CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 984, 27 January 1882, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

1 ; * • IRISff. • \ ~ . London, Jan. 24. _ln conseqacne of.the • increased agitation which haß recently appeared in cer- , tmni parts of Ireland, an additioul battalion ~ of the Grenadier-Guards has been ordered . to proceed there at an early date. . AUSTRALIAN. Melbourne, Jan. 26. Another case of sickness has occurred on board the P. and O. steam<hio Mirzap'ire,- The disease is suspected 'to'be smallpox, but the doctors are unaMe to pronounce definitely until it is further 1 developed. m • . I j ATEE. Teh of the Mirzapore's passengers have been landed to-day at the quarantine -. station. This includes all who ate now ill or sickening, • - The race for the (Jfealone Cup' which was ran-to day wne wpn'by Guinea, Wren second, iOomiriotion third. Time, Bmin. ' 30aeo, : k Syndicate has been formed here with a view to undertake the construction of , tho southern, portion of the Trana-Conti- ! nental Queensland^rail • • Brisbane, January 26, General-Fielding who recently com* ; plated-a survey of the proposed trans- ; continental railway'to the Gulf, of Car- | pentaria, has submitted a proposal, on behalf of a London Company,- to the Queensland .GoTerumerit-,- for the construction'of thelih'e.' The proposal has • however not'beeu accepted by the Go. vernment,. and certain - terms ■ offered by the latter-have accordingly been referred i by General Feilding to the, London Syn- ■" '• ' " • • *