TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 976, 11 August 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

CABLE NEWS [per press agency.] THEJVAR, Greece and Servia will Declare War Against Turkey. Singapore, August 10. The participation of Greece and Servia in the war is now considered certain. New Lord of the Admiralty. Meeting of Emperors of Austria and Germany. Singapore, August 1.0. Mr W. H. Smith has been appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, vice Mr Ward Hunt, deceased. The Emperors of Austria and Germany have met at Ischl.

PARLIAMENTARY.

[per press agency.] Last Right’s Proceedings. Wellington, August 11. The delivery of the statement was followed by applause. ‘Mr Joyce called attention to an omission. There was not the slightest mention of constructing a line between Riverton and Orepuki. He complained that the want of a lino was productive of the greatest possible hardships to miners. The road was impassible by travellers in winter. Doctors could not be induced for money to travel the twenty-live miles to relieve the sick and wounded. Miners were obliged to leave their work to carry the wounded and sick into town. They were as badly off in the way of water carriage, as the last boat the miners had was lost, with six men, and the owners of the steamers, after losing one, would send no more. The lino ought to be part of a trunk line, and would be the means of opening a million of acres of fine agricultural land. Mr Barff expressed himself in a similar strain in regard to a railway from Grey mouth to Hokitika. The House adjourned at 9 p.m.