CABLEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1027, 24 January 1882, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

[From our own Coriiapondints]. Adelaide, Jan. 20. The passengers for New Zealand by the Mirzapore, now quarantined here are Miss Palichan, Messrs. Cotton, Passmore, and Ghoet. Every precaution is being taken to prevent any infection from smallpox from patients on board. The Health Officers have ordered the Adelaide mails to be exposed in an open boat for 2 4 hours before being landed, and the cargo hours. Jan. 22. Two smallpox patients on board the P. and O. steamship Mirzajiore are now convalescent, one being so 11 days, and the other 9 days. Both cases were bad, and of confluent type. Brisbane, Jan. 23. The skeletons of Mrs. Watson and her child and the Chinamen who were supposed to have been murdered by natives of Lizard Island, have been found on Harwich Island, and now prove that they died of thirst, and were not massacred by blacks. Three more of the New Caledonian escapees, who recently landed at Bowen, have been captured by the police, but one remains still at large. London, Jan. 20. Further itelligence to hand regarding the peace settlement arrived at between Chili and Bolivia announces that the treaty provides for the cession to Chili of a strip of Bolivian territory lying between the Andes and the coast, and bounded on the north and south by th® Peruvian and Chilian frontiers respectively. The Daily Newt to-day publishes a telegram from India stating that a serious conspiracy has been discovered in the Independent Native State of New Aul. The Maharajah has caused eight of his notables to be arrested, and 21 of his officers who were proved to have taken part in the conspiracy have been summarily executed, Vienna, Jan. 20. Telegrams have been received announcing that actual hostilities have now commenced between Austrian troops and the Insurgents in Herzegovina fighting has already taken place at several places, engagement of serious character has been reported as having occurred. Certain recent actions on the part of the Dahnation rising having been reported to the Austrian Government. The latter is is announced has sent strong protest to the Porte, on subject complaining of the attitude which has been assumed by Turkish Consul in favor of the Dalmation Insurgents.