ENGLISH & FOREIGN. [BY TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1715, 3 July 1883, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN. [BY TELEGRAPH. -COPYRIGHT.]

[rEOTKR's TKLEGRAM.S.] Loxdon\ June 30. Latest intelligence from Damietta states that the cholera continues to rap without abatement. Vessels proceeding through the Canal will not touch ;it any port in Egypt. A strict quarantine is being maintained at all Continental ports, and at Malta and Gibraltar. In the House of Commons last night Sir Vernor Harcoiirt introduced a Bill to provide for the institution of a Local Government Board in Scotland. Mr Ince, Liberal candidate, has been elected for Hastings, a vacancy having occurred in the representation of that constituency by the resignation of Mr C. J. Murray, the Conservative member. At the annual dinner of the Cobden Club to-day, -Sir Saul Samuel, the Agent-General for New South Weles, in responding to the toast, of " The Colonies." ••aid that if intercolonial tariffs were mode protective, he was certain that free trade would soon be the policy of all the colonies. Sir John Hay made a speech, in w Inch he expressed the hope that a commercial federation between Great Britain and the colonies would be brought about.

Nkw York, Juno 29. The Immigration Board of this city has shipped back to Ii eland several pauper families recently arrived.