REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 671, 21 November 1878, Page 2

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

TO PRESS AGENCY. LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, November 20. George M*Lean to-day purchased M‘Meckan, Blackwood and Co.’s Ringirooma, Arawata, Tarania, and Albion for the Union Co.

The result of the embracery. convictions is as follows: David H.-ury, .money lender, sentenced to four years’ imprisonment and £SOO fine; Ireland and Trorist, money lenders, two years’ imprisonment and £SO fine.

Sydney, November 20,

The Fiji mail brings a report of the leas of the schooner Tubsil Cain, bound from Auckland to Lovuka, on Ono Island. The steamer strike continues. The men leave all the A.W.N. Co.’s steamers on arrival, and refuse to work whilo Chine e are employed.

[special to the globe.]

Sydney, November 16,

. A man named Hyman, formerly of New Zealand, was sentenced to seven years for forgery. Sir Bryan O’Loghlan will be one of the Embassy to England. There have been large arrivals of sugars, cement, beers, and rice. A fall in the latter is reported. Further shipments are advised.

There is a fall in breadstiiffs. Adelaide new wheat, 4s lOd for immediate delivery ; 4s 3d for delivery in December.

LATEST EUROPEAN. NEWS.

London, -November 14

British troops in Afghanistan are sneering 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 foi space are numerous and increasing.