TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 92, 16 September 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(JBer Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph Agency.) LATEST FROM EUROPE PRetjter's Special Telegrams.] Bluff, September 16, The Otago left Melbourne on the 10th, and arrived this morning at daylight. She brings 83 passengers, 340 tons of cargo, 61 horses, and 6 rams, for all ports. She sails for Dunedin at 4 p m. London, September 1. The Australian mails via Brindisi and San Francisco were delivered together yesterday. The Mikado arrived at San Francisco on the 30th of August. New York, September 1. The committee having investigated the charges preferred by Theodore Filton against the Rev Henry Ward Beecher, pastor of the Plymouth Church, acquitted Beecher. London, September 3. Mr George Berkley is appointed Governor of Western Australia, as successor to Mr Weld, appointed to Tasmania. The ship Suffolk, from London to Brisbane, is at the Mauritius refitting. Tallerman's Meat Company declared a dividend of 10 per cent. September 5. The Austrian Arctic Polar explorers have arrived in Norway, after abandoning the expedition. Admiral Tergethoff reports travelling in sledges over mountain ridges beyond the latitude of 80 deg North. The Great Eastern has completed laying the new Atlantic cable. The Marquis of Ripon has adopted Catholicism, and resigned the Grand Mastership of the Freemasons. At the wool sales 100,000 bales were so?d, principally to the Home trade. The tone of the market is now weaker. Balme and Co, wool brokers, report of the series, that there was an advance on superior scoured of three half-pence to two pence ; washed half-breds, one penny to three half-pence ; greasy halfbred, one half-penny to a penny ; greasy merino, one half-penny. Wheat is steady at a decline on former prices. Adelaide, fifty-five to fifty-eight shillings. Flour, thirty-seven shillings to forty-three shillings per 280 pounds. London, September 5. The fifth cable across the Atlantic has been successfully laid. Arrived—The Loch Maree, from Melbourne ; Hudson, Red Gauntlet, Nineveh, Robert Burns, Dilharee, Galbraitb, Dallam Tower, Abbey,

Paris, September 5. On the 4th of September a disturbance occurred in the department of the Meuse. The Gendarmerie intervened, and one rioter was killed, and nineteen wounded. There have been slight demonstrations in other places, and at Lyons several arrests have been made. Madrid, September 4. The Zabala Cabinet ha/e resigned, and a Dew Ministry has been formed, with Sagasta as Premier and Minister of the Interior ; Senur Bedaya, Minister of War. The Ministerial Offices of Finance, Colonies, and Foreign Affairs, remain unchanged. The Carlists have abandoned Pingcerda. September 5. The Carlists at Guetaria, in the North, fired upon a German gunboat, which replied by sending twenty-four shells into the town. Paris, September 8. L'Univer's newspaper is suspended for a fortnight, for publishing offensive articles against Marshal Serrano. Prussia, September 8. An extensive conflagration at Meining destroyed half the town ; 3000 persons were rendered houseless. The following English telegrams arrived too late for publication in our yesterday's issue: — ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. The Archbishop of Paris has published a pastoral offensive to Italy and Victor Emmanuel. MacMahon has made an apology to the Italian consul for its appearance. A letter from Italy states that the country, is completely bankrupt. The people are deeply attached to the King, and desire to leave the Church alone. But floods, malaria and bardits harass the Government. Three Carlist officers concerned in the execution of a German named Schmidt have been arrested in Paris. Following Bismarck's attempted assassination, the German Government has instituted more rigorous measures against the Catholics, and has seized a large number of documents. Don Carlos, interviewed by a newspaper correspondent, professed great confidence in his ultimate success, and his intention to build up Spain to her former national grandeur. The Union Bank has declared a dividend of 14 per cent, and the New Zealand Trust and Loan Company a dividend of 5s per share. A thunder storm in London flooded the streets and several persons were killed by the lightning. The Emperor of Russia has presented £IOOO for distribution among the metropolitan charities. Great distress prevails in Florence. Arrests have been made of persons connected with the bread riots. Advices indicate that the state of the Bengal famine is still very serious. It will be five months before the rice is harvested. The death rate is fearful. In some districts the suffering is distressing. The House of Lords have struck out of the Public Worship Regulation Bill the clause authorising parishioners to appeal in the event of the Archbishop refusing to suppress ritualistic practices in his diocese. After Bazaine's escape was known a rope was found from the top of a precipice to the sea stained with blood, as if from Bazaine's hands. Madame Bazaine has published a letter stating that she alone, with her cousin, planned the escape. Bazaine is in Brussels. His extradition will probably be demanded. Some assert that the rope was put over the rock with the view to mislead the authorities from the guards, through whose connivance it is believed the escape was accomplished. AMERICAN NEWS. August 17. Political riots with firearms have occurred in South Carolina, among the negro factions, struggling for the control of the State The negroes in numbers, in Mississippi, were repulsed by the white residents with several killed. Millitary assistance has been sent. Two railway accidents, with loss of life, have occurred. Extensive fires have occurred in various parts of the States. The Beecher scandal fills many columns of the papers. Mr Beecher has published a statement denying the charge of adultery With Mrs Filton. He says the accusation arose out of Mr Filton's want of success, and his unsatiable desire for notoriety. The Tribune commenting on the statement, says it shows that Mr Beecher has been the victim of a gigantic conspiracy. Some sections of the press regret the statement as unsatisfactory and others support it. By a fire on a Cincinatti steamer thirtyfive lives were lost. There is great official scandal in Montreal owing to the discovery of an exchange, by three members of the Cabinet, of a piece of Government land worth 230,000 dols for a piece of private property worth only 40,000 dols. The Cubans have attacked and destroyed the plantations and are arming the emancipated negroes. The Pacific mail steamer Guatemala has been wrecked, but no lives were lost. SHIPPING. London. Arrived—July 14th, Pleiades and Salisbury, from Canterbury ; July 19th, Soukar, from Canterbury ; July 12th, W.E. Gladstone, from Lyttelton. Sailed for Canterbury—July 18th, Duke of Edinburgh. She landed the pilot at Torbay on July 22nd ; Elizabeth Graham, on July 16th. For Nelson—the Chile, on July 22nd. She left the Downs on July 24th. For Otago. from Glasgow—July 14th, Invercaigill. She left Greenock on July 17th ; Jessie Readman, on July 25th. She left the Downs on the 27th ; Lennox Castle, on 20th July. She left the Downs on the 22nd of July. For Welliug f on—Helen Denny, at Deal on 24th July, at Plymouth on 26th July. Cleared for Napier—Bebbington, on July 25th. Loading, for Canterbury—E. P. Bouverie, Pleiades, Waitara. For Nelson— Langstone Ocean Mail, W. E. Gladstone. For Otago—Calypso, May Queen, Mataura. ForWellington—E. P. Bouverie, Hourah, Soukar, Star of India. Spoken—J. A. Thompson, American ship from Liverpool to Wellington, on June 9th, in lat 7 N, long 26 W ; Oneca, American barque from Narmo for N.Z, on June 23rd, in lat 27 N, long 38 W; Endymion, for Canterbury, on July 13th, in lat 43 N, long 10 W; Hebe, barque, from Frederickstadt for N.Z., June 7th, in lat 8 N, long 24 W ; Merope, for Canterbury, oil July sth, in lat 40 N, long 14 W.

COMMERCIAL. Wool.—With reference to the wool market Helmuth Schwartz reports a firm tone has prevailed in the markets since the close of the last sales, and a fair amount of transactions have taken p'ace. at rates, showing generally an advance of £d to Id on the June closing prices. The demand proceeds principally from the home trade, which, it will be remembered, bought comparatively sparingly at last sales, but the French buyers too have been in the market, and taken some parcels of greasy wool at full rates. An improved tone prevails in the English manufacturing districts ; under the influence of good harvest prospects, greater confidence seeming to be felt by the trade generally. The next sales, therefore, will be held under favorable circumstances, and their result, probably, will confirm the advance now paid in private transactions. Flax: Rather more business has been done in this staple, caused principally by a few colonial orders, and a willingness on the part of holders to accept current rates. The trade shows no improvement, and until Manilla evinces more life and better figures, little advance is to be expected in this fibre at present. The quotations are about as follows :—Common, £ls ; fair, £lB to £l9 ; good, £2l ; fine, £26 ; tow, £9 10s. The following are some of the marks sold :—Ex Halcione, sound, D 6, £l7 10s. Ex Himalaya, 31 bales, sound, R L, £ls 10s; tow, E, £8 10s. Ex Pleiades, tow, £lO, Ex Columbus, sound, J R, £lB 10s; R, iron hooped, £l9 15s. Hides, New Zealand, heavy, 6d. Tallow—Australian sheep, good to fine, 43s to 43s 6d ; beef, 41s 3d to 41s 6d. NIW Yokk, August 15. ■Wool—Ohio, 52Jcents to 57 cents ; combing lots, 57 cents to 60 cents. Petroleum has fallen back to the lowest point in its commercial hißtory, owing to the large production and an overstocked market. San Fbancisco. Flour, 5 dols 25 cents to 5 dols 50 cents. Wheat, 1 dol 60 cents. Oats, 1 dol 40 cents to 1 dol 60 cents per lOOlbs.