LATE TELEGRAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 250, 19 December 1873, Page 3

LATE TELEGRAMS.

London, December 1. In giving evidence in the Tichborno trial, John.Tine, the steward of the Osprey, stated that he remembered the Claimant being rescued • the Brazilian coast in the .«nrii)<r of ■litis sta;enient is contradicted,, however, .by American witnesses. Loudon, via Sydney, December^. The Spanish attitude re the Virginius is supported by the European Press. Russia proposes to expend a million upon the Royal marriage. The competition in the wool sales con, tinues fairly brisk. Prices to Id lower. Capes are mo-it affected, continental buyers operating cautiously. Beef, mutton, and tallow dull. Wheat 675. per. qr. Leather quiet. Hemp dull, and declining. The news from Cape Coast Castle to Bth November states th*t General Wolseley met with an obstinate resistance, but J utterly routed the Ashantees, with 43 A soldiers wounded. The French steamer Ville de Havre, for New York, collided with another vessel, and sank. 226 .persons were drowned. A duel has been fought between General Mantenffel and Count Goehen. The latter was seriously wounded, . , Hokitiki, December 12. • The Alham bra arrived at five o'clock this morning from Melbourne, buthas no.: yet been tendered. Th • captain brought the papers ashore in a row,hoat, tha weather being fine. Captain Hugh M'Meckan, late of the i Aldinga, recently nnderwent amputation of tlie leg, and died this morning. The fla-js of the shipping are at half-mast.