TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1372, 30 July 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN, London, July 27. Arrived, at Plymouth, yesterday— Orient Steam Navigation Company’s Austral, from Australia, Madrid, July 27. The cholera epidemic has assumed alarming proportions, and upwards of a thousand deaths- are occurring daily. Capetown, July 25. The New. .Ziealand_Shippi,itg ; Com - pany’s R.M.S. Kaiknura, left this port this morning for New Zealand. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, July 28. A further expedition to New Guinea is projected, the object being commercial, not scientific. Arrived, this morning from Wellington. Sailed, last night—Tekapo, for Wellington. Melbourne, July 27. • A communication has been received by the Secretary of the Melbourne Cricket Club, from a number of principal English cricketers, in which the Melbourne Club is invited to send a team to England next year. July 28. Thirteen members of the Permanent Artillery {Force, stationed at Queenscliffe, have been arrested for acts of insubordination which occurred last week. Six of the ringleaders were tried by Court Martial to-day, when the Court refused to hear counsel, who declared that the Court was illegally constituted. The prisoners when called upon refused to plead* Sailed, this afternoon —Union Company’s Wairarapa for the Bluff. Adelaide, July 27. Ireland, Fraser and Co.’s Mauritius commercial circular to hand per s.s. Oceania, states that holders are firm, although there is little doing in the sugar market, and prices are only nominal. Albany, July 28. The P. and 0. Company’s R.M.S. Pekin, with the London mails of June 26th, arrived at King George’s Sound last night.