TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1089, 31 March 1883, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN London, March 27

A corps of men, to bo known as ‘ political police/is being organised in London.

A grand review of volunteers was held yesterday (Easter Monday) at Brighton, before H.R.Q. the Duke of Cambridge, Field Marshall Command-ing-in-Chief. 20,000 men were under arms, and the proceedings, which in eluded a sham fight, passed off most successfully.

Six more prisoners, charged with conspiring to murder an Irish landlord, have been found guilty at Belfast. Twenty-six arrests have been made of persons accused of complicity in the murder of Ferrick at Balliugrobe in June last.

March 28

The first batch of six men tvho were recently found guilty at Be fast of coi.sphacy to murder Irish landlords, have been sentenced to terms of penal servitude varying from five to ten years. The Homeward mails via Brindisi, which left Melbourne on the 16th of February, were delivered in London yesterday, John Brown, the personal servant to the Queen, is dead. The Cape troops are massing in Tern bn land.

It is reported that Peru has ceded the provinces of Tarapara to Chili, and Tacna and Arica to Bolivia. March 29.

The second batch of six prisoners, who were found guilty of conspiring to assassinate Irish landlords have been sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude. Twenty-one, of twenty-six persons arrested at Ballisnasloe, have been released from custody. The Right Hon Anthony Mundella has now recovered from his recent indisposition. In an address to a crowded audience at Birmingham last evening, the Marquis ot Salisbury declared that the unstable policy of the Government could not fail to alienate the confidence of the people, Capetown, March 27. The Cape Government have decided to act with vigor in the suppression of the threatened Boer rising in Terabulaud, and serious troubles are feared in that territory. Napi.es, March 27. The latest news to hand how Messina states that the eruption of Mount Etna is now subsiding,

AUSTRALIAN CABLE

Melbourne, March 29

It is announced that, acting upon the advice of the Agent-General, the Government have decided to place a redemption loan of two millions upon the London market at an early date.