TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
[from our own correspondent.] ♦ : DUNEDIN, Tuesday, 9 a.m. The Nebraska arrived at Auckland yesteray morning with the San Francisco mails, lie following is a summary of the most infesting news to hand : GENERAL SUMMARY. The Queen prorogued Parliament on 10th lugust. The House of Commons, by a majority of W) an( T after an exciting debate, sustained >8 action of the Government in the matter f Judge Keogh’s proceedings on the Galway lection petition.
At the sitting of the British Association, hj Stanley gave an account of Dr Livinglone’s discoveries for the past six years. Colonel James Grant, who explored the Wees of the Nile with Speke from 1863 to ™6, called in question the correctness of hingstone’s observations, and was loudly bred. Sir Henry Rawlinson, who folcordially acknowledged Mr Stanley’s srvices.
Serious riots occurred at Belfast on August i* a td 19, between Protestants and Roman 'itholics. Four persons were killed, and "®y bounded. Geneva Arbitratox-s were sitting on LU gust 19. Cosuscomxbdjourk, a village on the Asiatic the Bosphorus, inhabited by poor Wnd Greeks, has been destroyed by fire, pwards of a thousand families were renhomeless and destitute. COMMERCIAL. Jhe cable telegrams of July 31 report as °irs.—The wool sales closed with strong and full prices. Sxxperior Aus,lan re; dised Is sd, the average price obH being Is 3.1 d,
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Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 149, 17 September 1872, Page 5
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