LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2394, 1 May 1884, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. WOMEN FOR OXFORD UNIVERSITY HONORS. SECOND SERIES COLONIAL WOOL SALES. TASMANIAN £BOO,OOO LOAN. ARRIVAL OF THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS. THE CHOLERA PATIENTS. DECEASE OF EMINENT MEN. OSMAN DIGNA AGAIN. THREATS TO ADVANCE TOWARDS EGYPT PROPER. (Received April 30, 2.15 p.m.) London, April 29. The Hebdomadal Council of the University of Oxford has passed a resolution approving of the admission of women to examination, of University honors. The second of the year’s series of colonial wool auctions opened to-day before a large number of home and foreign buyers. The catalogue comprised 8700 bales, for which a fair demand was experienced, cross-breds ruling at about the closing rates of last auction. The quantity to be offered during the series is limited to 370,000 Sales will close on the 18th June. A loan of £BOO,OOO for the Tasmanian Government is announced today. The rate of interest, 4 per cent, minimum, is fixed at 98. Tenders will be opened on the 7th May. April 30. The P. and O. steamship Sutlej, with the remainder of the Australian cricketers, arrived at Plymouth on Monday night. The cholera patients on board H.M. transport Crocodile are all recovering, and the troops which the vessel brought home have been landed. It is expected no further cases will now occur. The deaths are announced of Sir Michael Costa, the Eminent composer, aged 74, and Sir Michael Arthur Bass, M.P. for East Staffordshire, aged 48, (Received May 1, 0.55 a.m.) Cairo, April 29. Emboldened by the disaffection of the garrison at Berber and the countenance which he is now receiving from Nubian rebel tribes, Osman Dignah, the representative of El Mahcli in eastern Soudan, is rapidly collecting supplies and men, and threatens that he will advance on Assouan, the border town of Egypt proper, near the First Cataract on the Nile. In view of the recent refusal of the "British Government to despatch an ex--I'edi'ion ’..it:.; Soudan, the threats of the h cuief are causing much untasi-

[special to press association.] London, April 27. Ifc is stated in Cairo that the town of Karosko is threatened by the followers of El Mahdi. Earl Granville states that England is willing to invite the Powers to consider the best means of maintaining order, and also of carrying on the good government of Egypt. He is, however, waiting to see what action France and Turkey will take in the matter. It is now ascertained that an attempt was made to destroy the Neiderwald statue the day it was unveiled by the Emperor William, but it failed owing to the heavy rain falling.

THE FRENCH REOIDIYISTE SCHEME. [special to press association.] London, April 26, M. Ferry states that recidivistes are sent to the Pacific special precautions will be taken to prevent their escape. The Hon. Evelyn Ashley, speaking at Sandown, said that if the persons resident in New Guiuea and the colonies of Australia required armies and fleets to protect them from the convicts, he considered that it would be the duty of England to back up the protests of Australia against the Recidivists scheme. He thought that the antagonism existing between the Australian colonies will probably check the early accomplishment of federation, Earl Granville again asks M. Ferry, the French Premier, what steps France intends to take with regard to the Recidivists question. The Saturday Review says if the French persist in enforcing the Recidivists Bill it is only reasonable to suppose that the English Government will sanction the exclusion of convicts, from Australia, and that the annexation of New Guinea is indispensable.