TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1404, 15 August 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

C A B L E_N E W S. [reuter’s telegrams to the press AGENCY.] The Troops Ordered to Leave Batoum, SPECIAL TO THE GLOBF. London, August 13. The Queen reviewed the fleet at Spithead, eighteen ships and eight ironclads, amid a drenching rain. The resistance to Austrian occupation is increasing, necessitating great military preparations. London, August 14. Robertson, Parkes, and other leading politicians, the citizens, clergy, and workmen have arranged a demonstration in favor of the Gladstone party. Constantinople, August 13. The Porto has ordered her troops to evacuate Batoum. London, August 14. The deaths from the late Indian famine amount to one million three hundred and fifty thousand. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. [per press agency.] Dunedin, August 15. In reply to a telegram from the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, approving of a partial abandonment of the ad valorem duties, and asking the Dunedin Chamber to urge upon tl'.e Government the complete abandonment of a system which had diminished the revenue and increased fraudulent practices, the committee of the Dunedin Chamber resolved—“ That the committee are of opinion that the ad valorem system is the most suitable one for the Customs duties on manufactured goods, and therefore are not prepared to comply with the request of the Auckland Chamber.”