CABLE TELEGRAMS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 203, 30 September 1873, Page 5

CABLE TELEGRAMS.

(Daily Times.) London, September 18th. One of the chief attractions of the Vienna Exhibition is Mr Brogden's collection of New Zealand birds. The Judges and jurymen in the Tichborne case have been anonymously threatened with assassination if the Claimant is sentenced. The Judges have forbidden the Claimant to attend public meetings. The steamship Great Eastern has failed to repair the Atlantic cable of 18C5. A despatch lias been received at the Admiralty, under date 20th August, stating that the.town of Vamas,.on the West Coast pf Africa, has been destroyed, on account of the inhabitants treacherously firing upon an exploring party, several of whom were wounded —Commodore J. E. Commerell, C.8., severely. The Times correspondent at the Gold Coast describes an affair which took place at Chaw at as a serious disaster. The enormous mortality amongst the English troops has been of value to the Ashantees by lessening the numbers opposed to them. Of several boats filled with men to effect a landing on the coast, not a single man escaped unwounded. Colonel Sir Garnet Wolseley intends constructing a wide road and railway to the Ashantee capital. The Duke of Edinburgh has gone to Livonia to meet the members of the Russian Imperial family. France. 107 deaths from cholera occurred in Paris last week. The last German soldier quitted France on the 16th inst. The British traveller Stornes has arrived at Paris. He announces that Dr Livingstone at the commencement of July was alive and well. Spain. Dissensions exist amongst the besieged at Carthagena, and there is a scarcity of provisions. 14,000 Carlists have been defeated by the Republican troops, with great loss. 'The bombardment of Carthagena has commenced. New York. A serious conflagration has occurred at Chicago. Yellow fever is raging in Louisiana. Jay Cooke and Co., the New York bankers, have suspended payment.