CABLEGRAMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 95, 28 March 1885, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

NEW CALEDONIA AND FKENCH GUiANA SELECTED AS CONVICT STATIONS. . Paris, March 26. A Committee of the French Chambers, appointed in connection with the Recidivistes Bill, have selected French Guiana and New Caledonia as places to which convicts are to be transported.

London, March 25. News from Cairo has been received to the effect that the Arabs are not; the least. dismayed at the reverses they have recently met with, and that in -addition to tho mtn, the women and children take part in the fighting.

50,000 TROOPS TO BE DES,PATCHED TO PESHIN. It is intended by the Indian Government to despatch — 50,000 troops to Peshin, near Candahar, Afganistan. General Sir Donald M. Stewart, head of the military department in Indii, will be placed in command. London, March 24. The medical advisers to her Majesty have ordered aer to go ( n a visit to Aix for the benefit of her health.

THE SOUDAN WAR. ZEBEHR PASHA, SENT TO GIBRALTAR. Alexandria, March 26. Zebehr Pasha and his son, ami the other three prisoners who were a» rested on suspicion for ha /ing been in illegal communication with the Mnhdi, have been conveyed to Gibraiter by H.M.S. Iris.

AXi ANGLO-TURKISH ALLIANCE HUMOURED. London, March 26, Frequent interviews have taken place during the past fow days between Eail Granville, Foreign Minister, and Musnrus Pasha Turkish Ambassador, and assan F«i n hy Pasha, Turkish Special Envoy. This fact has given rise to rumours that an arrangement is beim? concluded for an Augio-Turkish Alliance in the event of an outbreak of hostilities between England an 1 . Russia,

Cal<. utta, March 25. The number of men in the respire force wiiirh is about to be mobilise! will be 20,000, not 40,000 as previously reported

London, March 2f). Government have not yet received a" answer to the communication atlilresscd by Earl Granville to the Russian Foreign Office on the 10th March, respecting the Afgniin frontier dispute. Troops, numbering 15,000, will be drafted from England to India, in order to supply the place of the forces despatched to Southern Afghan Frontier. Russians, bidding tot an alliance with , Turkey. '

Calcutta, March 26. It is announced that General Sir Frederick Roberts, with a force of 35,000 men, now being mobilised, will proceed withuiT. delay to occupy Bolan Pass. •

Latest ! London, March 20. A message from the. Queen was read in parliament to day, announcing that in view of tlie grave emergency which had arisen in foreign affiirs, it had been decided to call out the militia and reserves, the latter cf which Fores are to be embodied for permanent service.

FRANCO-CHINESE WAX. Pauis, March 26. Advices are to hand from Gene -A Negries, commanding portion of the French forces in Tmiquin, stating that he has sustained severe repulses at the hands «f the enemy, and had been obliged to retire to Dong Da with a loss of 200 men. Sir Julius Benedict, the eminent musical composer, is dying. It is rumoured that Bismarck and M. Fe ry have joint designs on Luxembourg, neutral territory belonging to the King of the Netherlands.