LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2863, 5 December 1885, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. . GENERAL ELECTIONS TO THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. PREDICTION OF FRESH ELECTIONS. HOSTILE DEMONSTRATIONS OF ARABS IN SOUDAN. DESTROYING THE RAILWAY LINE. (Received December 5, 1 a.m.) London, December 4. The latest election returns show that 263 Liberals, 213 Conservatives, and 54 Parnellites have been returned up to the present. Mr Joseph Chamberlain [one of the th ree re-elected Liberals for Birmingham] addressed a public meeting at Leicester' last ever.ing. In the course of his speech lie referred to the probable state of parlies in the new Parliament, and predicted that fresh elections would take place at no distant date after the assembling of the new Parliament. Later. The total number of members elected up to the present is 560. The Liberals have a majority over the Conservatives of 54. Cairo, December 4. The natives in Upper Egypt are renewing hostile demonstrations. Yesterday they destroyed the Nile Railway line between Wady Haifa and Akesheh, near the Second Cataract of the Nile. [special to press association. ] London, November 30. The frozen meat by the Arawa has anived in splendid condition.

The "Victorian Four-per-Cents unquoted at 107—the highest price yet known. December 1. The Marquis of Abergavenny has been invested with the Order of the Garter, and Sir Julian Pauncefote has been created a Knight of the Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. Mr Joseph Cowen and Mr John Morrey have been elected, and Mr Warner has been rejected. Sir Jno. Gorrin has been appointed Chief Justice of Trinidad. The Conference at Constantinople on the Ronmelian question has adjourned without arriving at any decision. The Orient Company’s steamer John Elder had a most miraculous escape from running on to the rocks at TJshaut, a small island on the French coast, during a heavy fog on Sunday last. The John Elder was homeward bound, Hanlan has issued a challenge to row any man in the world ; the match to come off in America next summer. December 1. Fifteen applications have been received by Sir Arthur Blyth, AgentGeneral for South Australia, for the position of Professor of Mathematics at the University of Adelaide, rendered vacant by the resignation of Professor H. Lamb.