TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1154, 20 March 1884, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, March. 15. The Hon, Evelyn Ashley, Undersecretary for the Colonies, replying to a question, announced that the Government would shortly nominate a High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, whose duties would be entirely distinct from those of the Governors of Fiji and New Zealand. Mr Ashley further stated the Government had informed the various Governments in Australia that if their Parliaments pass a resolution in favor of Federation by June next, a necessary'enabling'Bill will be introduced in the Imperial Parliament during the present session. March 16. Mr Gladstone is confined to his house. The French captured 100 guns at Bacninh. Their loss was eight killed and 30 wounded. The pursuit of the Chinese is being continued. Seven hundred Anarchists have been expelled from Vienna, March 17. The death is announced of General Sir T. Cunninghame, K. 0.8., aged 72. The application for a new trial in the Belt-Lawes case has been refused, March 18. The Chancellor of the Exchequer will make the Bugdet Statement on the 7th April, A bulletin has been issued stating that Mr Gladstone is suffering from laryngeal catarrh, and must have complete rest. A severe attack of smallpox has broken out at Madras, A large number of cases are reported, and considerable alarm is felt at the spread of the disease. Paris, March 15. Telegrams from Tonquin announce that the French troops are following up their recent victory and pursuing the Chinese, and driving them from the various positions in the neighborhood of Bacninh. The Press generally urge that the troops should advance towards the Chinese frontier. Later, Latest despatches from Tonquin announce that the French commander had given orders for an advance to be made on the enemy’s positions to the westward of Bacninh, and that two columns of troops had made a forward movement in the direction of Hangao and Thamguzen, March 18. News has been received that the French troops have entirely routed the Chinese at Johuhung, and that the standards and a number of guns fell into their hands. Vienna, March 16. The police at Buda Pesth have effected the arrest of thirty-six men on a charge of plotting to excite anarchy in that city. Madrid, March 16. A Republican conspiracy, having ramifications throughout the country, has been discovered, and numerous arrests have already been made of ipersons suspected of complicity in the movement.