CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 11, 5 July 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Special to "Star."

- keutee's teltjgrams. London, July 3. A vessel named the Daphne was being launched atthe Clyde to*duy when she upset and fifty workmen who were on her decks were drowned. Tenders for the Victorian . two million loan were opened to-day. The total amount offered was found to be £5,160,000. Tenders. ... at £99- 5s will ■"receive 4 per cent, and tenders above that price will receive in full. . The. minimum was £'9S 10s. Alexandria, July 2. A death has occurred here from cholera. Much* alarm is felt at the prospect of.the epidemic spreading in the city. "; Later. It is intended to disinfect the houses of infected people at Damietta, and bi>rn the bodies of those dying of cholera. A cordon has been established round the totvn, and orders have been given 'to shoot all fugitives from the place. i lleceived July 5, 1 5 a.m.. London, July 4. Sir Wilham Gull, the eminent physician and author of the report on cholera compiled for the. lioyal- College of Physicians, has written a letter to the Press, in which he states bis belief tliat the outbreak of cholera in Egypt will soon subside, and that in his opinion, reports to hand show that the disease exists only in its milder form, and is not malignant epidemic, such as Asiatic cholera. Captain Shaw, superintendent of • the Metropolitan Fire Brigade has recovered from the injuries lie sustained' at the recent fire at Long Acre, and has resumed his official duties. The ship, George Iloper, 2033 tonSj from Liverpool (April 10th), went ashore at the Heads while attempting to enter the Harbor. The sea is calm and the vessel is not in a dangerous position.