CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 208, 13 August 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

OBITUARY. EARTHQUAKE IN AMERICA. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS. [Reuter’s Telegrams.) London, August 12. The death is announced of the Right Rev. Piers Claughton, D.D., formerly Bishop of St. Helena and Colombo. [“ Men of the Time’’has the following:—Claughton, the Right Rev. Piers Calverley, D.D., son of the late Thomas Claughton, Esq., and brother of the Right Rev. T. L. Claughton, Bishop of Rochester, was born about 1814, and educated at Brosenose College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in first-class honours in 1835, and, having gained the Chancellor’s prize for the English essay in 1837, became Fellow and Tutor of University College, Public Examiner and Select Preacher in the University, and rector of Elton, Huntingdonshire. He is the author of a standard work on the Thirty-nine Articles, and of a “Letter to the Earl of Derby on the Revival of Convocation.” He held the bishopric of St. Helena from 1859 to 1862, when he was translated to Colombo. He resigned the latter see in Dec. 1870, on being appointed Archdeacon of London and Commissary to the Bishop of London. In 1871 he became a Canon of St. Paul’s]. Arrived at Plymouth, the steamship Doric, from Lyttelton (July 4). New York, August 11, A sharp shock of earthquake occurred yesterday over an extensive portion of this country. The effect was felt from Maryland to Maine, and extended as far inland as the Alleghany Mountains. A considerable amount of damage has been done to the buildings in various places, but no persons were killed or seriously injured. (AGE SPECIALS.) London, July 30. Two officers of the Spanish army, who took part in an abortive republican rising in April, have been executed at Gerona. Most extraordinary efforts were made to save the doomed men, but the Government remained firm, wishing to make an example for the sake of discipline.

Cholera at Toulon is increasing slightly, the deaths now averaging fifteen daily. A terrible panic prevails, 40,000 out of 69,000 tax-paying inhabitants having fled from the city. Six thousand left yesterday. The cases at Marseilles at present average four daily. Most severe regulations haver been established on the Spanish and Italian ports and frontiers against all arrivals from France at Pyrannean frontier, and travellers entering Spain from France are obliged to perform several days quarantine. August 3. It is generally believed that Gladstone is becoming favorable to the establishment of a protectorate over New Guinea, ‘ and some decision in reference to the matter will be announced on Monday.

It has been ascertained that the claims of the Dutch to a portion of New Guinea are unfounded.