CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4538, 21 July 1883, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

BkUX'Eß's TEI,E(JIJAMB [Received July 21, 2 33 p.m-J London, July 20. la the House of Commons torday the Hoa. Evelyn Ashley read a telegram from Mr Service, the Premier of Victoria, stating that a resolution had been passed by the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce that British influence should preponderate in the control of the second Suez Canal. . ' Aleia-Ndeia, July 20. The latest report* to hand from Cairo state that the oholera epidemic is spreading mott alarminply. In that city no lees than 140 deaths haro already occurred through the plague. r

•London, July 20. It has transpired that Sir Chas. Riven Wilson, one of the representatires of Great Britain in the Council of the Suez Canal Company, baa been despatched by the Cabinet to Paris to confer with Count De liPgspps; with a view of carrying into effect the agreement wbiah was come to on the Dth inst. for the construction of the second Suez Canal. f Beblin, July 19. A meeting is arranged between the German Emperor William and the Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, t6 take place at Gastein, in Upper Austria, on the 4th pros. Pahis, July 19. M. Tricon, who was recently appointed to succeed M. Bouree as French Ambassador to China, has announced his arrival at Pekin. :■' London, Jnly 19> The Union Bank of Australiahas declared a dividend of 9 per cent, for the past halt year, and carried £30,000 to the reserve. The National Bank of Now Zealand declared a dividend of 4 per cent, for the past half-year. The Orient steamship Lusitania, from Melbourne, MaySQth, arrived afcflymontE yesterday, with a cargo of frozen meat on i board. •; [Specials to the Pbess Association.] London, July 19. ' All mails passing through the Sues Canal, after being disinfected at the sea fortress at Brindisi will be forwarded on. Passengers will} be quarantined at Pro* veglia. , The Comt* de Chambord is improvingThe strike, which it was feared was about to take place among the ironworkers at Stafford, has been abandoned.