TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 771, 9 December 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Per Press Agency .) LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA. <s> 1 By Submarine Cable.] THE EASTERN QUESTION. London, December 6. Prince Bismarck has informed the Belch* stag that Russia does not seek great conquest, but desires them, in co-operation with the conference of other Great Powers, to obtain the amelioration of the conditions of the Christians in the revolted provinces of Turkey. The triple alliance still subsists, and Germany’s friendship for England is equally traditional. He believes that the difference between England and Russia will be amicably arranged. If not Germany’s duty will be to mediate between the two Powers, and to localise the war. If her efforts at mediation prove futile he could not conjecture what the future would bring forth. December 7. Prince Bismarck’s speech is considered reassuring. Lord Salisbury has arrived at Stamboul. The conference commences its sittings on Saturday. AMERICA. General Grant by message has recommended (? a change) in the system of electing vhe President of the United States. THE ALL ENGLAND MATCH. Sydney, December 8. Our Fifteen finished their innings for eighty-one. Spofforth and Coates played well to-day for nineteen and eighteen respectively. The bowling of Shaw was splendid. Emmett was also good, and the English fielding as usual was perfection, The Englishmen are making a good stand in the second innings, and four wickets are down for seventy-one. Ulyett making thirty-six. Our bowling and fielding are very creditable, but the batting is too strong. About 12,000 spectators are present. Sydney. December 9. The English cricketers were all out yesterday for 106. The Sydney fielding and bowling were splendid. INTERPRO VIN Cl AL. Auckland, December 8. Mr Broomhall left for the South to day. Wool, in grease, sold at 7d to lOf d; washed, lid to la 3d 5 fat cattle, £27 to £3O ; sheep, 2£d to 2fd per lb ; best lambs, 13s to 17s. Female servants are still scarce. Mr Pritchard has complied with the conditions of the Waste Lands Board by sending in fuller proposals. Edward Draper, a student of Oxford, well connected at home, and sent to the colony for reformation, was committed for trial today on four charges of defrauding the Bible Depot, by forging receipts and pawning books. The Lingards aie re-engaged for the Christmas holidays. At Mr Buckland’s sale of pedigree stock from England, one roan heifer realised £368, another £468, another £462, and a bull £lls. Wellington, December 9. It is understood that the negotiations re the San Francisco mail service have been narrowed down to a sum of £2500 as between the Governments of New Zealand and New South Wales. Our Government, however, being limited by the resolution of the House to £75,000, will, it is believed, not consent to increase New Zealand’s liability beyond that sum. The question of making Auckland the only New Zealand port of call has been accepted by the two Governments and the contractors. Mr J. Dundas Crawford, attache to the British Legation at China, and son of the Wellington R.M., has been appointed by the Colonial Office to obtain full information respecting Chinese immigration to Australia, and to report thereon to the Imperial Government. He has been accredited to Lord Normanby, and to the several Australian Governors, who are requested to render Mr Crawford every assistance in the prosecution of this woik. Mr Crawford has arrived at Wellington, and will lose no time in obtaining by personal investigation in New Zealand and Australia the material necessary for the required report. He speaks Chinese fluently. The ship Avalanche, which arrived yesterday, visited the Crozets Islands, but obtained no additional information about ithe wreck of the Strathmore. Dunedin, December 8.

Wheat, none offering ; prime samples would command up to 6s 6d, and in the absence of importations is likely to go oven higher Oats continue more freely at last quotations, viz, 2s 2d to 2s 3d for good to prime feed, up to 2s 4d for choice milling ; stocks very light. Barley : feeding and milling sorts have met with more enquiry during the past week ; malting, however, is still almost unsaleable, the latter nominally at 4s to 4s 3d ; feed and milling, at 2s to 2s 9d. The Council of the Convention has issued a circular as follows :—“ That while the Council is of opinion that it would be highly desirable that the people throughout Otago should treat the Counties Act as a dead letter, at the same time, seeing that in every district there will be found some who will give effect tq the Act, seeing, moreover,

the large powers of taxation which the Act confers, and the annoyance and expense to which whole districts may be subjected, against their will, at the hands, it may be of a small minority, the Council is of opinion that the whole people throughout the province should take part in election of County Councillors, with the view to securing the return of men in whom they have confidence and at whose hands the powers of the Act will not be abused.” A Chinese deputation waited on the Hon G. McLean to-day, to urge a reduction in the duty on green ginger of 3d per pound. He promised to do what he could to meet their request, The official enquiry re the Otago, will probably take place on Monday. The underwriters have determined not to sell the wreck until an effort to recover the gold baa been made, and divers have been sent down. Mr Emmett goes to Invercargill on Wednesday, under an engagement to Mr Shepperson. Two thousand salmon ova hare been turned into the interior streams, Hon G. M'Lean has pointed oat that there exists no hitch re county elections. The fourteen days’ notice applies only to ordinary vacancies, provision being made in the Counties Act, by which all difficulties can be cleared away for the first elections. The Association rifle matches proceed slowly. The second match was completed this morning. Sergeant W, Grant Ist prize; Vol Stewart, 2nd; Willcox, 3rd, In the third Anderson and \ol Blackie, both of Olutha, were first and second. The Hon Mr Bowen is on the goldfields. Poet Chalmers, Decembers. A party of shipwrights and divers left by the steamer to-day for the wreck of the Otago, for the purpose of recovering the gold, &c. Poet Chalmers, December 9. Arrived—Ship Christian McAusland, from London, ninety-four days out, with nine passengers and 800 tons cargo. She reported speaking the ship Indian Empire, from London to New Zealand, off the equator.