TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1329, 31 August 1886, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN j [bEDTER COPYRIGHT.! OBITUARY. Loudon, August 29. Obituary—Lord Henry Lennox. Aged, S 6. HEAVY EARTHQUAKES. Athens, August 28. An earthquake, causing great devastation of property and loss of life, occurred at Philatra, a town on the south-west coast of Greece, in th( province of Morea. Fully three bun dred persons are known to hav< perished. , Alexandria, August 28 Several severe shocks of earthquak have been experienced in vcnou parrs of Egypt. r Rohe, August 29. Heavy shocks of earthquake hav been felt throughout Italy. AUSTRALIAN. [ESTHER'S TELKGSAMS —COPYEIGHT.] CABLE. Melbourne, August 30. A telegram published in the Arg to-day, from Auckland, states that t N.Z. Gdvernm.nt is opposed to a arrangement regarding a cable betwe Australia and New Zealand except ti ojriginally ’prqpjsed, namely, a renev of the subsidy for 5 years, but i 1 understood in Melbourne that 1 Cable Company would accept a retie 1 for that term, and grant a reduction the tariff if the former proposals of Government were now renewed. RETURNING DIGGERS. Melbourne, August S: The Steamship Sikh from ] Darwin shipped 79 and the steam Menmuir, from the same port, hr (86 returned digits from the 15 berley district.