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Evening Star, Issue 4274, 7 November 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

FJPa* BtmuMsn Gain.] * TheTnrooHßerHaa^nTar. Lokdoh, October 28.—Busshvin a demoastratHv leoted by armed (ones, are watching the execution of promised reforms.'The «Tunis' advises the Porte to yield to their demtaHtoSekOpe that II * re'orm continues war may be averted. r -'A covered. The situation' ia at present very ~The meeting of Parliament ia further prorogued to December |B, .... : A . : /J'&i's*/* -■■- «- . . A. republican conspiracy *u discovered fin Spain. Toe mail;iria> Brindißi in London on OotoberS?.:■"'- «■« *:;■'" i Sy»hxt, Novembe«&--The ; at Adelaide thißmoralag, afterfmaUsig tb%*nioke«t passaffl <m record. Boeik and'WbJls are passengers fori Hew Zealand, <•''"*:' t\*\£\jT Theßev.P. H. Corntoro£ of'Ai»aSaidJias ao. oepted the pastorshipi-of the Baptdat ChttronJ .'. ■■'■•'■' ''-.root The Champion 'Pftot *t Watson* forlrWOasip^waswonel^ ••.- ,■■ . ■ - ' i' ' '"' "'/*'■■' 2'' "' ' °- JTPhs PaJßfis Aottcf;] : _ __ :.'■■■: X- ■:■ tfvjT), TCiftofcnov, November left the wharf this afternoon to Jay tiie Cook. Straifcr cable, Mr Lemon aecoinpanying' to superintend. She has board the shipZealaadia.; TtaAgnMjWm anchor Jihis evening in White's Bay, wifffwatt a ... favorable opportunity' to commence ofeerationa. ..... „ -...•; ■ ..;.' WiixnroTOW, November 6.—lfra understood ttat active" prepar >ti6hs ; are'' being' *»ade - «oXdivide counties into shires; ivith araem to the ewr election of members to the several-County Go9&oila f with a viow te their, meeting before the. end)Of the year or early4n WsixiafbToir, October o.—Tie Honorable Mr Wbitaker proceeds to Auckland to-nigm.v» East Coadt, to arrange transfer of the Prbvinoial inßtitutionfl to the General Government, and other matters-required by^the-Abolition- Aot at-Auek-land. r se'will aSfeume the office of "Attorney. General; and remain Resident Minister there. ■ Although most dt-the Ministers Juve:b&Enobliged to leave Wellington on matters oonneotedjWifch. the : new fonn of Govcrument, they .will probablyall, . with the exception of 3flS? Whitaker, return te WeiHngton at the enf of thii orthenSegiiiitohof the next month. It is feared that SirlMrt&m'liean is veryserioasly iIL He is qtifte «uable.i» attend to any business, and has been jnonth. . . . . ' .' ~"" : . ■November 6.~A large fire" oootLT»d at Winch's. cabuetmakßr,; and ' burned that and Mrg Payne a-two-storey T honse- nexV~«s>~iar aa 'Coates's downwards; Morton's OrientarHbbal,and all buiWttigs to Johnston street. ' The heat was so stron? that all goods Bared. and sut'. on thejwharf were burned, «ad-the wharf set nre'to^'The fire originated in the shop of and"lt is supposed throngh carelessness in throwing down a lighted match. .The following plapea were burned:—Mrs Collins, two-storey liouse: winch, shop; 'Morton's Oriental Sotel| - Mrs WagstafPsi Mrs Poi cell's cottage. A store occopled by .CeeUp out down.' Carte's store and Mrs Payne's'shop* were gutted. Insurances: South Victoria, L 250. . • , . f # • •:■'•.' Xmbexalemeat. ..r-OA' ArcKiAHD, November' 7.—Captain Loviaeombe. of. the his return Homerwaa aentenoed . to three-months' imprisonment'for embesdßment. : Debney, a clerk is the Lands Offloe, was ooamitted for trial on two charges of embezzlement. '? .- . Terrible IMselorares. : ~*- Bxraraxm, November 7J—At Picton a man named ' Woadgate, living at the month of Queen.Charlotte Sound, has been charged with the murder of his illegitimate children by his brother's daugnter, by dashing out their brains against stones as soon aa they were born. < He was remanded tillßaturday. . New^FresbytertaACAuxob^l Cheistohbbch, November 7.—The foundation stone of anew Presbyterian Church, to cost LB.OOO, was laid yesterday withr eonsiderable oeremony by Mr John Anderson. ' ' w ' ■ Mr John'oplnvier, Provincial Auditor, and formerly 4 prominent politician, J has been presented with portrait in oihand addresß. Mr W: Si" Moor* house, M.JBT.B. fori Christohnrch, mfcde'-t^iefresen*' tation. ..., • The City Coutoil have.accepted a tender iw the erection Of public baths. ' " ''.*,': '■'".' -^1 At an inquiry into the' cause of the fire in Tuam street the' jury 'returned a verdict that tiie iplaoe was wilfully set on flee, but the evidence did not show by whom. '.■':' r ■ M. Carme, the French billiard player, played a game of 800 up On a French table with Weston last - night, giving the latter i 00 .: Carme won easily, and dnade nuiety-three successive' cannons in one^Sreak,

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Lawbexcx,'' November 7.—Davidson and do. have almost completed the battery for tforrisbirtfalaiin at the Spar. This will make Biz machines employed on cement.* —■■- -■***■ - , The Orangemen's ball at the blue Spur larfitight was largely attended, and was a great success. THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL. Attcklabd, November 6.—TheioUowingare addi> tional items by the mail'*-- ,!/"''' A frightful accident has tafeu place at Norwien (Nord) from the explosion Of a quantity oil gunpowder Tin the -cellar of one Braiser, - who, with Mb wife and. three children, and a workman in his employ, were kflleo. A neighboring house was much shaken' toy 'the explosion, and ceiisiderably .injured; • :•>• . i •• ■.-•-■ •. -.- *i. :-?.>-;•;' ' The inauguration has just-taken place of the canal from Amsterdam to the North Sea. It is sufficiently wide *nd:deep to-admitvessels «Sf tho largest tonnage, and is one of the most gigantic works executed since the butting through-of the Isthmus of Suez. " ' The Emperor of Austria the, otherday saved the child of a poor woman from a fearful death. As he ]wes passing through th* >Bettebach Gorges, near Ibul, he saw a boy, four years old, fall oyer a°preoi« pice. -The child's clothes caught on a projecting branch, and he was thus suspended over a torrent fifty feet below.-:•' Th« Emperor," whofgs a clever athlete, jumped across the precipice, recovered the hoy, and took him back-to-his another.-.-The Loudon < Standard^' special saysstbat war between Egypt and Abyssinia is -threatened, and that troops are leading Sues tor Massaoho. ". ... An immense meeting, jras. held in London the other day to denoui os the heartless action of Eng* land j-egapiing the Eastern Queßtion.*" V-. English JJaekkts.—Lohdbn, October" 4.f-Con. sate,9sls4ft 5 '"■'•.■' : r

Amertc&n Xttlta. . r Some wx>rkmea'. TOtta_emplQyed on. Jfte'lbftrqu* Europe, at New York, ovo'hauling One of them' in the hold accidentally threw a lifted matoh on a heap of oakum, and tnis, Bet fire to. a quantity of kerosene, henaine; Sic; and the men In the hold were speedily enveloped in fire. 'When the-9amei were extinguished; it was found that five carpenters were burned to death; ' ' < The British ship- Lomon Erin, bound from Calcutta to Demarara, reported at Lloyds as missing', is believed to have foundered with all hands and 800feoolies. •"•'': . '' , , ' . A most frightful accident occurred-at Black liiok Station on the Fanhandle Baltroad. strain was running at the rate ofc forty mUes.an bpvet, when four rear'cars jumped off the track andxblled down an emtankmefit2sttol? 80ft high. 'Feur persons ms known to have been killed outright, and itig estt> .* mated that thirty or forty people were-jnor»i>r lea injured. . ' ' -'- "* > In Forest County -the mountain atceaau ut becoming greatly swollen from recent flood*. Oa the, partly settled valleys,near &nlston l ~«ixtee]i persons were drownedrand numbers of houses oou* pletely destroyed. ■:-.■'.; Moody and "Sttnkey have been 'at Chicago. Moody's discourse ,4s, .described as ,*'a.perfeot torrent of -gospel enthusiasm.? ' _" ■ .Terrible hurricanes are repotted from Bam" Juan. Portofiioo., The surrounding diatnotK as 4at» bridgWwne, doe, and' have and ara all rained tor the coming ■eropß.*. Several «oaitinr yeaseto^weia-oagt.Lahore,. aaaV a, amaTrnr otli*og lost." : - •- . - - v Yeliew fever is Tftging«t Savannah. Seveatea* persons-died in one day, Every plaoeothnsmesstp « closed, and the streets are, deserted. ? There is hot a houseld the city that has not been fcfWWa with the plague. ft. :- Ai despatch. fuoa; Savanftahr report* 3QO <ssbs « yellow fever in one day. The daily expenses are * l,200dols ; and the Chamber of„Commeroft, At a special meeting, appointed a«omMttee4»xafce the necessary steps to raise funds for the differing

taMealoe with hit mistress after embezzling 8.50 dollars eoUeeted for Wa employer a day or tw< MTqbTtifatmati, Bating a*ift«■»?&«* V **T' men and seven ox teams were attacked by a Dana o twenty or thirty Indians. The fight continued to nearly four hours. The number of redskins kfllec is unknown. The Indians showedgreat eowagfi and were strongly armed with Winchester an< army rifles. Charles Wheatleigh, aotor, has been engaged b; M'Donald, of New York, as stage manager in Sai Francisco for the production of " Ahmed. The Leeds was capsised in a squall on entering tJmqua Bay, and sunk in deep water with all bands Not a vestige of the wreok was pioked up. Julius Bloce, a blind man and a professor 01 music, while insane shot his wife in the head, in fliotinr a mortal wound. He then shot his child aged three years and a half, in the side of the! head causing death in a few minutes. He then placed 1 pistol to his right temple and sent a bullet throng] his brain, killing himself instanter. .