LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1395, 2 May 1884, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

3 (PER REUTRIt'S AOKNOY. ) f . » Received April 30th, 2.15 p,m. J ■„ London, 29. ; The Hebdomadal Council of the University of Oxford has passed a t resolution approving of the admission 3 of women to examination for University - ' honors. , f The troopship- Crocodile has arrived - at Portsmouth with cholera on board, 3 six cases and three deaths having oc--3 curred since she left Suez. London, 29. The second series of Colonial wool auctions opened to-day before a large nnmber of Home and Foreign buyers. 5 The catalogue comprised 8,700 bales, , for which a fair \ demand was experi- * enced, crossbreds; ruling at about the r ' closing rates of last aucfciona The 3 quantity to be offered during the series [ is limited to 370,000 bales. The sales will close on the 18th June. x A loan of £800,000 for the Tasmanian Government is announced 5 to-day. The rate of interest is 4 per [ cent, and the -minimum is fixed at 3 <£98. The tenders will be opened on . the 7th May. ~ ';> ' r Received April 80, 0. 55 a.m. 1 . London.,: 29. 1 No date has yet been fixed for the } meeting of the projected Conference of European Powers regarding Egyptian l I affairs. Negotiations are still prol ceeding with a view to deciding what b questions shall be brought under the j consideration of -the PlenopoteDtaries, 1 but difficulties are now being raised 1 by the French Government, which demands that tjje Egyptian question in its entirety $hsl be i Open to dis- ( Hussion, J ; ; Received April 29, 9.55 p.m. c Adblapb, 29. Arrived — Orient steamship Ibiria, with the inward mails via Brindisi and Suez, dated London, March 28. ' Melbourne, 29. Sailed — Tarawera, for Bluff. London, 29. His Royal Highness the Prince and Princess of Wales and family left London yesterday for Darmstadt, Ger many, where Her Majesty the Queen is now residing. ' Belgrade, 28. The Arch-Duke Rudolph, Prince Imperial of Austria arrived here today from Constantinople, en route to Vienna. His Imperial, Highness was cordially received by the King and numerous fetes have been organised in hia honor. Received May 1, 0.55 a.m. Melbourne, 30. The argument on the rule nisi in the case of Captain Lockyer v. the Victorian Navigation Board, to prohibit the Board from enforcing the suspension of his certificate commenced to-day, but was adjourned until tomorrow. Adelaide, 30. According to the estimate of the Adelaide Chamber of Commerce the quantity of wheat available for export this season is 300,000 tons, whereof 135,00() tons have already been shipped and 16,000 are now in course of shipment. London, 30. • The P. and O. steamship Sutk-j, with the remainder of the Australian cricketers arrived at Plymouth on Monday night. The deaths are announced of Sir '. Michael Costa, the eminent composer, aged 74, and Sir Michael Arthur Bass, M.P, for East Staffordshire, aged 47. Cairo, 29. Emboldened by disaffection in the ] garrison at Berber, and the counter ] nance which they are now receiving 1 from the Nubian tribes Osman Diguah j the representative of the Mahdi in the Eastern Soudan, is rapidly collecting l supplies and men, and threatens that he will advance upon the Assouam, a r border town of Ejjypt proper, near the t first cataract on the Nile. j In view of the recent refusal of the * British Government to despatch an expedition into Soudan, tlie threats of a the Arab chiefs aro causing much c , uneajsiness there, I