CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4525, 6 July 1883, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

ESUTBB'S TKEKGBAMB

London, July 4. The' Clyde' Disaster-—Heavy

Low of Life.

It has been ascertained that the number of lives lost by tbe capsizing of the ship Daphne, while being launched at the Clyde, was much under-estimated, and it is now known that 105 men were carried down by the vessel and drowned. The divers, who have examined the vessel as ■he now lies under water, report that the engine room is crammed with corpses.

The cargo of 7840 carcasses of mutton, ihipped per steamer Fenstanton, is reported to be in good condition.

London, July 3.

Arrived: The ship Border Chief, which sailed from Auckland March 26, and the steamship Fenstantbn, from Port Chalmers, which sailed May 10.

London, July 5.

Tbe Postal Committee appointed by the London Chamber of Commerce^ after hearing the evidence of tbe verious\ Col* Onial Agents-General, has decided to make an urgent appeal to the Chamber of Com* merce at Brisbane and Wellington with a view to promoting the joining of the colo* nies of Queensland and New Zealand in the Postal Union.

AlsxAirPßiA, Yesterday.

The cholera outbreak continues to spread, and tbe number of deaths is rapidly increasing.

The statement that it bad been decided to er»m«te the bodies of Qthose who died of cholera at Damiett* is incorrect. Orders have been given to pull down and burn certain parts of-the town in which the disease is prevalent in order to stamp it out, but the bodies .of. those who have died of cholera will be buried in the usual manner.

[Specials to the Pbess Association.]

London. July,3*. , Comte de Oharabord is suffering from a cancer in the stomach. The cargo of frozen meat by the steamer Orient has been cleared at 6|-d per pound. : The Fenian Society in New York, called tbe "Irish Brothers," has formally sentenced Lord Chief Justice Coleridge to death for passing sentence on the Birmingham dynamite conspirators.

Thirty vessels engaged in.the seal trade are reported to be icebound in Labrador, and the crews are starving. • -

Lord Randolph Churchill has forwarded to Mr Gladstone evidence against the Khedive as having been the instigator of the massacre in Alexandria.

The French have been expelled from the capital of Madagascar. A splendid service of plate has been presented to General Lord Wolsely by the Corporation of Dublin. .

It is believed in official circles that the sodden change in the attitude of the' Ministry in respect to the annexation of New Guinea was owing to the larger question of Pacific annexation which was raised by the Agents-Generals' deputation.

The Pall Mall Gazette expresses its approval of the policy of the Government in retaining freedom of action in regard to its future relations ..to-wards New Guinea.

The St. James's Gazette twit;) the Government with not boldly revealing whether or not it would regard the occupation of New Guinea as a casus belli, and it expresses an opinion that the refusal of the Government to comply with the wishes of the colonies, coupled with the advice given them to federate, is likely to discourage their future loyal relations on the basis of the bond uniting them to the Empire, In an article upon the annexation question, (he Morning Post says it is probable that the colonists will send filibustering expeditions to New Guinea, with a view to compelling annexation. Lord Derby, in his despatch to the Government of Queensland, announces that it is the intention of the Imperial Government to strengthen the hands of the Western Pacific Commissioners, so as to aeoure better protection of British interested- ■'*•■' • ••••■•• '-. ■ •, ■• ■