CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 215, 21 August 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

[Reuter’s Telegrams.] CONSPIRACY TO ASSASSINATE THE PRESIDENT OF MEXICO. LISZT (PIANIST) STRUCK BLIND. CHOLERA IN ENGLAND. CHOLERA IN FRANCE AND ITALY. THE MAORI KING. London, August 19. News is to hand from Mexico that a conspiracy against President General Manuel Gonzales has been discovered, and two generals of the army who were implicated have been tried and shot. Franz Liszt, the famous Hungarian pianist, has been struck with blindness. August 20. A death has occurred at Birmingham from a disease which is pronounced by the local medical authorities to be undoubted Asiatic Cholera. The appearance of the disease in England has caused much alarm, and great efforts are being made to prevent any possible spread of the epidemic. Intelligence is to hand from the West Coast of Africa that Dr. Nachitgnal, German Commissioner, who has gone there on a special mission with the German gunboat Moewe, has hoisted the German flag at Lieut. Cameron’s station at Bimbia, and that the officers of the Moewe have pulled down the British flag at Begerda and hoisted the German standard in its place. Tawhiao, the Maori King had a farewell interview to-day at the Mansion House with Lord Mayor Fowler. He sails for New Zealand on Friday. Paris, August 19. Latest accounts from Toulon state that cholera is increasing there daily. Rome, August 19. The cholera epidemic is rapidly spreading throughout Italy, and several deaths from the disease have occurred in various towns.