CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5111, 4 June 1885, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

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London, June 2,

The homeward Australian mails dated Melbourne, April 21st, per Peninsular and Oriental Co.'s Khedive were delivered here to, day, via Brindisi. The mails per Messageries Mandates s.s. Sydney, dated Melbourne, April 25th, were also delivered to day. June 3. The various despatches which have passed between the New Zealand and Home Governments on the subjects of the recent Maori embassy have been published. Among them is a memorandum from the New Zealand Ministry, dated March 28th, which declares that there is nothing in the memorial presented by the embassy, which had not been previously satisfactorily answered by the colonial Government. Bombay, June 2. Telegrams announce that a severe earthquake has visited the district of Cashmere, causing heavy loss of life. CUibo, Jnne 2. The second battalion of the East Surrey Regiment, en route to England from the Sondan. have been disembarked at Alexandria.

[Specials to the Press Association.] London, Jnne 2. Lady Hughes, wife of Sir Walter Watson, a discoverer of the Wallaroo and other copper mines in Australia, is dead. The grapes per steamers Orient and Pekin have averaged 7s Qd per case, It is expected that the Adelaide loan will be above par. Fifteen tenders have been received for the construction of a new bridge over the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales. The lenders have been referred to a committee of engineers for consideration. One hundred thousand ironworkers are out on strike in the United States. A second BJue B,ook on the Afghan question has been issued, the tenor of which displays the unyielding attitude of .Russia, and the feebleness shown by Lord Granville in the parleying on that difficulty. •