CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4615, 19 October 1883, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

Eeuteb's Telegeams

[Received October 19,12.40 p.m.]

London, October 18.

Vague rumors are current that the Austrian Government is meditating with a view to bringing about more friendly relations between the Pope and Italy.

Hongkong, October 18

Intelligence is to hand from Canton that preparations to block (sic) that port are being made by the Chinese authorities.

London, October 18.

The ship Turakina, outward bound for Auckland, when leaving the docks collided with the quay and sustained damage of so serious a nature that she has been compelled to return and discharge her cargo, in order to repair damages.

Constantinople, October 17

The latest accounts from Anatolia, Asia Minor, the scene of the recent earthquake, show that the catastrophe was one of extreme severity. Several villages were completely wrecked by the repeated shocks, and it is reported on good authority that a thousand persons have been killed, and that fully twenty thousand are rendered homeless and in great distress.

Lisbon, October 17.

The outbreak among the peasantry in the eastern provinces has been completely quelled, and a number of Republican agitators have been arrested by the troops who were despatched to the scene of the

Lokdon, October 12

The trial of O'Donnell, for the murder of James Carey, has been postponed till next month. .

[Specials to the Pbess Association.]

London, October 16.

Sir William Armstrong has been commissioned to supply the Victorian steam hopper and armed cruisers with heavy guns

October 17.

At the meetings of the Orangemen and Land Leaguers a resort to a conflict with arms had been with difficulty prevented. Very few Germans are visiting Paris, fearing that should they do so they would be insulted.

The latest information from Madagascar reports that the French garrison "at Tamatave are in a miserable condition.