BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXI, Issue 7228, 30 April 1884, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

1 J?r BLECThIC TELEGRAPH—COPiriUGHr.] [Neuter’ s Telegrams.] FE.wiretl April 29, at 9.55 p.ra. I LONDON, April 29. The Prince and Princess of Wales and family left Loudon yesterday for Hesse Darmstadt, where Her Majesty the Queen is now residing. BELGRADE. April 28. Archduke Rudolph, Prince Imperial of Austria, arrived here to-day from Constantinople, on route for Vienna. His Royal Highness was cordially received by King Milan, and numerous fetes have been organised in his honour. SHIPPING. LONDON, April 28. Arrived—Ships Pleione, from Wellington (Dec. 31); Taranaki, from Port Chalmers (Jan. 17) ; and steamship Eenstanton, from Port Chalmers (Feb. 29), with a cargo of 8500 carcases of frozen mutton. [Received April 30, at 12.55 a.m.] THE EGYPTIAN. CONFERENCE. LONDON, April 29. The date has not yet been fixed for the meeting of the projected Conference of European Powers regarding Egyptian affairs. Negotiations are still proceeding with a view of deciding what questions shall be brought under the consideration of the Plenipotentiaries, but difficulties are now being raised by the French Government, which demands that the Egyptian question in its entirety shall ie open to discussion. [Special to Press Association.] [Received April 29, at 11.45 x.m.] LONDON, April 28. Sir F. D. Bell will shortly proceed to Paris to interview M. Faure, the French Under-Secretary for the Colonies, on the rccidiviste question. Lord Derby states privately that he is anxious to legislate in favour of Federation, hut cannot do anything in the matter until some of the Colonies sanction the result of the recent Conference at Sydney, [Received April 30, at 1.10 a.m/J LONDON, April 29. Sir Henry Parkes, in a letter to the Nineteenth Century, explains his plan for the Federation of the Colonies and the appointment of a London Australian Council. The Empress of Germany is improving in health. The Standard publishes a report from Egypt that four divisions of Bedouins, numbering 500 soldiers, have deserted from the ranks of Gordon Pasha’s garrison at Khartoum, and that his position is helpless. The same paper states that the Soudan is lost as far as Wady Haifa. [Wady Haifa is at the Second Cataract, not far from the border of Egypt itself.]