LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1295, 9 July 1883, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

i (per reuter'sagrnoy.) r (Eeceived June 7, 11 '30-a.m.) v London, 6. 4. It is announced that Sir Auckland v . Colvin, financial adviser to the Egyp--7 tian Government, has been appointed r British Agent, and Consul-General c and Minister Plenipotentiary in Egypt. Be Lesseps will shortly arrive in s London, at the invitation of the r Cabinet, to conclude an agreement 3 securing the necessary land, and ar- " ranging other preliminaries for the construction of the Second canal through the Isthmus of Suez. 3 Eeceived July 6, 9.55 p.m. j - Sydney, 6. The French. Consul at this city has taken occasion. to deny emphatically I the statement made in Brisbane to-day that a French war steamer had hoisted t the French flag on Mallicol and E Erronanga Islands in the New Hebril dies group. Melbourne, 6. 1 The wreck of the ship George Eoper ' has been abandoned, and will be sold » by auction to-morrow. , t ■ Alexandria 5. Notwithstanding the severe preF cautions that have been taken to pre- ! vent the spread of cholera the disease [ continues to rage without abatement. i The large increase in the number of deaths at Mansurali and Damanhonr, . and the appearance of the disease afc ■ fresh points, have convinced the doc- » tors that it is Asiatic cholera of an ! cM>idL-Mie tyi.u-. Tu-y of the guard*

forming the cordon round the infccte.l diplrict have been seized with tUe disease aud have died. London, 5. i The death is announced of ilight Hon. John Winston Spencer Ohuvch- ■ lull, .Duke of Marlborough, X.CI. aged 61. (Received July 7, 4 p.m.) Lond.-v 6. Mr Ellis Ashrnead Bartlott, M.P. for Eye, has given notice of hia intention to move in the House of Commons that it is desirable that a British Protectorate should be established over New Guinea, in compliance with the wish expressed by the Colonies. A loan is announced of a quarter of a million sterling for the Melbourne Harbor Trust. I . Paris, 6. Comte l)e Chamttord has rallied, and some hope of his recovery is entertained.