TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 769, 7 December 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

{Per Press Agency .) LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA. | By Submarine Cable.] THE EASTERN QUESTION. London, December 2. General Ignatieff represents Russia at the conference. The Grand Duke Nicholas has started for Kischeneff, and assumed the command of the Russian army. London, December 5. Prince Bismarck, when speaking at a Parliamentary dinner, said he did not yet despair of peace, but feared war probable. He thought it inopportune to counsel Russia at the present time, and (bought that when Russia made an advance upon the Turkish provinces, Turkey would dread fighting—Germany’ might be able to mediate. He hoped England would not openly declare war against Russia, but would only act indirectly similar to Russia’s action towards Servia. Should Austria be drawn into war and danger threaten her existence as an empire, Germany’s duty would be to come forward and help her. Austria possessed greater vitality than many thought, and he had told Lord Salisbury so. The English press is unanimous in its views respecting the impolicy of permitting Russia to take Stamboul. Otherwise it speaks against helping Turkey. Great importance is attached to Prince Bismarck’s remarks regarding Austria, as it is believed the positions of Austria and Germany in regard to the Eastern Question will tend to localise the war should it break out. The Porte is hastening to promulgate a new constitution, before the Conference of the European Powers can notify its disapproval of the present administration of affairs. The French Ministry has resigned, owing to an adverse vote, COMMERCIAL. London, December 5. The wheat market is strong : New Zealand 51s to 525. ADSTR A.LI\. Sydney, December 6. Betting—Three to two on the English cricketers. A close match is expected. Jupp does not play. The St Osyth and the Northumberland left Melbourne to-day. The City of Sydney arrived, at three. fPer Alhambra, via Hokitiks,] Sydney, November 25. Bennett's offer to play the English cricketers on the Ist and 2nd of December has been declined, the time being insufficient to make arrangements. During a race for fishing boats one capsized,- and a man named Fennell was drowned. The body of a clerk in the Bank of New South Wales has been found on the railway line with his neck broken. November 28. The prospectors at the Canal lead, Gulgong, have unearthed a nugget weighing filozs. The English cricketers play twenty-two at Newcastle on the 12th and 13th of December, November 29. A man named Mainwaring was scalded to death by falling into a vat of beer. Roberts and Dean have arranged to play three matches for £25 a-side. Roberts beat Dean in the first match ; Dean wdu the aVcohfi match,

Adelaide, November 25. Mr Peacock has been re-elected Mayor without opposition. The Government have restricted the number of immigrants to arrive during the winter to one full ship in two months. A share in the Wallaroo mine has been sold for £IOSO, John Primrose, a well-known brewer, is dead, aged seventy-three. Tasmania. At the crushing from the new Native Youth claim, one thousand one hundred tons quartz gave sixteen hundred ounces. Queensland, November 29. The A. and B. Co offer to make Brisbane the terminus of the Torres Strait mail for a subsidy of £50,000. They will not do it for £40,000. Parliament is to be prorogued on Friday. The Assembly voted £21,000 for a telegraph office, £9ooo’for a museum. Melbourne; The debate on the purchase of the Hobson’s Bay railway has occupied the attention of the Assembly. There is strong opposition to the proposal by a section of the community both inside and outside the house. The settling over the races has not been quite satisfactory to bookmakers, several large sums being still owing to them from the fielders. Briseis and Calumny are the best favorites for the Champion race. The case of Rev R, K. Ewing has occupied the attention of the Presbyterian circles. The Beechworth congregation still stand to him, notwithstanding the decision of the Church Assembly. * Theatrical matters are dull. Signor Majeroni made a great hit as the old Corporal. Mrs Scott Siddons has closed her engagement. The circus is now on the wane. The Free Trade League is making every effort to render its programme known, being assisted by Mr H. Taylor, Laborers' Jnion delegate, who is not very well received, INTBRPROVINOIAL. Grahamstown, December 7. It is rumoured here that Sir George Grey has been offered the Governorship of Cape Colony, and has declined. Auckland, December 7. The following weights are declared for the Steeplechase at the Auckland Summer Meeting Tommy Dodd, 12st 11b ; Butcher Boy, list lOlbs ; Medora, list 71bs; Isleman, list; Whitefoot, list; Wrangler, llss ; Perfume, lOst 71bs ; Toby, lOst 71bs ; Don, lOst 71bs; Shamrock, lOst ; Gladstone, 9st lOlbs ; Mystery, 9st 41bs; Lottery, 9st. Wellington, December 7. Sailed—Wellington, for the South, at 8 a.m. Passengers—Mrs Tucker, Miss Waterhouse and Cotter, and 12 in steerage. Hokitika, December 6, Arrived—Alhambra. She sails to-night for Wellington via the West Coast ports and Nelson. Passengers—For Wellington : Mr Furlong. For Lyttelton: Mr Grant. For Port Chalmers : Mr Bastings, and forty-two in the steerage for all porta. She brings 222 tons cargo for all ports. Dunedin, December 6. The surveyor’s report on the Otago recommends her immediate sale for the benefit of all concerned. The SOOOozs of gold are fully insured at £4 per oz. The ship is insured in Melbourne for £IO,OOO. The Presbytery is now (sitting. The consideration of a request for permission to use a harmonium as an aid to the psalmody was held over till the next meeting of the Synod, The returns read re the adopting of the Barrier Act, shows six Kirk sessions against and four in favor ; no returns from three sessions. In the case of Smythies v Russell, judgment is reserved for a week. Dunedin, December 7. In Mr Macandrew’s letter to his Excellency, complaining about his letters being forwarded to his Excellency by the postal authorities, he expresses himself thus “I write to you believing that what I complain of has been done without your Excellency’s sanction, and so that I may take further steps to vindicate the right, I conceive I possess, to peruse my own letters before they have been read by any of your Excellency’s Ministers or any of the civil servants of the Crown. ”

The number of sheep in Otago amount to 3,908,009, as against 3,852,000 last year. They are divided as follows Merinos, 2,949,800; long wool, 107,660; cross-breds, 850.882 It has been determined by the Waste Lands Board to declare several new hundreds.

ffir George Grey expresses his entire willingness to proceed on the mission to England, stating that he '‘will sacrifice all to a sense of duty,” and adding that it “will be proper for all such as desire to serve New Zealand to follow this course. ”

Ballarat, Hokitika, and Timaru have entered for all the Fire Brigade demonstration events.