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Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 967, 1 August 1877, Page 2

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CABLE NEWS: [per press agency.] T H E~WA R Mohammedan Outbreak Feared. Mobilisation of the Austrian Army. Singapore, July 31. An outbreak of Mohammedan fanaticism is feared in the Levant. Foreign Consuls demand war vessels for the protection of the Christians. The Austrian Cabinet has been summoned to deliberate on the mobilisation of the army. The Roumanians have occupied Nicopolis. Commercial. London, July 30. Wool uricea remain unaltered, super cuuibing is Hat. The next sales are expected to show a decline. AUSTRALIAN. Loss of the Barque Gloucester. Sydney;, August 1. Arrived —Easby. The barque Gloucester, with coal, from Newcastle to Japan, foundered on the coast. The crew were saved. INTERPROVINCIAL. Dunedin, August 1. Mr C. S. Reeves has been appointed delegate to represent the Dunedin Council at the Wellington conference. At Yesterday's meeting of the City Council a resolution was carried unanimously that the corporation should come under the new Act. As the result of this, another election for the Mayor will require to take place in November. The number «£ births, deaths, and mt'

riages for the month ending July 31st are as follows :—Births, 139 ; deaths, 59 ; marriages, 32. The names of (hose who sent in designs for the Dunedin Town Hall have just been made public. The following is the result: —First premium, £2OO, Mr T. B. Cameron, Auckland ; second, £IOO, Mr R. A. Lawson, Dunedin; third, £SO, Mr George Brown, Melbourne. The other competitors were Messrs Mathew Henry, Auckland; A. W. Simpson, Christchurch; M. Do H. Duval, Timaru; W. Rash, Melbourne; Petre and Bolden, Dunedin; George Aicken, Auckland. Wellington, August 1. Twenty thousand shares in the New Union Fire and Marine Insurance Co. have been applied for in Wellington. The Municipality representatives met today, and appointed the ex-Mayor of Christchurch chairman, who, in his opening address, expressed regret at the want of finality in the Government measures required by abolition, and said these constant changes wotdd soon make people regret passing the Abolition Act. They meet to-morrow morning.