CABLEGRAMS

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1237, 2 January 1883, Page 2

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[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS], ' ' BY ELECTRIC LONDON, Dec. 29, : In its Second Edition to-day announces that it is intendea to db I land, and appoint British > Cete-vayo and John Dunn. The - it is stated, be permanently assi£Hßg| : Tugela district, which i« now ; control. 1 It is announced that General Lord : of Magdala has been appointed Marshal, Consols remain at 991. IsW - Securities unchanged at the , tations Fiver Cent. 1740 Eive per Cent. 1889 Loan, 104; Half per Cent. 1879-1904 Loan, 1011. Markets for Colonial breadetuffs ana ’ are without quotable change. ' quantity of wheat afloat for Great 2,200,000 quarters. The latest particulars to hand disaster at the Bradford wollen mill show thirty-six deaths were caused by the the chimney, and fully fifty operatives received injuries of a serious cnaractsr. The Bank of Australasia has issued shares to the amount of £400,000. The “ Times ” in an article to-day Earl Derby, Secretary of State for nice, to recognise more formally present the status of Colonial Agents Arrived- Ship Cambria, from It is announced that Lord maurice, M.P. for Culne, has been Parliamentary Under-Secret.-, for Affairs, vice Sir Charles ,/n K e, President of Local Government Obituary.—Earl of Wemyss, aged 86. | The Rev. Caundon Sanford has been appointed Anglican Bishop of Tasmania. BERLIN, Dec. 29. Very severe weather has been experienced in Southern Germany, and heavy floods have occurred in the Rhine Valley. The bridge at Lorrachin, Baden, has been washed away, and twenty persons who were on the structure at the time have been drowned. Dec. 29, Later. The floods in the Rhine Valley are rapidly extending, and much destruction of prwxrty is resulting. The flood waters have rAhed Cassel and Worms, and both places aiKow partially submerged. ALEXANCRIA, Intelligence is to hand that an cholera has occurred at Medina, in and ten deaths are resulting da-ly epidemic. * In consequence of representations by the Egytian Governmeut, it is that the whole of the British artillery, and a considerable portion infantry, now iu the occupation of will be withdrawn. PARIS, Dec. ■ The latest bulletin published M. Gambetta is in a critical condition is causing grave medical attendants. Gambetta’s illness has dex of extreme danger, and he is to be dying. M. Leon Gambetta died this aged 54. Gambetta died of erysipelas and His remains will be publicly buried at expense of the State. CAIRO, Nine of the twenty-two

•Uwd to have massacred Professor Palmer and Messrs. Gill and Charrington, British Officers ’who accompanied him, have been captured. Evidence of their participation in the massacre has been obtained, and it is understood it is sufficient to ensure their conviction. HOME, Dee. 30. Count de Wimpffen, Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to the Italian Court, committed suicide to-day by shooting himself with a revolver immediately after he had alighted from his carriage, ft is understood that his mind was deranged. CAPETOWN, Dec. 31. Cetewayo leaves Natal on Thursday next for Zululand, to be reinstated as king. It is feared that disorders will arise in consequence of his restoration to power. The state of affairs iu Basutuland is now quieting, and it is to be hoped that native difficulties have bean overcome.