LAST NIGHTS TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1475, 7 November 1878, Page 3

LAST NIGHTS TELEGRAMS

[BY SUBMARINE CABLE.] [SPECIAL TELEGRAMS TO THE TRES3 AGENCY.] Non-execution of Berlin Treaty. Alarming Aspect of European Aifairs. British Cabinet said to regard War as inevitable. Anglo-Austrian Alliance, London, Oct. 27 to Nov. 2. Judgment has bsen given in the case of the Princess Alice disaster. No blame was attached to anybody. War material is being shipped to India. Subscriptions have been invited for the relief of the shareholders of the Glasgow Bank. Tho directors were committed for embezzling £20,000. England protested against Russian delays in executing the Berlin treaty. The insurrection in Eoumelia is spreading, and the Porte has complained to the Powers of Russia's complicity. Two wings of Maynooth College were burned. The loss is serious, but the pictures and laboratory were saved. It is reported that tho Grovernment intend granting a gold currency to India. The Eussian staff have printed several thousand copies of a Eussian Afghan dictionary for use in the Eussian army. Count Schouvaloff immediately succeeds Prince Q-ortschakoff. Orloff comes to London. There is grave anxiety regarding the relations of Austria and Italy. The former is massing 175,000 troops in the Tyrol. The " Daily News " says measures against the Ameer are postponed pending the despatch of an ultimatum, in accordance with directions from Home, which is offered to enable tho Ameer to change his attitude. In the event of this being rejected British forces will occupy the passes. Twenty-six bishops and 759 clergymen were present at Cardinal Cullen's funeral. It is understood that the Cabinet regarded war with Russia as inevitable.

Austria promised active, and France her moral support. Germany will I'emuin neutral on condition that France is quiescent, with the view of averting war.

Piesident McMahon and the Duchess of Magenta visited the Australian Courts of the Paris Exhibition, and congratulated Australia on her progress. London, October 29.

Messrs Casey, Coombes, Boothby, and Hodgson, Colonial Commissioners for the Paris Exhibition, were gazetted to-night Knights Commanders of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.

[REUTERS TELEGRAMS TO THE PRESS AGENCY.] Athens, October 27. A treaty of alliance is being negotiated between Servia and Greece.

In consequence of the amount of the Daira debt of Egypt negotiations have been opened between England, France, and Austria, to agree to a proposal for a European conference. London, Oetobo 30. England has sent the Ameer of Afghanistan her ultimatum.

The "Standard" states that England requires from all parties concerned u strict and literal execution of the Berlin treaty.

November 1.

Mr Gladstone, speaking at a public meeting on the question of the Afghan and Eastern policy of the Government, said the course adopted caused commercial stagnation, and taking higher ground, he considered it a violation of tho constitution.

It is officially stated that the reply of the Ameer of Afghanistan indicates avowed hostility, and it has been decided that this will be the Ameer's last chance. An Afreedee tribe have tendered their services to the British. There is no cause for

anxiety. The Ameer's troops are at Alimussed. The Northern Khclat tribes have rendered great assistance in furnishing supplies to the Quettah column. London, October 30. The relations between England and Russia are disquieting, owing to the situation in Roumelia and the tone of the Russian Press. An extraordinary Cabinet meeting was held to-day. St. Petersburg, November 2. Ths Russian Press has changed its tone, and deprecates directly aiding the Ameer of Afghanistan, advocating a benevolent neutrality. London, November 2. The monetary crisis has passed. Tho money market is easier. Discount rates are falling, and the Bank reserve is steadily rising. Consols have risen a quarter per cent. Australian securities are slowly recovering. A new Egyptian loan of eight and a half millions (is announced ?). Wheat is firmer. New Zealand wheat is selling, ex store, per 4961 b., according to quality, at from 43s to 475. London, November 4. There is no truth in the statement that England has asked the Powers to insist on enforcing the Treaty of Berlin. New Orleans is now free from yellow fever.

AUSTRALIA. Sydney, November 6.

Sailed —Wakatipu, yesterday. The budget was laid before the Assembly to-day. The estimated revenue for the next year is ,-£5,031,155, and the expenditure £5,331,070. No changes are propped in the tariff. The loan is further postponed. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. [rER TRESS AGENCY.] Auckland, November ti. Tho Harbor Board refuse to pay .£ UK) f., r Sir John Coode*s inspection of Auckland Harbor, ordered by the Government. A contract for a new winp; to the lunatic asylum has been let for XIG/J33, to Keaue Jenkinson. Bates, who fell from the roof of the Bank of Australasia, a height of 30 feet, escaped marvellously. Theionly injury he sustained was a few bruises, and hn was able to walk home from the hospital. A man named Mahony was sentenced to eight months' for brutally ill-using a woman he had been cohabiting with. The Taranaki cricketers, through Major Tuke, have offered a challenge to the Auckland clubs for January next. Mr Macandrew announced to the Harbor Board that tenders will be called immediately for reclaiming land at Queen street wharf, and projected harbor works. New Plymouth, November 6.

Some Europeans at Opunake have been rolling the natives they met there that it is the intention of the Government to bring an armed force to Parihaka to drive the natives from that district. Mr A. Coffee states that the natives are uneasy about it, and notwithstanding all he told them to the contrary, they seem scarcely to I elieve him. Coffee is engaged in making the road through the Pa-ih ika district passable for the coach, and the natives told him be was only doing it for the bis; guns f o come over, as they were informed that Mr Shcohan and an arm d party were coming to New Plymouth in the Hjnemoa, and intended to kill ail tho Maoris and drive them from the place. Blenheim, November G. Tho police received information today that there was good reason for believing a man named W. Newman of Kelson had been drowned ju Wairau river. His horse was found on the Topboßge. side of tho river, and everything wet

on the saddle, and both stirrups gone, and a telegram from Tophouse says—" No trace of the body had been found tip to five this morning, aud no person saw Newman after passing the accommodation house at Manuka Island." There is goud demand here for shearers and muatercrs.

[FKOM TIIE CORRESPONDENTS OF THE TRESS. J Auckland, November 0.

The " Star" to-night in a sub-leader says it is confidently expected in well-informed political circles that the Ministerial policy of next session will lie of a character for boldness wholly unprecedented in the history of the colony. Sir G. Grey has, it is said, become convinced that a great constitutional struggle is pending between the two branches of the Legislature, and his resolved that the batile ground shall be of his own choosing, and that the fight shal 1 take place at his own time. It is also rumored in the same well-informed circles that Sir George contemplates precipitating tin struggle next session, when his policy will probably include an income and property tax, and a more liberal Electoral Bill, if that be possible, than the one which was withdrawn in the session just closed. Reforms in the constitution of the Upper House may be the precise point upon which the struggle will commence, resulting in a dissolution and election of a Parliament more capable of dealing effectually with the political requirements which have been the outcome of the abolition of provinces, but which were entirely lost sight of in the conflict between the two great parties at last general election. The Parliament of the future will doubtless be largely composed of men of advanced and liberal political views and aspirations. Timaru, November 6.

The Royal Commission appointed to enquire into charges against the steward of the hospital found him to have been guilty of gross immorality, and one month's notice was given him. The Immigration Officer receive! advices of the sailing of the Piako direct for Timaru, with 130 immigrants.

The harbor works are making good progress, and the formation between the 800- ton block and the shore is expected to be completed next week. It is anticipated that small vessels and steamers will be able to come alongside the breakwater in three or four months. Dunedin, November G. J 31500 will be handed to the Benevolent Institution as the result of the recent carnival. In Cameron's Consultation Sweep, Calamia was drawn by a woolsorter in Dunediu, Tom Ki k by an Oamaru publican, and Waxy by the wife of a Dunedin publican. At a meeting of the Dunedin Presbytery today, the Rev. Dr. Copland gave notice that at the next meeting of thn Presbytery he would move the following motions: —"Whereas the Kdncation Act now in operation in New Zealand mitkes no provision for reading of the Bible within school hours, and is on this account unsatisfactory to a large body of the inhabitants: Whereas an attempt has been made in some quarters to represent and to carry out the system as absolutely secular, excluding any reference in public schools to God or to a lutare state of existence, and so weakening the sanctions of morality, which the youth of the laud should be trained to understand as a necessary part of their education: Whereas, in consequence of the godless character thus assigned to the present National sy-tem, a feeling in favor of a denominational system has been gaining strength, so that the Bill of Mr Curtis, recently before Parliament, was only lost by a narrow majority of six votes in a full House : Whereas if such Bill had passed into law many, who would prefer a national system, in which the Bible was permitted to be read, would avail themselves of the provisions of such an Act, in order to secure for the r children sufficient opportunity of becoming acquainted with God's Word, and, in consequence, the mtiomd system would be in danger of being destroyed : Whereas the knowledge of the conents of the Bible is necessary for a right understanding of a large part of English literature and of many of the most important passages of history, as w> 11 as for the understanding and confirmation of true morality: Whereas in Victoria, where the so-called secular system has been for some time in operatio ■, it has proved unsatisfactory so that there is probability of its being soon abandoned : Whereas there is no ground for expecting in r'ew Zealand any betrov result from the present system : Whereas provision for reading of the Bible in public schools may be made without interfering with the just r.glits of any by a cl :use being introduced enacting that the Bible sha'l be read »t a fixed hour (the right being reserved to parents or guardians to withdraw their children during such lesson, on giving noiice in writing of their desire to do so) in all public schools, excepting those where the committee Laving charge shall have passed a resolution (bindreg only during their term of office) dispensing with such reading; and whereas such an arrangement would contribute in the highest degree to the intelligence and morality of the rising generation, would satisfy the desire of a givat body cf the inhabitants, and would remove the strongest ground on which tho denominational system is demanded by mmy, and would thus tend to the consolidation and permanency of the national s-ystem. It is humbly ovortured by the Presbytery of Dunedin to the Synod of Ocago, indicted to meet in January, 1871), to take the premises into its consideration, with the view of adopting such measures for securing the daily reading of the Bible in the public schools as in its wisdom it may deem expedient."