LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 546, 4 October 1872, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Wellington, Sept. 3, 4 p.m. Mr. Vogel has given notice that he will bring forward a motion of want of confidence in the Stafford Ministry. It wall probably be carried by a majority of five. The majority will include all the Members who voted with the late Ministry. Not one has “ ratted,” an unprecedented occurrence. The greater portion of the Estimates have been pass»d without amendment, -Mr. Vogel asked a question regarding the reduction ia the price of Press t legrams, and likewise suggested that newspapers be permitted to receive telegrams after the usual office hours at reduced prices. Dunedin, Oot. 1. This morning a fire broke out at the granary of Mr. Duncan’s Flour Mill, at the Water of Leith. The origin of the fire is unknown. Tho granary, and Wilson and Maddox.s brewery are destroyed. The Melbourne steamer has arrived with the Suez Mails, the dates being from Loudon to August 1 ; Gaile, Sept. 1, besides telegrams from London to August 29. The wool sales concluded ou Jidy 30, at a considerable advance upon opening rates. LATEST TELEGRAMS. The Geneva arbitration award decides that England must pay between three and four milions. Tranquility has besen restored at Drogheda, but it is rumored that a massacre of Protestants, at Belfast, on the anniversary of St. Bartholomew's Day, is intended Extraordinary precaution is being taken. Professor Anderson has recognised the Tiohborne claimant as De Castro. Gladstone and Co., London, have failed for a million and a half. Martial law has been proclaimed in Belfast. There has been much bloodshed. A National Bank of New Zealand, with a capital of two millions, has been announced. It will absorb the Bank of Otago.