LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1402, 13 August 1878, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

BY SUBMARINE CABLE. [special to the press agency.] London, August 10. Sir Julius Vogel vindicated the municipal loan for Dunedin against the depreciatory remarks of the “Times.” The Queen reviews the Navy at Spithead on August 13th. The “ Daily News” reports serious sickness among the troops at Cyprus, but no deaths. The armed population of Batoum are preparing to resist the Russian occupation. Twenty thousand Turkish volunteers arc gone to the frontier. A tornado visited Wallingford, Connecticut. Thirty persons were killed and many houses demolished. Mart ial law is proclaimed in Bosnia. Sir Stafford Norlhcote stated that the estimates for the Kaffir war were within £400,000. Le Pard’s paper-making establishment in Oovent Garden was burned down, the loss being £30,000. Parliament is now expected to be prorogued on August 16th. The corvette Cormorant, bound for the Australian station, sprang a leak in the Channel, and returns to Chatham The money market is stringent. Bank minimum unchanged. Australian securities continue depressed, with other stocks increasing. The value of money is producing a temporary inactivity. The corn market is flat. The weather is splendid for harvest operations. [bbuter’B telegrams to peess agency.] London, August 10, Consols, 95 J ; bank market rates four. Adelaide wheat, 50s to 51s ; flour, 355. The New Zealand five per cent, loan is quoted at £lOl. Vienna, August 10. The resistance to the Austrian advance in Bosnia and Herzegovina is increasing. There is continuous fighting. AUSTRALIA. Melbourne, August 12. The Underwriters Association report under date London, August 10th, arrived Pleiades ninety days out from Lyttelton. The Jessie Macdonald sailed on July Bth from Foochow for Wellington. [Per Hero, via Auckland.] Melbourne, August 6. A verdict for defendant was given in the action for libel against the Trades Protection Circular. The Loch Ard concert added £4OO to the funds. The Minister of Railways, in reply to a question, said £200,000 had been spent on the Spencer street station. The Postmaster-General thinks favourably of establishing a penny post, and carrying newspapers free. An amateur Blondin, calling himself Henry Ruffin, was killed by a fall from a wire stretched over a street at Geelong. Melita is still favorite for the Cup. Sydney, August 6. £2500 was subscribed to the Mort memorial. Goldsworthy’s store at Newcastle was burnt down. Adelaide, August 6. No more bodies belonging to the James Service have been found. The brig Ella Gladstone was condemned. Hyndman, the city surveyor, is dead. A man named Boyd was seriously injured by his wife pouring kerosene over him, and lighting it. Patrick Grey, a draper at Hotham, committed suicide. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. [PEB PEESS AGENCY.] Auckland, August 12. At a meeting of licensed victuallers to-day the action of the brewers in raising beer a halfpenny above the tariff was strongly condemned. A resolution was carried, “ That this meeting is of opinion that the price of beer cannot be raised to consumers, and, as the licensed victuallers are alresdy heavily burdened, they request the brewers to consider their recent resolution, and supply beer at the old price.” Dr. Somerville and son are expected by the mail steamer from Sydney, en route for England. Dickenson, the undertaker, was committed for trial on a charge of fraudulent bankruptcy, by concealing goods in an adjoining house. New Plymouth, August 12.

The Taranaki Jockey Club races are fixed for the sth and 6th of December. The programme for the first day comprises—Handicap Hurdle race, £lO ; Maiden Plate, £10; Taranaki Cup, £6O ; Hack race, £5 ; Taranaki Jockey Club Handicap, £l5O. Second day— Handicap Steeplechase, £6O; Hack Hurdle, £lO ; Autumn Handicap, £BO ; Harbor Stakes, £4O ; Railway Plate, £3O ; Consolation Stakes, £2O. Wellington, August 12. All the Canterbury delegates and Mr Reeves of the West Coast interviewed the Government to-day as to a main road between Ahaura and Amuri. The Government admitted the necessity of such a road, and said that, if possible, it would be done, but that they were afraid that the railway from Brunnerton to Amberley would absorb all the money. The County Conference to-night adopted the report that reserves be vested in County Councils for ferries, canals, wharves, rivers or lakes, landing places for timber or other material, stone quarries, pounds, planting reserves, water-races, certain police reserves in excess of police requirements which would be useful for carrying stock when travelling, and gravel pits, with power to delegate the management of the same to road districts. Commonages or goldfields’ mining reserves to be subject to the right of mining thereon. That the following reserves bo vested in local Boards other than Counties or Road Boards Recreation reserves, racecourses, botanical gardens, cemeteries, abattoirs, industrial schools, ch ritable institutions, river protection, and reserves for drainage or municipal purposes. That the Government should retain reserves for railways, tramways, telegraph lines, townships, and lighthouses. The Conference is still sitting at 0,30 p.m. Kumaea, August 12. A crowded meeting, rc railway, was held here, the Mayor in the chair. Resolutions were’ passed, urging on the Government the desirability of connecting the East and West Coasts, the lino from GreymoutU to Christchurch, via Amberley, was strongly advocated by several speakers, and very favorably received here.

Dunedin, August 12. One hundred and sixty-eight acres of land, near For bury, about two miles from Dunedin, changed owners to-day for £25,000. Between July 11th and August Btb, there hare been rccejred at the puuedin office^

under the nominated immigration system, applications for 109 souls, equal to 98 statute adults. [from the correspondents of the press.] Auckland, August 12. Thomas Dickenson, charged under the Debtors and Creditors Act with fraudulent bankruptcy, was committed for trial on two charges. James Grey, alias Gaffney, alias Lee, charged with uttering a forgodcheque on the Bank of Australasia, was committed for trial. A Coromandel steamboat company has been formed ; 2400 shares have baen taken up. and a tender has been received to build a suitable vessel for the trade for £3600. J. W. Preece, Native land purchase agent at the Thames, engaged in putting Jas. Mackay’s Government purchases through the Lands Court, died suddenly at Auckland from lung disease. He was a son of James Preece, one of the early catechists of the Church Missionary Society. Mac Lean and Co.’s famous bull Duke of Newcastle was landed from the Hero to-day from Sydney. The owners have been urged to send him to Melbourne show. They have not. yet decided. A licensed victualler here has forwarded an order for forty casks of Australian light wines, which will he offered for sale by retail at the same figure as beer, until the brewers reduce the new figure.