CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 183, 15 July 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

« [reuter’s telegrams.] LORDS V. COMMONS. London, July 12. Efforts are being made to avert the conflict between the Lords and Commons, in connection with the Franchise question. With this view, Lord Wemyss will in the House of Lords on Monday move, that a compromise requiring that the Lords shall pass the Franchise Bill now, and that the Government introduce at the autumn session a Bill for the Redistribution of Seats. AN ABYSSINIAN PRESENT TO THE QUEEN. Intelligence has been received that a number of Abyssinian Chiefs are about to visit England for the purpose of bringing an elephant to the Queen, as a present from King Jhanea. FATAL ORANGE RIOTS. Serious rioting between the Orangemen and Catholics has taken place in Cumberland. The fight was very severe, and resulted in one man being shot, and fifty wounded, The disturbance was only quelled by the intervention of a large body of police, THS CHOLERA EPIDEMIC. Paris, July 12. The cholera is spreading in Marseilles in an alarming manner, and the number of deaths are daily increasing. News now to hand states that the epidemic has appeared at Lyons. Reports to hand from Marseilles and Toulon, state that the deaths from Cholera yesterday amounted to fifty-seven at Formu, and thirty-six at the latter. New York, July 12. The Chicago Convention has nominated Mr. Cleveland, as the Democratic candidate for the Presidency, and Mr. Kendricks for the Vice-Presidency. The sittings of the Convention has now been adjourned. [per merchants’ shipping and underwriters association.] London, July 12. Arrived: Ships Turakina, from Napier, (April 2.); Waipa, from Port Chalmers; Candidate, from Napier; Tantallon Castle, from Lyttelton; Amazon, from Auckland; James Wishart, from Lyttelton, and Margaret Galbraith, from Wellington.