CABLE NEWS.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1063, 23 July 1883, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

HOME AND FOREIGN. f" R.EtTTER COPYRIGHT. J (■Received Jnly 20, 2.15 p.m.) ALEXANDRIA, July 19. The Khedive has accepted the proffered aid of England for the suppression of the choleric epidemic, and Sir E. Malet has telegraphed requesting that twelve doctors should forthwith be despatched to Egypt. (Received Jnly 20, 10 p.m.) LONDON, Jnly 20. The Union Bank of Australia has declared a dividend of 9 per cent for tbe past half year, and carried £30,000 on the reserve. The National Bank of New Zealand

has declared a divide:) 1 o! 4 :ht c nt for ilio past It.ilf The Orient .steamship Lusitania from Melbourne, May 30 hj, arriv <1 at Plymouth yesterday, with'a’cargo of frozen meat on board. (Recein-d July 21, 0.55 a.m ) It has transpired that Sir Charles Rivers Wilson, one of the representatives of Groat Britain on the Council of the Suez Canal Company/ .has been despatched by the Cabinet to Paris to confer with Comte de Lesseps, with the view of carrying into effect the agreement which was come to on the 11th instant for the construction of the second Suez Canal. BERLIN, July 19. A meeting has been arranged between Emperor William, of Germany, and Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, to take place at Gastein, . Upper Austria, on the 4th prox. PARIS, July 19. M. Tricon, who was recently appointed to succeed M. Bouree as French Ambassador at China, has arrived at Pekin.