TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1115, 30 June 1883, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, June 26. Mr Warner, Secretary to the Australian Defence Commission, is a Tory candidate for the representation of Hastings. Her Majesty has so far recovered from the effects of her recent accident that she is able to walk. June 27. Mr Fred. Humphries, Immigration Agent for Tasmania, will commence a series of lectures at Canterbury on Friday next. Bishop Sandford, of Tasmania? will preside, It is announced that Captain Lonsdale will join Mr H. Stanley in his African expedition. He will be accompanied by 100 African warriors. The Catholic residents of Albania have invited Austrian annexation. The death is announced of General Sir Edward Sabine, C. 8., aged 95. The annual iuter-Uuiversity cricket match, Oxford v. Cambridge, was concluded to-day at Lords, and resulted in a victory for Cambridge by seven wickets. Paris, June 27. The Marquis of Tseng, the Chinese Ambassador, has taken occasion to deny the report recently to band from Shanghai, that a settlement had been arrived at of the difficulty between France and China, regarding their claims in Anam. The Marquis states that the Chinese Government are not prepared to yield the suzerainty of that province. Alexandria, June 27. Cholera has now broken out at Mensaleh, a town thirty-four miles southwest of Damietta, where the disease first appeared. Much alarm prevails owing to the spread of the epidemic, and an exodus of Europeans, and others from Egypt has already commenced. Later. The cholera epidemic is spreading. Several cases of the disease are now reported at Port Said, AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, June 27. Telegrams are to hand from Eaglehawk, reporting that a cage in one of the mines fell a distance of 640 feet, and two men at the bottom of the shaft were crushed to death in the most horrible manner.