YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1040, 25 October 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

[PER PBESS AGENCY.] AUSTRALIAN. [Per City of New York, via Auckland.] The Queensland Government have forced through Parliament a vote of £750,000 for new railways, in the face of persistent obstruction, during a sitting occupying thirty hours, lasting through one night and day till dusk of next day, and ending in a count out. A thief, who was decamping from the Ulster Hotel, Brisbane, with £350 and a cash box, was collared on the stairs by a young lady, through whose exertions he was captured with the whole of the booty. The culprit in the case of the "Goldstein jewellery robbery, Melbourne, has been sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. Lock, of Melbourne, asserts that the photograph of the lunatic in Paramatta Asylum has been fully identified in England as that of Arthur Orton, and that there is no doubt about it. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, October 24. Entries for the Jockey Club Handicap and Steeplechase close on Friday next. Miss Young, the American star, has arrived from Australia under engagement to Mr DeLias. Napier, October 24. At a meeting last night regarding the Indian famine, the Mayor presided. The amount subscribed in the room was £217, including £SO from Captain Newman. The committee have arranged to have a table in the street next Saturday. One of the speakers said that Hawke's Bay would give a good account of itself. Dunedin, October 24. The High School commission closed to-day. The report will be forwarded to the Minister of Justice when it is drawn up. Mr A. Willis, late Under-Secretary for Otago, has been appointed Gold Receiver at Naseby. Mr Bell, contractor, was seriously hurt today at Musselburgh while attending a stonecrushing machine. Though he sustained severe internal injuries, it is expected that he will recover. The Italian Opera Company left Melbourne to-day for Otago. West Harbor has been declared a borough under the Municipal Act 1876. At the Waste Lands Board meeting to-day an influential deputation asked that from 12,000 to 20,000 acres of land should be thrown open for settlement at Waikava. If such were done, they anticipated that a flourishing township surpassing Port Chalmers would spring up there. The Board promised to consider the request of the deputation. EUROPEAN TELEGRAMS. The following telegraphic items are from the Melbourne "Argus" correspondent, dated October Bth : M. Jules Simon, late Premier of the French Ministry, is alarmingly ill. The sculling match between Robert Watson Boyd, of Gateshead, and John Higgins, of Shad well, from Putney to Mortlake, for £4OO, the championship, and the Newcastle Chronicle Cup, took place to-day. Higgins won by four lengths. The remains of Madame Titiens, the operatic artiste, were interred to-day in Kensal-green Cemetery. There was a large attendance at the funeral. From the European telegrams published in the Indian papers we extract the following items: — There is a strike of 10,000 cotton spinners at Bolton. M. Jules Grevy will probably succeed the late M. Thiers as leader of the Republican party. Abdul Kerim Pasha, Redif Pasha, and the commanders of Scutari, Sistova, and Schipka, have been banished to Lemnos. Sclavonic journals state that the Montenegrin, on the 11th September, defeated the Turkish fom, which was marching to the reliaf of Nicksic, and that the Turkish loss was 700 men. In the race for the Doncaster Cup Hampden was first, Chesterton second, and Thorn third. Under date of September 19th it is stated, on the authority of a Turkish official despatch, that the Turks had abandoned Fort Nicholas, in the Schipka Pass, from motives of strategy. A llussiim official despatch, however, states that the Turkish assault was repulsed, with enormous loss, after nine hours' continuous fighting.