CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4612, 16 October 1883, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

Eeuter's Telegrams

[Received Ootober 16, 1.20 p.m.]

Constantinople, Ootober 15

Intelligence has been received from Chics Island, off the coast of Asia Minor, that a severe shock of earthquake has been experienced there. A large number of houses have been destroyed, and several persons seriously wounded, though no loss of life occurred. News is also to hand that the earthquake caused serious damage at Aivaili (sic), and that a number of deaths have occurred.

[Received October 16,11.30 a.m].

Madrid, October 15.

It has transpired that the new Ministry formed! by Senor Herrera has decided to drop the dispute with the French G-overn-ment regarding the insult offered to King Alfonso in Paris last month.

Paris, October 15.

M. Ferry, President of. the Council of Ministers, who is now in the provinces, has made speeches at Eouen and Havre, in which he urged moderation and unity on the part of Ministerialists in the coming straggle with the Extremists.

St. Petersburg, October 15.

Fatal Panic,

Intelligence is to hand from Zewonka, a town-in the province of Podolia, Southern Eussia, that during a service in a Jewish synagogue, an alarm of fire was raised and a panic occurred. In the rush for the doors of the building forty women were crushed to death, and 30 others severely injured.

The Czar arrived at St. Petersburg today from Cronstadt.

Hongkong, October 15.

The latest news irom Tonquin states that the Chinese troops who recently arrived at the frontier are now quieting their positions and retiring into the in* terior.

London, Oct. 15

The steamship Catalonia, from Lyttel* ton, (August 25), and British King, from Lyttelton, (Sept. 4), have arrived at Plymouth. Their cargoes of frozen meat are reported to be in good condition.

London, October 13.

Arrived, from Lyttelton: The ships Himalaya, June 22, and Bencleugh, June 21.

London, October 15

Latest telegrams to hand from Foochoyr state that serious anti-European riots have occurred. There are no details, however, jet to hand. At Hainau the populace are also in an excited state, and placards menacing the Mandarins aod JSuropean residents have been posted' and paraded by the natives.

Capetown, October 13

Latest intelligence from Zululand states that Mr Osborne, the British Resident Commissioner, has gone to interview Cetewayo with a view of inducing him to surrender to the British authorities.

[Specials to the Pbess Association.]

London, October 12,

Messrs Alexander Brothers, of Sydney, have become bankrupt, with liabilities amounting to £52,000. The assets are estimated at £46,000.

Sir Julius, Vogel, in a letter to the Times, defends the action of the Governor and the Premier of Victoria, in excluding the Irish informers from landing in Aus tralia.

The Roumanian soldiers taken prisoners by the Austrians have been released on certain conditions.

The French Press are moderating their tone respecting the action of Commodore Erskine in connection with the treatment of the French Company iv the New Hebrides.

Thefcßritish Shipowners' Association are urging upon the Government the necessity of re-opening negotiations in reference to the construction of a second canal through the Isthmus of Suez.

Several shocks of earthquake have been experienced at San Francisco within the last few days.

The Parliamentary papers relating to the proposed annexation of "New Guinea have been issued. Among them is a despatch from Lord Granville, asking France what number of convicts it is proposed to send to the Pacific, and what their position will be after arrival; also regarding the failure of the authorities of Noumea to apply for the extradition of escapes who landed in Queensland.—Lord Derby admits that if the number of French convicts in the Pacific are in« creased, the Imperial Government will be unable to veto the Influx of Criminals Bill, which the Queensland Government have proposed to put in force in the colony.—Sir Arthur Palmer's despatch to Lord Derby considers that the attempt to govern New Guinea and the Australian colonies by federation, as proposed by the British Colonial Society, would result in failure.

London, October 14,

Mr Rusden in a letter to the Spectator, contends that New South Wales and Tasmania are grimly in earnest in repelling the exportation of convicts to the colonies.

Mr Edward George Clarke, M,P. for Plymouth, writing to the St. James's Gazette, says that Queensland will probably annex New Guinea without obtaining England's consent. The Marquis Tseng, in replying to an address to him at Folkestone, Kent, hoped for a pacific solution of the FrancO'Chinese difficulty.