TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 363, 15 March 1881, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN , London, March 10. In the House of Commons to-night, a question' was put to the Premier regardA ing the armistice which, "had been ■ declared between the Boers and British troops in the Transvaal. Mr Gladstone, i in reply, said although it had only been J agreed to suspend hostilities for one week, it bad been understood between Sir George Colley and the Boer Commander that a longer armistice could be proclaimed should the state of negotiations for peace render such necessary. March 11. The fact of an armistice having been agreed to with the Boers in the Trans-

vaal is receiving milch adverse, criticism in the Press and in political and military circles, the impression having got abroad that the armistice was sought by the British. A complete disavowal of the statement that Sir Evelyn Wood had asked that hostilities should bo suspended has, however, been communicated to the Press by Mr Gladstone who moreover, states that although no definite information is to hand as to tlieexact circumstances which led to the armistice he believes the proposal for the same originated with President Brand, of the Free State, who has for some time been using every endeavour to bring about peace. The Divisional Court at Westminister has disallowed Mr Bradlaugh’s demurrer to the plaintiff’s reply to his plea in the action Clarke v Bradlaugh, to recover penalties of Lsto each from defendant for sitting and voting in the House of Commons without having first taken the oath prescribed by the Act of 1866. Constantinople, March, 11. Negotiations which have been proceeding for the past three weeks between the Ambassadors of the Powers in this city and the Porte, with a view to determine the long-standing frontier dispute, are . likely to have some result. It is now understood that there a resigns thePcrte will be persuaded to agree to a conference for the settlement of the TurcoG reek’difficulty, Calcutta, March 11. Intelligence has been received from Afghanistan that, owing to the army - corps, which w«s despatched by the Ameer Abdul Rahman to Glmznee last month as a precautionary measure against any movement on the part of Ayoub Khan, being no longer required, t will now be disbanded.