CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1444, 31 July 1883, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

: REUTER'B TELKGRAMB. • BY ELEOTRIO TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT ' TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE. CAREY, THE INFORMER, SHOT : DEAD. NAPLES, July 29. Received July, 30, 3 p.m.—A most disastrous eartHquake has been experienced on the Island of Ischia, situated opposite /the Bay of Naples. The town of Cassamiciola has been almost totally destroyed, and it is estimated that fully-one thousand persons have been killed besides hundreds more or less seriously injured, Boatloads of killed and wounded are arriving here hourly'from ; the island, and much anxiety and excitement, prevails, ' ' NEW YORK, . July 29. The body df the late Captain Webb baa been recovered in the Niagara river, near Lewiatpn. .It. is most terribly battered by its ...passagp down stream. ~ SYDNEY,'' • • i''t JuljT-30i The Government are-considering the question of the establishmtat'of a system of in favor of of which Resolutions' werfi passed at r the recent International Conference. " The owners of ail, 'immigrant, ship Allan Shaw,"which arrived from .-London on May 2nd, have been fined £SOO for bi-eaches'bf'th'e. Immigration Regulations, . and' v 'the.'.'.owners of the. 'ship Ellora, arrived on June llth, ; with.immigrate from Plymouth', have-been sentenced to pay a fine of >£2so for a similar offence. : .

PERTH (W.A.), July 30. The steamer Pathan has arrived here from England and it is stated among the passengers are the Phcenix Park informers, Kavanagh, Smith, Murphy, and Kelly, travelling under assumed names. The news, however, is not yet confirmed.

. NAPLES, •• July 30. Received July 31st, 12.55 p.m.— The latest accounts to hand from Oas* samiciola show conclusively that nearly two thousand persons were killed by the recent earthquake, and that fully one thousand have received injuries of a more or less serious nature.

CAPETOWN, • ■ July 30. Intelligence has been received here from port Elizabeth'that the Pluenix Park informer, James Carey, was shot dead yesterday on board the ft earner Melrose by a man named O'Donnell, who had been d fellow, passenger with him from London, The attack was a very sudden one, and Carey died instantly from the wound received.