CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 206, 6 August 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

AFFAIRS IM EGYPT.

THE PLAGUE EPIDEMIC.

THE CHOLEUA IN EGYPT.

GENERAL NEwS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.- COPYRIGHT.) (SPECIAL TO UNITED PRKSS ASSOCIATION) London, Aagust 3. The mails due on August 13th will proceed via Alexandria and Venice, The appeal made by the Marquis de Rays, who w*s arrested m Paris on a charge cf fraud and deception m connection with New Ireland, has been rejected by the French Courts, and the trial wiil proceed m due course. The French Senate have passed the Transportation to P&cifis Bill m a someI what modified form, and the Chambers fcavo no^r prorogued. O'Dounetl, it is s*id, is an American citizen. '1 he Count de Chambord is recovering m health. (by electric telegraph.— copyright.) Creuter's telegrams.) In the House of Commons last night Vlr Gladstone was questioned regarding the* coarse which the Government pro' posed to adopt with respect to the withd a^»l of the British troops from Ejyjpt, and the probable duration of the occupation of that coun ry by a Biitish force, [n his reply, the Premier declined to undertake to consult Parliament betore withdrawing the regiments still m Egypt, or to fix a date for the termination of the British occupation. The Standard states that De Lesseps is willing to offer better terms for the construction of the second canal. The English Parliament has been prorogued until August 25. Cairo, August 2. Thirteen more deaths have occurred from cholera among the J British troops stationed m this country, notwithstanding the stringent measures which have b ea adopted to preserve the health of the men.