LAST NIGHTS TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1439, 26 September 1878, Page 3

LAST NIGHTS TELEGRAMS

BY SUBMARINE CABLE.] [BET/TEE'S TELEGRAMS TO THE PBESa AGENCY.] THE AFGHAN DIFFICULTY. RUSSIA AND THE AMEER. COLLAPSE OF BOSNIAN INSURRECTION. Constantinople, September 23. The Russians evacuated, and the Turks occupied, San Stefano. London, September 24. London papers generally agree that the behaviour of the Ameer of Afghanistan demands prompt punishment, without dragging Russia into the conflict. [SPECIAL TO THE PEES 3 AGENCY.] London, September 23. The Austrians officially report great success in Bosnia. The insurgents are collapsing. Riots have occurred in Tangiers. The rioters have attacked the British Consulate. War preparations are being made in India. The " Times " hopes that war may be averted, and considers that operations are impossible before the spring. Popular feeling supports the Government. September 24. The troops are massing on the Afghan frontier. The refusal of the Ameer to receive the English mission is assigned to Russian manoeuvring. AUSTRALIAN. [betjteb's telegrams to pbess agency.] Sidney, September 25. Sailed—Rotorua. Two thousand sacks of New Zealand wheat have changed hands at 4s 4d. The Eastern Extension Company are willing to reduce the rates 75 per cent, over their own lines, making the tariff 5s Id between London and Port Darwin. Messrs Burns and Berry agree that it is advisable to accept the offer. An agreement with the company will probably be made. It is reported that the population have deserted Moresby, New Guinea. A supposed gold field has been discovered in the interior. WAGGA GOLD CUP BACK. Woodlands 1 Highlander 2 Swiveller 3 Ten started. Time—3min. 383ecs. The brig Mary Grant, which left Newcastle to-day for Cooktown with 180 tons coal and 30 of merchandise, ran ashore at Moona Point, then settled by the head, and filled. No lives were lost. Adelaide, September 25. A reconstruction of the Ministry will be neceßsary, consequent on Mr Boucaut's appointment. Mr Morgan forms a new Ministry. SPECIAL TO~THE GLOBE. Sydney, September 25. Reports state that gold has been discovered near Moresby. The diggers are all inland. Fever and ague are very prevalent. At the Solomon Islands, of Europeans and natives ten per cent, are dying. The New Zealand trading stations are abandoned. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. [PEE PBESS AGENCY.] RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN THE SOUTH. Auckland, Septemher 25. Daniel McSweeny was committed for trial ■charged with rape on a married woman. A daughter of Freney, station master at Remuera, was knocked down by a horse, and her thigh fractured. A heavy mass of scoria in a pit at Mount Eden fell on to Wilson, a carter. When extricated it was found that hia thigh was fractured. Arrived —H.M.S. Nymphe from the Chathams. The natives of the Chatham Islands caught and cured about fifteen hundred albatrosses, which they intend to send to Taranaki per Omaha, for a great native meeting to be held next March. When the Nymphe was anchored at Hicks' Bay on Monday last, it was reported that the natives at Waipa had quarrelled and formed two hostile parties, each taking possession of a pah and maintaining a warlike attitude. Tho chief William Barton has determined to go to Wellington, to aid Sir G Grey in native matters. He has used all his influence with his tribe to secure the capture of the murderer, Hikori, if he should turn up in their vicinity. Patea, September 25. Hikori, the Momahaki murderer, was seen on Sunday, and is believed to be hovering around Waitotara, hoping to get his wife away. A strong armed party of natives and Europeans started this morning to scour the bush on Okptuku and Momahaki blocks. The Government offers a reward to any person materially aiding the capture of Hikori. No ■efforts are being spared by the Government officers or settlers, and the Waitotara natives are showing themselves willing to help. Hone Pihama was at Waitotara to-day, assisting the search, and organising a party in conjunction with Captain Wray. Oamaeu, September 25. A special meeting of the members of the North Otago Turf Club was held to-night to ■consider tho advisability of altering tho date of the annual race meeting. There was a good attendance, and it was unanimously resolved —" That it ia expedient that the race meeting for 1878-9 bo held on the 11th and 12th December, and that Messrs O'Meagher, Sherwin, Grant, and Steward wait on the lessees of the race-course with a view to definitely fix the date. Motico to beat onco advertised, whether the change of date is agreed to, or whether tho meeting will be held as .heretofore." The programme was then submitted and adopted. Dr/NEDiN, September 25.

The 6.10 a.m. train to-day from Palmerston, on arriving in the neighborhood of Kowlej's bridge, near Coal Point, and on going round the curve and down a heavy gradient there, van into an engine and truck on their way to Palmeraton, convoying Oamaru stone. The truck had got off the 'line, and it is stated that no warning was

given to the approaching train from Palmerston. Jenkins, the fireman of the latter train, jumped off, and was not much hurt, though ho feels internal pains. White, the engine driver of the same train, sustained a simple fracture, four or five inches below the kneo. He was attended by Dr. Brown of Palmeraton, and was afterwards conveyed to the Oamaru Hospital. It appears that the goods train from Oamaru was late, and that one of the wagons breaking down caused a further detention. The stationmaster at Palmeraton, without awaiting the arrival of this train, started the passenger train for Oamaru at the usual hour, thinking the goods train would run on to a siding, and the accident happened five minutes after the departure of the passenger train. The noon train from Oamaru did not arrive till 3 p.m. in consequence of the accident. The damage to the engines is not so great as was at first expected. The breaking of the buffer of one of the engines and damaging of the buffers of two of the wagons were the only injuries sustained by the plant. The dredging contract will be considered by a special meeting of the Harbor Board tomorrow.

This afternoon a deputation waited on Mr Bathgate and presented him with an influential and numerously signed address, expressing their sympathy with him, in consequence of his conduct on the Bench having been recently called in question. Mr Bathgate thanked the deputation for the address, and said that he believed whatever difference of opinion had prevailed was due to misapprehension. He would continue to discharge his duty to the public without fear or affection, and at the same time would endeavor to maintain plea«ant relations with the legal profession and all who would have to do with him in Court.

At the inquest on White, killed in Guthrie and Larnach's factory, a verdict of accidental death was returned to-day. Andrew Reid was to-day fined £SO for sly grog selling. [PBOM THE COEBESPONDENTS OF THE PBESS]

Timaeu, September 25. A very heavy north-westerly gale swept over Timaru this forenoon, blowing off a number of roofs, bursting in windows and levelling many stacks in the country. One vessel was blown clean out to sea and others dragged considerably. Dunedin, September 25. Telegrams from up-country report that heavy floods are very probable. It has been raining heavily during the past twenty-four hours, and there are no signs of it stopping. The Arrow, the Shotover, the Kawarau, and the Clutha rivers are in higher flood than they have been for five years. Several bridges are already impassable, and fears are entertained for the safety of some of them. The streets of Queenstown are flooded, which is a very unusual occurrence. The troubles of Captain Mcßride, of the barque Aline, are not yet ended. The crew he took out of gaol at Port Chalmers appear to have been persuaded to mutiny. After the steamer Wanganui passed on Saturday, they took possession of the forecastle head, and successfully Resisted two efforts to unshackle the moorings. Several of the masters of vessels in the harbor offered Mcßride assistance, but did not attempt to give it when they saw the determined attitude of the crew. Eight of them have since escaped from the ve*wel. The Kaitangata Railway Company show a balance of £1243 for the year.