Telegrams.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1109, 3 August 1883, Page 3

Telegrams.

HOME ANO F MlßTnvCalcutta, Ju y 28th. The International Exhibition trail ling is now in a state of forwardness, and extends over an area of - .’5 acres. The exhibi on shipment of no-it an I show of An-raim live stuck is TooKeil for, and the lime for entries in these classes have been extended a fortnight. Paris, July 28th. Intelligence is to hand from Tuiquin reporting that a sortie was male fun Hanoi by the French garrison on the I9:h inst. Fully 1000 Anamites were killed, aud only 11 Frenchmen lost their lives. Cairo, July 28th. There is a rapid decrease in the daily number of deaths from cholera reported, and it is hoped that the epidemic has now been got under control. July 30. A considerable decrease is now apparent in the >'aily numbers dying from cbo'era Do hj in this city and Alexandria. The Eng isb troops, however, have suffered severely of late 22 deaths having occurred in various regiments since Friday last. London, July 27,'h. The Figaro states that the captain of 11. .VJ.S Liyad refuses to admit that Tamalive was in a state of siege. The French authorities there have now released the persons arrested. The Emperors of, Austria and Germany are to meet at IscUl on August 7th. The Dove.rnment will support Sir St fford Northoote’s amen liuent tbit the House will retain its freedom of judgment in regard to the construction of canals between the Meditterranean and the Red St-a. Eleven British soldiers have died from the choice in Egypt. Cetewayo s son and the remaining chiefs and fugitives have reached British territory. .. - July 28th. The report that a case of - olio-era occurred at the docks has been ascertained to lie without foundation. In the course of an address to the students at the Cooper’s Hill Indian En graving College to day, Earl Kimberley said lie lejmcee at the success which hao been achieved by students from Australia and he hoped that many otbeis from the colonies would join the institution. M. Grevy’s reply to the Pope is of a friendly character. He remarks that {the clericals were the fist to attack the Re public. In Austria the prosecutors have abandoned the charge about the Jews having murdered a Chi istian girl in order to have her blood for a Passover rite, and have demanded the acquittal of the accuse I. In the House of Commons Baron do Worms will make an smen bnent to preserve the perfect freedom of British action in the matter ot a second Sr.i-z Canal, despite Mr Gladstone’s assurance on the subject. The homeward mails via .San Francisco, which left Auckland on July 19 hj, were delivered in London yesterday, tlnee days before contract time. July 29th. A most disastrous earthquake nas been expeiie ce lou the Island of Ischia, situ at d opposite to the Bay of Naples. The town of Oassamisiola has been almost tota ly destroyed, an I it is estimated tha fully 10(10 persons have been killed, oesides bundle s more or less seriously injured. Boat-loads of killed and wounded are arriving Here hourly from the island and much anxiety and excitement prevails. News from the Gape slates that Uaitepu routed Cetewayo after half an-nour’s engagement, but this disturbance implied no desire to create a difficulty with the B itish. Seventeen more deaths from cholera have occurred amongst the British troops at Cairo, The Orient steamer John Elder has arrived at Plymouth with her cargo of frozen meat in excellent condition. 'I he French at Hanoi made a sortie, capturing seven cannon. The Chinese Gove-nment have explained that the mussing of their troops on the frontier is for the purp se of expelling the Atamite rebels. Nuw York, July 29th. The body of the lace Captain Webb has been recovered in tbe Niagara River, near Lewiston. It is most terribly battered by its passage down the stream. Naples, Ju’y 30 The latest accounts to hand from Cassa m : si. la show conclusively that nearly 2000 persons were killed bv the recent eartu quake, and that fully 1000 have received injuries of a more or less serious nature. Among the sufferers by the recent earthquake at Ischia are some persons of English nationality. They are, however, few in number.