TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1428, 12 September 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

CABLE NEWS.

(special to the press agency.) The Bosnians. The Australian Cricketers. London, September 11. Sir Arthur Gordon and the King of Siam have been created Grand Cross of St. Michael and George, The Austrians are likely to occupy Albania. The island of Pelago will probably be ceded to England. Serious opposition to Austrian occupation continues in Bosnia, It is improbable the campaign will be concluded this season. Thirty-six thousand insurgents with forty guns are collected for the defence of the country. Five Australian cricketers subscribed a hundred pounds towards the Princess Alice fund. The first innings of the Gentlemen closed for a hundred and nine, and the second innings of the Australians eight out for two hundred and forty-nine. It was a drawn game. [REUTER’S TELEGRAMS TO THE PRESS AGENCY.] Athens, September 10. Greece solicits the mediation of the European Powers to compel the Turks to carry out the treaty with respect to the Grecian frontier. Berlin, September 10. Dr. Nobiling died to-day.

AUSTRALIAN.

Sydney, September 12. The steamer City of Newcastle, bound to Sydney from Newcastle, stranded near Newcastle this morning. The weather was fine, but there was a dense fog. No lives were lost. The vessel is expected to become a total wreck. NEW ZEALAND TELEQ-RAMS. [fee press agency.] Txmaeu, September 12. Notwithstanding the proclamation by the Governor dividing the borough of Timaru into wards, the annual election of councillors in in place of those retiring takes place to-day through boundaries not being properly defined. The Court of Enquiry concluded its labors re the recent wreck of the barque Melrose. The verdict attributes no blame to the officers or crew, and states that there was not sufficient evidence to enable the court to express an opinion as to the state of the hull. The Grand Master of the Grange Orange Institution of the Middle Island of New Zealand will open a lodge at Waimate on Thursnay, the 19th inst., when there is every prospect of a large number of persons joining. Ho will also officiate at the Royal Arch Purple Chapter in connection with the local Orange Lodge, No. 13 in Timaru next Wdnesday evening.