CABLEGRAMS.
(by electro telegraph—copviiioht
Reuter's Teleqkams.
London, July 10, Sir R. Herbert, Permanent UnderSecretary for the Colonies, has informed tho various Colonial Agents-General that the Government intend to move the omission of the proviso allowing any Colony quitting the Federal Union to repeal Aets referring to itself that may have been passed by the Federal Counoil during the timo that such Colony wae a member of the Union, ■*
' July 11, The election of a member of Parliament for North Lincolnshire, in the place of Mr Rowland Winn, who has been elevated to tho peerage, took place today, and resulted in the return of the Conservative candidate, Mr Atkinson, who defeated Sir Henry Thompson, the Liberal candidate, by a larger majority than that polled by Mr Winn at the last election. Cairo, July 11. Brigadier-General Green, R.E., has proceeded to Assouan, on the First Cataract of the Nile, taking with him half of tho regiment of the 20th Hussars.
Generalßrackenbury telegraphsareport that the Mahdi is dead, but the rumor is said to lack confirmation.
Madrid, July 12. The numder of cases of cholera reported to the sanitary authorities is on the decrease, and there are hopes that the violence of the epidemic is abating. Washington, July 11. The monthly returns of the United States Agricultural Bureau, just published, estimate the coming American wheat crop at 363,000,000 bushels. v Tenerikfe, July 10. The New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M.S. Kaikoura sailed yesterday for New Zealand ports.
Sydney, July 11. The sculling match between Harrington and Nelson took place to-day, and resulted in an easy victory for Harrington. A procession numbering fully 5000 proceeded to the Government House today, and presented a petition to His Excellency, signed by over 20,000 persons, praying for commutation of the capital sentenc# paused upon, the prisoner Prank
Johns, condemned to death for the murder of a fellow-prisoner in Parramatta Gaol.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2040, 13 July 1885, Page 2
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