LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1426, 10 September 1878, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

[special to the press agency.] London, September 7. The Russians entered Batoum without opposition.

Mehemet Ali Pasha and twenty of his suite have been massacred.

The Bank’s minimum is unchanged. Market rate for three months’ bills, 41; Consols are extremely depressed, and have experienced a heavy fall of 1 per cent. The wool market betrays symptoms of weakness in medium and faulty parcels, which Superior wools are firm. market is unchanged, and the weather is fine for harvest. J. C. Wilson succeeds Commodore Hoskins on the Australian station. The Paris Exhibition will close on November 15th. Further colonial awards are

expected. ' In the Gloucestershire match, the first inniugs of the Australians closed for 183. The Gloucestershire in their second innings made 85. The game was won by the Australians with ten wickets to spare. The bowling of the Australians was very effective, and the wicket-keeping of Blaokham excellent. The attendance was largo, the weather hot, and the wicket good. The scores were : —A. Bannerrnan, run out, 19; Spofforth, bowled Gilbert, 44 ; Murdoch, run out, 0 ; Gregory, caught off Miles, 1; Blackham, bowled Miles 0; Allan, caught off Dr. Grace, 14; Boyle, not out 11. Gloucestershire —Second Innings Gilbert, 1; Townsend, 18 ; Bush, 3 ; Miles, 4 ; all bowled Spofforth 5 Cranston, caught off Spofforth, 0; Grace, Ibw, b Garrett, 5; Moberley, caught off Allan, 0; Fred Grace, bowled Garrett, 6; Dr. Grace, caught off Garrett, 13; Wright, bowled Allan, 12 j Smith, not out, 19; sundries, 4. The Australians’ Second Innings was Bailey, not out, 9 j Spofforth, not out 4; sundries, 4. Consols, rates of discount, and wheat and flour quotations, are unchanged.

New Zealand fives, 100). Australian securities are declining,