"AGE" SPECIALS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1684, 13 May 1884, Page 2

"AGE" SPECIALS.

[united PRESS association.]

LONDON,

May 1. The Government have received'replies to theic Note, inviting, the: Great Powers to hold a conference on the Egyptian financial and other affairs, The wholo of the Powers have agreed to the proposal with the exception of France. Both' Turkey and England have pledged themselves not to annex Egypt, but to confine operations to an expedition for the relief of Khartoum in the autumn. -

Owing to the great depression in the shipping trade an agreement is being made by the large shipowners to lay .up one-fourth of their tonnage for four months. Tlio agreement comes into operation on the 20th inst.

.May 2. Tho County franchise bill introduced by the Government for tho extension of the County franchise and for assimilating the voting qualifications'of England, Scotland, and Wales, passed through committee in the House of Commons without opposition last ni«ht, Tho South Australian new gunboat, Piotecfcor, was tested for speed on the Tvno yesterday, the trial, proving successful, ..

, Reports have been received of the .appearance of a destructive fly in the (Kentish hop gardens,

May 4,.. 1 lho annual Academy banquet was ?eW last night. The first Lord of the Admiralty referred, in the course of his remarks, to the Australian Navy, fo spoke in high terras of the torpedo snd gunboats recently constructed' in England to the order of the Yictorian Government, and eulogised the patriotic s iy-it which prompted the Yictorian Government to offer those vessels to tliepipeml Government for use in the JRea.Sea. Ho hoped cther.Australian eoloiiies would follow the example of Victoria and assist in forming one unite} fleet under tlie British flag. ' A Reputation has waited upon the Attoriey-General with a request that the Government would adopt Torren's Act foivfacilitatiiig the transfer of property originally passed in South Australia, ijir Henry James promised to give the application his consideration. Simon iVaser, late of the Yictorian LegislativeUssembly, and Sir Samuel Wilson aro\ making arrangements for entertaining {Sir Henry Loch at a banquet prior toll is departure for "Victoria on the 24th instant.

Ml' Heniker, Heaton, of Sydney, has decided to contest Canterbury at next election of members at that place for the. House of Commons.

LONDON,.' , ! May 11, ■ _ The Observer this morning publishes a telegram from its correspondent at Cairo stating that orders'had been received there from the Imperial Government to make preparations for the despatch in October of a force of ten thousand men to relievo General Gordou at Khartoum. It is further stated that Sir Garnet Wolseley will I command the expedition. . |\ ' f——T-