CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 18, 23 July 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

♦ i SHIPPING DISASTERS. CHOLERA SPREADING. 800 DEATHS IN MADRID. QbBUTEBS TELKGBAMB.I London, July 21. The Eoyal Horticultural Society offer assistance t* any of the colonies exhibiting growing plants at the Colonial Exhibition. a ! The expedition which has been fitted out by the German Government to scientifically explore Now Guinea will be under the oommamd of an ex-officer of of the army. The fir»t portion of the cargo of frozen mutton ex s.B. Elderslie, from Port Chalmers, was placed upon the Smithfield market teaday. Tne meat waa in good condition, and realised an average price of s£d per Ib. The panic that was caused in Ireland bj the suspension of the Munster Bank is now on the vrane. The Government will net assist th« bank in any way. Mr J. F. Garrick, Agent-General for Q«een eland, has written t« the Times denying that his Government were to blame for the labour traffic atrooilies. i In the House of Commons to-night i Lord Randolph Churchill, Secretary for India, gave an official deniaf toftlib state'- ' | meat recently made, in the Standard, newspaper to the effect that MfßKihak had been ceded to .Russia in exohangr for the Zulfikar Pass. j The Hon. F. Stanley informed the Honse that a gradual reduction of ! Imperial forces would take plaeo, so; far as was consistent with the safety of , , -the Empire. July. 22. News is to hand of a maritime disaster off the coast of Cornwall, causing considerable loss of life. The s.s. Cheerful i came into collision with the s.s. Blandens, ■with tho result that the former vessel sank immediately, thirty persons perishing by | drowning. j Madbid, July 20. j The chelera epidemic is increasing in | ri«lenca, and deaths are again becoming numerous. One thousand nine hundred cases were reported to the sanitary authorities yesterday, of which 800 ended fatally.