LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2756, 22 July 1885, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] i'.y Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ARRIVAL OF AUSTRALIAN MAILS. CHOLERA EPIDEMIC INCREASING IN SPAIN. EIGHT HUNDRED FATAL CASES. (Received July 21, 10.30 p.m.) London, July 20. The Australian mails, ex the Orient Company's Royal Mail steamship Austral, dated Melbourne June 12, were delivered here to-day, via Naples. (Received July 22, 1 a.m.) Madrid, July 20. The cholera epidemic is increasing in violence, and deaths are again becoming numerous; 1900 cases have been reported to the sanitary authorities yesterday, of which 800 ended fatally.

[special to press association.] London, July 16. The New South Wales Loan has been postponed indefinitely. City financiers consider this fortunate, owing to the difficulty with Russia over the Zulfikar Pass. The Agents-General will discuss the amendments proposed by New South Wales in the Federation Bill with Colouel Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies, on Saturday next. A cricket match between teams representing Yorkshire and Nottingham, resulted in an easy victory for Yorkshire. July 17. General Komaroff states that he was not aware that the Consul's clerk who was flogged by the Russians at Kesk was in the British service. Mr Bristow has been appointed a Director of the Commercial Bank of Adelaide. Colonel Stanley, Secretary for the Colonies, favours the establishment of an emigrant burean, for affording information regarding the colonies to intending emigrants. Colonel Stanley will consult with the Agents-General on the subject shortly. July 18. Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, has written a letter to the Times, embodying a despatch received from the Hon. G. K. Didds, Treasurer of that colony, in which he vindicates the credit of New South Wales. The British Government have adopted a scheme of defence for the colonial commercial ports to aid the loyal effort in this direction made by the Volunteers. The English Government will furnish the guns necessary for the fortification of such ports. The motion tabled by Mr Parnell demanding an inquiry into the recent convictions for murder in Ireland has been negatived. During the debate on it the Earl of Carnarvon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, said the Government would be quite willing to consider any memorials that might be presented to them on the subject. The Government have introduced the Irish Land Purchase Bill, which proposes the advance of money at the rate of four per cent., repayable in forty-nine yeais, to tenants who may desire to purchase their holdings.