CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 13, 10 July 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

■ ■♦ -. — Special to " Star-" EKUTES'S TELEQBAMS. London, July 8. In answer to a question put in th< House of Commons to-day, the Hon Evelyn Ashley stated that Lord t>erbj had received an offer from the Australian colonies to contribute a yearly sunc of £15,000 towards maintaining the High Commissioner of the Westen Pacific, who would reside in Easten New Guinea. In the House of Lords to-day th< Franchise Bill was under consideration when Earl Cairns moved an ameudmeni declaring that the proposed reform ia unacceptable without simultaneous provision for re-distribution of scats. The fall of Dongola is daily expected, The Governor's loyalty is suspected, and he is supposed to be intriguing with the enemy. The Arabs will advance aftei the end of the Mnhommenan month Ramadan. Lord St. Leonards, who was committed for trial on Bth May for an indecent assault on a servant girl named Cole, has been sentenced to seven weeks' imprisonment. His Lordship having been in gaol since his committal, bull having been refused, his sentence was dated from that tim<>, and he has now been released. Four off coast cargoes of Australian wheat have been sold at an average of 39« 3d. Spot parcels are at the average. The cholera is still increasing, and at Toulon en Sunday, nineteen deaths were registered, while at Marseilles no less than fiffeen succumbed to Ihe same disease. Dr Kooch, of Berlin, who has made a special study of cholera, pronounces that the disease which has broken out at Marseilles and Toulon is of the virulent Asiatic type, and he declares that it is almost certain to extend over all Europe. In the engagement at DeObah, the rebel loss is estimated at 2000. Pabis, July 8. It is currently stated here to-day that the Government will order the occupation of Foochow bj French troops, as a guarantee for the payment of the indemnity to be demanded from China. Deceived, July 10, 11.10 a.m. London. July 9. In the House of Lords last night the Bill for Reform of the Franchise was, on the motion for its second reading rejected by 200 to 146. Pabis, July 9. Lat> st accounts to hand from Mar* ■eilles show that cholera is increasing in that district. Three deaths from the disease having occurred.