TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 339, 11 January 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, Jan. 6

Sir Evelyn Wood is to proceed to the Cape, to command the British forces in the Transvaal.

Mr Parnell has arrived in London to attend the sittings of Parliament. L 2,000,000 Adelaide mortgage deben tures hare been subscribed for at par. Six more Land Leaguers have been arrested in Ireland, and will shortly be placed on their trial. The official report of the disaster met with by a detachment of the 94th in the Transvaal, almost completely confirms the accounts first received. The detachrnent was escorting a convoy of supplies, when it was surrounded by Boers, who summoned the British to surrender.

Upon the latter refusing, the Boers swept down on them and 112 officers and men were killed.

Mr Parnell has taken his seat in the House of Commons, and has given notice ni an amendment on the Address in rep.y to the Queen’s Speech, stating ( he is c'-nvincod that peace in Ireland will not be promoted by suspending existing law*. faM The introduction of Bills for adoption of County Government in land, to secure protection of the person’*B and property, and to restrict the sale and possession of arras, has been notified, and Mr Gladstone will move that discus ion oil these measures shall precedence of every thing until the/ «»^B The first batch of Engineers to take the construction of the Isthmus , Canal have embarked for Panama. Jan. 7. |jil In the House of Lords to-day the Address in reply to the Speech from the Throne was voted after a short debate In the course of latter Earl Beacons field said that Government by reverting to the policy of his administration, ha endangered the peace of Ireland, and heblamed Ministers for not having earlier adopted a coercive policy. He adv.sed them not to weaken the hands of the Executive in Ireland. Farl Granville, in reply, denied the assertions of Lord Beaconsfield, and argued that Government was not alone answerable for the state of Ireland. Ministers were, he said, determined to enforce respect for the law in that country. In the House of Commons the debate on the Address in reply is proceedingSir Stafford Northcote attacked, and Mr Gladstone defended the policy of the Government in Ireland. The admitted that the condition of t e country was shameful, but urged ths earlier action was not justified for t » repression of disorders without steps being taken to redress the grievances of the people. The debate has been ad- , journed to next sitting. , * The Pope has written a letter to t 8 .. i Archbishop of Dublin, in which he strongly condemns the method of S tion of the Irish to obtain redress w _i|J| their grievances. He trusts that will be done them by Governmet, but be expects that Irishmen will respect ■ laws of their country. - IB Adelaide and New Zealand broa -|M stuffs remain at last quotations. JIB The quantity of wheat afloat Britain is 1,240,000 quarters. Australian tallow, best beef, 33s best mutton. 85s. The total 'tallow in London on the Ist instant was ] 8,500 casks.