LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2584, 3 October 1884, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] ily Electric Telegraph—Copyright. THE CHOLERA EPIDEMIC IN EUROPE. TROUBLE ON THE SOUTH-WEST COAST OF AFRICA. ARRIVAL OF LORD WOLSELEY AT THE SOUDAN FRONTIER. GREAT FIRE AMONG THE SHIPPING ON THE A f OLGA. LOSS ESTIMATED AT SEVERAL MILLION ROUBLES. DISASTROUS RAILWAY COLLISION IN INDIA. SIXTY PERSONS KILLED. (Received October 3, 1 a.m.) London, October 2. Accounts of the cholera epidemic from the Continent show a slight decrease in the ravages of the disease in Italy. The mortality in Naples has fallen to fifty deaths daily, and the same number are reported from Geneva. (Received October 3, 2.40 p.m.) Evening. Intelligence is to hand from the west coast of Africa that Spece (sic), an Englishman, the lessee of the Guano Islands, in the Bay of Angra Peqnena, has been warned off them by a representative of Luderitz and Cobremen, who claim possession of the islands and the district of Angra Peqaena. (Received October 3, 1 a.m.)

Cairo, October 1. General Lord Wolseley and staff ar rived to-day at Assouan. St. Petershurg, October 1.

Serious damage from fire has occurred amongst the shipping on the Volga, where a burning vessel drifted down the river, setting fire to a large number of merchantmen. The fire is still nig-

ing among the shipping, and the loss is already estimated at several million roubles.—[A rouble is equivalent to 3s 2|d.]

Calcutta, October 2.

A disastrous railway collision occurred to-day near Arungatta, in this presidency, resulting in the death of sixty persons and serious injury to others.