TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1026, 9 October 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

CABLE NEWS [Reuter’s Special Telegrams to the Press Agency.]

THE WAR.

Bombay, Oct. Ist, 8.30. The seizure of arms in Transylvania has caused an eruption of four hundred men over the mountains. Kluska disavows and deprecates the movement. Sulieman Pasha telegraphs that the Russian position is critical. [Special Telegram to the Dunedin Evening Star ] London, Oct. 2. Thirty-five thousand of the Russian Imperial Guard have arrived at Plevna. Obituary. Wool Sales. London, Oct. 2. The Right Rev Dr Moriarty, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kerry, is dead. The wool sales conclude to-night; 295,529 bales were catalogued, 29,000 were withdrawn. Foreigners took 120,000 bales, and 72,000 were held over for next series. The sales ' showed unusual steadiness throughout, the home trade being the main support of the market; latterly the foreign buyers operated more freely. Fine parcels realised the highest May-June rates ; medium and faulty qualities are somewhat lower. INTERPROYINCIAL. [per press agency.] Kumara, October 9. William John Galvin, Mary Downie, James William Daniels, and John Gilman have been examined. There is no doubt as to the identity of the body and the commission of a foul murder. There is nothing to connect the prisoner with it as yet. More than a dozen witnesses for the prosecution are yet to be examined. Dunedin, October 9. It is stated in the “ Times ” that application for shares in the National Mortgage and Agency Company are largely in excess of the New Zealand issue. A crowded meeting was held in the Temperance Hall last night, for the purpose of relieving the sufferers by the famine in Southern India, the Mayor presided. A large committee representing all denominations was appointed to collect subscriptions. Judge Williams forwarded a cheque for ten guineas to the meeting. The annual meeting of the Caledonian Society was held last night. The total cost of improving the Society’s grounds at Kensington has been .131715. The Society’s evening classes this year, notwithstanding the engagement of two additional teachers and the formation of a chemistry class, only cost £B2 as against £lB2 last year. The inquest regarding the lire at Thomas Cunningham’s, Debora Bay, closed with an open verdict. The house was insured in the Standard office for £230. The whaler Splendid signalled for a tug at the Heads yesterday afternoon, and“was towed in. She brings 230 barrels of oil. Captain Earle is seriously ill. PARLIAMENTARY. Last Night’s Proceedings. Wellington, October 9. Mr Lusk continued the debate, briefly recapitulating the previous arguments in favor of the motion. Mr Sharp said he felt bound to say a few words. He had always been opposed to provincialism and in favor of a united colony with a common purse and uniform laws. He supported the Ministry while they advocated this.' Now they were deviating, and he eould support them no longer. The Government had abandoned whatever policy they had, even at the commencement of the season, when the Native Lands Bill and Amended Counties Bill were the most prominent features in the Governor’s speech. Their only policy now was political rest. They said “We can’t give you a policy now, but if you’ll wait patiently we’ll do so next year.” He urged the Southern members to agree to some compromise on the Land Fund question as the only means of maintaining a really united colony. Financing on Treasury Bills must cease. It was unpleasant (o severe old ties, but ho felt bound to pat aside all pergonal feeling, and when he found Ministers acting wrongly hecouldno longersupportthem. My Woolcock thought the Government bad too jgucij yatboy tbaa too little policy. £Le agreed

with Mr Sharp that any re-arrangement of colonial finance must be on the basis of making the Land Fund Colonial. He thought the County system had, on the whole, worked well. The present Ministry had done their best, and, if not perfect, certainly a change was not desirable at present. They had promised to revise the Incidence of Taxation next year, and he saw no reason to withdraw his support from them. Mr Larnach replied briefly, and the House divided—ayes, 42 ; noes, 38. Major Atkinson moved the adjournment of the debate to 7.30 p.m. to-day.