LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1370, 6 July 1878, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

[BY SUBMARINE CABLE. [EEUTKE’3 TELEGRAMS TO THE PEEEi AGENCY.] London, July 4th. The Channel squadron has left for an indefinite period under sealed orders. Constantinople, July 5. General Todleben is preparing for the withdrawal of the Russian army to Adrianople. [special to the press agency.] London, July 4. Congress is engaged in private committees, LordAylesford commenced, to-day,a divorce suit against the Countess and the Marquis of Blandford. The Queen’s Proctor intervened on the ground Of collusion, and produced evidence in support of same. The Countess also makes charges againt Lord Aylesford, AUSTRALIAN. Sydney, July 5. The Queensland revenue for the year w'd £1,550,000, being an increase of £122,52 It shows a surplus of £9900. The South Australian revenue was £1,500,000. Markets —Brandy and kerosene are unchanged : rice, £24 10s ; tobacco, sugar, and candles unchanged. Adelaide, July 5. Flour, £l2 10s; wheat, os lid.

[special to the “globe.”] Sydney, July 5. Tho Brisbane has arrived with a full cargo of new teas. She brings 820 chests, 7305 half chests, and 6000 boxes tea for the New Zealand market. INTERPROVINCIAL. [per press agency.] Auckland, July 5. Yesey Stewart has chartered the ship Halcione to bring a second batch of Belfast special settlers for Katikati. He has sold out all his properties in Ireland, realising £II,OOO. He brings a printer to start a small paper at the settlement. Wellington, July 5. Tho Colonial Museum will be openpd on Sundays for the first time next Sunday, from two till four o’clock. Mi Burns, Postmaster-General of New South Wales, and Hon. J, T. Fisher, have made proposals to Col. Glover involving fresh terms with tho company as to tariff charges per cable for messages to and from Australia. Probably a reduction in present charges will result. Col. Glover has telegraphed to the Board of Directors of the Eastern Extension Company, at London, for instructions. Col. Whitmore, Messrs Fisher and Burns, with Col. Glover and Dr. Lemon, leave for Nelson and Wakapuaka, per Hinemoa, tomorrow, and will return on Monday. Nelson, July 5. Mr Richmond Hursthouse, M.H.R., writes to the chairman of the Education Board, asking his opinion regarding the voting powers given under clause 65 of the Education Act. Mr Hursthouse says —“ I can hardly believe that eighty men, myself included, could let such an extraordinary provision be made law.” Timaru, July 5. Allan and Stumbles obtaining the contract for the Breakwater has given general satisfaction here, as they are well known as successful contractors for railways and other largo works. Dunedin, July 5. At a meeting held to-day it was resolved to take steps for the construction of a railway down the Peninsula side of the Dunedin harbor.