LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2520, 18 July 1884, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

IREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. >— < THE FRENCH DEMAND FROM CHINA. THE CHOLERA AT MARSEILLES AND TOULON. DISASTROUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN ENGLAND. TWENTY PERSONS KILLED AND THIRTY INJURED. THE EGYPTIAN CONFERENCE. PROPOSED ANNEXATION OF STELLAND p ZULULANDJ. THE NATIVE POLICE IN CAIRO. RESCUE OF AN ARCTIC VESSEL AND CREW. (Received July 18, 0.46 a.m.) Paris, July 16. No information of the rejection by the Chinese Government of the French demand for indemnity on account of the Langson affair has yet been published here, and the report to the contrary effect in the London Times to-

day is positively stated to be without foundation. Cholera contines to rage at Marseilles and Toulon with unabated vigour. Other parts of France as yet are free from the epidemic. London, July 17. A disastrous accident has occurred on the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway. The axle of a carriage of the express train running from Manchester to Sheffield broke, and the train then left the rails and fell over an embankment. Twenty persons are killed, aud thirty others have sustained severe injuries. I (Received July 18, 2 p.m.) July 18. In the House of Commons to-day, in reply to a question, Mr Gladstone stated that the financial experts have' finished their deliberations, and that the Conference will resume its sittings at an early date to consider their report. (Received July 18, 0.46 a.m.) Capetown, July 16. In the House of Assembly to-day, Uppington, the Premier, gave notice of a motion in favour of the annexation of Slelland [1 ZululandJ. (Received July 18, 2 p.m.) Cairo, July 18. In consequence of suspicion which is entertained by the authorities as to the fidelity of the native police now doing duty in this city, the strength of the British military police which was retained here for the maintenance of order is to be materially increased. New York, July 18. News has been received that the search expedition has rescued the Arctic expedition vessel Greeley and six of her crew, in Smith's Sound at the north of Baffin Bay.

[special to press association.] London, July 14. Cornwall, the Secretary of the Irish Post Office, has been arrested with a number of others, on charges of having committed unnatural crimes. In tho House of Lords, the Earl of Salisbury opposed the motion brought forward by Lord Wernyss. The death is announced of the Right Reverend P. Jacobsen, Bishop of Chester, aged eigbty-one.