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Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1722, 19 July 1883, Page 2

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Ie the C.hanrflxejp/jDep^ci' to-day *M; , Challeinel-Laconr, Minister of J?oreign' Affaii-sf atated* id rfejily Ib'ra^iifliCiSifW.'. galling, , tho , Anglo-^i'enc^ , ,difl|cul.ty at. Tamatave, that' the Groveriiment" woald' lact with justice, and make due reparation ' if 16' was fokthd'ilie'coni'than'det of^.tne Freuch squadronin^lalagasy' waters had committeiLan error in.dealiugs ffith the British authorities Vt Taitttitax^* |

London, , July 16, evening In consequence of tho state of, affairs in Madagascar, -IftM^ shif' feiir/alu^ 18 guns, \4140 /tgns,; of ;Sir William Hewett on tho East Indian station,, and H.M. ship 12 giiti's, 2120 tons, Wow' on particular "-service, have been ordered to proceed forthwith to the Mauritus,

r - -ALEXiKfitfiXrJairio? Telegrams to hand ffroniCCario report that Cholera ia now general in that city, and] is rapidly .spreading .in the' fiatfve quarters. I " \

[Received July 18, 1 p.m.] ' The Suez Canal. Loxdox, July 17 (evening). In the Hoiisb' of I/>rds to-day, Earl Granville, in reply to a question, stated that the. Government had fqQnd it impossible to make better conditions in the agreement t ,f or tho ponstniotiom } of -the second Suez canal, owing to the position of Count de Lesseps • a»d -they.riglits of shareholders in the existing company. Still, hisllordship added, the Government were- not prepared to adm%thnt de Lesscps possessed a monopoly in\ connection with the uonstructiou of canals through the isthmus of Suez." ' " •''