TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1212, 22 January 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

CABLE_NEWS SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE. [from our own correspondent.] T H E~WA R. England's Proposals. London, January 20. England proposes a Conference, and in case the powers refuse, Parliament will be asked to grant a credit in readiness for war. [HBUTBR'S SPECIAL TBLEOBAMB TO THE PRESS AGENCY.] Russians Before Adrianople. Rising in Thessaly. London, January 21. The Russians have arrived before Adrianople. The garrison has evacuated the town and is retiring towards Constantinople. The Sultan has called out all the men capable of bearing anus for military service, to defend the lines of the Tchekmedges. There is a general rising in Thessaly. The British troops have been successful against the Galekas, after severe fighting. The House of Commons has negatived an amendment on the address in reply to the Queen's speech. Commercial. London, January 18. Consols, 94£. Bank rate of interest 4 per cent; market rate 3 j per cent. Wheat is quiet but steady. Adelaide wheat unchanged ; flour, 44s fid. Queensland 4 per cents 94J1; the others unchanged. Marine Disasters. The Underwriters' Association reports (he Harriett Armytage, barque, from the Lacepede Isles to the United Kingdom, put. into Cape Town leaky. She will have to discharge her cargo. The Assyrian, ship, from Lacepede to the United Kingdom, put into Algoa Bay in distress. She has been condemned and sold. Haddington barque, from London to Sydney, was towed back after a collision with the Falcon. She has sailed again. AUSTRALIAN. The Drought in New South Wales Ended. [PROM OUR OWN correspondent.] Sydney, January 22. There has been a rainfall throughout the colony. A terrible clyclone has occurred at Port Darwin. [rEUTER'S TEIEGBAMS TO THE PRESS AGENCY.] Sydney. Parliament meets to-day. There is a severe drought throughout the country, and great distress. [Per Alhambra, via Bluff.] Melbourne, January 16. The present crisis is the all engrossing topic. Yesterday a solicitor applied to the Chief Justice in Chambers for a mandamus to compel the Assistant-Registrar of the County Court to issue a summons. The officer said he had been instructed by the Crown Lands Department not to issue any summonses. The Chief Justice said he had no discretion in the mattar, and granted a rule for a mandamus. Upon the Government being informed of this step they at once dismissed all the Registrars and Assistant-Registrars, so that it is now impossible to bring any case before the County Court, the Judges having previously been suspended. A number of Acts of Parliament are now wholly in-operative, owing to the persons appointed to administor them having been dispensed with. The Governor, Sir G. Bowen, is absent in a neighboring colony. His absence has been much commented on. Already the effects of the crisis are being_ felt in business circles, while the greatest misery caused. Several large employers of labor will be forced to reduce their establishments. The matter has been referred to from the pulpits. The Government intend to revert to the svstem in force prior to 1862, and to make p'ayments on the authority of Assembly alone, ad send an Appropriation Bill to the Council at their leisure.

In Riverina and in oilier parts of New South Wales the heat has been intense, killing birds and animals. There is no grass, am very little water anywhere in the country. The Hon. Neil Black's sale of pure bre< cattle at Mount Noorat realised £10,710.

The gold yield last year shows a falling off o 114,421 ounces as compared with the previou year. The number of miners has also fallej off. The total at the ond of December w 38,036,

INTERPROYINCIAL. [pes pekss agency.] Arrival of the San Francisco Mail at Auckland. Balclutha Railway Bridge Opened. Auckland, January 22. The Zealandia, with the English and American mails is signalled. She will arrive in about an hour. Timaeu, January 22. Miss Ada Ward and the Lydia Howard Troupe appear here to-morrow night. Mr White and Mr Hammersley, solicitors engaged in the Breach of Promise case Flora McKinnon v. John Loudon, have gone to Christchurch. The former applies to the Supreme Court, now sitting, for a re-hearing on behalf of the prosecution; the latter opposes.

Very heavy rain fell here, lasting all night. Balclutha, January 22.

At four o'clock this morning the new railway bridge here was tested by Mr Carruthers, accompanied by Mr Blair, district engineer, Mr Cook and Mr Kcrle, assistant engineers. Three locomotives and six loaded coal trucks were used, weighing 110 tons. Each span was tested carefully, and the dellection found to be from three-eighths to three quarters of an inch, there being no permanent set, as when the load had passed, the bridge sprang back to its original level. After cacli span was tested the train was run across at the rate of ten miles an hour, when the dellection was only three-eighths of an inch. These tests are considered very satisfactory, and show the work to have been faithfully carried out. The bridge consists of seven spans, of one hundred and twenty feet each, and one of thirty feet across a road at the end of the bridge.