LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1235, 17 August 1883, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

♦ ■ (per reuter's agency. ) Received August 16, 115 a.m. Lokdon, 15. In the House of CommoQ3 last night the Bankruptcy fell w:as -under consideration, and 'finally passed. Telegrams are to hand from Gibraltar, reporting that the steamer Grharzee, bound from London to Australia ran into ■ and sank the steamer Welwyn near^ £J^pe St. Vincent. The Gharzee put into Gridraltar to repair damages. All the passengers and crew of the Welwyn were rescued before the vessel went down. , v The Homeward Suez mail, dated Melbourne July, 2nd, was delivered here yesterday. Paris, 14. Comte da Chambord is reported to be dying, and the medical attendants have given up all hope ofiiis recovery^ The Or.eauist Princo • has been summoned to Frohsdorf, the seat of Comte de Chambord. Received August 16, 2.15 p.m. London 15. News is to hand of a serious disaster in a mine in Cornwall. Owing to the breaking of a chain the cage fell to the bottom of the shaft, and twelve miners who were on the cage were killed. A report is current that a rupture has occurred in the relations between Italy and Moscow, and that in consequence thereof the Italian Envoy at Tangeirs hag lowered his flag at the Embassy in that town. Melbourne 16. The ship George Eoper, which has been ashore at the Heads since July 4, is showing signs of breaking up, and it is believed that she has parted- amidships. (Received August 16, 740 p.m.) Sydney, 16. Sailed, this afternoon— The Union Company's s.s. Waihora, for Auckland. William Whyte, vinegar manufacturer, of Melbourne, who absconded, and who, it is alleged, forged numerous bills, amounting to fully £8000, has been arrested on board a steamer which is abont to sail for Brisbane. The Eastern and Australian Steamship Company's steamer Castherion, from Foochow, which went ashore near Watson's Bay, at South Heads, while leaving Port Jackson, was floated yesterday afternoon. Her stern is badly injured, and. the vessel has returned here to r«pair damages.