REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.
. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. London, September 22. The Official Gazette announces that the English Court has gone into mourning for one week for the late President Garfield. Such a course has never before been pursued in the case of the death of an American President. Washington, September 21. Telegrams are to hand from Long Branch announcing that the body of the late President will leave for Washington to-day, where an inquest will be held on Friday, and on Saturday it will be conveyed to Cleveland, Ohio. The result of the post-mortem examination shows that the ball fractured the ribs and shattered the vertebra of the backbone, finally lodging below the pancreas gland of the liver, where it was found completely ingested. The immediate cause of death was the rupture of the mesenteric artery in the cavity of the abdomen retaining the intestines.
There is general mourning throughout the States, and business everywhere is suspended. Calcutta, September 22. Serious riots occurred yesterday at Mooltan, in the Punjaub, between a number of civil sects of the native population. In the fighting which took place, several temples and mosques were greatly damaged, and many rioters were seriously injured. The disturbances lasted for some hours, and were only quelled by the military, who were called out in force the disperse the rioters. Official telegrams to hand from Afghanistan report tint the rival forces of the Ameer and Ayoub Khan are still in fhe neighborhood <>f Candahar. The Ameer’s army is stated to be greatly inferior to that of Ayoub.
LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
Brisbane, September 23. News has reached here that Inspector Ivaye, ot the police, has been murdered by the blacks at Woolans, in this Colony. Melbourne, September 21. The case of sickness at Bonalla is now definitely proved to be not smallpox. Sydney, September 23. Two fresh cases of small-pox, one at
Ultimo, and the other in Wooioomnoloo, have been ascertained. The sufferers have been quarantined.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1558, 24 September 1881, Page 2
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324REUTER’S TELEGRAMS. Kumara Times, Issue 1558, 24 September 1881, Page 2
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