CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1804, 3 October 1884, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

[BY ELECI'RW TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT] Reuter's Telegrams, Melbourne, Friday. Received October 3rd 12.40 p.m.— In the Legislative Assembly last night the Land Act Amend ment Bill was passed tnrough the final stage, Three fresh cases of small pox in the city are reported. London, October 2, In a speech delivered at Glasgow today, the Marquis of Salisbury declared he was in no way prepared to yield to the Government on the question of the reform of the Franchise. Calcutta, October 2. A disastrous railway collision occurred to-day near Arruugatta, in this presidency, resulting in the death of sixty persons and serious injury to others, Cairo, October 1, General Lord Wolseleyand staff arrived to day at Assouan. St. Petersburg. October 1 Serious damage from fire has occurred among the shipping on the Volga, A burning vessel abandoned to the force of the current, drifted down the river, setting fire to a large number of merchantmen. The fire is atill raging among the shipping, and the logs is already estimated at several million roubles, London October 2, Accounts of the cholera epidemic from the Continent show a Blight deorease in the ravages of the disease in Italy. The martality at Naples has fallen to fifty deaths daily, and the same number is reported from Geneva,