BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXI, Issue 7229, 1 May 1884, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[by electric telegraph-copyright.} [Rettter's Telegrams.] [Received Apvil 30, at 2.15 p.m.] ADMISSION OP WOMEN TO UNIVERSITY HONOURS. LONDON, April 29. The Hebdomadal Council of the University of Oxford has passed a resolution approving of the admission of women to examinations for University honours. CHOLERA AMONG ENGLISH TROOPS. The troopship Crocodile has arrived at Portsmouth with cholera on hoard, six cases and three deaths having occurred since she left Suez. [Received May 1, at 12.55 a.m. J LONDON, April 30. The P. and O. steamship Sutlej, with the remainder of the Austoalian cricketers, arrived at Plymouth on Monday night. THE OUTBREAK OF CHOLERA. The cholei'a patients on board H.M. transport Crocodile are all recovering, and the troops which the vessel brought home have been landed. It is expected that no further cases will now occur. OBITUARY. 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, April 29. Emboldened by the disaffection of the garrison at Berber, and the countenance which he is now receiving from the Nubian rebels, Osman Digneh is rapidly collecting supplies and men, and threatens that he will advance upon Assouan, a border town of Egypt proper, near the first cataract on the Nile. In view of the recent refusal of the British Government to despatch an expedition into the Soudan, the threats of the Arab chiefs are causing much uneasiness here. [Special to Press Association.] j [Received April 80, at 5.80 p.m.'] LONDON, April 29. The Agents-General recommend

that either Sir F. D. Bell or Sir Andrew Clark should represent the Australasian Colonies at the Suez Canal Conference. The Right Hon Mr Childers will decide which it is to be. Sir H. Loch will probably proceed to Victoria via. Hobari, by one of the New Zealand Company's steamers. Messrs Simon Fraser and James Miller have sent twenty carcases of frozen meat, ex Lusitania, to Paris for sale. 1 Received April 30, at 7.50 p.m.'l LONDON, April 80. The Governments of Italy and Russia have agreed to join the proposed Conference of Powers to take' into consideration Egyptian affairs. Her Majesty the Queen returns from Darmstadt on Monday next. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. [Renter's Telegrams.] [Eeceived April 30, at 2.15 p.m.] LONDON, Apeil 29. The second of this year's series of Colonial wool auctions was opened to-day, before a large number of home and foreign buyers. The catalogue comprised 8700 bales, for which a fair demand was experienced, cross-breds ruling at about the closing rates of the last auctions. The quantity to be offered during the series is limited to 370,000 bales. The sales will close on June 18. The loan of ,£BOO,OOO for the Tasmanian Government is announced today. The rate of interest is 4 per cent, and the minimum is fixed at 98. Tenders will be opened on May 7. [Eeoeived April 30, at 8 p.m.J Consols have further declined |, and are now quoted at lOlf. New Zealand securities remain at the following quotations :—5 per cent 10-40 loan 103 f; 5 per cent 1889 loan 105; 4£ per cent 1879-1904 loan lOlf; 4 per cent inscribed stock 101|. The - fheat market continues dull. Adelaide, ex store, 435; New Zealand ditto, 35s to 40s; Adelaide flour, ex store, 28s. Australian tallow, average quality beef, 36s 6d; mutton, 395. Australian merino wools are ruling from closing rates at last sales to |d lower. [Special to Pbess Association.] [Received April 30, at 12.30 p.m.] LONDON, Apeil 29. The wool sales have opened. Messrs Chas. Balme and Sons, and Messrs Jacomb and Co. issue well assorted catalogues, comprising 8600 bales. There was a good attendance of buyers at the openingsale, and cross-bred wool proved firm. Other descriptions were five per cent lower than the closing prices of the last series. The arrivals to date amount to 354,000 bales; and the list remains open until it reaches 400,000 bales.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) have received the following:— LONDON, April 29.

Wool.—The sales opened on April 29, at an average decline of 5 per cent on last sales' closing rates, except cross-breds, for which the market is firmer. Up to date 360,000 bales have arrived; 400,000 are admissible for the series ; 60,000 bales have been sent to the manufacturing districts direct. The opening catalogue contained 8600 bales, but was not a representative one.

Wheat.—Market quiet; New Zealand is worth 39s 6d per 4961 b. Tallow. —Market quiet, mutton is worth 40s per cwt, beef is worth 375. Leather.—Market firm ; best sides, Hid per lb. Frozen Meat. —Market sluggish. Supplies of Continental mutton are heavy. Mutton weighing 70 to 751bs per carcase is worth 6d per lb.