CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1950, 27 March 1885, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

BY ELECIR'.O TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT. >,,; '' :: ;Rbotbb'b Telegram/ Paris, March' 26. French Chambers appointed, in connection ■..with the Recidiviste Bill has selected French Guinea and New Caledonia as the places to which convicts are to be transported. London, March 26.

. Frequent interviews have taken place during the past few days between the Earl of Granville, Foreign Minister, Musurus Pasha, Turkish Ambassador, and Hassan Fehmy Pasha, the Turkish Special Envoy. The fact has given rise to rumors that an arrangement is being; concluded for an Anglo-Turkish alliance in the event of an outbreak of hostilities betweon England and Russia, Melbourne, March 26. The convict Barnes, who in January last made a confession that he had murdered the late Mr J, P. Slack (who, it was believed, had committed suicide), has undergone searching examination,, and was tiday committed for trial. " London, March' 26. The Government has as yet received no answer to the communication addressed by Lord Granville to the Russian Foreign office on lGth March on the subject of the Afghan frontier dispute. Calcutta, March' 26. It is announced that General Sir Frederick Roberts with a force of 25,000 men, now being mobilised, will proceed without delay to occupy the Bolan pass. Troops to the number of 15,000 will be drafted from-England to'lndia in order to supply the place of the force despatched to the southern Afghan frontier.