LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2565, 11 September 1884, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. >—< HOMEWARD MAILS YIA SAN FRANCISCO. KING HUMBER't AMONG THE CHOLERA PATIENTS. FRIGHTFUL MORTALITY FROM CHOLERA IN NAPLES. ARRIVAL OF THE RUAPEHU, CITY OF SYDNEY LOAN. VICEROY AND GOVERNOR-GEN-ERAL OF INDIA. RECEPTION OF EARL NORTHBROOK BY THE KHEDIVE. ARRIVAL OF H. M. STANLEY, THE AFRICAN EXPLORER. THE SURVIVORS OF THE YACHT MIGNONETTE. (Received September 11, 1.15 a.m.) San Francisco, September 9, The steamship Zealandia, with the inward mails, dated August 19, arrived here yesterday.* Naples, September 9. King Humbert paid a visit to the city to-day, and spent several hours in visiting.the sick and investigating the state of affairs. His Majesty everywhere was received with enthusiastic acclamation. (Received September 11, H. 15 a,m.) September 10. Fully 800 fresh cases of cholera occurred yesterday, and over 300 deaths have taken place during the past 24 hours. London, September 10. Arrived at Plymouth, the New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamship Ruapehu, from Lyttelton, July 26th. Tenders are invited up to the 18th inst. for a loan of £258,000 for the city of Sydney, bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent. The minimum is fixed at 107-£ (sic). It is authoritatively announced that Earl Dufferin will succeed the Marquis of Ripou as Viceroy and GovernorGeneral of India. Cairo, September 10. Earl Northbrook waited upon the Khedive to-day, and presented his credentials as British Commissioner, The Khedive received his Lordship very cordially.

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London, September 1. H. M, Stanley, the well-known African explorer, arrived at Plymouth after two years’ absence in the heart of Africa, where he has been establishing stations in connection with his mission from the King of the Belgians. Mr Stanley declares that Gordon is perfectly well able to escape either by the Congo across the desert to Zanzibar, or up the White Nile, where he might join Lupton Bey. - He believes that an autumn campaign to relieve Gordon would be an utter Quixotic infatuation, and that men would die like flies as summer waned.

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London, September 4. The Oriental Bank have allotted a quarter of a million pounds worth of shares in Australia. Business is flowing in steadily, and old depositors are largely supporting the Bank. The British Association has been invited to make an early visit to Melbourne, Sir R. Torrens was buried at Luesden. Sir Arthur Blyth, and Messrs Fisher and Dalton were amongst those present.

September 6. The British Association will hold their next meeting in Aberdeen. Yon Janiczek, the Austrian Consul at Smyrna, will shortly leave in a man-of-war on a visit to Australia and the Pacific Islands to report on the facilities and desirability of opening up trade with those places. September 7. The yacht Mignonette was the property of Mr Henry Want, and was swamped by a heavy sea. The boat, with the occupants, drifted about for twenty-four days with but little provisions and scarely an}’ water. The Montezuma, which picked up the survivors, conveyed them to Falmouth.

Mr Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ireland, addressed an immense meeting at Glasgow on the Franchise Bill. Germany has made further annexation on the West Coast of Africa, thus hemming in Walvisch Bay, recently annexed by the Cape Government.