TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1184, 11 December 1883, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGISH rj f i • LbkDbNj Deci 6; • ' A email-parcel of frozen meat by the Lusitania has been placed uponj themarket and realised, s£d. . V... .* The financial proposals of the Australasian; Conference are considered vajgue, The Pall Mall Gazette stated that : the' decisions of the Conference form. an epoch marking, eyicpt r may modify the "t entire future ;of: the' l colonies, which claarly declare to the world “ hands off the -Pacific.’’; • Bag- 1 land, it says, cannot rightly refuse their serious demands, especially if the ' colonies are willing to bear the expense of necessary action. If the colonial mood proves permanent, the colonies can force the Imperial hand. The St James’s Gazette says that Lord Derby cannot curtly negative the moderate and carefully arrived at decisions of the Conference. The first match of the Australian team in England is to be played at Lord’s against the Sheffield Park on May 12th. .■ Dec. 7. ' The refrigerating chamber of the steamship Fenstanton was opened yesterday, and the cargo of frozen mutton was found to be in good condition. A portion of the cargo was placed on -the market to-day, and realised 6d per lb. The Woodlark, one of the gun vessels, of the East Indian station, has been ordered to„Souakira, on the coast of the Red Sea, fears being entertained that another attack may be made upon the Egyptian garrison stationed there. In the course of an address delivered last evening at Knottingly,. Yorkshire* the Right Hon H. C. E. Childers referred to the .Intercolonial Conference now being held at Sydney, and expressed a hope that it would result in the federation- of the Australian - Colonies, and in the adoption of other wise . and well regulated measures having for their aim the extension of British influence and commerce. ■ ’ ; Brussels, Dec. 6. The Belgian Parliamentary Chambers ■were destroyed by fire. Paris, Dec. 6. It has transpired that the Chinese Government continues to adopt a firm and unyielding attitude in the negotiations which are now proceeding for the settlement of the Tonquin difficulty, and has refused either to withdraw or to modify its claims in Tonquin, and is preparedfo appeal to arms rather than surrender to France the military forts in Tonquin which are now occupied by the Chinese froops. Constantinople,. Dec. 7. In consequence of the excited and fanatical state of the native, tribes in Upper Egypt, the Porte has - ordered several frigates l to rendezvous in the Red Bea with a view of co-operating with the Egyptian troops now operating against the rebel Arabs. Cairo, Dec. 6. Despatches to hand from the Soudan state that the panic which arose at Khartoum, in consequence of the expectation that El Mahdi would advance and besiege the town, after having annihilated the Egyptian army and Hicks; Paslia, is now subsiding,: the rebels having shown no intention of taking advantage of the weakness of the garrison to make an attack.