TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1162, 18 October 1883, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Oct. 15.

The Pall Mall Gazette announces that three regiments "f British troops now in Egypt are to be ordered home as soon as Sir Evelyn Wood, Com-mander-in-Chief (who is now in England) returns to Egypt, and that the question of the withdrawal of the remainder of the army of occupation will be decided when the Cabinet meets next month.

Telegrams to hand from Foo Chow state that serious anti-European riots have occurred there. No details, however, are yet to hand. At Hainan the populace are also in an excited state, and placards, menacing the mandarins and European residents, have been posted and paraded by the natives. Oct. 16.

It is understood that the French Government will agree to pay the Rev Mr Shaw £60,000 damages ? for the treatment he received at the hands of the French authorities in Madagascar, and will express regret for the occurrence to Lord Granville, the British Foreigu Minister. A man-of-war has been ordered to proceed to Hayti to enquire into the reasons why the Government shelled a British steamer.

Capetown, Oct. 13

The latest intelligence from Zululand states that Mr Osborne, the British Resident Commissioner, had gone to interview Cetewayo with a view of inducing him to surrender to the British authorities.

Oct. 15,

News has been received from Zululand that Usibepu, with a large body of adherents, Tnade an attack upon a tribe friendly to Cetewayo, and inflicted great slaughter upon them, fully one-half being massacred. St. Petersburg, Oct. 15.

Intelligence is to hand from Zewonka, a town in the province of Poltava, in Southern Russia, that during the service in the Jewish synagogue an alarm of fire was raised, and a panic occurred. In the rush for the doors of the building forty women were crushed to death, and thirty others were seriously injured.

Hong Kong, Oct. 15.

Latest news from Tonquin states that the Chinese troops who recently arrived at the frontier, are now quitting their positions and retiring into the interior.

Mardid, Oct. 15

It has transpired that the new Ministry formerd by Senor Herrera have decided to drop the dispute with the French Government regarding the insult offered to King Alfonso last month in Paris.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE,

Melbourne. Oct. 15

The trial of Richard Corbett for robbing the Commercial Bank of Australia on the night of Sept. 18th commenced at the Supremp Court to-day. The prisnnpr pleaded guilty.