LATEST NEWS.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1075, 20 August 1883, Page 2

LATEST NEWS.

HOME AND FOREIGN. |_REDTER- —COPYRIGHT.} (Received August 20, 1 a.ra.) CAPETOWN, August 18. No intelligence of a reliable nature has jet been received from Zuluiand regarding the reported defeat of Usibepa by Cetewayo’s adherents, and doubts are entertained as to its authenticity. BOMBAY, August 18. During the past fortnight two hundred deaths from cholera occurred here, and the disease is now assuming the character of an epidemic. Stringent measures have been adopted to prevent further development. LONDON, August 18. The launch of the torpedo boat which has been built for the Victorian Government took place at Cheswick to-day. The ceremony was performed by the Right Hon. H. C. B. Childers after whom the boat was named. In the House of Commons last night _/ Mr Gladstone was questioned as to the - intentions of the Government; regarding the future of New Guinea. In reply, the Premier stated that as the Government refused to ratify the annexation of that island by Queensland it was unnecessary to say anything about the future. Government were satisfied that there was no fear of a claim to the island being made by any foreign power.

AUSTRALIAN. |_REUTER —COPYRIGHT.] (Received Aug.2o, 1 a.ra.) BRISBANE, Aug 18. The polling for the general elections is proceeding. The following Ministers have , been re-elected Sir Thomas Mcllwraith, Premier and Colonial Secretary ; Mr Archer, Colonial Treasurer; and Mr Perkins, Secretary of Lands. The total returns from Townsville are not yet received, and therefore it is uncertain whether Mr Macrossan, the Secretary for Public Works, has been re-elected. Mr King, the Speaker of' the Assembly, has been defeated for Maryborough. SYDNEY, Aug 19. A telegram has been received here to-day from England, announcing that the Most Rev. R. B. Vaughan, Roman Catholic Arch-Bishop of Sydney, died suddenly in Liverpool yesterday. The intelligence has been received with univeral regret. MELBOURNE, August 20. Mr Service has telegraphed to the Government of New Zealand, asking when they will be able to reply to the invitation to join the Annexation Conference ; meanwhile the Convention is at a standstill, and the Argus urges that it is important no time shonld be lost in the view of French activity in the Pacific. ADELAIDE, August 20. Arrived Messageries steamship Saghalien from Marseilles. Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters Association-—London, August 17 :—arrived, Margaret Galbraith from Timarn, Elizabeth from Oamarn, Gainsborough from Lyttelton, and Soukar from Lyttelton.