Special to "Star."

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 21, 29 July 1884, Page 2

Special to "Star."

BEUTEB'S TELBGBAMB. London, July 26. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Lords Rosebery, Dunraven, Shaftesbury, Stanhope and Mr Murray-Smith wiil attend the Federation Conference. The Cape Government have resolved to annex Bechuana. The Hon. G. J. Goscfien has been appointed a member ot the Stellaland commission. The evidence in the case of Merry, (railway contractor, Melbourne), v. the Queen has been completed. Although the Egyptian Conference has I failed, a temporary modus vivendi has been arranged. Abyssinia will annex Kassala and Amendeb in return for ths Abyssinian troops relieving the Egyptians, The Daily Telegraph, commenting on the proposed colonial representation in the English Parliament says the admission might work badly, and probably an Intercolonial Council would Suffice. The Standard publishes a telegram today, stating that a pitched battle was fought between the Hovas and the French troops in Madagascar, and that the attack of the latter was repulsed with considerable loss on June 27. H. M. ships Carysfort and Turquoise, Mediterranean squadron, have been ordered to Suakim. A Conference to consider the question of Imperial Federation, will shortly be held in London. The leading members of both the Liberal and Conservative parties have announced their intention of taking part in the proceedings. The shipment of frozen meat by the ship Turakina has arrived in splendid condition, and is bringing b\ per lb. The capital of the new Oriental Bank Company is being freely subscribed. From Sydney alone £100,000 has been applied for, and the total amount subscribed as yet is £850,000. Many of ths depositors in the old bank are converting then, deposits into shares. Rome, July 28. Cholera has made its appearance in Spezia, a town in the north of Italy, on the Gulf of Genoa. Received July 29, 0.55 a.m. Pabis, July 27. A considerable decrease in the number of deaths from cholera is now manifest at Toulon. The disease is, however, spreading at Aries, and has appeared in a virulent form at Aix, 16 miles north-east of Marseilles. Six deaths occurred at Ait to.day, and the .'inhabitants of the town are flying in a panic. .... _ . London,' July 28.' The first meeting of the Conference which has been organised to discuss the advisability of Imperial Federation will be held to-mo-row, The Wight Hon. W. E. Forst er, late Chief Secretary for Ireland, will preside.