TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 800, 15 January 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Per Press Agency .) LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA. 11 4 | By Submarine Cable.] THE EASTERN QUESTION. London, January 10. It is generally expected that the Conference of the European representatives will end in a failure. The Turkish delegates will yield nothing substantial. Abdul Hamid, replying to a petition from a number of subjects at Adrianople, who sought permission to take up arms against their common enemy, said that if war was necessary he would at once place himself at the head of the Turkish army. The Russian Levant squadron has rendezvoused at Odessa. ELECTION DISTURBANCES IN AMERICA. London, January 11. An election crisis has occurred at New Orleans through the Democratic Militia obeying the orders of Lieut.-Governor Wiltz. The Republican officers were duly installed, when the Democratic Official Corps and Militia blockaded the Republican Governor and the Legislature in the State House, There was, however, no blood shed. President Grant ordered the Federal Commander of Louisiana, General Augur, to take steps to maintain peace, without in any way recognising the Democratic Governor.

AUSTRALIA. THE CRICKET MATCH. Sydney, January 13. Our side in the first innings made 124. The English in the second innings made 104. We want sixteen to win. LATER NEWS. New South Wales won by thirteen wickets and two runs. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, January 15. The Wellington has sailed. Passengers for Lyttelton —Mr and Mrs Wood and three children, Mrs Litchfield, RevsW. Kirk, T. Ellis, Messrs France, Mitchell, Gabriels, Plumbridge, Leddell. Wellington, January 13. Mr Henry Anderson, editor of the Evening Post, has commenced an action for libel against the proprietors of the Argus for certain alleged injurious and unjustifiable reflections upon his character, which appeared in that paper. The Argus gives the names of its solicitors. A telegram from Mr J. R, Richardson, manager of the Victoria Sugar Company, of yesterday, says they have raised the prices of first quality £2, second and third £1 per ton. The sister of Curtin, the condemned murderer, visited him yesterday, and is getting up a petition to the Governor for his reprieve. Curtin belongs to a respectable family of farmers in County Glare. The committee of management of the All-England cricket match have selected thirteen out of twenty to play the English team. The whaleboat for the Thames and Auck ■ land crew at Nelson goes per Wellington tomorrow. Mr Johnson, of Wellington, presides at the Templar entertainment this evening. Mr Speight, lateG-.W.0. Templar, has been presented with regalia, manufactured by the sisters c£ the Order, and a purse of sovereigns by the brethren. The session closed last night. Nelson, January 13. The boats continue to arrive, A four-oar batswing and sailing boat were brought in the Kennedy this morning from Qreymouth, and the yacht Secret has arrived from Lyttelton. There is to be a public calico ball on Wednesday night. Blenheim, January 15. The following are the weights for the Marlborough Cup;—Hercules, 5 yrs, fist 81b ; Banker, 4 yrs, Bst 81b ; Lara, 4 yrs, Sst (Jib; Toni Finn, 4 yrs, Sst 711) ; Nero, aged, Sst Mb ; Strongbow, 5 yrs, Sst 91b ; Lady Lara, 5 yrs, Sst 61b; Lillipie, 4 yrs, Sst; Amanda, 3 yrs, 7st 51b ; Doncaster, 3 yrs, fist 51b ; Blenheim, 3 yrs, fist. Blenheim Handicap. —Hercules, fist 61b; Banker, Sst 91b ; Lara, Sst 61b ; Finn, Sst 101 b ; Strongbow, Sst 91b ; Mary, Sst 61b ; Amanda, 7st 31b ; Doncaster, fist KJlb ; Blenheim, fist 51b. Dunedin, January 15. A little girl named Jane Martin fell dead ■ near Dunedin on Saturday while going a message for her mother,

A Dunedin firm has received a telegram from the Victoria Sugar Company, stating that first class whites have been advanced £2 per ton, and second and third class £1 per ton. PORT Ohalmees, January 13, bailed—Ship Mataura, for London; White Bugle with part original cargo for Lyttel'.on. Bluff, January 14. The Eingarooma arrived at 5 a.m. She left Melbourne at 3.30 p.m. on the 9th, cleared the Heads at 6 30 p,m., passed Swan island on the 10th at 1.30 p m,, sighted S.W, Cape at 6pm. on the 13th. Experienced fine weather till the 13th, then strong 8.8. wind and rain. She brings 31 saloon, 32 steerage, and 212 tons cargo for all ports. She sailed at 8 a.m. for Dunedin. Passengers—Saloon ; For Lyttelton—Mr and Mies Clarkson, and 12 steerage ; and 111 tons cargo. For Wellington—Messrs Justice Richmond, C. F. Richmond, Block, Armstrong, Turnbull, Glare, Mrs Block, Miss Richmond, and 6 in steerage ; and 18 tons cargo. For Nelson— Messrs Davis, Jacobs, Baggot, Chadwick, Isaacs, Pindt ; Mesdames Pindt, Hopkins, Davis, Miss Murphy ; and 2 in steerage ; 10 tons cargo.