TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1320, 28 March 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, March 25. The latest information from the Cape reports that the Boers have made prisoners of the British survey party to Bechuanaland. The Oxford crew are favorites for the race with Cambridge at 2 to 1. Intelligence is to hand from Saskatcliewan, a province of Canada, that 600 halbfbreeds, commanded by a halfbreed named Reil, have succeeded in seizing Fort Saskatchewan. Paris, March 26. The Committee of the French Cham ber, appointed m connection wiih the Recidiriste Bill, has settled on French Guinea and New Caledonia as places to which convicts arc to be transported. Capetown, March 25. It has transpired that Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of Cape Colony, has formally requested Colonel Sir Charles Warren to stay the action lie is taking as Commander of the British Expedition in Bechuanaland for the settlement of affairs in that district. Colonel Warren, however, declines to recognise the authority of the Cape, and has appealed to the Colonial Office to uphold his proceedings. Nows has been received from Beehuanaland that a number of British surveyors there have been arrested, and are held in custody hy the Boers.

e AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, March 26. Sailed, this afternoon—The Pacific Mail Company’s R.M.S. Australia, for Francisco, via Auckland. Melbourne, March 26. The convict Barnes, who in January last made a confession that he had murdered Mr J. B. Slack, who it was believed had committed suicide, has, undergone a gerching examination, and was to-day committed for trial. A notice appears in the Gazette today, stating that the Parliament ofYiotoria stands further prorogued until May 14tb. Albany, March 26. Arrived, yesterday afternoon—P. and 0. R.M.S. Khedive, with London mails to February 20th. ’

WAR IN THE SOUDAN. Souakim, March 25. Official accounts of (he action between General McNeill’s force and the rebels on the Tamai road last Sunday give the British casualties as follows : —Six officers and ninety-four rank and file killed, one officer and seventy rank and file missing, six officers and one hundred and Ihirty-.'ix rank and file wounded. A large number of camp followers and camels were also slain. The rebels to-day attacked a British convoy which was sent to the Hashan zareeba. The Mahdites were completely repulsed with severe loss. On the side of the British there was one killed, and two officers and fourteen men wounded. London, March 25. News from Cairo has been received to the effect that the Arabs are not the least dismayed at the reverses they have recently met with, and, in addition to the men, the women and children take part in the fighting. Alexandria, March 26. Zebehr and son and three other prisoners, arrested on suspicion of having been in illegal communication with the Mahdi, are being conveyed to Gibraltar by the R.M.S. Iris. Sydney, March 25. The debate on the question of indemnifying Government for their action in despatching a military contingent to assist England in the Soudan, con chided in the Legislative Assembly last night. A division was t»krn early in the morning, and resulted in Mr Henry Claris's amendment, condemning the Government, being rejected by 64 to 23, The Address in Reply to the Governor’s Speech was adopted by the House.