TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 75, 27 August 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(J ?er Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph Agency.) LATEST FROM EUROPE SUMMARY. Adelaide. The Nubia has arrived at Glenelg, making the run from King George’s Sound in ninety hours. London. Australian wines attract much attention. Numerous purchases have been made. Victoria shows 24 and South Australia 77 samples. The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh are staying with the Russian Imperial family at Jugenticum. Before leaving England the Duke opened an infant nursery and mission in the Bast of London. Congratulatory telegrams were exchanged between the Queen and the Emperor of Brazil on the completion of telegraphic connection between Europe and Brazil. Silver medals have been awarded to Dr Livingstone’s faithful followers. The Government pays £IOOO for arrears of wages. The four escaped Communists are at present in London. On landing at Queenstown M. Rochfort was mobbed and hooted, and prudently affects seclusion and refuses to lecture or attend a public demonstration. There has been a march of agricultural laborers through the Eastern and Midland counties, beginning at Cambridge. The men wore blue ribbons, and some carried flags. There were forty bands of music. Altogether 50,000 were present, Mr Arch was the principal spokesman. Seven thousand miners of South Staffordshire have accepted the terras arranged between the delegates and the masters. Mrs Richards, the champion walker, has walked 1000 miles in a 1000 consecutive hours. When finished she was quite fresh. She undertook the task in order that her father might vvin a £SO wager. The Duke of Hamilton, on retiring from the turf, sold a portion of his stud at Paris for £6516. The steamer Tcnasscri, homeward bound, from Rangoon, and the ship Royal Family, have both been wrecked at Cape Guardagui, LATE SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. London, July 11, In the House of Commons, last night, Mr Childers called attention to the apparent declining condition of the revenue. Sir Stafford Northcote replied that he saw no reason to modify his estimate. The strikes in Scotland and South Staffordshire have ended, July 16 to July 23, The atrocities by the Carlists are exciting profound indignation. July 24. General Garibaldi has recovered from his late illness. Obituary.—Sir Charles Jackson, Miss Agnes Strickland, Monsigneur Merode.

INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, Aug 26. The presentation of a valuable locket and necklace was made to Miss Alice May, at the concert last night. The company proceeded to Napier to-day. The agent of the A.S.N. Company has received a telegram from Sydney, that the City of Melbourne which leaves there for San Francisco on the 29th, will probably call at Auckland, leaving here on the 4th Sept. Sailed—Luna, for Wellington. Wellington, August 26. Mr Richardson stated, on the House meeting,that the Tararua would be detained till Saturday to enable members to go South. The Luna and Taranaki go North also on Saturday. Dunedin, August 26. At the inquest on the great fire at Messrs Larnach’s, an open verdict was returned, with a rider that greater precaution should be used where engines are used near inflammable material, and that an additional watchman should he appointed at the lookout tower. Nothing suspicious was elicited. THIS HA TS TELEGRAMS. Wellington, August 27. The Railways Bill was thrown out last night in the Legislative Council by a majority of three. The San Francisco mail will arrive here this evening, and be sent South by the Phoebe to-morrow at 1 p.ra. The Scandinavians per Rechstag are all engaged, Greytown, August 27. The Wharekaka Hotel, kept by Mr Giles, and owned by Mr Haggerty, was burned down at three o’clock this morning. The origin of the fire is unknown. This is the third hotel destroyed by fire at Wharekaka this year.