HOME AND FOREIGN.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5300, 22 September 1885, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

(Received September 11, at 1 a.m.) CHOLERA IN SICILY. London, September 20. Advices from Sicily state that cholera ia increasing to an alarming extent at Palermo. 1 REVOLUTION IN ROUMELIA. News is to hand from Roumelia of a revolution having taken place there. Fortunately it is of a peaceful nature, unaccompanied by bloodshed. The inhabitants in the province seized the Turkish Governor, Aleko Pasha, and issued a proclamation declaring the union of Roumelia with Bulgaria. The Roumelian army took the oath of allegiance to Prince Alexander of Roumelia, and are now occupying several strategic points on the Turkish frontier. Consequent on these events, the Bulgarian army has been mobilised. (Received September 22, at 1.15 a.m.) September 21. A telegram to hand from Roumelia states that Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria, issued a manifesto to the inhabitants of Bulgariaand ßoumelia, in which he accepts the crown uf the two Rulgarias, and calls upon the people to help to defend the union. Prince Alexander is on his way to Phillipopolios, the principal town in Eastern Roumelia. TALLOW AND WOOL MARKETS. September 18. The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,480,000 quarters. Australian tallow of fair average quality — beef, 28s 6d ; mutton, 29s 6d per cwt. New Zealand frozen mutton, 4|d per lb. At to-day's wool auctions there was a steidy but not active demand. The catalogue comprised 9500 bales. (Received September 21, at 12.15 p.m.) FIGHTING IN MADAGASCAR. Paris, September 20. Advices from Admiral Miot, commanding the French forces in Malagasy waters, state that the troops under his command recently made a reconnaisance of the Hova position at Taragal, Madagascar, but were attacked by the enemy, who was repulsed with considerable loss. WOOL SALES. London, September 19. Seven thousand ore hundred bales were catalogued at to-day's wool sales, the demand being steady, but not active. SANITARY PRECAUTIONS. September 21. Owing to the action of the Egyptian Sanitary Board in imposing quarantine on vessels arriving from the East. Lord John Manners, the British Postmaster-General, has consented to a diversion of the Brindisi mail to the Suez Canal route outwa-ds and homeward. The Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Company made arrangements whereby their vessels avoid touching at Egyptian ports, and mails, passengers via Brindisi pass through the Cana}. instead of via Alexandria, thus avoiding the detention and annoyance attendant upon quarantine.