TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1484, 18 November 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

BY SUBMARINE CABLE. SPECIAL TO THE GLOSS. London, November 14. British troops in Afghanistan'are suffering from the unhealthy climate. Supplies are defective. The Ameer is passive, seeming disinclined for war. November 16. The Colonial Agents are co-operating with the Exhibition Commissioners. Applications for space are numerous and increasing. [eetjteb's telegbams to the pebss agency], Madeas, November 14. Gold has been discovered at Wignaad, in the presidency of Madras. St. Petebsbitbg, November 14. Russia supports the French intervention in behalf of Greece. London, November 16. In consequence of the Afghan difficulty a committee is forming, with Lawrence as chairman, to promote the immediate meeting of Parliament. Rome, November 16. The Tiber overflowed its banks, partially inundating the city. AUSTRALIA. Westpoet, November 18. The Westport Shipping Company's barquentine Alma, from Melbourne, brings Melbourne dates to 9th inst. Patrick Conneil was smashed to atoms on the Kyneton railway, his companion, William Howe, narrowly escaping. Two lads named Evans have been drowned at Stawell. The Kellys, Mansfield bushrangers, are supposed to be lurking in Rats' Castle ranges near Maigo Creek. The police and settlers are in hot pursuit. The floods in the Murray prevent the bushrangers crossing, and their capture is expected. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. [fbom otte own coeeespondents.] Port Chalmers, November 18, Arrivals—Augusta, barquentine, forty-fiv<>: days from Mauritius, with cargo of supar. Dunedin, ship, eighty-six days, from Londo'a. She brings thirty-two passengers, 2200 tc ns cargo, including forty tons of gunpowder. 'She spoke the following vessels : —September 1 4tb, hit. 14.40, N., long. 25 40, W.. ship Car.nina from London for V\ ellington. October 4tb , lat. 27.47, S., long. 32.41, W., ship Loch Fleet from London for Auckland. Captain Whitson r eports thit when off Start fomt on August 27»h , Alex. Gilruth, an ordinary seaman, engaged |in tricing up the fore sheet, slipped from the rail and fell overboard ; two life buoys were thrown to him, and Eobert Cathcart. a plucky boy, jumped overboard to his assistance. Boats were at once lowered away, and after twenty minutes search Cathcart was picked up, but no trace of the other poor boy was discovered. The night was pitch dark, and it is imagined he sank immediately. A Eecond disaster occurred off the pitch of the cape on October the 19th. Louis Kentish, an apprentice, who was at the maintopgallant masthead, missed his hold and fell, the ship at this time wis going at the rate of from ten to eleven knots an hour through the water, striking theoutrizgerof the erosstrces and main-sheet before ho fell overboard. The ship was immediately rounded to, bat no appearance of the poor lad was seen; t v ere was a heavj' cross sea on at the time, and it was not deemed prudent to 1 wer a boat. Westport, November 18. A mysterious fire took place here early on Sunday morning, destroying a large building the property of Hooper and Dodson, next the "Westport Times" office. The building destroyed was occupied as the office of the Korauui Coal Co., also of the| Halcyon Quartz Mining Co., and the local agency of the curator of intestate estates. All the papers connected with their affairs were destroyed William Lloyd locked up the buildingat 10.30, and asserts that all was thin safe. ISo ono lives in the buildings, nor had it any fireplace The building was uninsured. The lira brigade and citizens saved the adjacent buildings, the " Westport 'limes" office, Westport Colliery Company's office, and Carpenter's fruit store.

The latter Buffered some loss in the hurried removal of his effects. An inquiry will he held. The Koranui Company have duplicate plans of their works in the hands of the Government, „