CABLEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 78, 14 September 1878, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

(Special to lhe Press Agency.) London, Sept. 9. Five hundred and three bodies havebeen recovered of those lost by the Px-incess » Alice disaster. ' A Calcutta telegram to the ‘Times,’ dated Sept. Bth, states that it is reported as being probable that the Duke of Buckingham will be appointed Governor of Victoria. Sept. 1(1 One hundred and eight thousand persons are destitute in the fever districts of the United states, and the deaths are increasing. The fever is rpreading. Severe fighting has occurred at Las, Bibeos, in Bosnia. The i. ustrians were defeated with' the loss of several, hundred men. They retired to Zavalye. A fourth of the. British forces at Cyprus are sick with fever. The European factories at Dahomey, on the West African Coast have been pillaged. y,v September 11. Sir Arthur Gordon and the King of Siam have been created Knights of the - Grand Cross of St Michael and St. George. The Austrians are likely .to occupy Albania. . The Island of Pelagb will be ceded tos England.

Serious opposition to the Austrian occupation continues in Old Bosnia. It is improbable that the campaign will be concluded this season. Thirty-six thousand insurgents, with forty guns, have collected for the defence cf the country. Five of the Australian cricketers have subscribed one hundred pound towards the Princess Alice Fund. The Race for the St Leger took place to-day ; Janette, 1 ; Chilperic, 2 ; Master Kildare, 3.