CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4705, 5 February 1884, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

Beuter's Telegbams

Caieo, February 3

News is to hand from Sinkat (where the garrison is without provisions) to the effect that the foraging parties which were sent out to obtain supplies were cut to pieces by the Arabs.

Washington, February 3

The Tariff Bill, which is now before Congress, provides fora general reduction of Customs duties to the extent of 20 per cent. The proposed reduction will be applied to woollen goods.

The death is announced of Mr Wendell Phillips, the well-known American orator, aged 73.

London, February 4

The wreckage belonging to the ill-fated ship Simla has? been washed ashore on the Sussex coast.

It has transpired that Government has decided to apply to Parliament for a sum of £200,C00, to be devoted to defences at Home and abroad.

Pabis, Febrnary 3. M. Eugene Eouher, formely President of the Senate, died to day, aged 70.

[Specials to the Pbess Association]

London, February 1.

Fully 60 per cent, of the New Zealand frozen meat per lonic was damaged by fire.

By the failure of Messrs Thomas, Sons, and Co., an East Indian Institution is re* ported to have been victimised to the extent of £50,000. )

February 2.

Acceding to the request of the Victorian Government,Jthe Postmaster* General, Mr Fawcett, has a&reed to cancel, the order requiring letters to bear special directions as to the route by which they are, to be forwarded to Australia. Many thousands of letters and papers are every week. de> tamed, owing to the regulations as to " specially jfddressed." '*,0l0k : ... February 3. The New; Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agenc|r \ppmpany . propose to in crease their §»ptiAibyt»lialf a million. -■■<;■■. \■"< "";;;'. Prince Napoleon has authorised a renewal of the agitation in favor of the Bonaparte cause. Paris is placarded with appeals urging the police to rise and assist the starving populace. A slight fall in the London Chartered Bank stock has taken place. Sir HeiculesjSobinson will return to the Governorship of the Cape shortly. Le Temps says that the only effect of the recidiviste scheme will be to swell the ranks of ruffiinism in the Pacific by the banishment thither of those whom it has been found impossible to reform.