LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 10236, 2 July 1883, Page 2

LATEST CAB LEGRAMS .

(reuter's telegrams.) (by electric telegraph — copyright.) (Beceived June 3, 1.5 a.m.) The English counsel who have been consulted with regard to the monopoly which it is alleged was ceded by the Khedive, to Comte de Leaseps, for construction of canals through the Isthmus of Suez, have decided that the Gomte de Lesseps' claim is invalid, and repudiate the idea of a monopoly having been granted. The Syndicate of British shipowners, formed for the purpose of carrying out the projected English Suez Canal, has therefore decided to persist in the promotion of the scheme. ALEXANDRIA. June 28. It is expected that stringent sanitary measures will shortly be adopted to localise the outbreak of cholera. (special to press association). LONDON. June 27. The woollen manufacturers ia the north of France are pressiue" upon thfl Government the desirability of establishing a line of trading steamers between Havre and Australian ports. M. Cochery, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, approves the project if the colonies unite in granting subsidies. Howard Smith and Son's new steamer Barwan averaged 14£ knots on her trial trip. She leaves for Sydney on s;h July. Prince Louis of Battenburg is betrothed to the Princess Victoria Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Grand Duke ot Hesse-Darmstadt, and granddaughter of the Queen. Peter Carey has left Ireland for Manitoba, and it is reported that his brother, James Carey, also embarked at Queenstown.on Tuesday last. Eighty deaths have occurred from cholera at Damietta, and several at Port Said. The Marseilles authorities have decided to quarantine all arrivals from I Egypt.