CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1275, 25 July 1883, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

•■ (per reuter's agency. ) Received July 28, 9.50 p.m. London, 21. The action against the Rev. A. ! H. Maconochie, formerly incumbent of St. Albans, a^d who was instituted to the bemfice of St. Peter's, London Docks, in January last, for illegalities of the. Romish ceremony practiced at the former church, was concluded today. The*final sentence of deprivation was pronounced, and defendant condemned to pay the costs of the proceeding. Melbourne, 28. The prisoner Burns, who was found guilty of the murder of M. Quinlivan, at Wicklift'e, in 1880, has been sentenced to death. A telegram has been -received here j reporting that the British Indian steamship Teviotdale, 1,018 tons from London, May 18, has anchored in the Gulf of Carpentaria with her propeller blades broken. (Received June 24, 0 - 50 a.m.) Cairo, 21. The ravages of the cholera epidemic in the Native quarter of the city are daily redoubled. The inhabitants are panic-stricken, and numbers are dying in the streets in their attempts to escape the infection. Sir Evelyn Wood and General Stephenson have undertaken the direction of sanitary measures which have been decided upon, and which will be rigorously enforced without delay. The quarter of the city in which the disease has taken firmest hold, and which is especially crowded and unhealthy, is to be burnt; all other means of disenfectant being considered useless. (Received July 24, 1-20 p.m.) Brisbane 24. ' It is rumored that the Government intend to abandon the proposed transcontinental railway and not again submit the agreement to Parliament, even if the Ministry is in a majority after appeal to the country. Melbourne, 24. Private telegrams from Foo Chow, datod 21st inst, states that the shipments of tea to Australia, and New Zealand to the end of July, will probably equal 80,000 pounds weight. It is estimated that the first crop will show a decrease of 20,000 lbs, and the second a similar falling off. . The market is firm at Foo Chow." The South Australian Government continues to hold aloof from the action being taken in London to urge upon the Imperial Government the desirability of annexing the New Hebrides. Numerous telegrams have passed between Service and Bray, Premier of South Australia, on the subject, but without result, Rray alleging that an agreement exists between England and France not to annex the Pacific Islands.