NEWS BY CABLE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 6695, 2 October 1882, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

BT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT. FURTHER DETAILS OP THE CAIRO EXPLOSION. eeoter’s telegrams. (Received September 30,1.30 p.m.) Adelaide, September 30. Wheat is quieter at 6s 6d. Town flour, £l4 10s ; country brands, £l3 ss, Freights, nothing doing. Melbourne, September 30. Arrived, last evening Manapouri, from the Bluff. London, September 29. A further quantity of the Mataura’s mutton was sold to-day at an average of 5d per pound. The Mataura’s sheep are pronounced by competent judges to be over-fat. A portion of the cargo of mutton, ex steamship Garonne, from Melbourne, sold to-day at an average of s§d. (Received September 30, 2.45 p.m.) Alexandria, September 29, evening. Further particulars which are to hand regarding the explosion at Cairo show that ten days’ rations and one hundred trucks of war munitions have been destroyed by fire. The loss of life was not so great as at first stated. Five persons only were killed; but twenty suffered severe injury. The official account attributes the explosion to the accidental bursting of a shell. THE PORTE AND ENGLAND. AGE SPECIAL PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION, (Received September 30, 11.25 a.m.) London, September 29, 6.15 p.m. The ordnance and hospital establishments at Cairo were totally destroyed by the explosion, which was caused by sparks from a locomotive falling on the ammunition. The explosion was terrific, and caused the greatest alarm in the city, the inhabitants imagining that they were being attacked by some new enemy. The Porte has abandoned its note asking for the withdrawal of the British troops from Egypt, and appears now willing to wait the course of events. The Turkish troops are now being withdrawn from the disputed frontier, as the Turcc-Greek difficulty is at end. At the banquet to the Australian cricketers, Murdoch made an excellent speech in responding to the toast of the evening. (Received September 30, 5.10 p.m.) London, September 29, 3.50 p.m. The extent of loss and damage wrought by the spoliation of Alexandria is found, on investigation, to have been considerably underrated in the original estimates. The Natives around Alexandria are hostile and menacing. Seventeen persons were killed by the Cairo explosion. The whole of the 00th Regiment were in the immediate neighborhood and had a very narrow escape. Notwithstanding the explosion, traffic is still maintained on the railway. DISCOVERY OF A COMET. REVOLT IN THE TRANSVAAL. SEIZURE OF D4.NUBIAN TERRITORY BY RUSSIA. THE GARRISON OF EGYPT. ARGUS SPECIAL PEE UNITED P3E33 ASSOCIATION (Received September 30, 10.30 a.m.) London, September 28, 11 p.m. The reported secret coronation of the Czar requires confirmation. (Received September 30,11.20 a.m.) London, September 29, 5.5 a.m. Sir Garnet Wolseley and Sir Evelyn Wood are reported to be better. “ Fraser’s Magazine ” has discontinued publication. A superb comet has been seen at the Paris Observatory. The “ Daily News” says that the Australian cricketers have taught their Homo brethren a useful lesson, and have completely humbled them. News from the Cape states that the Native chiefs of the Transvaal have refused to submit to the taxation imposed by the Boers, and have ordered the collectors to withdraw from their territory. Russia has seized the control of the Kilia, one of the branch mouths of the Danube, and has occupied the town, which is fortified, situated on the left bank of the river in Bessarabia, about twenty-five miles N.E. of Ismail.

The land agitation, in the Isle of Skey is assuming a serious aspect, and a military force is now being used to enforce the interdicts.

It has been decided to leave 12,000 troops in Egypt, and a portion of this force will consist of Mahomedan Indian troops.

THE LORD MAYOR ELECT. SMALLPOX ABOARD THE POTOSL ARGUS SPECIAL PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. (Received September 30, 5.7 p.m.) London, September 29. A young man named Beehag, the son of a Sydney medical man, was one of the passengers by the Potosi, but on arriving at Plymouth he was found to have been attacked by smallpox,' and was accordingly taken ashore to the hospital there. The steamer was then admitted to pratique. Several Arabs have been arrested for firing on Turks. The 60th Rifles narrowly escaped annihilation by the explosion at Cairo. Henry Edmund Knight, Alderman for Cripplegate Ward, is the Lord _ Mayor elect of London. He was Sheriff in 187#.