TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 329, 16 December 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLJSH AND FOREIGN

London, Dec. 11

It has been announcedlo-day that the necessary capital for carrying out the isthmus of Panama Canal scheme has now been fully subscribed. The Right Hon G. J. Gischen, Ambassador Extraordinary to ; the Porte, has left Constantinople, and has arrived at Brindisi, en route for London. .. , Dec. 13.

The latest intelligence to hand from the Cape slates that the Boers are threatening rebellion. This, however, is not expected to take place. At a' Cabinet'' Council, held to-day by Ministers, Mr W.E. Forster, Chief Secretary fur Ireland, having insisted upon adopting coercive measures in Ireland, the immediate meeting of liament is quite possible. Calcutta,. December 13.

The Marquis of Ripoivhas had a relapse and his medical attendants ■ state ho is much worse. Paris, Dec. 11. M. Dalonbaud an 3 M. D’Aston, members of the Chamber of Deputies, have commence 1 a law suit against M. Gambetta,. President of the Chamber . ,of Deputies, for having ordered them under arrest lor disorder. They alledge that the arrest was illegal. Teheran, Dec. 10. . .The Kurdish tribes which carried on their depredations lor some time in the Western Provinces of Persia, and were afterwards attacked and severely punished by the Persian troops, have now retired info their mountain fastnesses. Sydney, Dec. 14. Three CTufield, which belonged' to''the" Bur’-'e and Willis expedition in 1860-61 have been captured near fWilcannia. on the Darling river, in the North-west of this colony. Brisbane, Dee. 14. .The Ministry have received a telegram this afternoon from an influential Loudon (Inn promising cordial co-operation i n pushing forward the transcontinental railway project. It fui’lher states that the present time is considered favorable for that purpose.