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■oeftkr's tkt.kguams. Received August 2. 1.1 a.m. TSAvlks. July 31. Latest recounts from Ischa report that fully 5000 persons lost their lives at Cassamicola and in the neighborhood. Kfforts havo been made to extricate the bodies of those who perished from the ruins, ar.d inter them, but the air is now poisoned with the pestilential effluvia, and all that can now be done is to cover the corpses with quick lime, and allow them to remain. Vesuvius, whbdi has shewn signs of activity since the late earthquake at Ischa is now ie eruption. London. July 31. Sir Julius Yogel has secured the rijjiit to lay cables between Western Australia, Ceylon, and Signapore. and inten s to reduce the charges for transmission of messages. In the House of Commons, ou Mr Norwood's amendment that the House retaius its freedom of judgment regarding the canals, Sir Stafford Northcote deprecated the question being made a party one by Mr Gladstone. The Paruellites abstained from voting. It is now stated that by the earthquake at Ischia Island 4000 were killed. In the village of Lacco only five escaped death. Five hundred French infantry have been ordered to Madagascar
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 24, 2 August 1883, Page 2
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