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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 79, 20 April 1877, Page 2

CABLE TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Agency.) LATEST EUROPEAN. London, April 15. ENGLAND'S ULTIMATUM. Lord Derby has informed Turkey that he fails to see what further steps England can take to avert war. Abdul Raham Pasha has started for Stamboul, as Persia claims Bagdad.

AUSTRALIA,

Melbourne, April 17. The Corporation has rrceived applications from a number of unemployed citizens in Richmond, Virginia, for assistance to reach Victoria.

(Per s.s. Easby, via Wellington.) Melbourne, April 10. A new automatic buoy, of American invention, for the prevention of shipwreck, was fixed in the South Channel on Saturday. The Supreme Court has granted a rule nisi for leave to appeal to the Privy Council in the case Langton v. Syme. Liddy, the publisher of the theatrical bill, the Coquette, has been fined £5, and £2 2s costs for having an unregistered press and types in his possession. Adelaide, April 10. The combination between the Banks has been broken through, and the Union Bank intends to reduce its rates for deposits. Next Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday are the days fixed for the All-England cricket match. The rainfall to the end of March was over seven inches, being the heaviest fall ever known. [Per s.s. Hero, via Auckland]. Newcastle, April 11. The Maitland, a steamer, ran into the lighter Champion, cutting her in two, and a man named Campbell was drowned. Brisbane, April 11. The Health Officer boarded the steamer Kate, on which Governor Kennedy has been quarantined. The ladies objected to examination, and the Governor supported their objection. A Medical Board was appointed, and resolved to release the vessel. The Governor then landed. The Mayor presented an address, and a large procession was formed of the Ministry, Mayor and Aldermen, societies, ' 400 volunteers, citizens, and several bands

of music. Large crowds of spectators lined the thoroughfares. It was the grandest reception ever known in Queensland. The Governor was sworn at 4 o'clock. Parliament will probably meet on May 8. Melbourne, April 11. The general discipline of the troops at Sunbury is considered excellent. A general order congratulates them. A new patent earth has been tried with satisfactory results. News has been received of the loss of the Bessie in Beagle Bay, West Australia. Six lives were lost, including the master and his wife. Sir C. Gavan Duffy denounces stonewalling tactics. At Richmond the body of Henry Pyle, aged fifteen, who died of typhoid fever, remained for four days unburied, the mother being poverty-stricken. The Mayor of Richmond ordered the Government undertaker to bury the body. A man named James Ellis was killed on the Deniliquin Railway. April 18. Of the six men injured by the accident at Echuca Bridge, two died, and the others are in a critical condition. Fears are expressed for the safety of the Anne Bow, which left Newcastle for Timaru on March 1.