LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4741, 18 March 1884, Page 2

LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

(Age Specials.)

London, March 5

The St. James' Gazette states that the British Government intend to prohibit the Messageries Maritimes Company from despatching their steamers to Australian ports unless,-~the Eecidivistes Bill is abandoned by the French authorities. The Eepublique Frangais ridicules the threatened prohibition against the Meg* sageries steamers visiting Australia. The Pays, another journal published in Paris, discusses the matter in a similar strain,, and says that the agitation is an amusing excuse on the part of England for annexation of the New Hebrides on her own account.

March 8,

An inquiry has been held by the Board of Trade with reference to the collision which took place between the two ships City of Luckuow and Simla in the English Channel on the 25th of January last. It resulted in the captain and officers ou duty on board the City of Lucknow at the time of the collision, being adjudged blameable.

The Board of Trade have held an enquiry into the cause of the fatal explosion which occurred near Gravesend on the night of the Ist March, ou board the steamer Aberdeen, bound from London to Australia. The Board find that a consignment of explosives caused that fatality. The latest advices from the Soudan state that numerous cases of sunstroke are occurring among the British troops, the heat being intense.