CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4544, 28 July 1883, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

Bsuras's TKtWftAita .' . London, July 27. It is reported that oases of cholera hare occurred at tbe Docks. The rumor has not, however, received any trustworthy confirmation. Major T. E. Dasney, 8.A., and Capt. i A. Thomas, K.N., have been appointed military and naval commanders respectively for the colony of Victoria under the scheme for the reorganisation of the colonial forces. The death is announced of General Sir William Fenwick Willams, 6.C.8., for merly Governor of Gibraltar. Cairo, July 26. The energetic measures which are being taken for stamping out the cholera epidemic have already had a good effect, and a decrease in the number of deaths is now reported. * * ESPBCUIS TO T£E jPBSSS ASSOCIATION.] a - London, July 25. - Lord Derby has expressed surprise at the revelation in the memo, of the Agents* General, that the French Government proposed to liberate thousands of the worst criminals among the islands of tbe yTestern' Pacific, and ask that copies may be supplied for the use of. iha Cabinet. The Agents-General bare requested ao interview for next week. :, *- ■ . The Times say* that France is unlikely to support the action of the Governor of New Caledonia in sending a warship .to annex the Pacific Islands, and that Australia would prove an antagonist whose designs it would be difficulty to counteract. ;.• ■ , . f

Mr K. Ford, Secretary of the Melbourne Harbour Trust, has started to inspect the dredging maohinery of the seaport of Glasgow. At the sale of Australian wool' at Antwerp 15,000 bales were catalogued. Most-of it was sold.* The prices realised Were scarcely equal to the closing rates of the June sales in London.

Despite the inclement' weather, a favourable wheat crop is expected, and I the prospect of the bop crop is excellent, i The British harvest is delayed by cold , weather and frequent rains, but an average yield is expected. >' Qu the Continent the prospects are also generally good.' The American spring sown oropt wilt' aive an average . yield,' and the winter sown crops one-fifth below 1 averige.s fi- *4 "I.". ;fT Onr of she leading railwaycoMipanies, in America having wagered Captain Webb ten thousand dollars that he would be unable to swim thryugh the whirlpools of Niagara, the attempt was made yester* day. Captain Webb padsed subcesifuUr the first 1 rapid, but was caught in'MMK the whirlpools ahd drowned. ?W^