CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 13 July 1881, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

♦ REUTEK'S CABLEGRAMS. [fbom oub own coebespondent.] London-, July 9. Deaths are announced of the Eight Hon. W. P. Wood, Baron Hatherley (formerly Lord Chancellor of 'Great Britain), and General Sir Richard Waiddy, K.C.B. Pome, July 9. The loan which Baring, and J, and C.

Hambers and Co. have engaged to float on behalf of the Italian Government, is £30,000,000. Bearing interest at 5 per cent. , Paris, July 9. Intelligence has been received from Tunis, reporting that the French fleet before Sfax is still engaged in shelling the town. An attempt was made to-day to land a storming party under cover of guns of ships. Tlie Arabs, hyoevor, who were in strong force opened a heavy fire upon the boats, and the troops failed I o effect a landing. Calcutta, July 10. Intelligence was received on the 4th instant, that Ayoub Khan had left Herat with a considerable body of mixed troops for Candahar, is now fully confirmed. Ayoub Khnn is in command of force, which is pushing forward with all speed. Sydney, July 12. Smallpox is increasing, though its pro« gress is slow. A fresh case was reported yesterday, tbe person attacked being a woman living in the suburb. There are now twelve infected houses in the city and suburbs. A Small-pox Board has been appointed to devise fresh means for preventing the spread of the disease, and a special quarantine station is now in course of construction at Little Bay in Port Jackson, where all small* pox patients will be sent. Melbourne, July 10. Sir Bryan O'Loughlin has formed the following Ministry :— Bryan O'Loughlin, Premier, Colonial Treasurer, and \ttor« ney-General ; Grant, Colonial Secretary and Minister of Education ; Gaunson, Minister of Lands ; Bolton, PostmasterGeneral ; Bent, Commissioner of Railways ; Young, Minister of Mines ; Graves, Solicitor-General and Commissioner of Trade and Customs ; Dobson, Minister of Justice. O'Shannessy has declined to accept a portfolio in P'Loughlin's Ministry. The post of Treasurer was offered to Murray-Smith, but declined.