TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1144, 4 September 1883, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Aug. 81. • Reports to hand from Java give the estimate of 30,000 as the number of lives lost by the tidal wave recently experienced off the coast of that island. The difficu’ty which had arisen beween Italy and Morocco has; now been settled, Sultan Mulni Hassan having sent ample apology to the Italian Government. The official inquiry into the circumstances* connected with the sinking of the steamer Austral in Port Jackson will commence on the 24th inst. The St, James’s Gazette warns the Government not to resist the demands made by the Australian Colonies respecting the annexation of the islands in the Pacific. The Peninsula ar.d Oriental Company’s steamer Ganges is ashore at Lake Lunsas, The Mirzapore, another of the Company’s steamers, will proceed with the Australian mails and passengers. The Ninteenth Century contends that it is the duty of the Liberals to avert separation of the Colonies. Sept. 1. Mr Lowther was elected to-day by a large majority to the vacancy in the representation of Rutlandshire in the House of Commons. Seven Irishmen have been arrested at Glasgow charged with complicity in blowing up the gasometer at the Glasgow gasworks in January last. The Statist strongly deprecates any extension of French influence in the Pacific. The Ganges has been floated off uninjured. Vienna, Aug. 30. The various Municipalities throughout Hungary have been enjoined by Government to,use vigorous measures to repress the anti-Jevvish outrages, and summon the military with this object when occasion requires. It is reported that M. Tisza, the President of the Hungarian Council of Ministers, has threatened to resign office unless the Imperial AustroHungarian Cabinet sanctions the adoption of coercive measures in Croatia, where anti-Magyar outbreaks recently occurred. Sept. 1. Count Kalnoky has arrived at Salzburg, and has had a protracted interview with Prince Bismarck, who is now on a visit to that town. Copenhagen, Aug. 30. The Czar and Czarina of Russia arrived in this city to-day, on a visit to the King and Queen of Denmark.’ Madrid, Aug. 30. It is announced that King Alfonso has decided upon talcing his proposed journey to visit the German Emperor, and that he will proceed urn Pans, the threatened political crisis owing to Ministers objecting to His Majesty leaving the kingdom having been averted. Paris, Sept. 1. Telegrams have been received here reporting that the niece of the late Queen Ranovalomanjaka 11. has succeeded to the throne. Cairo, Sept. 1. It is estimated that since the outbreak of the cholera epidemic, 27,CC0 persons have died from the disease in this country. Bombay, Aug. 30. Owing to the distressed state of the population in Northern India, hundreds are being reduced to a condition of famine. Extensive relief works are being organised by Government. New York, Aug. 80. Exceptionally high tides have been experienced along the Atlantic seaboard, and owing to the incursions of the sea, serious damage has b°en caused at several coast towns. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Melbourne, Aug. 30. 'I he Rev. Charles Strong has resigned the charge of the Scots’ Church. Sept. 1. Telegrams are to hand from Geraldton, on the West Australian coast, stating that a tidal wave was experienced there on Monday. The sea receded fully a hundred yards and enabled

people to pick up a quantity of stranded fish. Sydney, Aug. 81. It is considered probable that the proposed Intercolonial Conference on the annexation question will be held here, and will take, place about the beginning ef November.