CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4591, 21 September 1883, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

Beutee's Telegsams

London, September 20.

The testing of the torpedo boats which have been built for the New Zealand Government took place at Greenwich today. The construction of the boats was very favorably reported upon, and a high rate of speed was obtained in the trials over the measured mile.

Amstbbdam, Sept. 19,

At a meeting of the Colonial Congress held in the Exhibition buildings to-day, Frederick Young, Secretary of the Colonial Institute, London, in the course of his address, strongly urged the federation of the mother country and the Australian colonies, and proposed the establishment of a common Parliament in which all parts of the Empire, would be adequately represented.

Constantinople, September 5

Telegrams to hand from Sofia state that Frinoe Alexandria, of Bulgaria, has issued a manifesto to the people declaring his renunciation of the extraordinary legisla* tive functions with which he was endowed in July, 1881, by a vote of the National Assembly, and announcing the restoration of a national charter of liberty, and the appointment of a Ministrypledged to support a liberal form/of government. A ' Londoh, September 19. Arrived: Mataura, from Auckland; Eewa, from Timaru; Monajgn", and Inch Murren, from Lyttelton; Waimea, from Wellington.

The ship Lock Dee.>'2oo days out from Lyttelton to Lnndor^'has "been posted at Lloyd's." y