CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1550, 3 December 1883, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

■ ■ Heuikr's Telegrams, - BV ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH,—COPYRIGHT. LONDON. December 1, . Received December 3rd, 10,20 a,m, —lt is announced that a convention has been concluded between Lesseps and a syndicate of British shipowners. The convention makes the following provisions:—-Seven additional directors all of whom shall be Englishmen, will be appointed to the Board of Directors of the Canal Company; Consulting Committee to be appointed to act inLondon with the English Directors; sur-tax at present levied to be abolished from January next,, and pilotage dues in July, 1884; transit dues to be reduced to fifty centimes per ton from January, 188f, and further reductions will thereafter be made in proportion to profits realised by the. company. A competent committee composed of .one half Englishmen will determine' whether tho present canal should be enlarged or a second one be constructed.

111 feeling 'which prevailed some months pfist in the North of Ireland between, ,tho 'Orange and National parties continues to increase, andespecially in the Province of Ulster, where the' tension is now very severely manifesting itself, In consequence

fears are entertained that sot'ioua disturbances may occur. A pvoclftmation has bean issued by tho 'Executive forbidding meetings which were announced to be held at Nowry, County Down, by Orangemen and Nationalists.

Mails via Naples per Orient steamship Luaitania from Melbourne, Oct, 20, were delivered on November 29. SAN I^vANOISCOI; ■ November 30, < Arrived,! yesterday—Pacific mail steamship City of New York, from Auckland (Nov. 7). PARIS, December 1. A parliamentary committee appointed to consider the question of voting a credit for . the Tonquin expedition in making its report recommended that endeavors should be made by the Government to arrive at an amicable arrangement with China, 1 but at the same time tho committee recognise;the necessity of sending reinforcements ,to Tonquin as a precautionary measure, ALEXNDRIA, December 1. In view of the state of affaire in Upper Egypt H.M.S, Invincible arrived at this port, and will remain to watch the progress of events. •. ~ SYDNEY, iv Monday. ' Arrived f'/yesterday, ; afternoon— Wakatipu from Wellington, A sculling race took place last Saturday afternoon* on the Parra'matta fiver: between Wckett and Rush,-for 1200 a side;- Trickett won easily by several lengths. LONDON, December 1.

Tlio trial of Michael O'Donnell for the wilful murder of James Carey, the Irish informer, at Port Elizabeth in July last, was finished to day, and the prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to death.