LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2375, 8 April 1884, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

—+ [REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph —Copyright. UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. AFFAIRS IN EGYPT AND THE SOUDAN. THE FRENCH IN TONQUIN. (Received April 8, 2.20 p.m.) London, April 7. The Inter-University boat race took place to-day, and was won by the Cambridge crew. Arrived, at Plymouth, the steamship Garonne, from Melbourne; and the steamship Doric, from Lyttelton. The cargoes of both vessels are believed to be in good condition. Cairo, April 7. Disputes have arisen between Nubar Pasha, President of the Council, and Clifford Lloyd, Under-Secretary for Home Affairs, in the Egyptian Minis-

try, and the question at issue has been referred to the English Government for decision.

Intelligence is to band that the tribes inhabiting the country between Shendy and Berber are now in open rebellion, and the movement, it is feared, is spreading.

Communication with Khartoum is closed, and it is further feared that Berber and Dongola are both invested by large forces of hostile Arabs.

Later. Nubar Pasha has resigned the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.

Latest news from Souakim states that numbers of hostile Arabs in that neighbourhood are now treating for peace.

It is reported that Osman Dignah has left the district, and gone to Kordofan, on the westtern border of Soudan. Hong Kong, April 7. Intelligence has reached here from Tonquin that the French expedition to Hongoha has commenced to advance. It is expected that serious resistance will be offered by the Chinese to the expedition.