CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4563, 20 August 1883, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

Beuiee's Telegbams

Capetown, August 18.

No intelligence of a reiible nature has yet been received from Zululand regard - ing the report of the defeat of TJsibequ by Cetewayo's adherents, and doubts are entertained as to its authenticity.

Bombay, August 18

During the past fortnight two hundred deaths from cholera have occurred here, and the disease is now assuming the character of an epidemic. Stringent measures have, been adopted to prevent the further development.

London, August 18. The launch of a torpedo boat which

— t has been built for the Victorian Government, took place at Cheswick to-day. The ceremony was performed by the Right Hon. H. C. E. Childers, after whom the boat was named.

In the House of Commons last night, Mr Gladstone was questioned as to the intention of the Government regarding the future of New Guinea. In reply, the Premier stated that as the Government refused to ratify the annexa* tion of that island by Queenland, it was unnecessary to say anything about the future. The Government were satisfied that there was no fear of any claim to the island being made by any foreign power.

[Specials to the Pbess Association.]

London, August 16

It is reported that the Imperial Government are sending a military officer, well-known in the colonies, to study the New Guinea question. It is reported that the Government are parleying with M. de Lesseps respecting the widening of the present Suez Canal. August 17.

Mr Forster, speaking at Devonport, said the Australian colonies were justified in objecting to French convicts being transported to the Pacific Islands, and hoped that the Mew Guinea natives would be protected if England's authority was extended over that island. He was confident that the democraoy of the future would be in favor of a permanent union with the English races. The Morning Post says that the federal movement is exciting sympathy in England. The Tenant Farmers' Compensation Bill has passed the House of Lords. It is reported that M. Tricon, the French Ambassador to China, being unable to" arrive at a satisfactory settlement of the conflicting claims of France and China in Annam, has broken off the relations with China in Annam.

The French fleet have captured the mouth of the river Hue.

The official inquiry into the accident to the vessel Daphne, which capsized when being launched off the ways at the Clyde, on July 3, found that the accident was due to defects in the design of the vessel

A letter published in the Daily Express from a number of Melbourne Irishmen, stating that the mission of Messrs Bedmond is a fiasco, has provoked an intense anti-Irish feeling. Six hundred of the French troops made a sortie on Nam Diuh, where an engagement took place with the Annamites. The latter suffered severely, their death list being heavy, while the French loss was only two killed and several wounded.