CHOLERA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2400, 17 September 1892, Page 4

CHOLERA.

London, Sept. 14. A steamer has arrived at Hull from Cronstadt, and states that during the voyage two deaths occurred from cholera. Berlin, Sept. 13. There were 200 deaths at Hamburg yesterday. 28,000 peeple have fled from the city. The Emperor has contributed £l3O to the relief fund. Sept 14. There were two hundred and twentyseven deaths at Hamburg yesterday. There are three thousand patients in the hospitals, tln-ee-fourths of w’hom are women and children. Business is still suspended. Buda Pesth. Sept. 14. The Hungarian Government have ordered all soft goods and provisions imported from infected countries to be burned. New York, Sept. 13. A thousand armed fishermen belonging to Long Island landed on Fire Island, which fronts their towns. A judge granted an injunction to prevent them landing, but without avail. An attempt to burn the hotel failed. A battalion of naval reserves has been summoned to disperse the rioters. A mob lined the Lslip Docks, armed with guns and other weapons, and insisted the landing of the Normania’s passengers from the tug Cephissus, also refused to permit food and blankets to be despatched to the women and children on board and tried to drown Dr Yought in charge of the Sanitation Department. Altogether 3000 passengers are now quarantined in New York harbox*. The receiving station at Sandy Hook is being utilised as a quarantine ground. The tug Cephissus has landed the Normania’s passengers on Eire Island. The rioters dispersed on learning that the injunction had been cancelled and that twelve hundred troops had been summoned to support the authority of the Government. The women and children occupy the Club House on Fire Island. Sept. 14. Up to date there have been 27 deaths at the quarantine station, besides 03 on steamers during the voyage across the Atlantic. Before the rioters yielded the steamers appealed to them to receive two hundred exhausted women and children on Fire Island. They replied that they hud to consider their own families and would shoot or drown anyone who landed. Five hundred troops with gatling were then sent to the scene. Sept. 15. Boatmen offered to the quarantined passengers to land them in New York for 50 dollars each. PAMIR AND AFGHANISTAN. London, Sept. 13. The Standard’s Berlin correspondent in his telegram, asserts that General Yanoff has demanded further reinforcements, declaring that the Ameer of Afghanistan is calling the vassal Khans to him, and is expelling the Russian expeditions to Pamir. He also mentioned that the Governor of Russian Turkestan has despatched Spaniards to Pamir to explore the British teritory in the vicinity. Calcutta, Sept. 13. It is reported that Captain Yanoff’s expedition has retired to Marginal), where it is intended to make a pex--manent station.