TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1332, 3 September 1886, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN [REUTER COPYRIGHT.] MELBOURNE SEE. London, September 1. The Rev. M. Austen, of Whitby, who has been offered tbe Bishopric ot Melbourne, has postponed his decision as to acceptance. DISASTROUS EARTHQUAKE. New York. September 1. A very severe shock of earthquake has been felt along the eastern seaboard and in Alabama, and in the city. The shock was felt strongest at Augusta and Savannah, in Georgia, and at Charleston. At these towns several houses fell, and sixty persons have been killed. Malta, September 1. Serious volcanic eruptions occured at the island of Gaiita off the Coast of Tunis. Constantinople, September 1. Several severe shocks of earthquake have been experienced at Smyrna. No serious damage resulted. THE COREA. Bong Kong September 1. News is to band from the Corea that some Chinese ironclads recently anchored off the coast, and landed a party of soldiers disguised. On the latter reaching the shore, they were attacked by a riotous mob of Coreans, and compelled to return. TERRIBLE MASSACRE, Reports have reached here of a terrible massacre ot Christians in North Cochin China, and in the Chinese province of Sechuen, A number of villages inhabited by Christians are reported to have been burned to the ground. AUSTRALIAN. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS —COPYRIGHT.] ' CABLE RATES, Melbourne, September 2, The Melbourne and Sydney Chambers of Commerce are acting in co-opera-tion to induce their Governments to bring about a reduction in the cable tariff between Australia and New Zealand. INCOME TAX. Sydney, September 2. The Government have decided to proceed with the Income Tax Bill, notwithstanding the amendment which was carried yesterday in the Legislative Assembly, reducing thie proposed tax from 4d to id in the jQ.

KIMBERLEY. Conflicting accounts continue to arrive from the Kimberley goldfields.