. The statement that a secret treaty has been discovered between China and the Black Flags is also said to be without foundation. San Francisco, November 30.— Arrived, yesterday, Pacific Mail Steamship City of New York, from Auckland, November 7th.