TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1354, 17 June 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

CABLE NEWS

SPECIAL TO THE OXOBM.

[from orb own correspondent.] London, June IG. The Longsight Eighteen, including Messrs G. E. G-race and Gilbert, defeated the Australians by two wickets. [special to the press agency.] London, June 15. The cricket match was won by Longsight by two wickets, Erod Grace made 41 in the second innings and 23 in the first. The money market is rather firm. The Bank reserve is slightly better. The stock market is very firm. Consols have receded one-half per cent. Australian securities arc characterised by great strength and activity. Wool is firm and hardening. Prices for greasy have advanced one halfpenny. The competition is brisk between homo and foreign buyers. The- corn market is heavy and inactive. There have been large imports.

Hji'ne Prince of Wales has visited the Austrian trophies and expressed great satisfaction. He has accepted the presidency of the Colonial Institute. Bombay, June 16. The G .ronnc, after being three days ashore, has been got off uninjured. [neuter’s special telegrams to the PRESS AGENCY.] Berlin, Jure 15. Count Sehouvaloff and the Marquis of Salisbury have agreed that the Balkans shall form the southern boundary of North Bulgaria which is to become an independent state. The district south of the Balkans is to bo an autonomous province, but 1 lie frontier is to bo -removed from the -Lgean. England consents to the cession of Batoum and Bessarabia, and takes Armenia under her special protection, The control of .the neighbour-

ing states is to bo subject to tho arrangements made by united Europe. Russia surrenders Bayazid. The passage of the Dardanelles and tho Bosphorus remain in stain quo. At Thursday s sitting Earl Bcaconsfield alluded to tho dangerous proximity of tho opposing forces at Constantinople, and hoped the Russian troops would bo withdrawn immediately. INTERPROYINCIAL. [PUB PEES 3 AGKNOV.] Taupo, June 17. Last night a shock of earthquake was felt, and immediately a loud rumbling was heard in the direction of Tongariro, which continued at intervals till late this morning. The weather was very wet and stormy. All the mountains around are capped with snow. Wellington, June 17. The “ New Zealander ” announces that the following judicial changes are about to be made: District Judge Ward will be relieved of the duty of holding sittings at Milton and Invercargill, and will be required to preside in the new District Court to be established at Christchurch as well as at Oamaru and Timaru, as at present. District Judge Harrcy, of the goldfields district, will bo required to sit also at Invercargill; and District Judge Bathgate, of Dunedin, will be required to sit at Milton and Palmerston ; Mr Woolcombe, R.M., of Timaru, retires on a pension ; and Mr Mellish, R.M., of Christchurch, will bo transferred to Timaru ; Mr Richmond Beotham, R.M., Napier, will succeed Mr Mellish as R.M. at Christchurch. Mr Mansford, R.M., at Port Chalmers, will on the 29th relieve Mr J. 0. Crawford, R.M., of this city, who retires on a pension, Mr Mansford will also be District Judge for Wellington and Wairarapa. Mr Isaac Newton Watt, R.M., of Dunedin will take charge of the Port Chalmers Court. No one is appointed to succeed Mr Beetham at Napier, but as a District Court is to be established there, a professional man will be appointed to preside in both Courts. Mr Henry Blundell senior, late proprietor and founder of the “ Evening Post,” died at Sydney on Saturday after a short illness, aged sixty-five. At a meeting of the Roman Catholics last night for the purpose of starting a girls’ school at To Aro, £530 were collected in the room. The case against Mr Macdonald, auctioneer, for a breach of the Conveyancing Ordinance was called on this morning, but was adjourned for a week. Dunedin, June 17. A criminal information for libel was laid on Saturday by Mr Macassey against Mr G. M. Reed, editor of tho “ Daily Times.” _ The alleged libel was contained in an article in the “Daily Times” entitled “Macassey on Law Costs,” and had reference to Messrs Rees and Hislop’s bill. The “ Times” states that Mr Rees will lay a similar information against Mr Macassey to-day, the ground of the libel being a letter which appeared in the “ Herald.”