CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4542, 26 July 1883, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

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[Received July 26,iii45-B'ltn:j ! ■•■■ :. - , --'■' Kew;Yo^^!x:2sv InteliigeDce 18 to hand ffbm tfiagara tliat Ca'pfc. Webb, the well knoyri} , swimmer, was drowned there , to-day. Thd! account tp hand states that he was swimming in the river below the falls when be. was caught in a' whirlpool iudf Browned before assistance could reach him. i ■ ' Capetown, July 25: Telegrams have been repeired here" reporting that Cetewayo was killed in 1 a .battle, recently fought i*t fUluodi with Usibepti. The annouacement, howerer, reqnirea confirmation. London, July 24 In the House of Commons to day the Hbn. Mr Gladstone stated that Count de Lessfeps did not possess a'monopoly ;of "the water«way through every-part ;of Egypt, but only through t the country directly forming the Isthmus of Suez. Aubsandbia, July 24. Xte eholora is now raging in this >cjty,

and at Ismalia, and latest reports from ' Cairo state that the British troops stationed there have been attacked, and are under immediate orders to leave tha JM'y* .' ' ' Capetown, July 24. Further telegram to hand from Zulu-* lahd stale* that Cetewayo escaped capture after the defeat inflicted upon 'him by Fsibepu, and ,has fled from Ulundi. Cetewayo's followers suffered an enormous loss in the battle fought at that place. / London* July 25« In the House of Commons last night Sir Stafford Nortbcote gave notice that he would move a resolution that the claim of the Comte de Lesseps of xa.monopoly for the construction of canals through Egypt be repudiated in any parleying that may take place in future between the British Government and the Suez Canal Company. Telegrams have been received here reporting that a lamentable disaster oc curred at Patapeco (sic) jetty.. While crowded with pleasure seekers it collapsed, and all those upon it were thrown into thai water, sixty-five being drowned.