TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 713, 2 October 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

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[By Submarine Cable.] THE EASTEKN QUESTION. London, September 19. A meeting was held at the Guildhall yesterday to protest against the alleged atrocities by the Turkish forces in Bulgaria. The Lord Mayor presided. A large number of Russian volunteers, chiefly soldiers, are joining the Servian army. General Schernof has proclaimed Prince Milan King of Servia. The Sultan, on receiving the Austrian Ambassador, expressed a desire to close the war, so as to bring about reforms. THE CRICKETERS. The English cricketers, who are proceeding to Australia, played eighteen men at Chichester before leaving, and beat them easily. THE CHAMPION. Trickett left London for Sydney via America, but will not row there. COMMERCIAL. Wheat is unchanged. SHIPPING. Arrived—Rakaia, AUSTRALIA. Sydney, September .30,

Adelaide flour, £l3 ; wheat, 5s fid to 5s 7d. New Zealand oats are heavy in stock, 2s 4d to 2s 5d : candles, d to lOd ; brandy quiet and unchanged ; No 1 sugar, £36 ; rice hasslightly advanced, Patna, £2l lOsto £22. D’Albertis’s expedition to New Guinea has returned, having ascended 350 miles above where Scott reached last year, but were unable to land. The natives were numerous and hostile. INTERP RO VINCIAL. Wellington, September 30. The opening cricket match of the season was played this afternoon on the Basin Reserve, an eleven of the General Assembly being opposed to the Wellington team. Wellington won the toss and sent the Assembly team to the wickets. In their first innings they scored 60 and Wellington 55. In the second innings they were not so fortunate, only making 29. Wellington pulled up upon them with the loss of three wickets thus winning the match by one run and seven wickets to fall. The top scores were, Kennedy for Wellington 24, and Rees, M.H.R., 17. Rees’s lobs were a great success, taking ten wickets out of thirteen, and had he been supported by a good field, the result of the match would have been different, Randall Johnston’s bowling was very good, but the ground militated against his chance of success Captain Morris had charge of the Assembly team, and Mr Werry was captain of the Wellingtoniana. The Hawea left for Nelson at two this afternoon. She takes about 100 diggers for Rumara The (Vakatipu will leave here en route for Sydney on Friday next, calling at Greymouth or Hokitika to land more diggers, and will probably return by the same route. Wellington, October 2. The criminal sitting of the Supreme Court opened this morning. There are seven cases. The most serious are an attempt at an unmentionable offence, rape, burglary, cutting and wounding. Arrived The new Goverment steam yacht Hiuemoa, from Glasgow via Adelaide, this morning. She left Adelaide on the 23rd alt. The Grand Jury found a true bill against Haughton, and the Chief Justice ordered the rape case to be postponed three months, in consequence of the child being so young, and to enable her to be instructed as to the nature of an oath. Yesterday an iron safe at the Government buildings was broken open and robbed of over one hundred pounds. The culprit has not yet been discovered. Port Chalmers, September 30. Arrived —Thomasina McLellan. She left London on June 3rd; on August 17th discovered that the coals on board were heated. Asounding rod was put down and drawn. After a careful watch it was found that the heat was increasing. 800 kegs gunpowder and a quantity of matches were amongst the cargo. Preparations were made to throw them overboard. On the 21st August they tacked the ship and bore for Rio, the heat still increasing, and it was deemed expedient to jettison all the powder; anchored at Rio on the 24th, held survey, and in accordance discharged

her coals. Found them much charred. Shifted the general cargo and took in ballast, and sailed on her voyage to Slew Zealand, arriving at Port Chalmers to-day. She brings 2000 tons of general cargo and forty-three passengers. Dunedin, September 30.

Mr Joseph Tunbridge, who pluckily rescued the crew of the schooner Dagmar recently, has been presented by the Government with binocular glasses. The Provincial Executive yesterday had under consideration the resolution passed by the meeting at the Princess’s on Wednesday, urging that the Provincial Council should be called together for the purpose of taking the necessary legislative action to obtain a plebiscituin of the people. No definite resolution has been so far arrived at in the matter. Wheat is out of the market, the quantity offering being very trifling, Quotations are unchanged. Barley met with some enquiry during the week, and sales were effected at up to 4s fid for choice malting ; oats are in excellent demand, and all arriving move off freely at 2s to 2s 2d for ordinary to prime feed, and 2s, Bd for milling and seed samples. There has been a run to-day to make payment for the assessments on runs, which fall due on October Ist. Nearly £53,000 is due to the Treasury from this source. Balclutha, October 1. A meeting was held on Saturday night, attended by about 180 persons, Mr Mason (Mayor) in the chair. The following resolutions were carried without dissent—“ That this meeting, believing it to be vltra vires for the General Assembly to pass a law having for its object the abolition of the provincial institutions conferred upon the people by the Queen, and believing that a gross injustice would be inflicted upon the province, were the provincial institutions abolished in the manner proposed by the Ganeral Assembly, urge upon his Honor the Superintendent and his Executive forthwith to convenue a meeting of the Provincial Council with a view to the necessary steps being taken to obtain a plebiscitum of the people, so as to ascertain their wishes in the matter, and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to his Excellency the Governor, to the Colonial Secretary, and to his Honor the Superintendent.” Messrs John Dunne, John McNeil, M.P.C., George Inglis, and W. D. Henderson, spoke in favor of the resolutions. At the conclusion of the meeting a political association was formed. Invercargill, October 2, The memorial protesting against making Otago one county has received six hundred signatures.