CABLEGRAMS AND LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 49, 30 March 1878, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS AND LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

[eETTTEB's TELEG-EAMS TO PRESS AG-BlSTOr.] LONDON, March 27. Russia finally refuses the demands of England, and the Congress has been virtually abandoned. The situation is critical, but in official circles it is believed war may be avoided. There has been a frightful colliery explosion at Stafford, near Newcastle, by which thirty persons were killed, v March 28: A deadlock has occurred in the negotiations for the European Congress. " , vy- BUCHAREST, March 28. BothfSouses of the RoumanianLegislature have unanimously rejected the Russian* prpgosal to exchange Bessarabia for'Dbbruscha. S^PETERSBURGffi; March 28. It is lemMfficially' stated that (funeral Igjnatieff goes to Vienna on a diplomatic mission to induce Austria to inform -the British Government that it must not reckon upon its . support. *■■ :;■•■ MELBOURNE, Thursday. The Legislative Council have passed the Payment of Members Bill without a .division^ -In the Assembly the new Appropriation Bill, without the objectionable item (payment of. members) passedall its stages without a division, and will be assented to on Thursday. The crisis has now, therefore, terminated. • •■' - [Per Press AgencyJ WELLINGTON;" Friday. The City of New YorKvJeft San Francisco for Auckland on thelßtli instant, with London mails of 28th of February. The Zealandia, from Auckland, which it left on"jthei sth. instant, arrived at San Francisco qn the 27th, or one dayv in advance of contract time. iS? The "Evening Argus" was sold today to Mr .Gardner, formerly one of the proprietors of the " Sacramento Union." It will be called the "Evening Chronicle." railway; is expected to be open as far aVFeaEherstori inffour months: , The first number of " The New Zealander,'',th.e new morning daily, is announced^ foi* issue on the 29th proximo. Although the. Waterworks have only been just completed, the Corporation are dissatisfied with the supply, and are already discussing another scheme which will involve an outlay of about £LOO,OOO. - The; water in the reservoir is decreasing about one foot daily. Mr Barton made his first appearance at the Supreme Court to-day, and moved that the order for his commitment for contempt be quashed. He argued the ease at considerable length', and cited one authority, but Judge Richmond would not entertain the application, and quoted; higher and more recent authority to/show that a Judge, in the legitimate exercise of his functions, could, on being defied by any person, commit him instantly. . A slight breeze occurred in another case, but the Judge ordered Mr Sirton to sit down, and in the course of the discussion,- in which Barton aecuseds.the officers of the Court of not actinp impartially the Judge made a note of r HHe r words, and said he would call upon him *to account for his language. The Kaitoke Railway station was robbed last night< HOKITIKA, Friday. -..-. Haraer, the Bank agent, has been sentenced to five years' penal' servitude. He is twenty-eight years old, and was in sole charge of the agency. He offered no defence, and called no one to sp^eak to character. The Bank Inspector stated that the amount of the defalcations is about £3000, and described them as the mostungenious frauds.