CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 20, 24 July 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

♦— — Special to " Star." BKUTEB'S TELEGRAMS. London, July 21. The sculling race between Hanlon and Ross took place over a four-mile course at Odensburg, New York, on the 18th inst. The stakes were £200 a side. Hanlon won easily, by 20 lengths. The New Zealand mutton, ex British Queen, has realised an average of 7d ; and the Australian, ex Lusitania, 6yd to 6|d. Most of the troops stationed at Cairo have been sent to Suez. The Egyptian officers everywhere thwart the action of the British Government in regard to the second canal. The result now depends on Baron de Lesseps being willing to make further concesstons. Received July 24, 0.50 p.m. Caibo, July 21. The ravages of the cholera epidemic in the native quarter of the city is daily redoubled. The inhabitants are panic stricken and numbers are dying in the streets in their attempts to escape infection. Sir Evelyn Wood and General Stephenson have undertaken the direction of sanitary measures which have been j decided upon, and which will be rigorously enforced without delay. The quarter of the city in which the disease has taken the firmest hold and which is especially crowded and unhealthy is to be burnt, all other means of disinfection being considered useless.