CABLEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 1420, 14 July 1884, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

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(Received July 14, 10.40 a.m.)

Professorship for Key. Charles Strong.

Lo.mio.n-, July 13.—The Rev. Charles Strong, recently of Melbourne, has been appointed Professor of Latin to the Liverpool University College. At Marseilles fifty deaths occur daily from cholera. Bank of South Australia. ! Lomkis-, July 11.—The bill which the Bunk of South Australia has introduced into the Imperial Parliament for the oxtension of its charter has passed tho Committee of the House of Lords. The Imperial Treasury opposed the bill on the ground that it included a clause which limited the liability of shareholders with regard to note issues. The South Australian gunboat Protector has passed Malta nt runt-' for Australia. Australian Wheat. Several wheat cargoes from Australia have been sold at ,'l.Ss (id. Cholera at Marseilles. The number of deaths which occurred from Cholera at Marseilles on Fiidny was (ill. The Franchise Bill and Redistribution of Seats. Stormy scenes have taken place ill both Houses respecting the private overtures mado by Mr (iladstono to Earl Cairns, which, it is boliovcd, will certainly ensuro a redistribution of seats next year. Theso disclosures aro also considered to render tho fianehise question moro acceptable at the autumn meeting of Parliament.

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(Received July 11—noon.) Tho Lords and tho Franchise BUI. Proposed Compromise. Lostion, July 12.—Effortaare being made to avert a conflict between tho Lords and Commons in connection with tho Franchise question. With this view Lord Womyss will, in tho House of Lords on Monday, move a compromise requiring that the Lords shall pass the Franchise Rill now, and that the Government will introduce at the autumn session v bill for the redistribution of seats. Tho Soudan Rebellion - Another Town Seized.—A Disloyal Governor. Caiko, July 12.- A report has reachc" licie that Osinan I. igna has seized the town of Has Assenso on tho Red Sea to the South of Trinkitat. Intelligence Is to hand that the Mudir (Egyptian Governor of Dongola) lias joined the rebel forces, and has announced his intention of marching on to Wady Haifa. The Cholera In Franco -Alarming Spread of the Plague. Paris, July Pi.—Cholera is spreading at Marseilles in an alarming manner, and tho number of deaths is daily increasing. Nows is now to hand that the epidemic has nppoarcd at Lyons. Tho United States Presidency. N'kvv Yokk, July 12.—The Chicago Convention has nominated Mr Cleveland as tho democratic cm lidate for the presidency, and Mr Hendrick for tho vico presidency. The sittings of the Convention have now been adjourned. French Ultimatum to China. I'AKIS, July 12. —It has transpired that the French Government has decided to grant eight days in which to agree to the payment of the required indemnity before steps aro taken by France to seize material guarantee for reparation for the Langson outrage.