TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1186, 15 December 1883, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGISH AND FOREIGN. London, Dec. 11.

To-days Gazette contains an order announcing that the degrees conferred by the University of New Zealand will bo recognised in England and throughout British colonies.

The Royal Geographical Society has approved of Mr Powell's proposed exploration of New Guinea. It will be of a purely scientific character, and will start in February. A naturalist and a geologist have been engaged. An attempt will be made to penetrate into tincentre of the country from the north or north-east coast, but it is not .intended to attempt further exploration on the Fly river, or to go over the ground traversed by Captain Arrnit. A programme of thirty matches bus been arranged for the Australian Eleven. It includes a match with Oxford and Cambridge, two with the Gentlemen of England, two with the North of England, three with All England, at Manchester, Lords, and the Oval respectively, two with the players of England, and thirteen against County elevens. The County Clubs of England have unanimously requested the Marylebone Committee to instruct umpires in all County matches to strictly enforce law ten, which forbids throwing or jerking in bowling. Mr Cleydell has secured premises in Lombard street for the London branch of the. Commercial Bank of South Australia, and will commence business early in the coming year.

Mr Percy Robin, of Adelaide, a student of St John's College, Cambridge, has been awarded first prize for the Colonial Institute essay. The Marquis of Lome, speaking at the Colonial Institute, expressed a hope that the Australian colonies would federate, and he insisted .that England must recognise the colonies as being the best judges of their own wants. He urged the appointment of a Council of Envoys instead of a Federal Parliament, and eulogised the activity of the Australian colonies in the matter of defence. Sir Alex. Gait suggested that English diplomatists might devote more attention to. improving the commercial relations between the Mother Country and the colonies, H.R.H, Duke of Albany was present, and there was a ctowded audience. Dec. 12. A meeting of members of the Irish National L"ague took phice in Dublin' yesterday, when Mr Pm-nHI received a tribute of the various branches of the League to the amount of £38,000. In the course of his address to the meeting, Mr Parnell made a bitter and vehement attack upon Earl Spencer, Viceroy, and Mr Trevelyan, Chief Secretary, lor Ireland. Mr Parnell, however, expressed full confidence in the ultimate success? ot the cause.

At a meeting at the Colonial Institute last evening, the Marquis of Lome, refurring to the question of Fe.loratior, suggested that the Council of Colonial Envoys should assemble in London to discuss preliminary measures which should be adopted with a view of establishing federation of the empire. A destructive hurricane of unprecedented violence passed over England to-<ky, Reveral persons were killed, snr' other; iwiooost injawl. A large fe'.ra')uut of r..K'percy st&« «Jesfroy*!(i along the path of the storm, The steamship Kent, outward bound from London to Melbourne, was found on arrival at Port Said to be on fire in the hold. The fire was extinguished soon after discovered. Some slight damage was done to the cargo. Later. Signor Guiseppe Mario, the celebrated tenor, is dead, agod sevtnty-fivc years. Mr Parnell has refused to coalesce 'vuth the Liberal party until they consent to abandon the policy of coercion and emigration. The Times says that the accomplishj raent of Colonial Federation will tend powerfully to reduce the difficulties which surround the large question of Imperial Federation. It is reported that a party of Royal Engineers will be sent to fortify the town ot Assouan, situated near the first

calaract of the Nile, and guarding the approaches to Upper Egypt. The Egyptian garrison lus abandoned Saikah (? Souakim), and a force of 15,000 rebels is stated to be holding- the passes oftho Soudan, Applications for shares in the New Zealand Mortgage Company are in excess of the number open on allotment,, In the Chamber of Deputies to day a debate took place upon Tonquin, and j the policy of the Government, at tho conclusion of which rotes of credit and of confidence in Government, wi ; re passed by large majorities. In the course of his Rj).ep'cli, M. Ferry declnred that' Government was firmly resolved to lollqw up their present line of policy, and push operations without delay. Cairo, Dec. 11. The Arab hillmen are mustering in large Bumbers in the neighborhood of Souakim, and it is expected that they will make a night attack upon the garrison aud town. H.M. gun vessel Ranger, now cruising off the coast, is attacking the rebels with rocket fire, with the view of preventing their approach against the town. Dec. 12. The latest despatches to hand -from the Soudan state that the figyptian garrisons at Duem at Shat (sic) are being massed at Khartoum, with a view of repelling the attack which is expected to be made upon the town by the Arab rebels. It is also stated that 131 Mahdi is sending a force of 1000 men into the Darfour district. Calcutta, Dec. 11. Tho various Courts at the International Exhibition are now nearly completed. The Exhibition is a great success ; 90,000 persons have already been admitted, and the number of visitors is increasing daily,