TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 306, 19 October 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

♦■ ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Oct. 14. Cardinal fna, who was appointed by Pope Leo in 1878 I\ntificial Secretary of State, has betMi compelled to resign that office, owihvj to ill health. The Invercargill loan of L 200,000, at 6 per cent, has been issued '. Tenders " '■" at 98 will receive 16 per cent of the amount in.full. Oct. 15. It is expected that the vessels of the various fleets forming the -combined squadron at Cattaro. will remain until , the surrender of Dulcigno to the Montenegrins has been effected-, and that they will then disperse. No active steps have as yet been taken by the Porte to make the cession, but some early action is looked for. The Albanians have f .-solved to. resist the surrender of Dulcigno to the last extremity. The question of settlement of the Turco Greek frontier line is now being generally discussed by the leading English and Continental papers, which deprecate pressing the Porte to carry out the decisions of the Berlin Conference to their entirety, and recommend that the Powers should accept the recent pro- .. posal of the Sultan to cede to Greece the , territory to the south of Larissa and Jariina, but not those towns themselves. . „ Constantinople, Oct. 17. The Porte has nominated a German to fiill the post ot Foreign Minister. Riza Pasha, Turkish commander at Dulcigno, is making satisfactory progress with regard, to pacifying the Albanians. Delegates have been appointed by Turkey and the Great Powers . to meet at Cetigno for the purpose of further negotiation on the Montenegrin question. Oct. 17. All those persons who were arrested as being concerned in the murder of Viscount Mountmorres have been released, the evidence not sufficient to convict them. ~A Berlin, Oct. 17. The Cologne Cathedral, which has lately been completed, was opened today with £,reat splendor by the Emperor of Germany, several princes being also present at the opening. Teheran, Oct. 14. As the Kurds who have been pillaging tawns and villages of Western Persia are composed of tribes investing the eastern portion of Asiatic Turkey adjoining the Persian border, and have retired to their mountain fastnesses, the Shah has sent a request to the Sultan that Turkis troops should be sent to dislodge and punish the Kurds, and prevent any further irruption into its territory.