CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4606, 9 October 1883, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

KeUTEB's TeLEGBAMS kcjinjoN, Optober 8, The death is announced of Dr. 0. Short, formerly Bishop of Adelaide, South Australia, aged 80. . Pabis, October 6. ' / The parleying between the French apd Chinese Governments, which has/JTeen proceeding for the last month/;has been suspended, the efforts whjch^haTe been, made to asriire at an amicable settlement of the difficulty in connection with the occupation of Annam havo proved fruit-. lessi . * . St. Petebsbub(J, October 6. A revival of the anti-Jewish agitaljorj D t'hjs country has opcu,rred an^ noting fra§ ta^en place in peTergl jown§.

[Specials to the Pbess Asbopiatiqn.} liONpou, October 5. One hundred teuders were reeeired for

the City of Melbourne loan of £200,000, the average price being about £100 10s. London, October 6. «

The inquiry into the sinking of the Austral was continued on Friday when evidence was taken that the captain justii fied his employing ballast tanks, and that he was mistaken in neglecting the warnings previous to the listing during the coaling. The court in its decision censured the captain for leaving the deck in charge of a seaman, and found the chief engineer free from blame, and the Court declined to deal with the certificates of the master and chief officer, owing to the peculiar circumstances surrounding the sinking of the vessel. The Spectator questions if Sydney and Tasmania were equally earnest on the exclusion of the convicts from the Pacific as the other colonies.

The Spectator and Standard endorse the letter of Mr Murray Smith regarding the expulsion of the Irish informers.