TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1254, 14 March 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

CABLE NEWS

[retjtee’s special telegrams to the PBBBB AGENCY.] London, March 11. Frequent Cabinet Council* are being held. Mr Gladstone will not be a candidate at the next general election.

England and Prance have accepted the proposals for a Peace Congress at Berlin. The Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs, on asking for a grant of sixty million florins, said he must demand of the Peace Conference that the limitation of the results of the war be defined in such manner as that European, Austrian, and Hungarian interests remain uninjured. Any single Power attempting a solution of the difficulty must be prepared to meet a European coalition.

[SPECIAL TO THE “ABGUB.”] London, March 11. All the Powers have accepted the proposal of a Congress.

England demands the appointment of a commission to inquire into the affairs of Greece.

Anti-Russian meetings have been held in Hyde Park. Mr Gladstone retires from Greenwich at next election.

There has been a change of Ministry at Quebec. Mr Jolly is Premier. A steamer has been burnt at Cape Elia, and 500 Circassians perished. The Brindisi mail has arrived.

SPECIAL TO TEE GLOBE. [from our own correspondent.] AUSTRALIAN. Affairs at Samoa. Sydney, March 14. The American Consul threw difficulties in the way of (Jordon, and the Samoan chiefs played with him. Whereupon two armed boats from the Sapphire seized the Samoan wan-of-war, hauling down the flag and hoisting the English. The Islands are still held as indemnity. [ekutbe's special telegrams to the PRESS AGENCY.] Sydney, March 14. Arrived —Hero. Melbourne, March 14. The Government have declined to entertain the proposition of the Council until the Payment of Members Bill is passed. Sailed —Rotorua. INTERPROYINOIAL. [pee peesb agency,] Dunedin, March 14. An exhaustive enquiry is going on touching the death of a child recently found in a soapbox at Blueskin. The whole affair appears wrapped in mystery. The mother is Siid to be Mrs DeCosta, of Timaru, and she declares the child died, and that she gave it to a man who promised to bury it for £5. She did not know who the man was, and she gave it him to save disgrace, as her family did not know of her condition. The night before the day on which she alleges the child died, she admitted giving it laudanum. The enquiry was adjourned till Monday, to discover the truth or otherwise of hep statement. [from: ous own ooeeesponpent.] Dunedin, March ]A. The inquest at Blueskin yesterday lasted till eleven last night. The medical evidence favors the theory that the child died from natural causes. Mrs De Costa made a long statement. In the main particulars it bears out the medical testimony. She says the child died very suddenly in her arms. She gave £5 to a man at the Dunedin Railway station to bury the child. She saw nothing more .of it. The jury were desirous of at once giving a yerdidt, but the coroner granted, on application of the po}ic,e ? an adjournment till Monday to enable them to waJte farther enquiries.