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Kumara Times, Issue 2568, 15 September 1884, Page 2

[special to peess association.]

London, September 8. It is leported that Sir Julius is likely to succeed Sir F. I), BeTl sis Agent-General for New Zealand. The C;ipe Parliament in July last resolved that it was expedient to annex the territory that has just been annexed by Germany in the vicinity of "Walvisch Bay. September 9. News from China states that the Foo-chow and Min .River forts have all been repaired, and that tbe arsenal was uninjured, and only two men-of-war destroyed.

H.M.S. Opal, twelve guns, will relive H.M.S. Bspeigle, at present on the Australian station.

An inquiry has been held into the alleged murder committed by the crew of the yacht Mignonette, and the captain admits having cut the lad's (Pecker's) jugular vein, and so caused his death. Bail has been refused, although much sympathy is felt for him. The British flag has been hoisted at several points at Calabar, on the west coast of Africa.

The New Zealand Shipping Company have received a cablegram, dated London, September Bth, reporting the lauuching of their new steamer, the Kaikoura.

September 10. The ravages of the cholera in Naples are something terrible, and heart-rend-ing scenes are being enacted daily. Those seized with it in the streets are abandoned to their fate, and their bodies are left unburied, owing to a strange superstition exhibited by the terror-stricken inhabitants. The Irish National Press are clamoring for the dismissal of Earl Spencer as Lord Lieutenant, and of Mr Trevelyan as Chief Secretary of Ireland. The river Nile is still falling. The fire which broke out close to the refrigerator on board the Orient steamer Lusitania in the Indian Ocean, lasted for seven hours, and 250 carcases of frozen mutton which were injured had to be jettisoned. Denis Duggan, the rescuer of a number of Irish political prisoners who escaped from Freemantle, Western Australia by the American whaler Catalpa on April 17th, 1875, has died in Dublin.

An impression prevails in financial circles that the New South Wales loan was issued at 3J per cent. The Orient steamers have ceased calling at Naples in consequence of the cholera epidemic at present raging in that city.

Holders of three-quarters of a million of New Zealand Five per cent, bonds having refused to agree with the recent scheme for the conversion of bonds, will be paid off in January. It is expected that the answer from the British Association in reference to the invitation to visit Melbourne will be posted in America, where they held their recent sitting. The Times circulates a statement to the effect that the Russian fleet stationed at Cbeodo had left that port with, it is believed, hostile designs on China,

The Western Australian Timber Company have purchased in Liverpool the vessel Ironmaster for £30,000. This Company have also offered De Lesseps a supply of Jarrah piles for the Panama Canal works. September 11. One thousand persons have been arrested at Warsaw as suspects. H.M.S. Nelson will be detained on the Australian Station as the flagship of Admiral Tryon. The troopship Tamar will, in October, convey a fresh crew to Sydney to relieve the present crew of the Nelson.

The frozen meat by the steamer Ruapehu has arrived in excellent conAt the Forestry Exhibition held in Edinburgh, Australia was awarded one silver medal and a diploma ; New Zealand was also awarded one bronze medal and three honorable mentions.

Five hundred deaths from cholera occurred at Naples on Tuesday. Many other deaths are reported as occurring in various parts of Italy from the malady. The Earl of Dufferin, British Ambassador in Turkey, and who succeeds the Marquis of Ripon as Governor of India, will leave Stamboul on Tuesday next.