Special to "Star."

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 23, 31 July 1883, Page 2

Special to " Star."

eeoteb's tkleorams. "New York, July 29. The body of the late Captain Webb has been recovered in the j^iagra Hiver near Lewiston. It is most terribly oattered by its passage down the stream. j^aples. July 29. A most disastrous earthquake has been experienced on the island of Ischia, situated opposite the Bay of Naples. The town of Cassamiciota has been almost destroyed, and it is estimated that fully one thousand persons have I e n n killed, besides hundreds more nr less seriously injured. Boat-lodes of killed and wounded are arriving here hourly from the island, and much anxiety and excitement prevails. London. July 29. The Figaro states that the captain of H.M.S. Dryad refuses to admit that Tamatave was in a stnto of siege. The French authorities there have now released the persons arresfed. ' The Government will support Sir Stafford Northcote's amendment, that the House will retain its freedom of judgment in regard to the construction of canals between the Mediterranean and the Eed Sea. Eleven British soldiers have died from cholera in Egypt. Cetewayo's son and the remaining chiefs and fugitives have reached British territory. In Austria the prosecutors have abandoned the charge about the Jews having murdered a hristian girl in order to use her blood for a Passover rite, and have demanded the acquittal of the accused. Arrangements are being made for the despatch of English cricketers to Aus tralia. The team will consist entirely i f professional pliycrs, and is pxpected to leave London for the antipodes very shortly.