TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 678, 22 August 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Per Press Agency., LATEST FROM EUROPE ♦ | By Submarine Cable.J THE CHAMPIONSHIP. London, August 12. If Trickett beats Lumsden he rows Higgins. EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS. London, August 12. In the Houße of Commons on the 7th, Mr Cave vindicated the results of his mission to Egypt. His investigation led him to believe that the Khedive could meet his liabilities. THE WAR. London, August 12. News to the 9th of August states that the Turks have occupied the fortress of Zabsachan, and the Servians are retreating. The Servians are also retreating from Siewitza. THE BRAVO CASE. London, August 12. At the second inquest on the body of Mr Bravo, supposed to have been poisoned, a verdict of " Wilful murder " was returned, but the evidence was not sufficiently strong to fix the guilt on any person. WOOL MARKET. London, August 11. The wool sales will conclude to-morrow ; 387,000 bales were catalogued, 30,000 of which were held over. The recovery in price of from 8 to 15 per cent on the extreme fall is partly due to the speculative action of the Yorkshire trade. IJN TERPRO VINCIAL. Wellington, August 27. Mr Smith, of Taranaki iron sand notoriety, says he has obtained from the directors of the Titanic Steel Company the use of the furnace for one thorough trial to smelt the sand. He leaves by steamer for Taranaki to-day. Hokitika, August 22. It is rumoured that seven claims of shallow ground, at the Kumaru rush are averaging three ounces per day each. Dunedin, August 21.

At a meeting this afternoon of the socalled unemployed, two hundred were present. The meeting was presided over by the notorious John McLaren. A deputation, appointed by the meeting, went to the Provincial Offices to lay their grievances before the!Deputy-Superintendent. MrTurnbull not being there, they went to his private office, when he refused an audience. They then went, to the Mayor, who promised them stone cracking to-morrow, at 2s per yard. The deputation returned to the niseting, who gave three groaips for the Deputy-Superintendent and three cheers for the Mayor. The Fire Brigade meeting on Saturday determined to send a challenge North to-day to compete for the Ballarat Cup, as per arrangement in Victoria. If this is refused the Dunedin men are willing to meet the Wellington men in contest for another cup. Should the Wellington men decline to contest for the Ballarat cup, all correspondence bearing on the subject will be published. The Lioness is ready to sail for Hokitika to-morrow. Flour has again advanced here and at Oamaru, prices now being £l2 in sacks and £l2 10a in bags. Wheatis very scarce at 5s t> 5s 3d. A deputation waited on the Mayor this morning to ask him to fix a date upon which the ratepayers may assemble to record their protest against the Abolition and County Acts, and also to endorse the action I taken by their representatives in the House ! of Representatives. It is understood that! the originators of the movement have been i in communication with prominent political j leaders throughout the province, and that j the meeting about to be held in Dunedin is ! but an initiation of a series which will i follow throughout the length and breadth of i the province. The Mayor consented, the j dote to be determined by the committee to- j night. j The Hon W. H. Reynolds has returned I North. ' I

Mr Deans, manager of the Acclimatisation Society, was a passenger by the Arawata. He brought with him upwards of 1000 fish ova, which had been procured by him iu Tasmania. Most of them are eggs of the salmon trout, which is already naturalised in Ot;igo, but it is tbe desire of the Acclimatisation Society that these fish should be bred in large numbers, and it is their intention therefore to retain several of the fish to be obtained from the eggs which they have jKst imported, for the purposes of breeding. The ova looks very healthy.