CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1422, 5 September 1878, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

The Oc:upatio:i of Batoum. The Sculling- Championship.

Loss of Life in Hungary.

Double Murder.

The Australian Cricketers.

[eeuter's special telegrams to the prhds AGENCY.] St. Petersburg, August 29. It is stated that the resistance on the part of the Lazes to the Bussian occupation of Batouin has been abandoned. Berlin, August 29tb. Tho German Federal Council havo adopted a Bill repressing Socialists. Vienna, August 30. The Auatro-Hungarian army iu Bosnia'and Herzegovina will bo increased to 170,000 men.

London, September 2. Elliott beat Biggins the champion sculler.

[special to tub press agency.]

London, September 3. The Eurydice has been lowed into Portsmouth. The court-martial attributed no blame to anybody. In a railway collision at LilHugbourne eight were killed and thirty injured. A storm destroyed tho town of Misorlotz in Hungary. A hundred lives were lost. Australian securities arc disorganised in consequence of the anticipated new loan. It is believed that the A'ictorian loan of four millions will prove a failure. New Zealand 5 per cent, consolidated £lOl, Now Zealand 4i per cent £9-1. A double murder of a most atrocious kind has occurred, at Northampton, The Sergeant

of Militia shot the Quarter-Master and PaySerpeant.

A large number of the prizes have been awarded to Victoria by the Paris Exhibition, including gold, silver, and bronze medals.

The Sussex match resulted in a draw. The Players, in the first innings, made 87, and the Australians 41. Many of the best men amongst the Players were excluded, owing to a dispute about payment.