TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1170, 6 November 1883, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London/ Nov. 1. . An anti-Irish League disturbance took place to-day in Londonimßry, Ireland. An announcement having been made that a Nationalist meeting- would be held in the Town Hall there this evening, a largo body of OQngeraen proceeded"* to ' the building imd' took forcible position of the hall. The meeting of Nationalist, was consequently put off.

It is announced that the Queensland Government have arranged with the Bank of England for the conversion into inscribed stock of £2,500,000' of four ’ ’ i per cent debentures issued in May last.

Telegrams to hand from Zanzibar state that the Hovas are evincing a desire to come to terms with the French/ and recently offered to treat for-a.cessa-tion of hostilities. The offer was accepted by Admiral Gallagher, and negotiations are now proceeding. The natives of New Guinea have, through Baron Maclay, requested the protection of Great Britain. A Sydney resident, writing to the Pall Mall Gazette, says that statesm e n are beginning to mistrust the annex ation policy, as people in the colonies appear to be careless in the matter.

Nov. 2. The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce have agreed to support the proposal for the annexation of New Guinea.

Lady Constance Phipps, a daughter of the Marquis of Normanby, is dead. The Orangemen at Derry fired on a procession escorting the Mayor of Dublin, and two Catholics were wounded. Serious riots ensued, but have been suppressed. Captain Johnston, of H.M.S. Dryad, has reported that while his vessel assisted" a vessel to ballast, two pf the, French men-of-war now stationed at Taraatave cleared for action and pointed Gatling guns at the Dryad, The defeat of El Mahdi, the false prophet; is not confirmed. The Duke of Connaught loft by the overland route for India, to assume command of the military division at Meerut. ■’ Government offer a reward of £IOOO for information leading to the arrest of the perpetrators of the recent dynamite outrages on" the Metropolitan underground railway. Sir Win. Morgan (Morgan and Nephew) died to-day from heart disease. He was ill for some little time, but his sudden decease was somewhat unexpected. , It has been arranged that two cricket matches will take place between. England and "the Australians next season at the Oval and Lord’s respectively. The representatives of the County Clubs meet in December to fix the dates for other matches. ;; 7 Nov. 3i ; The Economist" says that England cannot allow the Pacific Islands to be annexed by foreign Power. The German Society for prompting the establishment of colonies’ is actively agitating on the subject. ■ . The attempts made to float the Mirzapore have proved unsuccessful. Paris, Nov. 1. It is announced that M,. Ferry, President of the-Council of Ministers, will shortly assume the positibn :iJ of Minister for .Foreign Affairs^. M. C. Lacour resigning that, p,ort£qlio ?i . (i .,, 1jj ., ;