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Southland Times, Issue 4700, 31 July 1883, Page 2

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LONDON, July 29. News from tlin Cape states that Usitepu routed Oetewayo after half an hour's engagement. This disturbance implied no desire to create a difficulty with the British. Seventeen more deaths have occurred amoD^st the British troops ut Cairo from cholera. Th* Pall Mall Gazette draws attention to, and contrast?, the heavy balance of imports ov-.r exports in Queensland. The Orient steamer John JJMcr has arrived at Plymouth, with her cargo of frozen meat in excellent condition. The French at Hanoi made a sortie, capturing seven cannon. The Chinese Government has explained that tiie massing of its troops on tht frontier is for the purpose of expelling the 4.aamite rebels. A Badical deputy in the French Chamber lias accused the French railway companies of wholesale bribery of deputies, but he refused to give the na nes. The mutter created a considerable sensation. The Pope's health is improving, July 30. A man named Terry has floated from Dover to Calais on a floating tricycl<\ Fifty-one deaths have occurred among the British soldiers in Egypt from cholera. Cherif Pasha has consented to execute the British sanitary scheme, *