LATEST NEWS.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1067, 1 August 1883, Page 2

LATEST NEWS.

HOME AND FOREIGN. . [REUTER—COPYRIGHT.] (Received August 1, i a.m.) CAPETOWN, Jnly 80. O’Donnell, who shot James Carey on board the steamer Melrose, at Port Elizabeth, has been arrested by the police. ' NAPLES, July 30. Among the sufferers by the recept earthquake at Ischia are some persons of English nationality. They are, however, few in number. CAIRO, July 30. * Considerable decrease is now apparent in the daily number of deaths from cholera both in this city and in Alexandria. The English troops, however, suffered severely of late, twenty-two deaths having occurred in various regiments since Friday last. LONDON, July 31. In the House of Commons last night Sir Stafford Northcote’s motion urging that the claims of Count de Lesseps to a monopoly for the construction of canals in Egypt should be repudiated in any future parleying with the canal company came up for debate also an amendment by Mr Norwood, M.P. for. Hull that the House should maintain freedom of judgment in the construction of canals between the Mediterranean and Red Seas. After discussion the amendment was adopted by a majority of 99 voles, AUSTRALIAN. [ REUTER—COPYRIGHT.] (Received August 1, I a.m.; PERTH, July 31. It has been ascertained that the report that four Phoenix Park informers arrived here under assumed names, by the steamship Patham is without foundation. (Received August 1, 12,50 p.m.) ALBANY, July 31. Arrived last evening P. and O. steamship Australia with the inward Suez mail. MELBOURNE, This day. The report that some of the Phoenix Park murderers have arrived in Western Australia is generally doubted here. HOBART, July 31. Several shocks of earthquake were felt to-day at Branxholme in the northeast of this colony.