TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 552, 14 July 1881, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

Paris, July 12

CKing to the determined resistance

offered by ihe Arab tribes to the French y troops orders have been sent to the French squadron in the Mediterranean to proceed to Sfax to assist the vessels now engaged bombarding ihat place, find to htrengtheu the force seat for service against the Arabs. Telegrams are to hand from Tunis announcing that seveial regiments of Tunisian troops were despatched to Sfax to quell the rising there, but they refused on their arrival to fight the insurgents, and have consequently been since conveyed back to Tunis. Auckland, July 13. In sentencing the brothers Binden Judge GUlie3said the crime of arson was one of the worst iu the calender, and most difficult of detection. He sentenced the elder broiher to five years', and the younger to three years' imprisonment. The Government issued instructions that all vessels from Sydney, including the detached squadron, must be quarantined until twelve days have elapsed from the time of departure from the infected port. Carterton,, Jnly 13. Drumgal's boarding house (formerly Richards' store) w,is burnt down at four t&is morning. Hardly anything was saved The furniture was insured for £75 in the National. Dtjnedin July 13. Thomas Thomas was committed for trial for stabb:ng a constable. The latter was ejecting him from a restaurant, when Thomas, withort provocation, struck him with a knife over the region of the heart. The wound is severe but not dangerous: