CABLEGRAMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 9, 4 August 1883, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

New Yorx, August 1. It is currently reported here that Mottley, one of the witnesses in the trial of Timothy Kelly, who was hanged for the myrder of Cavendish and Burke, has been murdered in Philadelphia.

London, August 2. News of Careys death appears to have inspired additional vigour among the Land Leaguers, and in consequence jurors who decided in the Phoenix Park trials, and leading officials of the Court, are protected by a large staff of Constabulary. it has been decided thit the trial of the murderer of .lames Care)', at Port Elizabeth, shall tdki' place in England, and the pi-Honor will accordingly be sent b-iek to this country under arrest. Irish officials assert th.it no notorious ini'ujiners proceeded to Australia. Up to the present time 85 deaths have occurred amongst British soldieits in Egypt from cholera. It having been decided to accept assistance oifered from India, towards pi eventing spread of cholera in Egypt, a large number of doctors accompinied by numerous Hospital assistants shortly proceed from India to Alexandria. The Messageries maritime steamer Peluse has been quariantined at Marseilles. Two of her passengers from Egypt died from cholera during the passage. A fearful calamity involving an immense loss of life occurred at Baltimore a city ol" the Utrited Status, nituated on the lii\ r Pottomac. A number of Roman Catholic pleasure seekers were picnicing on the banks of the River and a large number of them were congregated on a small jetty which projects into the stream. Without the slightest warning the structure gave way and the cr. w t were precipitated into the water. A bcene u£ tan 1 ble confusion enisued. Some few were able to reach the shore, but the great majority were swept away by the current. It is estimated that 100 persons chieily woman and children w^re drowned. -