EUROPEAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 207, 7 August 1883, Page 2

EUROPEAN NEWS.

..o ■ .<■ I I AGS SpEttMXS.J i (Per fl.s. Marwpcmri at the Bluff.) London, July 24. Cholera is spreading amongst the British troops who withdrew from Cairo into the desert. Another soldier belonging to the Black Watch regiment has suconmbed. A portion of tbe shipment of Victorian, Tasmanian, and New Zealand Ihops, forwarded some time ago to the London market,- have been sold at prices ranging from £12 to £14. The reports that Asiatic cholera had broken out m London and Llsnftylin, lin Wales, has proved to be without foundation. The latest reports from South Italy are that the "bodies of hundreds of persons are entombed m the ruins caused by the earthquake which occurred on Saturday night. Two thousand soldiers and labourers are now engaged removing the debris of the towns of Casamicciolo, Fario, and Laoco, A subscription'on behalf oi the families who have been rendered homeless by the catastrophe has been opened at several Italian towns, and the Pope has subscribed 20,000 francs' to the^-und. I r Carey -lingered m- great '"agony for some time before dying. a-^ltf- ia~ reported" that" a feeling has been created among the English and French troops m Egypt, m consequence of 'ttie jreoent|aotion of the LFrench A Admiral- m This feeling • reached a, climax at Port Said yesterday, when a serious scrimmage . tpok place between the English and French marines, .several men beinjg 1 fatally injured.' ,M. I)e ; Lessepi, President of the *agz Canal 0 unpanv, lias announced his intention of issuing debentures for the construction of the "'• proposed l dupli*. cate canal, this course beinsf' considered 'expedient m view of ; the. withdrawal: of .the "British G > vernment from the agreem»nt. M. De LessepS stated that he .will act m the matter quite independently of England,' and that ne requires no concession from th* 1 country.. „ In reply. tO/a-queHtiori m the" House . %i Loir 5a last ; night, Lord Urauyille, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated that the Govftrnment had under coh- - .sideration the propose I rai way along : ithe valiey . of the Euphrates, 1 -** a sub* stitudo for a second can.l. It.is probable that Sir >taff)rn h NbrtiicVte will withdraw the motion which he recently <aye -notice of repudiating iVt. De Les- . seps' claim to a monopoly .m. constructing a second canal across the Isthmus of Suez. ■".' ' : ",.-:■;"'' t '."■-■..■--•- The' French, authorities have raised the seige of Tamatave and- have terminated the blockade. The English m^n-of-war Dryad and Dragon have left their station to visit that port. " q - . - July 29. The recent action of the French m A nam has not, it is stated, affected the relations, betwwn "France ~ and -China, which* remain on a friendly footing* Albany, August 1; The P. and 0. Co.'c s.s. Australia left London on the 29th . Jane, and arrived here yesterday: night, with the | : outward mails. . .!•-.. Intelligence has been received that an epidemic has broken out at Damietta, i\which is variously described as enteric Jever and cholera. Subsequent accounts * provjaftlibf^aladj'-oh^derai The daily '1 death-rateV whibh 6n Sunday last was I ,B'xj reached 1 ; 13 the following Wednes, day, the 27 th instant Jhere, were, 107 : more* and ujrto the : ne_;t Friday seyeral i cases occurred at Tan tah^ Mansuraii, and Port Said. Ships passing through < the Canal were, forbidden to communicate with stations, or. with one another, i A general exodus of Europeans from ! %/ P* Jias'. seti m, and business is para--1 lysed. Severe quarantine is established [. .at ; Turkifch, Italian; Aus trian, '* and 'French por tis.' .A sanitary cordon is , created to; ispia^e;the .infected- places i from the'rest of Egypt, „: - i :, - \ '„, y^a ■