CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 230, 8 September 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

CHOLERA MAKING GREAT STRIDES. THE NEW BOER REPUBLIC. ELECTION OF PRESIDENT. PROTECTION OF THE CZAR. Ireuter’s telegrams.] London, September 5. The cargo of frozen mutton ex Mataura is of fair quality, but not equal to the mutton landed from the British Queen, which is considered excellent. September 6. The Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend at the rate of 14 per cent, per annum for the past half year, and carries forward and places to the reserve fund £24,000. The Homeward mails per Lusitania, from Melbourne, (July 25) was delivered to-day. The cargo of frozen mutton ox steamship Bombay, has been landed in excellent condition. Four hundred and forty thousands pounds of the capital in Messrs. Money-Wigram’s Steamship Company has been returned to the shareholders. Sir Robert R. Torrens, K.C.M.G., formerly of South Australia, and well known in connection with registration of land titles, died at Hamaford on Sunday, from inflammation of the lungs. Mr. Murray Smith has accepted a renewal of his term of office as Agent-General for Victoria. Vienna, September 4. Earl Northbrook, who is now en route to Egypt to investigate the position of affairs in that country on behalf of the British Government, paid a visit to Count Kalnoky (AustroHungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs) today. The interview, which lasted some time, was of a most cordial nature. Naples, September 4. The choleri epidemic in this city is rapidly increasing, and the disease is assuming a most virulent form. Cases now number a hundred daily, most of them terminating fatally. The inhabitants of the city arc terror-stricken, and obstruct the civil authorities and medical men in their efforts to stamp out the disease. St. Petersburg, September 5. Rigorous measures have been adopted at Warsaw for the safety of the Czar while in that city. Cape Town, September 5. Piel Joubert (sic) has been elected President of the recently proclaimed Boer Republic in Zululand.