TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 664, 5 August 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Agency,') LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AT rSTRALIA. + [Bv Submarine Cable.] Adelaide, August 4. The Lyeemoon returned to Port Darwin yesterday. The following are the principal cable telegrams by her : London, July 3. Montenegro has declared war against Turkey. The alleged reasons are that the Porte has blockaded the frontier, and provided reforms impossible to carry out. July 4. The Servian troops have crossed the frontier and had an engagement with the Turks. The latter report that the Servians were repulsed, with the loss of 2000 men. This is denied, and the Servians declare that they succeeded in one action on the Eastern frontier of Bosnia. A subsequent action took place, in which the victory was claimed by both sides, July 9. The interview between the Czar of Russia and the Emperor of Austria was of a cordial character. Counts Gortschakoff and Andrassy were present. They agreed to a Note resolving not to interfere, but reserving the right to mediate between the belligerent Power’s until some decisive result is arrived at. The Great Powers guarantee the neutrality of the Danube. July 15. Replying to a deputation, urging the neutrality of England in the case of a general war, Lord Derby concurred in their object. He said that the Government refused to accept the Berlin memorandum because the compromise was unfeasible, and was unacceptable to the Porte and the insurgents. The fleet in Bcsica Bay would not take the initiative, but was there because England and all the countries wished to prevent a massacre of their subjects. A general war was most improbable. France would certainly not go to war, Germany and her people had no direct interest in war, and England would not provoke hostilities. Austria was in a peculiar position, but her own self-interest would dictate peace. There was a powerful party in Russia which desired that the Sclavonian Empire should be under Russian guidance and influence. That party, however, was not now in power. Lord Derby believed that the Czar was a sincere lover of peace. The Russian finances and the extent of her recent conquests in Asia were reasons also why Russia should not desire war. He also confirmed a recent telegram to the effect that the policy of non-intervention would be followed by Russia, and added that nothing would be done without the consent of the Great Powers, Though England could not prevent the decay of Turkey, she had guaranteed her against murder, but not against suicide or

sudden death. Mediation would be offered if an opportunity came, as he thought might shortly occur. A New Zealand loan of £1,250,000 of five per cent debeitures has been offered, for which only £200,000 were subscribed at 100 to 102 J, Tenders for the balance are invited at par. Biddings at the wool sales were dull. Prices were without recovery, and the fall is estimated at thirty per cent on the June rates of last year. Wheat is declining ; New Zealand, 47s to 50s. New Zealand hemp is quiet; prices firm. Arrived—Jessie Osborne, and Rangitikei, AUSTRALIA. Sydney, August 4. The loss by the recent collision between the Barrabool and the Queensland is estimated at £IOO,OOO. Case brandy, at 31s 6d ; quarter-casks brandy, 7s 3d to 7s 6d; flour, £ll 5s to £l2 ss; candles, to 9fd; Now Zealand wheat, 4s to 4s lid; oats, 2s 4d to 2s Gd. Melbourne, August 4. A clerk in the English and Scottish Bank has been arrested for embezzling £9OO. The Albion sailed yesterday. INTERPROVINCIAL. Akaroa, August 5. The Ringaroomaandthe Easby are obliged to put in here for shelter, owing to the heavy weather. Auckland, August 4. The schooner Argus, now sixteen weeks out, on a voyage to the Chatham Islands, is almost given up as lost. She was a new schooner and insured in the South British for £2OOO. The crew consisted of Messrs Morgan, master, and Hayward, mate, and six others. There were seventeen passengers, including Messrs Kerr and Engest, two principal runholders on the island. It is thought that the vessel may have got ashore after landing passengers. It is proposed to send a vessel in search. One of the immigrants escaped from the quarantine station. It is supposed that some friends went down in a boat and conveyed him away. Buyers—Bank of New Zealand, £lB ss; South British, 55s 6d ; National Insurance, 245; Standard, 12a. Sellers—Colonial Bank, 33s ; New Zealand Insurance, 80s; New Zealand Shipping, sellers, 82s 6d, Napier, August 4. There is some talk of a company starting to purchase the Grahamstown and Tararu Tramway, and lay it down Carlyle street and Hyderabad road to the Spit, a distance of two miles nearly. It is a dead level. This would effect a great reduction in the cost of cartage. The Acclimatization Society committee have resolved to send for a shipment of trout ova from Otago, salmon from California, and to acclimatize insectivorous birds from various parts of the colony, and other birds from home, Wellington, August 4. The Government have received the following cable message from Sydney, dated August 4th : “TheLyeemoon leftßangoewangi at 5 p.m. on July 29th, arrived at Port Darwin yesterday afternoon. She has been detained waiting for messages by the French mail, Has also been detained on the passage by the south-east monsoon and the exceedingly strong current all the way.' The officer in charge of the Lyeemoon reports telegraphic communication has been interrupted via Siberia by floods since July 19th, and there is |no probability of its being restored at present. The majority of the telegrams sent by the Lyeemoon went in the steamer leaving Penang on July 26th, and remainder went by the mail on July 29th. Do not expect replies from London much under a fortnight. There is no news of importance from Europe. Telegrams per Lyeemoon must be forwarded not later than 1 p.m. on Saturday the sth inst. Signed, F. J. Burns, Postmaster- General.” Arrived—Filz Reuter, with some 400 German immigrants, but particulars are not known, there being no communication. It is reported all are well. Also airived, Dunbritton, ship, from London. Wellington, August 5. The Taupo for the South, and Wellington for Picton, have returned to port this morning, in consequence of the heavy weather. Dunedin, August 4. The heavy south-west gale is doing considerable damage among the houses and fences. A verdict has been given against Captain ’Worsp, yesterday, for £B, for wrongful dismissal of seaman at Taranaki. Robert Roberts, a well-known horse-dealer, committed suicide this morning, with strychnine and brandy. A shanty near Reid and Gray’s was destroyed by fire. There was a narrow escape from a feflous conflagration.