LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1372, 9 July 1878, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

[BY SUBMARINE CABLE.] [special telegrams to the press AGENCY.] London, July 6. Bank rate, 3|; market, 3 ; Colonial Government securities and wheat unchanged; ilour, 355. At the wool sales 310,000 bales were catalogued, whereof 43,000 were held over for next sales; 155,000 were exported. The next series commence on August 20th. The total quantity offered was 330,000. Berlin, July 7, The European Congress has agreed to maintain the treaty stipulations prohibiting the passage of the Dardanelles by foreign war vessels, and cedes Biitoum to Russia, making it a free port. Concerning the northern boundary of G-reece, it is suggested that it shall extend from the mouth of the river Salambria to the mouth of the river Kalama. The decision of Congress dissatisfies everybody. The London Conservative journals ,jnc. Paris papers vigorously attack them. The Austrian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina has ' been postponed until August. Russia restores to Turkey Bayazid Valley and Alaßhgerd. AUSTRALIAN. Melboitenk, July 8. Parliament reassembles to-morrow, when the Hon. Mr Sladen will introduce a Bill into the Legislative Council to amend its constitution. In the Assembly Mr Berry gives fimijar noticp of a Bill to reform the constitu-

tion. Professor Pearson will move the reply to (he address. No division will take place on the reply. It is stnted that the Associated Bank representatives decline to advise a heavier loan than three millions, including the purchase of the Hobson's Bay Railway. Sydney, July 8. The schooner Or. W. Tucker, bound for Wellington with a cargo of wharf timber and general merchandise, is a complete wreck on tlie north beach of the Clarence River. Tho vessel and cargo are fully insured. Melbourne, July 8. Sailed—Tararua, on Friday; Arawata, on Monday morning. INTERPROVINCIAL.

[PBB PBBBB AGENCY.] Napieb, July 8. At a meeting of the Hawke's Bay County Council to-day a motion by Mr Sutton, M.H.R,, to abolish toll-gates was negatived, also an amendment to continue them for only one year. The decision arrived at waa to put the tolls to auction in the usual way. There is some talk a b -ain here about starting a newspaper, but nothing definite is known. There is a movement on foot to call a public meeting to bring pressure to bear upon the Municipal Council for the speedy abatement, of the swamp nuisance. It appears that the Swamp Nuisance Act, though it empowers the Council to reclaim sections belonging to private persons, and recoup the cost by selling the sections, gives no recourse against section owners in ease the sections do not realise the cost of reclaiming. Hence the dilatoriness of the Borough Council in proceeding with the work of reclaiming. Wellington, July 8. A supplement to the " G-azette " just published contains Mr Burns' resignation of the seat for Roslyn. [feom the coebespondent op the pbess.] Oamaeu, July 8. It is rumored that the line will be open to Palmerston on Wednesday or Thursday next. The through line will not bo opened, it is expected, for a couple of months. The delay is owing to the defective arrangements about timber.