CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1691, 21 May 1884, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

[by eleotrio telegraph—copyright,] j • ■■■ Keuter'sTelegrams,■ - london, ":' !:: ,' : ;' ■■■■■■• May 18/ ; Received May 20; 1 a.'m,—P.er -Merchant Shipping and. Underwriters' Association.—London, May 17 :—Arrived—Ships'' Asterion. from- Gisborne (Feb; 1); Lochnugar, Napier (January 30); and Marlborough, Port Chalmers (Feb 27.) "V ;1 CAIRO, .'. May 18. - Intelligence Ims reached here, that, the Arab rebels near Abuliamed havcaptiired M. Ouzzi, the English' agent at Berber, who was fleeing northwards. '■ ■' . Mr Clifford Lloyd, Under, Secretary for Home Affairs, has 1 been granted' two months'sick leave, '.' LONDON, ■: May 19,' Received May 20th, 2,20 p.ni, -The cargo of frozen mutton, comprisingabout 9000 carcases, on board of the ship Marlborough, fromjPortjOhalmers,' is-reported to be in prime condition; ■•■'' In the House of Lords to-day. Earl Rosebeny announced thaj lie. had decided the motion standing in his name' regarding the French recidivist.es. question, His Lordship further stated that ho did'not intend to.protest against the French erecting prisons, but against.placing; of the worstclasses of criminals at liberty in the vicinity of colonies. ■

News is. to hand of a disastrous conflagration atßeißazaar (sic). Sixteen hundred houses and shops have been destroyed, and eleven persons burned to. death.