TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1211, 31 July 1884, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, July 27. The Australian cricketers are! booked as passengers by the P. and O.; steamer leaving about the end of September, Mr Thomas Sexton, M.P. for Sligo, will visit Australia in September. An expedition has been formed for the purpose of exploring the Gulf of Exmouth,, Western Australia. ' . ‘ July 28. The first meeting of the Conference which baa bfcen organised to.discuss the advisability of Imperial federation will be held to-morrow. The* Right Hon. W. E. Forster, late Chief Secretary for Ireland, will preside. , A collision has occurred ,q£F Cape Fimstere, between the vessels Gijoh and Laxham, resulting in 130 lives being lost. No other particulars are to hand. In-the House of Commons! to-day, the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, Colonial Under-Secretary, in reply to a question, stated that the earnest representations made by England on the recidiviste question, were now more seriously occupying the attention of the French government. He added that the Imperial Governmant would not interfere with any reasonable measure that; might be adopted in the colonies for their selfprotection against the influx of criminals. In the House of Lords this afternoon, Earl Granville, Foreign Secretary, announced that an important point had arisen to-day at the Egyptian Conference, which the English delegate* had found it necessary to refer to Parliament. Ihe prospects of the wheat crop are excellent., Hartmann, the Nihilist chief, has committed suicide. The causa is attributed to poverty. The Hon. Evelyn Ashley, in the House of Commons, stated that the attention of France had been directed to the fact that the duplex control over Egyptian finances had expired, He. aleo said be hoped that it wonld not be necessary for the colonies to legislate for the the exclusion of criminals and aliens. At the forthcoming Federation Conference, the Right Hon. W. H. Smith will propose and Earl Roseberry second a resolution to the effect that federation is indispensable to the unity of the Empire, The second resolution advocates the formation of a society for the furtherance of federal objects. The Egyptian Conference will probably adjourn until next year. Th* Essex regiment, stationed at Cairo, has been ordered to proceed- to Assouan. July 29. The International Conference on Egyptian affair* is to renew its deliberations. There is a very marked difference in the views of the English and French delegates regarding the questions to be discussed, and fear* are entertained that an agreement piay not be arrived at. The Admiralty, will employ the Queensland gunboat to survey • the Northern Australian waters. Mr Fawcett, Postmaster-General, is confident that system oL. parcel post will not involve a loss to the revenue. H. Stanley ridicules the expedition for the relief of General‘Gdfdonl A Ipoiifloall crisis is antiepated in France in connection with the revision ■J 1 '* ■ , of the Senate. Mr Gladstone will probably prorogue Parliament on August 12th; Paris, July 27. A considerable decrease in the number of deaths from cholera is now manifest at Toulon. The disease is, however, spreading, and has appeared in a virulent form at Aix, sixteen miles north-°ast of Marseilles, Six deaths occurred at Aix to-dav, and the inhabitants of the town are flying ia a panic. Rome, July 27, Cholera has made its appearance at Spezzia, a town in North Italy, on the Gulf of Genoa. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, July 28. Altogether about a dozen cases of smallpox are in existence here.

July 29. A disastrous fire took place last night at Kitchen and Sons' Btore at Sandridge, resulting in the destruction of the building and iu contents, which consisted chiefly of cotton. The damage is estimated at £3OOO. Sydney, July 2S. It has been "ascertained that the patient at Forbes is suffering fivtn m9asles,_and not.smalLpox, an supposed. The quarantine which- had been established has in consequence been raised. July 29. Arrived, yesterday morning—Union steamship Terawera, from New Zealnnd, News has been received here that the steamship Taiwan, which left. Hong Kong on Jtily 4t.h for Sy&ney, grounnVd on a reef on. the 1 Australian const. Efforts which have been made to fL>i.t the vessel, have as .yet f proved unsuccessful. Hobart, July 28. j Four arrests hare been made of ' persons implicated in the-bank robbery at Beaconsfield. None ot the money, however, has been recovered. Albany, July 29. The P. and 0. steamship Baliarat with the inward mails via Brindisi and Suez, dated London, June 27th, arrived in King George's Sound this morning.