EUROPEAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 183, 10 July 1883, Page 2

EUROPEAN NEWS.

THE PLAGUE. STRINGENT PRECAUTIONS. TRADE PARALYSED. STORM Iff ENGLAND. PANIC EVERYWHERE. DAMAGE TO THE HOP CROP. Cage specials.) (united press association.) [per te anau at the bluff.J London. Mr Fawcett, Postmaster- General, stated m the House of Commons last nitfht that he shortly would introduce a Bill, the object of \»hich would be the 'extension of Postal orders to the colony. In Damietta, every precaution is taken by the authorities to prevent the further spread of cholera* Cordons have been drawn around infected places, and all pprsons suffering from plague have been placed m clobe quarantine. In conspqu°nce of the belief that contagions disease are widely disseminated by minister* of religion visiting- the different prisons and hospitals, orders have been ia.ued forbidding thara to eater these . institutions. The Gprmai Government have des pat hed a M f ical C >mmission to TCgvot co settle the doubt existing as to whether the disease prevailing there is cholera morbus 'v n >t. The spread ot the disease m different parts of Egypt is causing the greatest alarm m the South of Kurnpe, and the Governments of France < and Italy have put m lores the most stringent quarantine regulations at Carthage, Iber?a ; and Port Snid. Trade is eomple^e'y paralysed, and the epi- ' temio is sp eading with alarming rapidity. It has now reach< d Malta anrt Brindisi, and quarantine regulations are consequently enforced at both of these places. At Malta twenty-one persons, found to be infected, have been isolatpd. and three patients at Brinlisi wer place 1 m quarantine. The ravages made by (lie plague are of such an extensive nature that the residents of infected localities are fleeing away m all directions, and a perfect panic prevails. The severe storms which have recently rrevailed m the south of England have done an immense amount of damage to 'he hop crops, and fears are entertained that the harvest will be a poor one.