TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1412, 24 August 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

♦ CA.BLE_NEWS. Seven Millions of Chinese Die of : Famine. ■. ~.,>?? Anglo-Russian Complications. [special to the press agency.] London, August 22. Austria has now a hundred and eighty thousand Austrians in Bosnia. Austrian demonstrations are being made against Servia and Montenegro. It is officially announced that seven millions died from famine in China. The Russian advance in the direction of Afghanistan is stopped, owing to British protests and serious disasters to the left column of the expeditionary force. [REUTEB'S TBLKGRAMB TO THIJ PRESS AGENCY.] AUSTRALIAN. Melbourne, August 23. The Underwriters' Association reports that the brigantine Circe, bound from Oamaru to Batavia, grounded on Crompton Island. The crew jettisoned some flour, and the vessel floated and arrived at Batavia on the 21st. The natives stole fifty tons of flour. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. [per press agency.] Port Chalmers, August 24. Two severe shocks of earthquake were experienced at 2.45 p.m., each of one minute duration. They travelled from west to east. Dunedin, August 24. The Under-Secretary has written to the Chamber of Commerce, stating that the Government cannot support the proposal of the Chamber, that all bankruptcy notices should be published in the " Mercantile Gazettes " of New Zealand. The Anderson's Bay school committee have decided to bring into force the compulsory clause of the Education Act. The last rail connecting Dunedin with Christchurch will be laid at 12.30 on Monday..