TELEGRAPHIC.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4953, 17 May 1894, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

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INDIGNANT STUDENTS.

LONDON, Mat 16. A thousand students from Oxford University marched in procession in an excited manner to the railway station as a protest against the rustication of a section of the students of Christ Church College, owing to disorder in thfl eollflP-fl thrmicrh rppont;

strictness. THE PACIFIC CABLE. Sir J. Pender, in a letter to the Times, states that it is possible to construct a single Pacific cable for £1,800,000, but it is impossible for any profit to be derived from the terms laid down at the Postal Conference in "Wellington in March last. Sir J. Pender, in his letter to the Times, replying to the arguments of Sir C. Tapper, contends' that the fallacies respecting the Pacific cable are Mr Sandford Fleming's, not his. CRICKET. Stoddart's cricket team sails for Australia in September, ' INSANITARY DWELLINGS. Experts condemn the crowded model dwellings in East London, where the mortality is 41 per 1000. They assert that carbonic acid in 1864 in London air was 380 per 1000 in volume, while at .present it is 568. A MURDEROUS ATTACK. Mitchell, a man who had supplanted an evicted farmer at Castlebar, was attacked by a body of roughs, and badly cut about the head and limbs. His injuries are of such a nature that his life is despaired of. Several arrests have b,een made in connection with the outrage. THE NEW TAXATION. M. Labilliere, in a letter to the Times, comments on the Chancellor's death duties, which he says will affect the colonial property of persons living and dying in England, and will tend to retard the flow of capital for investment in Australia.

THE NIHILISTS.

ST PETERSBURG, Mat 16. » The arrests made in connection with the recently-discovered Nihilist conspiracy have given a death blow to the impending revolution, and it is believed that it will require a year for the Nihilists to reorganise.

CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.

CAIRO, Mat 16. The Egyptian Notables intend to take criminal proceedings against M. Ferdinand de Lesseps and other early directors of the Suez Canal for embezzling shares of the founders of the work, which had been granted by Said PabTir in 1857.

THE CONTROL OF GIBRALTAR.

MADRID, Mat 16. Senor Canovas del Castillo, addressing the Cortes, declared that it was impossible that any one nation should hold the keys of Gibraltar.

A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION.

HONGKONG, May 16. • The Chinese Government is devoting the sum of three million sterling to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of the Empress Dowager.

DEATH OF AN ISLAND TRADER.

SYDNEY, Mat 16. . CaptainlM'Leod, a New Hebrides trader, and well known in New Zealand, is dead. ACCIDENT TO A GUN. It haa transpired that during certain military manoeuvres at Newcastle on .Saturday last one of the hydro-pneumatic gunß was ruined, involving a loss of between £iOQO and .£SOOO. From what can be gathered it appears almost a miracle that a similar calamity to that on the Cordelia did not occur. It is believed that a Bhot carried away the whole rifling of the gup, and the missile very nearly jammed in the barrel.