TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1031, 15 October 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

CABLE NEWS [SPECIAL MESSAGE TO THE " SYDNEY HEBALD."] London, October 8. Higgins beat Boyd by four lengths. Gale has completed his great pedestrian feat. The Penge convicts deny the ill-treatment of their victim. The execution is fixed for the 13th. Gambetta's manifesto has provoked fresh prosecutions. The G-rand Vizier has disavowed the recent violent Turkish articles against England. Sulieman Pasha has deposed Ahmet Eyob Pasha, and ordered him to return to Constantinople. Operations at Kars and in Bulgaria are suspended by the bad weather. INTERPROVINCIAL. [pee peess agency.] "New Ministry. Wellington, October 15, 3 p.m. The new Ministers are just being sworn in as follows :—Sir George Grey, Premier and Colonial Secretary; Mr Larnach, Treasurer avid Commissioner of Stamps; Mr Macandrew, Minister for Lands and Works ; Mr Sheehan Native Minister and Minister of Justice ; Mr Fisher, Postmaster-General and Telegraph Commissioner. Colonel Whitmore refused office. Wellington, October 15. Communication by the Tasmanian cable is interrupted, but messages can be posted from Melbourne. Patea, October 15. The Jane Elkin, ketch, Leslie master and owner, from Pelorus Sound, on entering the Patea river at two o'clock on Sunday with a fair wind, struck a snag on the bar and filled with water in three minutes. The vessel is too much damaged to float, and has been abandoned. She is partly insured for £3OO. The cargo of sawn timber is saved. Hokttika, October 15. The Board of Health report that scarlet fever has entirely died out. There is only one case, of a simple type, in an adult female who has nearly recovered. No other forms of infectious and contagious diseases are prevailing.