TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1173, 3 May 1884, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

I ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, April 29. The Hebdomadal Council of the University, Oxford, has passed » resolution approving of the admission of women to examinations for University honors. The troopship Crocodile has arrived at Portsmouth with, cholora on board, six cases ana three deaths having occurred since she left Suez. The Agents-General recommend fliafT either Sir F. D. Bell or Sir Andrew Clarke should represent the Australasian colonies at thn Suez Canal Conference. The Rig)it Hon. Mr Childers will decide which it is to be. Sir H. Lock will piobably proceed to Victoria, via Hobart, by the New Zealand Company's steamer. Messrs Simon Frazer and James Muter have sent twenty cases of frozen meat ex Lusitania to Paris for sale. April 30. 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 that no further cases will now occur. The deaths are announced of Sir Michael Costa, eminent composer, aged 74, and Sir Michael Arthur Bass, M,P., of Eatt Staffordshire, aged 47. The Governments of Russia and Italy have agreed to join the proposed Conference of Powers to take into consideration Egyptian affairs. Her Majesty the Queen returns from Darmßtadt on Monday next. The French Government have definitely notified its acceptance of the proposal that a Conference on the state of affairs in Egypt should be held, but without waiving the demand that the whole of the Egyptian question shall be open for discussion. The marriage of Prince Louis of Badenburg with the Princess Victoria of Hesse Darmstadt, was celebrated yesterday at Darmstadt with great ceremony. Her Majesty Queen Vic- i toria, the Princsss of Wales, and the German Crown Prince and Princess were present. The Queen did not attend the banquet which followed, on account of the recent death of the Duke of Albany. The cargo of mutton on board the s.s. Fenstanton, from Port Chalmers, has been landed in excellent condition. The first portion was placed in the market to-day, and realised s|d to 6d per lb. At the Newmarket first Spring meeting to-day, the race for the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes resulted as follows :—Scot Free 1, St. Medard 2, Harvester 3. Telegrams from Havannah, the capital of Cuba, stats that a terrible catastrophe occurred there. A powder magazine at the acsenal exploded, and the shock also caused a gasometer in the neighborhood to blow up. Immense damage was done to the adjoining buildings, and a number of persons in the vicinity lost their lives, May 1. The Russian loan of fifteen millions has been subscribed twelvefold. Mr Stanley Hill has submitted a motion to Parliament in favor of the fedeiation of the Empire. The Powers have agreed to accept the English proposal for a Conference on the affairs of Egypt.