Cablegrams.

Western Star, Issue 979, 5 September 1885, Page 3

Cablegrams.

(RKITTBB'S SPEOIAIr.) HOME AND FOREIGN. London, Sept. 1.

It is announced that M. De Freycinet has requested the British Government to make full inquiry into the circumstances attending the reported death of Alivier Paine. Statistics up to the present time give the mortality in Spain from cholera as 83,000. Sept. 2.

Mr Parnell, addressing public meetings in Dublin yesterday, deprecated the outrages whioh have recently taken place as damaging to the Irish cause.

Mr Gladstone returned to town to-day from his voyage to Norway. His health seems to be re-established and he is quite robust. It is announced that it is the intention of the Treasury Jto institute a prosecution Hgainit Mr Stead (of the Pall Mall Gazette), Mr Br&mwell Boot'), and other persons for '.he abduction of a girl named Lily Armstrong, in connection with the recent Jeffries scandal. Behlin, Sept. 2.

The International Telegraph Conference has virtually decided to reduce the press rate for telegrams between Europe and Australia. Bome, Sept. 3. Cholera is reported to have broken out at Paimar, and the disease is also stated to have made its appearance in other parts of Italy. Hong Kong, Aug. 31. Intelligence from Japan states that cholera has mado its appearance at Nagasaki.

(Special to Melbourne Papers.)

London, Aug. 23.

The Telegraph Companies interested are hesitating about agreeing to the proposed reductions if the German seheme of charges now before tho Conference should be finally approved of. a Sept. 1. The steamer Port Darwin sails on the 15th inst. for Sydney, taking 300 men as reliefs for the vessels belonging to the Australian squadron. The wool sales opened to-day. Messrs Balme and Sons and Jacomb and Co.'s joint catalogue comprised 12,000 bales, upwards of half of which were from New Zealand and the Cape. The attendance of home buyers was good, but that of foreign rather thin, and bidding was reserved. Merino was to Id below last closing rates. Crossbreds were weak. The total New Zealand bale 3 available is 240,000. Sept. 3. The P and O. Company have received the usual notice of the termination of their mail contract with the Government. A flying squadror. is at present beinz formed, and H.M.B. Emerald, Volage, and Active . have already been selected. Cholera has made it nppearance at Gibraltar. The Governor of Herat has been absolved from the charge brought against, him by Colonel Eidgesvay of tampering with letters, &c, adlr»ssed to members of the Afghan Houndary Commission.

INTERCOLONIAL. Sydney, Sept. 1. The trial of two men arrested for the murder of Constable Herd was concluded to-day, when both prisoners were convicted of manslaughter. Melbourne, Sept. 1. Mr George Augustus Sala will leave Sydney on 3rd September for Auckland, at which place he will first lecture in New Zealand. Sept. 3. The Government have received a telegram from the Agent-General, Mr Murray Smith, stating that the whole question of reduction of telegraphic charges is unsettled pending the result of the proposals made by the German delegates. Mr Servioe, in his reply, urged Mr Smith to use every effort to obtain the desired modification of the tariff. The man Robinson, charged with robbery from the Hotham branch of the Federal Bank, has been committed for trial, bail being accepted. Hobakt. Sept. 1.

The Iriil of the two men, Reefe and Rice, for complicity in the Beaconsfield bank robbery list year, was concluded yesterday, when both prisoners were acquitted.