BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Southland Times, Issue 4701, 1 August 1883, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.] REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. "LONDON, July 30. The Orient steamship John Eider, from Melbourne (June 12) with a cargo of 2000 carcases of mutton, shipped at Sydney ; and the P. and O. steamship Ballarat, from Melbourne (June 5) have arrived at Plymouth. Arrived — Oamaru, ship, from Port Chalmers (May 5) . July 31. In the House of Commons, last night, Sir Stafford Northcote'a motion, urging that the claims o£ Count De Lesseps to a monopoly for the construction of the canals in Euypt siiouhi be repudiated in any future parleying with the Canal Co., came "up for debate. An amendment was proposed by Mr Norwood, M.P., for Hull, that the House should maintain freedom of judgment in the construction of canals between the Mediteranean and Red Se.a. After discussion, the amendment was adopted by a majority of nine votes. CAIRO. July 30. Considprable decrease is now apparent in the daily deaths from elm I era, both in this city and^^Alex.and.ria.. The English troopp, howevjfrphave sujfered severely of late, twenty- tw ; o. deaths haying occurred in the various f r^giments since' Friday last.

(SPECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received August 1, 1883, at 1.9Q a.m. ■;■;;■''■ ■'..;■■;' LONDON, July gi. - Sir Julius Vdgel has secured tbe right to lay oables between Western Australia, Ceylon, and Singapore, and intends to re-

[ duce the charges for transmissjoa of ■;> ; ; ." ' - , ■ Ir the House of Commons, on Mr. Norwood's amendment that the House retains its freedom b£ judgment regarding the canals, Sir Stafford Northcote deprecated the question b«ing male a. party one by Mr Grludstone. The Parnellites' abstained from voting. * At a: meeting of shareholders 5 -of the Union Bunk the chairman expressed a fear that the blanks in the colony would scarcely escape losses during the current ..^*^ 3SRB?I4t - J . ;^ ' Eleven "hundred pounds -have- been sub- . scribed towards 'the' Colonial Institute! building fund. I Five hundred French infantry have beieni ordered to Madagascan '■■'■■■ ■ . ■■--■> i