TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 91, 15 September 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(JBer Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph Agency.') LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AMEEICA. * ARRIVAL OP THE MACGREGOE AT AUCKLAND, WITH THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL. DETENTION OP THE LETTERS AND NEWSPAPERS. SERIOUS DISTURBANCES IN IRELAND. REPUBLICAN SUCCESSES IN SPAIN. FEARFUL FAMINE IN ASIA MINOR. EXPECTED WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND CHINA. Auckland, September 15. The MacsreKor left San Francisco on the 18t,h August, the detention being caused by striding the mails via Boston, instead of New York. She left Honolulu on the 28th August, and anchored at Kan da van on the 10th September, leaving again the same day. Mr R. B. Pringle is the purser, and Mr Matthews the mail agrent. The mail contains 25 000 letters and 80,000 pnpers for New Zealand, and 132 bags for Australia Passengers—For Auckland : Dr and Mrs Buller," Miss Kerns. For Lyttelton : C. A. Post. ITor Port Chalmers; Mr and Mrs Hennan and family, Lieut Bass, Mrs Becker, Mr and Mrs Shera. The mails are not r yct landed, the captain refusing to give them up until the subsidy is paid. ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. The Duke de Caze. French Minister of Foreign Affairs, complained to the Rritish Government that Germany was seeking a quarrel with France in re the Carlists. He denies conniving with the Carlists. An inquiry into the assassination of Marshall Prim resulted in the indictment of fifty more persons. Advices from Ireland state that the reception of John Mitchell, the Fenian exile, on his return to Cork, was most enthusiastic. The streets were alive with men, and bands of music, bonfires, and torch light processions, in which 500 persons participated. A riot occurred in Armagh during the parade cf the Orangemen. The military cleared the streets at the point of the bayonet; many people were wounded. An immense Home Rule demonstration was held in Glasgow. This was a procession of a mile long, comprising 20,000 persons, to attend mass. There was a meeting with similar demonstrations at Duncannon. A Republican general has captured Vittoria. Tie Carlists have suffered several reverses. The President of Spain thanked Germany for first recognising the Government. Accounts of the famine in Asia Minor are of a very thrilling character. In one district 5000 perished. Numbers subsisted on gras 3 for many weeks. Bodies lay unburied for many days. Many villages were deserted. Fifty thousand miners were addressed by Bradlaugh and others. Eight hundred and six persons formerly connected with the Commune have been arreated at Marseilles. European reports are satisfactory. Respecting the chance of war between China and Russia, advices state that China has pushed forward 1 !)0.000 picked troops to the Kashgar frontier ; has also garrisoned the frontier towns, and intends attacking Kashgar, in which event Russia will assist that country. INTEE-PROVINCJAL-. Auckland. September 1-1. Sales—Beach. 10s ; Tokatea, 9s 6d. Buyers—l'.ai k of New Zealand, £l7 12s 6d; National Bank, <!Bs ; Caledonian, £8 15s ; • Hty of Lj; don, 21s. Sellers —South British, 535. The official scrutiny of the Wailemata election has resulted in staking off eighteen

double votes from Mr Von der Heyde and twenty from Mr MacFarlane, leaving a majority for Mr Von der Heyde of sixty-two. Napier, September 14. The whole of the trout ova and young fish at Hastings are dead. They are supposed to have been maliciously destroyed. There is strong suspicion, but no proof. [from a correspondent.] Dunedin, September 18. A special Queenstown telegram says : Splendid specimens of gold-bearing quartz have been brought into Arrowtown from Bush Creek and Macetown. The specimens are apparently as rich as the Cromwell company's stone, Bendigo. The Harbor Board appoints a secretary today. The choice lies between Messrs T. L. Gillies and Jago. The Star's telegram gives the following account of an attempted suicide : —Mr Rallinshaw, Messrs Sargood's traveller, left Dunedin on Tuesday last, and arrived at Nascby on Saturday. He was delayed on his journey by having a bad horse, He made a determined attempt to commit suicide yesterday morning, at 8 a m., in the Victoria hotel stables A boy in the adjoining stables hearing a noise, went in and took his knife from him while he lay on the ground bleeding. A doctor immediately attended and sewed up the wounds. Both of the cuts incline upwards, shaving each side of the carocid artery. His situation is critical.