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Kumara Times, Issue 2513, 10 July 1884, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. THE FRANCHISE BILL IN THE UPPER HOUSE. AMENDMENT FOR REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS. ITS REJECTION BY THE LORDS—--205 TO MG. THE CHOLERA IN FRANCE, THE FORTIFICATIONS ON THE NILE. (Received July 9, 2.10 p.m.) London, July 8. In the House of Lords to-day, the Franchise Bill came under consideration, when Earl Cairns moved an amendment declaring the proposed reform is unacceptable without simultaneous provision for the redistribution of seats. After debate, the consideration of the amendment was adjourned until to-day, when a division is expected to be to taken. (Received July 10, 11.10 a.m.) July 9. In the House of Lords last night, the Bill for the Reform of the Franchise was on the motion for its second reading rejected by 205 to 146. Paris, July 9. Latest accounts to hand from Marseilles show that the cholera is increasing in that district, three deaths from the disease having occurred at Axe, a town sixteen miles off. Cairo, July 9. Intelligence to hand from Koroskoand Wady-Haifa state that the fortifications there are proceeding vigorously, in view of the possible advance of the rebels, Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriter’s Association ; London July 7. Arrived, the ships Akaroa, from Port Chalmers, March 27; Kingdom of Sweden, from Lyttelton, April 12. July 8. Arrived, the steamship Aorangi, from Wellington, May 29; and the ship Opawa, from Lyttelton, April 14. Both vessels bring cargoes of frozen meat. ♦ [special to press association.] London, July 7. The cholera is still increasing, and at Toulon on Sunday last nineteen deaths

were registered, while at Marseilles no less than fifteen succumbed to the same disease. Dr. Kooch, of Berlin, who has made a special study of cholera, pronounces that the disease which has broken out ai Marseilles and Toulon is of the virulent and Asiatic type, and he declares that it is almost certain to extend over all Europe. A case of cholera has occurred at Paris, and a panic has taken place there in consequence.