CABLE NEWS.
[reuter’s telegrams.] THE FRANCHISE BILL. London, July 14. The discussion in the House of Lords on Lord Wemyss’ motion proposing a compromise on the Franchise question has been postponed until Thursday. Homeward mails via Brindisi from Melbourne, June 3, were delivered to-day. It has transpired that the Government will support Lord Wemyess’s for arriving at a compromise on the subject of the Franchise Bill. THE SOUDAN. In the House of Commons to-day Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, announced that intelligence had reached the Government that. General Gordon was still at Khartoum and holding his own against the besiegers. The garrison had made constant sallies from the town, with varying success. Alexandra. July 14. An outbreak of cholera has occurred here, but it has not at present assumed alarming proportions, and is as yet confined to a single case, and that did not prove fatal.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 184, 16 July 1884, Page 2
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148CABLE NEWS. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 184, 16 July 1884, Page 2
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