LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1413, 26 August 1878, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

♦ [BY SUBMARINE CABLE.] [bkutee’s special telegrams to the PRESS AGENCY.] New Orleans, August 23. Yellow fever is raging throughout all Louisiana. Vienna, August 23. The announcement of a convention between Austria and Turkey was premature. The Austrian Press -advocates the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Constantinople, August 23. The Russians attacked Mussulman insurgents in the Rhodope mountains. The result was indecisive. SPECIAL TO THE “GLOBE.” London, August 23. Greece intimates that if Turkey refuses to make the concessions arranged by the Congress she will wrest them by war. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. [per press agency.] Wellington,, August 24. The street tramway was formally opened to-day by hie Excellency the Marquis of

Normanby, the Company having issued a great many invitations. Three engines and five large carriages were placed on the line. The Governor and suite, with the members of the Legislature, occupied the carriage of honor, and all others were filled by citizens and their wives. The trip from Government House to the Tramway Station was most successful, though nearly all the cabs in the city were continually driving on both sides of the tramway carriages. About two hundred ladies and gentlemen sat down to a champagne luncheon. His Excellency, in reply to the toast of his health, expressed his surprise at the rapid progress of Wellington during the last four years, and complimented it upon being the first city in the Australian colonies to venture upon the experiment of a steam tramway. Mr Kennedy McDonald, in returning thanks on behalf of the directors, said the line, engines, and carriages, with other expenses had cost the company £40,000, and that before they put Wellington in complete tramway communication they would have to spend another £60,000. He also expressed the deep obligation of the company to the Bank of New Zealand for the very valuable pecuniary assistance which had been rendered them. The day being very fine, the streets along the line were crowded with people, The whole affair was considered a great success. Dunedin, August 25. The Northern visitors will bo entertained at a banquet on Saturday, sth September. Mrs Reid, of Saddle Hill, was fined £SO on Saturday for sly grog selling. At the inquest held on Mrs Cowan yesterday, the jury returned a verdict that her death was due to disease and to a wound inflicted by herself while in a state of temporary insanity. [pEOM THE COEEEBPONDENTS OF THE FEB S3.] Timaeu, August 25. At an inquest on the body of Thomas Brooks yesterday, a verdict of died from natural causes was returned. Auckland, August 25. Considerable dissatisfaction exists at the railway management, with respect to the anomalies of the passenger and traffic fares. Two narrow escapes from collisions during the past week were recorded by the press, owing to blundering and contradictory orders. Mr 0. Sullivan, Inspector of Schools, goes to Wellington to collect information, as to the establishment of Teachers' Training Schools. Owing to complaints preferred to the Board of Education, it has prohibited teachers from attending County Councils and Highway Boards to the neglect of school duty. Wm. Tidmarsh, alms Ross, charged with forging cheques on the Bank of New South Wales, was dismissed, as the witnesses could not clearly identify accused. A leakage exists in the dock, which will necessitate pumping every twelve hours. It is thought it can be remedied inexpensively. At Epsom, an infant, named Ada Lennard, was severely scalded in her cradle accidentally by her brother, four years old. The outbuildings of Scarborough, a milkman at Remuera, were burnt down last night. Flax, hay, and timber, of the value of £2OO, were destroyed. He was uninsured. His lad had accidentally fired some flax, which communicated the fire to the building.