CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4546, 31 July 1883, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

Reutbb's Telegbams

[Received July 31,12.55 p.m.] Napies, July 30. The Earthquake near Naples. Nearly 2000 Persons Perished- * Latest accounts to hand from Cassameshow conclusively that nearly two persons Were killed by the frecent earthquake, and that fully a thousand have received injuries of a more or less aerioiia nature. ' Capetowh, July 25,: Carey, Pheenix Park Informer, Shot Dead. Intelligence has been received here from Port^ Elisabeth that the phcsoix.Eark Informer, James Carey, was shot dead yesterday on board t be;-. at earner Melrose, by a man named O'Donnell, who had been a fellow passenger with him from London. The attack Was a Very sudden one and Carey died instantly of the wouud r«s ueiveti.

[Specials to the Pbess Association.]

London, July 25. "Nevta from the Cape states that TJribepu routed Cetewayo after half an hour's engagement. The disturbance implies no desire to create a difficulty with the British.

London, July 27. Major J. R. Rasney, R.N., of the Eoyai Artillery, has been appointed Commander of the Victorian land forces, arid Captain Alfred Thomas, R.N., to be head of the If aval forces. .The other appoint! ments are still unsettled.

la the House of Lords, Earl Kimberley stated that the Government intend to adhere to the bill brought ia by Mr Hib* bert to provide for the institution of a Local Government Boflird in Scotland. News from Madagascar states that the repeated attacks, made by the Hovas have been repulsed. ; . : • , July 29. Seventeea more deaths have occurred amongst the British troops at Cairo from cbjolera. , ; ;? The Pall Mall Gazette draws attention ■to and contrasts the heavy * balance of imports over exports in Queensland. The Orient steamer John Elder has arrived at Plymouth with her cargo of frozen meat in excellent condition. j The French at Hanoi made a sortie, capturing seven cannon.' The Chinese Government have explained that the massing of its troops on the frontier is for the purpose of repelling the Annamite .rebe15.,,.,...' . ' \. . .-,.••-■'• .■ , A Radical deputy in the Brench Chamber has accused the French railway companies of wholesale bribery of deputies. He refused to give the names. The matter created considerable sensation.