TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1127, 28 July 1883, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, July 24.

In the House of Commons to-day, Mr Gladstone stated that the Government had never admitted that Count Be Lesseps possessed a monopoly of the waterway through every part of Egypt, but only through the couutr/ directly forming the Isthmus of Supz. July 25.

In the House ef Commons last niglit Sir Stafford Northcote gave notice that he would move a resolution that the claim by Count De Lesseps of monopoly for the construction of the canal through Egypt be repudiated in any parleying that may take place in future between the British Government and the Suez Canal Company. Telegrams have been received here reporting that a lamentable disaster has occurred at Patapeco (sic). The jetty, while crowded with pleasureseekers, collapsed, and all those upon it were thrown into the water, 65 being drowned,

It is reported that 18,000 Chinese troops are nearing Hanoi.

Fifteen of those arrested for the murder of Mrs Smyth at Westmeath have been committed for trial.

Count De Lesseps undertakes to complete the construction of the second canal in three years.

The German Government have at length allowed a German officer and orevv to take the Chinese ironclad linguen, to her destination.

The various Consuls have been expelled from Saigon for falsely reporting the capture of Hanoi by the Chinese.

Lord Derby has expressed surprise at the revelation in the Agents-Generals' memorandum, that the French Government proposed to liberate thousands of the worst criminals among the islands of the Western Pacific, and asks that copies may be supplied for the use of the Cabinet. The Agents-General have requested an interview for next weekThe Times says that France is unlikely to support the action of the Governor of New Caledonia in sending a war ahip to annex the Pacific Islands, and that Australia would prove an antagonist, whose designs it would be difficult to counteract.

One ot the leading railway companies in America having wagered Captain Webb 10,000dols that he would be unable to swim through the whirlpools of Niagara, the attempt was made yesterday, Captain Webb passed successfully the first rapid, but was caught in one of the whirpools and drowned.

At the sale of Australian wools at Antwerp, 15,000 bales were catalogued. Most of it was sold. The prices realised were scarcely equal to the closing rates of June sales in London.

July 26.

Orders have been issued by the War Office .for the removal of a portion of the British troops now in Egypt to the Island of Cyprus, unless some abatement in the virulence of the cholera epidemic is speedily effected. The Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association report on July 25th, the arrival of the ships Loch Fergus from Ljttelton (left April 2nd); Lovehjerte, from Timaru (April 12th) ; Loch Cree, from Auckland (April 12th) ; Candidate, from Napier (April 13th).

The spread of cholera is proceeding in Cairo and the neighborhood without cheek, and mortality is stated to be thousands daily. Cherif Pasha refused t)ie medical assistance offered from [ndia. The Times declares that the British occupation of Egypt under existing circumstances cannot yet terminate. *

Alexandria, July 24

Cholera is now raging in this city and in Ismalia, and latest reports from Cairo state that the British troops stationed there have been attacked, and are under immediate orders to leave the city.

Capetown, July 24.

Further telegrams to hand from Zululand state that Cetewayo escaped capture after a defeat inflicted upon him by TJsibepu, and has fled from Ulundi. Cetewayo's followers suffered enormous loss in a battle fought at that place.

July 25

Telegrams have been received here reporting that Cetewayo was killed in the battle recently fought, at XTlund. with Usibepu. The announcement, however, requires confirmation. Later. The report that Cetewayo was killed in the last engagement i« now eon - firmed. New July 25. Intelligence is to liuil fr .in Nug'irn that Captain We'tb, the well-known swimmer, was drowned th>'re to day. Accounts received state that he was swimming in the river below the falls, 1 when he was caught in a whirlpool, and drowned before assistance could reach him.