CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4292, 3 October 1882, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

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London, October 2. A Brilliant Cablegram. A brilliant aurora borealis was risible last night. London, September 30. The Coming Lord Mayor. Mr Henry Edmond Knight, Alderman for Cripplegate Ward, is the Lord Mayor elect of London. He was Sheriff is 1876. Cairo, Sept. 30. The British Review at Cairo. The review of the garrison troops, num* boring 18,000, by the Khedive, was a great success. The British and Indian contingents elicited general admiration, especially the latter, who, from their splendid physique, showed to advantage. In addition to the Egyptian colors flying over the Khedive's pavillion were the Royal Standard and the Union Jack. The review was witnessed by an immense crowd, and among those present were a large number of. the diplomatic body. The review was a most imposing spectacle.

I AtEXANDHU, Sept. 29. The ExplosionFurther particulars which are to haud regardiiig the.,explosion at Cairo show that ten, days'/rations and ICO tracks of war munition baTe been destroyed by fire. The loss of life was not so great as at first stated. Fire persons only were killed, bat twenty suffered severely. The official account attributes the explosion to the accidental bursting of a shell. October 2 Baker Pasha at CairoBaker Pasha firrived at Cairo to dfjj, from Constantinople.' St. Pktebsbubg, Sept. 30. Explosion on a Russian IroncladThe'"torpedo magazine of the Russian" circular ironclad Popofftra, stationed at Odessa, a seaport on the Black Sea, exploded to day. Thirty of the crew t'/t-fte killed, and several others.sererelyinjured.-. New Yohk, September 30^f American Steamer BurntOne of the Mississippi river steamers has been burnt. Twenty persons lost their lives by the casualty. London, October 1. The fine of £500 has been imposed on Dwyer Gray, M.P. Midwinter is a passenger for Australia with Murdoch's team. '-' '■ :\ ' ■. The railway from Cairo to Alexandria remains- open in full working order, and the recent feeling of uneasiness has subsided. . The Khedive has decorated Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour. yl (Special to Auceian©: Stab.) London, September 29. Seventeen persons were killed by the Cairo explosion. The whole of the 60th Regiment, were in the immediate neighborhood, and had a very narrow escape of being annihilated. ...^otwJthstaßrding. the explosion, the traffic is still maintained on the railway. The extent of the loss and "damage wrought by the spoliation of Alexandria is found on investigation to haveJ)een..con.*. sideralil^"'"u'n^err^Vd''''''i!r"llie"'''''origiiiial'' estimates. The natives around the city are hostile and menacing. Several-Arabs have been arrested £o: firing on Turks. London, September 30. Smallpox da s-s- OrientA young man named Beechag, the son of a Sydney medical man, was one of the passengers by the Potbsii but on arriving at Plymouth, he was foand to have been attacked by smallpox, and was accordingly taken ashore to the hospital there. The steamer was then admitted to pratir|ue. ■'•-''■. .".