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Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1885, 5 August 1884, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN. [BY TELEGRAPH— COPYRIGHT.]

[RKUrEK'S TECBGHAMS.] Hontg Kong, August 1. Telegrvms aie to hand from Annam announcing the death of the King. No details of the occurrence have jet been received. London, August 1. The trial of the dynamiters Daley and Kgan, on a charge of treason-felony, con- . eluded to day at Birmingham. The founer was sentenced to penal servitude for life, and Egan to 20 years' imprisonment. August 2. Th« international Conference ou Egyptian affairs adjourned indefinitely to-day. In the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr Gladstone made a lengthy and important statement regarding the Conference. He regretted that the delegates had failed to arrive at any agreement regarding the chief object under discussion, the adjustment of Egyptian finance. The failure, the Premier said, was owing to the difference \\ Inch existed between England and France, the latter refusing to agree to the proposed diminution of the dividend payable as inteiest on the Egj pti.in loans, as the finance committee had suggested. Iraly and Turkey suppoited" the English proposal, and the Austrian, German, and ussian representatives declined to vote The failuie of the Conference to^i agree as to the basis upon which the j re-organisation of Egyptian finances * should tike place, was a matter requiring •seiions consideration and heavy responsibility. The Anglo French agreement which previously existed, having been in abeyance since the abolition of the dual control, was no longer binding.