CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4576, 4 September 1883, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

Eeutee's Telegrams

[Received September 4, 1.10 p.m.] Vienna, Sept. 3. The funeral of the late Comte de

Chambord took place to»day at Goritz, near Trieste. £Fone of the Orleanist Princes attended the ceremony.

The anti-Magyar disturbances in Croatia still prevail in the various towns. Serious rioting has taken place, and the military will !be called out to restore order. Alexandeia, September 3. The cholera epidemic is now showing undoubted signs of abatement, and there is every reason to believe that no further outbreak will occur.

London, September 3.

A gale of unparalleled fury raged yes* terday on the South coast. Eeports of numerous wrecks are to hand from various places, but the number of vessels lost has not yet been ascertained, but it is known to be exceptionally large.

A telegram which has been received here stated that according to same estimates 75,000 persons have lost their lives by the recent tidal wave and earthquake in Java.

Paeis, September 2.

The late Comte de Chambord having decided in his will that his nearest relative should act as chief mourner at his funeral, the Comte de Paris declined to attend the celebration of the funeral rites.

Berlin, Sept. 2.

The express train from this city, on arriving at StegUtz (sic ?: Strelitz), ran beyond the proper stopping place at that station, into a crowd of people. Forty persons were killed or seriously injured.

Vienna, Sept. 2.

The Princess Stephanie, wife of the Prince Imperial of Austria, has given birth to a'daughter.

[Specials to the Pbess Association.]

London, August 31

The official inquiry into pie circumstances connected with the sinking of the steamer Austral in Port Jackson will commence on the 24th inst.

The St. Janaes Gazette warns the Government not to resist the demands made by the Australian Colonies respecting the annexation of the Islands in the Pacific.

The Peninsular and Orient Company's steamer Ganges went ashore at * Lake Limsas, but has been floated oft uninjured.

The Nineteenth Century contends that it is the duty of the Liberals to avert the separation of the colonies.

The collection of native curiosities ex-? hibited by the Victorian Board for the Protection of Aborigines, and a similar collection by the Government of Western Australia, have obtained the gold medal, and have each received a diploma of honour at the Amsterdam Exhibition. Gold medals have been awarded to Mr Whitri, of Mudgee, for wool; to the Melbourne and the Western Companies for preserved meat.

The^ Statist strongly deprecates any extensioa of French influence in the Pacific,

London, September 2

The King of Annam undertakes not to correspond with the Chinese Government, as required by France.