DEATH OF A BRITISH SOLDIER FROM CHOLERA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3756, 30 July 1883, Page 2

DEATH OF A BRITISH SOLDIER FROM CHOLERA.

THE AMERICAN TELEGRAPH OPER-

ATORS' STRIKE

AAVARDING PRIZES AT THE AMSTERDAM EXHIBITION:

FATAL AFFRAYBETAVEEN ENGLISH

AND FRENCH MARINES,

FOUNDERING OF A SWEDISH

MONITOR,

THE CHANNEL TUNNELL

EMIGRATION MISSION IN NORWAY,

THE WAR IN TONQUIN

THE CHOLERA—TERRIBLE SCENES

IN CAIRO

THE ANNEXATION QUESTION

THE DROAVNING OF CAPT. AVEBB

SALE OF AUSTRALIAN WOOLS AT

ANTAVERP

THE HARVEST PROSPECTS

LONDON,

July 23. A British soldier has died from cholora at Suez.

The number of telegraph operators out on strike in America has now reached 17,000.

A beginning has now been made in awarding the prizes in connection with the Amsterdam Exhibition.

It is reported that a fight has occurred between tho English and French marines belonging to the vessels stationed at Port Said, and that several have been killed.

July 21

One of tho largest monitors in the Swedish navy, thcThordon, eight guns, hasfoundered off Nordkoping, a seaport of Sweden. Tho whole of the crow wero saved.

The Government aro adopting the decision arrived at by tho Channel Tunnel Committee, and tho Bills to authoriso tho construction of tho tunnel havo thorcforo been withdrawn.

July 25. Sir Arthur Blyth, Agent-General for South Australia, proceeds to Norway on an cmigrantion mission.

Fifteen of the persons arrested, charged with tho murder of Mrs Smytho at AVcstincath, have been committed for trial.

The Count do Les?eps has undertaken to complete tho construction of tho second canal in three years.

It is reported that .18,000 Chirieso troops aro nearing Hanoi.

The German Government havo at last consentod to German officers and orcw taking the Chinese ironclad Tingyuen recently launched at Stettin to her destination.

The spread of cholera is causing terrible scenes in Cairo and neighborhood. Tho Ministry are panic-stricken, and are utterly incapable of coping with the disease. The various Consuls have been expelled from Saigon, for having falsely reported tho capture of Hanoi by tho Chinese.

Tho Earl of Derby has expressed Rurpriso at the revelation in tho Agents-General's memoraudtun that the French Government proposed to liberate thousands of the worst criminals among rhc islands of the AVestern Pacific, and asks that copies may bo supplied for the use of the Cabinet. Tho Agents-General have rcquostcd an interview for next week.

The times says that France is unlikely to support the action of tho Governor of New Caledonia in sending a warship to annox the Pacific Islands, and that Australia would prove an antagonist whose designs it would be difficult to counteract.

Ono of the leading railway companies in America having wagered Captain AVebb ten thousand dollars that he would bo unable to swim through tho whirlpool of Niagara, the attempt was made yesterday. Captain AVebb passed successfully over the first rapid, but, was caught in one of tho whirlpools and drowned.

At a sale of Australian wools at Antwerp 15,000 bales were catalogued. Most of it was sold. The prices realised wero scarcely cquil to the closing rates at the June sales in London.

Despite tho inclement wcathor a favorable crop is expected, and tho prospect of the hop crop is excellent. The British harvest is delayed by the cold weather and frequent rains. Tho average yield is expected. Tlie Continent prospects ar« also generally good. The American springsown crops will givo the average yield, and winter-sown one-fifth below the average.