TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 688, 2 September 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Per Press Agency ,) LATEST FROM EUROPE AND ♦ [By Submarine Oablb.J THE WAR. Singapore, August 31. On the 19th August the Montenegrins defeated the Turks at Rutcbio. This report has been confirmed. The Turks suffered great loss, having no artillery available during the engagement. On the 25th of August the Servians and Turks were fighting before Alexinatz. The result was indecisive. Russian volunteer officers and soldiers are joining the Servians with the permission of Russia. Prince Milan has summoned the consular body to his place, for the purpose of bringing about a joint mediation by the great powers. In the meantime an armistice is proposed. FINANCIAL. A financial crisis has occurred in Portugal. The banks suspended payment, THE DAHOMEY BLOCKADE. The blockade of Dahomey continues. The King is defiant, and threatens to massacre the Europeans in his territory, AUSTRALIA. Sydney, September 1. Hennessy’s case, 30s to 31s ; quarters, 7s fid to 7s 7d ; rice, £2O to £2l ; five medal candles, lOd ; Adelaide flour, £ll l^s; wheat 5s 3d to 5? 4d; New Zealand flour, £lO 5s ; oats, nominal; kerosene firm, 2s 3d. Melbourne, September 1. It is stated that the Government have sent Home, calling upon Mr Stevenson, Secretary for Railways, to return and refute the charges alleged against him. INTERPEOVINCIAL. Auckland, September 1. Sir G. Grey sent a telegram to the Auckland Football team, congratulating them on their victory. Pat sheep, 3d to fat cattle, 27s to 32s ; fat cattle showed a slight advance ; Dunedin and! Oamaru flour, £l2 10s; Christchurch, £l2; oatmeal, £l3 10s ; wheat, 5s fid ; barley, 4s fid ; oats, 2s 8d ; maize, 4s 7d ; potatoes, £4 10s ; hams and bacon, lOd ; cheese, 9£d. Buyers—Bank of New Zealand, £lB 5s ; South British, 665; National, 25s fid ; New Zealand Insurance, 78s. The football team sailed South to-day. Sailed—Hawea, for the South. Passengers for Lyttelton—Messrs Lusk, Street, Cutts, and Cassmere. Wellington, September 1. Produce prices—Flour is advancing slowly £l2 10s to £l3 ; oats, 2s fid to 2s 9d ; bran, scarce at is 3d to Is wheat, milling, no sale, nominal 4s fid to 4s 7d ; hams, over stocked, 9d to lOd ; bacon, overstocked, 7£d to B.Jd ; cheese, 9d to lOd ; potatoes, 55s to 60s, [from a correspondent.] Waiau, September 2. Mr George Balfour, of Lyndon, Amuri, was found dead this morning. (From a correspondent of the Press.) Dunedin, September 1, Neil McPhee, arrested at Balclutha for wife desertion iu Christchurch, was remanded for the production of the information. Roberts’s agent finds considerabledifficulty in getting men to compete against him. Weston will not play unless he receives a consideration, which is deemed exorbitant. Roberts plays three times a week, one being in the afternoon, when ladies are admitted. Timaru, September 1,

At the meeting of the Timaru and Gladstone Board of Works to day the county scheme was discussed, and the following resolutions adopted:—“That this Board is of opinion that, granted extended powers of representation, the present Road Boards and municipalities are ample for the purpose of local government, and that the proposed county system is undesirable until the country is more densely populated. But if the county system should be adopted, this Board is of opinion that the district between the Rangitata and Waitaki form one county, being the present Timaru and Gladstone boundaries.” “ That the country to the south and west of the Otaio water shed be excluded from the proposed county, and the Mount Cook Road Board district, the same being topographically a part of north Otago.” It was decided to telegraph the above resolutions to the Hon B. W. Stafford, memberfor i imaru. Iheengineer reported that the branch railway extension from Pleasant Point to the Opawa River, was rapidly approaching completion, and recommended that the date of opening and the tariff be advertised at once by the Government, so that station masters might be afforded the opportunity of knowing that the line will be available for conveying their wool this season, and of finding out whether it will be to their advantage to send it by rail, the information being required early owing to the fact that the time of year is nearly arrived when wool growers make their contracts with carters. THE INTERPROVINCIAL FOOTBALL TEAM. We learn from a private telegram that the Canterbury team have not arrived at New Plymouth to-day. The steamer is bar-bound at the Manakau Heads.