CABLEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1164, 2 October 1882, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-(COPYRIGHT.) [reuter’s telegrams]. Received Oct. 2, 9.45 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 30. The Government has issued a notification announcing the existence of small-pox epidemic at Cape Town, and declaring the Cape to be an infected district. Mr E. D. Grey, M.P. for Carlow, who was sentenced in August last to three months’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of £5700 for publishing, in the “Freeman’s Journal,” certain articles reflecting upon the J udges and Jurymen engaged in the recent agrarian mu ’der trial, has been released from custody. The Australian Cricketers sailed for New York by the steamer Alaska to-day. Michael Walsh, recently found guilty of an agrarian murder in Ireland, has been sentenced to death. VIENNA, Sept. 30. Serious anti-Jewish riots have occurred at Pressburg, a town in Hungary, about 35 miles east of this city, and 46,000 inhabitants, of whom 700 are Jews. The emente lasted a considerable time, the mob defying the authorities. Martial law was proclaimed and is still enforced in this district. ALEXANDRIA, Sept. 30. A grand review of the British Army took place at Cairo to-day, and was a most imposing spectacle. The Indian Contingent are now under orders to return and will leave at once for India. The Guards do not leave Egypt until October 30.