TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 40, 25 August 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

CABLE NEWS. (OWN CORRESPONDENT.) London, August 20. Reports from the South of Europe show that the cholera epidemic is subsiding in a degree, the number of deaths being on the decrease. The Guards, which for some time past has been stationed at Limasol (Cyprus), have been ordered home. August 21. Recent unfavorable accounts of the English hop crop are borne out by later advices, and the forthcoming yield is expected to be short in quantity, and extremely inferior in quality. August 22. The steamship John Elder, en route for Australia, has been detained at Port Said, owing to a slight accident to her -machinery. She is expected to resume her voyage in about five days. The bulk cf frozen meat, ex ship Mataura from Napier, has been examined and found in good condition. The frozen mutton, ex lonic and Aorangi, is selling at 4-J per lb. The Liberal and Tory press ‘commenting on the receut modifications by Russia of her proposal regarding the occupation of Zulfikar pass, generally express the distrust of them. The German Government is protesting against Spain sending a Man-’o-war to occupy one of the Caroline Islands. Constantinople, August 20. Sir Hy. Drummond Woolfe arrived here to-day on a special mission to the Sultan respecting Egyptian affairs. Cairo, August 20. Three regiments, now on duty in this country, have received instructions to return to England. Reports are to hand announcing that the rebels occupied El Debbeb, near old Dongola, and are now advancing upon New Dongola. August 21. News is to hand that the Garrison at Kansala have made terms with lhe besieging Arabs, and the investment of the town has been discontinued. Bombay, August 20. The soidissant Priest, Father Kanovich, recently arrested as a Russian spy, has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. The authorities have not succeeded in establishing his identity with the Communist Oliver Pain. Paris. August 21. The cholera is spreading at an alarming rate at Marsailles and its vicinity, and the daily death rate is now very large. Madrid, August 22. The action of Germany in regard to the Caroline Islands has caused great excitement in this city, and an antiGerman feeling is rapidly growing into existence. The diplomatic tension between the two countries is so great at present, that an open rupture is menaced. New York, August 22. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the New York Herald confirms the statement that Russia has waived her claims to the Zulfikar Pass.