BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 2989, 17 September 1872, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(FROM OREVILLE’S TELEGRAM COMPANY.)

Auckland, Sept. IG, Latest unpublished (August 20). Beports of the Cel-mans fortifying Belfort in violation of their treaty obligations are declared to be unfounded. ' They will only complete the works commenced by the French Commandant during the siege, and which were left unfinished. The Third National Bank of Baltimore was robbed of 100,000 dollars on the night of the 19th August, and an unknown amount belonging to private parties. The riots at Belfast are not yet suppressed. Four men were killed on the 18th August In the hospitals there are many victims of the riots, and a large number bear bullet ■wounds and sword cuts. The latest telegram says the city is about to be placed under martial law.

Livingstone’s IcttcrfromUjiji to his brother says—had be left at the end of two years, for which his expenses were paid, he w r ould have thrown very little light on the country than the Portuguese dil bcfo>e. He had traced the rivers and lakes at great difficulty, and was robbed bynatives, lie gives afull and thrilling account of the horrors of the slave trade of Central Africa, The letter tallies with Stanley’s own description of the meeting. Smm no, Loading ; Berkeley Castle, for Dunedin. Peter Denny sailed from Glasgow July 9 for Otago. Tho Dacotah is to leave for Sau Francisco at the end of August, and is to bo followed by the Santiago de Cuba. The Nebraska sails South to-morrow.

It is rather remarkable the great depth at which mining is in some cases pursued in Victoria in quartz mines. The New North Chines has a shaft down 1024 feet, and is about to drive to test the reef at that depth. The Magdala Company isdownOoU feet, and it is believed that the reef will bo struck some distance lower. This shaft will soon have cost the Company L 20,000 without a speck of gold having been seen. There a a statement that the first company that obtains gold at or below 1000 feet will receive a Government bonus of LIOOO. Wellington, Sept. 17. It is expected that Mr Vogel will announce the formation of a constitutional Opposition to-day. Mr Thomson, M.H.R., delivered an interesting lecture last night on “Hugh Miller’s Life and Works,” which was well received. The Wellington Trust and Loan Investment Company (Limited) is being formed, with a capital of LIOO,OOO, in LlO shares. It will take up business as the No, 1 Series Mutual Investment Company, A man named Robert Shaw, charged with committing a rape on Elizabeth Gregory, at Waipawa, in August, was apprehended at llaugitikei to-day.

Napier, Sept. 17. The Hawke’s Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society’s show is fixed for October 17.