Telegrams.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1107, 20 July 1883, Page 3

Telegrams.

HOME AND FOREIGN. Cairo, .lily 14 f V , The choW.a onvloraie >«..ip,>ar<ul at Giznh, i avi Inge i i tilio suburbs ot thisci'y. Five persons have been attacked with the disease today, Paris July 15th. Serious rioting 1 occurred at. R .übaix, a manufacturing town in the extreme north 1 ot Franc". The disturbance was cause 1 by the Anarchists, woo assembled in large ' numbers and defied the civil »u hnrities. It was found necessary to call out the military ' in the neighbourhood before the rioters could be dispersed and order restored. | London, July 13th. French dispatches from Tamatave. dated July (5. are entirely silent as to the reported f insults to ihe British authorities and the officers of the Dryad Two night attacks have been made ley the llovas, who have r been repulsed with serious loss. • The balance of the Western Australian loan has been withdrawn. Mr Childers, 1 Chancellor of the Ex j cheq nr, replying to a deputation, stated that the agreement made with the Count do Less |is for a second Suez Canal was the [ be.-t obtainable. It i< considered probable that the Italian f Government will consent to the landing of m ils at Brindisi. t Tin French naval authorities at Tamatave, on June 26, hoarded Messrs Currie’s t mail stenner the Taym >uth Cwtlc, placed Sentri-s in varions positions on board, and r overhauled the mails. The captain alone was allowed to land at Madagascar, anil the r cargo and passengers had to be taken on to Mauritius. July 16. Baron De Lesseps threatens that un ess seme decision s come to with respect to the -cc n I canal across Suez he will appeal to the French to resist further concession. ' Mr Childers, Chancellor of the Exchequer, will resign if the agreement is rejected. ' Tamatave has been proclaimed a French town, an I the various consuls resident 1 there have been foroidden to hoist, die flag of the country they represent Tile cap tain H.M.S. Dvrad, booming irritated at the conduct f the French Admiral, is sending a body of marines ashore to guard the I consulate, on 1 boats to assist the fugitives. , The Governor of Mauritius is al-o sending a steamer to lamatave to bring away any fugitives that may care to leave. The bb Tala an I Tories will snnport the nomination of The O’Coimnr Don for the . ! vac nicy of Wexford. Thu following have appea-ed in the Melbourne papers. > Tiie accident which occurred at the launching of the steamer Dip me is attributed to he fact that the machinery was inserted bo- i f ire thr launching. Another reason I assigned is that the chains by which the i steamer was ease I into the water worke I j unsatisfactorily, and with unequal action. | From the latest reports it appears than 150 persons ivere drowned. F rty bodies have I , already li. en recovers I. Efforts a>e being ! ina eto raise the Daphne, Out so far they - have not succeeded. , - On July 3 the Agents-General of the ! , Australian colonies wailed upon the mem- I tiers of the London Chamber of Cfunmerce . . with reference to the anti m taken by the | Intercoloui d Bubal f, ouf"ren •« at Sydney i to obtain .a 1 mission into the P .stal Uni m. ' It was resolved that the Brisbane and Wei j.ngton Chambers of Commerce .-build be 1 urged to press tie jmi o tane •of joining the ' Union on their respective Governments. Sir F. D. Bell, Agent G neral for New Zealand ' a id Mr Archer, Agent General for Queensland, promised that tue suggestion should be acted on. and that they won d lo all in their power f o secure compdauce on the part of ' heii G ve n tie- ts. Reinfo-ceni nts of 3 <J()0 French troo|is , have arrived at Hanoi to strengthen he ! garrison established there, and upo.i their I arrival hosrilitieswereat once ec unmenced. j A severe engagement took piace between | the forces of France an I Anam, resu t : ng in the def at of the Anamesc, who suffered heavy lns». The Frem-h cunm niVr then set fire to the town, which was sum completely destroyed. M. Tricon, who was recently appointed French Minister at the Court of China in the place of M. Bourne, has m ule another attempt to enter into negotiations with L Hung Chung, the Chinese Viceroy, in connection with the Anamese difficulty. The latter, however, has declined to accede *o any of M. Tricon’s proposals, and has referred him to P.-kin. Sir J. Vogel, in a letter to the Times, discusses the question ot oolonia defences. In the course m his remarks ms advocates that the colonies should pay an annual subsidy to England iu return for the protection to be afforded to them by war vessels belonging to the Imperial Navy. At a recent meeting of the dynamite party, held at New York, Sheridan, whose extradition was demanded by England some time ago, and John Walsh, one of the secretaries of the Irish Land League, de livered violent addresses. They sta o I that the supporters of the dynamite policy had not abandoned their intention of enforcing their demands by means of explosives, and they added that preparations were being ma le to recommence operations on a more extensive scale than formerly. The S ■ eot Committee appointed by the Huise of burls to consider the proposed ship canal from the Mersey to Manchester have sent in their final report, which emphatic ally app oves of the scheme. •ftrraiigcm, ns are being made to give a grand representative banquet to Mr Henry living prior to li s departure for New York. A difficulty has arisen between the Governments of Austria and Rouinauia in con - unction with the decisions a'rived at by •be D.innbian Conference snine mouths ago. The relations between tiie two countries aie. now ve y str.dne b Discussing tto prop isal for the federation of tun Australian Colonics, the Standard expresses the op'iiiou tint the soiiemu is utterly impnetic dde, and sng csts th it in i i lace, of federation the colonies should a lopt a commercial league similar to the German Zollverein. It lias been determined that the remains of the late Dr Spotiiswoo le shall be intened in Westminster Abbey. The Bishops of the Roman Catholic ; Churches have drawn up a protest against the proposal that the State should assist tiie i members of the nnorer classes to emigrate i from Ireland. Tuey emit nd lint State money might he better employed in reudorL I ing the Irish peoples’ burdens iutlic country I I of their birth lighter. > ' Postmaster-General Fawcett has deterI mined on cancelling the contract for the conveyance of mails between Maudlins and Aden.