TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1129, 2 August 1883, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, July 30. Arrived, at Plymouth—The Orient steamship John Elder from Melbourne (left'June 13th), with a cargo of 2000 carcases of mutton, shipped at Sydney ; and the P. and 0, steamship Ballarat, from Melbourne (left June sth).

The Merchant Shipping and Underwriters’ Association report the arrival of the ship Oamaru fronaPort Chalmers (left May sth), London 31. fn the House o.f Commons last night, Stafford Northcote’a motion urging that the claims of Count de Lesseps to a monopoly for the construction of canals in Egypt should be repu Hated in any future parleying with the Canal Company, came up for debate. As an amendment, Mr Norwood, M.P. for Hull, moved that the House should maintain freedom of judgment in the construction of a canal between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. After discussion, the amendment was adopted by r » majority of 5 voles. Later. James Carey, the informer of the Phoenix Park murders, was travelling under the assumed name of Power, and was shot as the steamer Melrose was nearing Port Elizabeth, and expired shortly after receiving the wound,, O’Donnell, the murderer, was delivered over to the Natal police. Gn the news of Carey’s death reaching Ireland, there was the wildest excitement at Cork and Dublin.

Sir Julius Vogel has secured the right to lay cables between Western Australia, Ceylon, and Singapore, and intends to reduce the charges for the transmission of messages.

In the House of Commons, on Mr Norwood’s amendment that the House retains its freedom of judgment regarding the canals, Sir Stafford Northcote deprecated the question being made a party cue by Mr Gladstone, The Parnellites abstained from voting,

At a meeting of the shareholders of the Union Bank, the Chairman expressed a fear that the Banks in the colony would scarcely escape losses during the current year. Eleven hundred pounds have been subscribed towards the Colonial Institute.

Naples, July 29.

A most disastrous earthquake has been experienced on the Island of

Ischia, situated opposite the Bay of Naples, The town of Cassanuciola has almost totally destroyed, and it is estimated that fully one thousand persons have been killed, besides a hundred more or less seriously injured. Boat-loads of killed and wounded are arriving here hourly from the Island, and much anxiety and excitement prevails.

July 30

The latest accounts to hand from Cassanuciola show conclusively that nearly four thousand persons were killed by the recent earthquake, and that fully a thousand more have received injuries of a more or less serious nature. Later. Among the sufferers by the recent earthquake at Ischia are some persons of English nationality, They are, however, few in number. Cairo, July 30. A considerable decrease is now ap-

parent in the daily numbers of those from cholera, both in this city and in Alexandria. The English troops, however, suffered severely of late, twenty-two deaths having occurred in various regiments since Friday last. Capetown, July 30. g Intelligence has be n n received here from Port Elizabeth that the Phcenix Park informer, James Carey, was shot dead yesterday, cn board the steamer Melrose, by a man named O’Donnoll, who had been a fellow passenger with him from London. The attack was a very sodden one, and Carey died instantly of the wound received.

Later.

O’Donnell, who shot James Carey on beard the Melrose at Port Elizabeth, * has been arrested by the police. New York, July 29. The body of Captain Webb has been recovered in Niagara river, near Lewiston. It is most terribly battered by its passage down the stream.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Perth (W.A.), July Zl.

The steamer Path an has arrived here from England, and it is stated that among her passengers are the Phoenix Park informers, Cavanagh, Smith, Murphy and Kelly, travelling under assumed names. The news, however, has not yet been confirmed.

Later, It has been ascertained that the report that four Phoenix Park informers arrived here under assumed names by the s.s. Pathan, was without foundation.