ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1787, 18 December 1883, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[BY TELEGRAPH— COPYRIGHT] I — — —— [it KUT KK'S TKLKG HAMS. ] Cairo, December 14. | A TEMiORAM has been i eceived fiom the Governor of Dongola, announcing that he has received authentic information that Hicks Pasha was not killed at the time j his army was annihilated by fche rebel Arabs, but succeeded in escaping, and is now at Biiket. Later intelligence from the Soudan states tint d;ssenskm have occuried among the tribes who were leagued . together under El Mahdi, and that they are now returning to their former isolated I condition.

[BY TELEORA.PH — PRKSS ASSOCIATION.] London, December 15. Thk Spectator considers that the decision of the Convention in favour of federation is a great step in the right direction, and that the scheme is capable of being moulded into a definite, practical shape. The convict question is a most serious one, as on the oae hand it may involve the declaintion of the independence of the colonies, and on the other may lead the Empire into a European war. The Economist thinks that instead of establishing an Imperial Council for the colonies, possessing ill defined powers, it would be more desirable to develop the present system of informal representation of the leading colonies, but with separate envoys for the smaller groups,