SECOND EDITION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VI, Issue 1098, 22 August 1885, Page 3

SECOND EDITION.

- GABLE; NEWS. By i Telegraph. — Beutee's Copyright. " ' August 20. Sir Henrj, Drummond /Wolff arrived here to : day on, a special mission to the SnlW.teßp«ctiugiEgyptiiwx < .affairß. - LONDON, Anguefc 20. The Guards, wh^ch for-some ,time past brave-B^en stationed* at' Limasol (Cyprus), have been ordered home. ' ' ' -'; f ' f CAIEQ/August 20. Thr6e re^ments.of. tlieline/now on duty in this country, Vave 1 received instructions to return t'd England. {, - Eeports are to, hand' announcing that the rebels have, occupied "ElDebba near Old Dongbla, and are now advancing upon New Dongola. : . ' . August 21. . News is to hand that the garrison of Eassalla has made terms with the besieging Arabs, and the investment of the town has been discontinued. PAEIS, August 21.

Cholera is spreading in a most alarming manner of late,' at Marseilles and the vicinity! The" daily death fate is now

very large., - • MELBOURNE, August 22. The 'Agent-General, Mr. Murray Smith, who was present at Berlin attending the Telegtaph 1 Conference, telegraphs to the Government that lie does not anticipate any difficulty in obtaining a reduction of the ordinary tariff in the cable messages between Europe and Australia, but .states that' it is doubtitd whether 'the reductions desired in the "press rates will be acceded to.