CABLEGRAMS AND LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 84, 31 July 1878, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS AND LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

[EEUTEII'sTELEGHAiIS TO PRESS AGEtfCT.] LONDON, July 26. In the match Australians v. Crewe, the first innings of the Crewe Eighteen closed for 54. The bowling of the Australians was very effective. Spofforth took ten wickets for 13 runs : Boyle nine wickets for 25 runs. The second innings of the Australian closed for 102. In their second iuuings the Crewe team made 7S. Spofforth and Boyle's bowling again was very effective. The Australians won by 100 runs. July 27. It is officiary lenied that Parliament is to be dissonod m autumn. VIENNA, July 27. The Porte consents to the Austrian occupations of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The llussians have occupied Shumla. LONDON, July 29. The Marquis of Lome has been offered and accepted the GovernorGr neralship of Canada. There has been more hard fighting m the Transvaal. The British loss is reported as severe. At the banquet at the Mansion House, Lord Beaconsfiold defended the Turkish Con von! ion on the ground that the Berlin Treaty was insufficient of itsc.f to maintain European peace.

Ai>jiLjuLL/i!., «Jui> -.»..'• Mr. Gibbon, surveyor for the A lelaiue Underwriters Association, lias left for -New Zealand, : to ascertain whether it is posibale to recover the railway plant from the Hyderabad. At a crowded meeting, upon the motion of Martin seconded by I Far, there was adopted an address of congratulation to Earl Beaconsfield on the result of the Congress.

[Per Press Agency.] WELLtXG PON, Tuesday.' The Conference -of Municipal Dele* gates m.*t this afternoon, and on Jhe. motion of Captain Standish (Taranaki) ifc was carried—" That, m tlie opinioti o£ the Conference, the Government is not ■.ra/ranted m making any deductions sini'e the Ist of January last for the maintenance of either hospitals or chari- . table institutions from subsidies granted . * by Parliament by way of endorsement o municipalities, and tiint Messrs \loorhouse (Christchurch), Sutton (Napier), and Brett (Auckland) interview the Government on the subject, with the view of ascertaining whether they are prepared to pay over such subsidy m full." Mr Charters moved, and it was carried—" That the expenses of thY Oonfercnce be * borne by all thoseboroughs which are represented thereat m proportion to the population;" The . Conference, then commenoed to : go through the Municipal Corporation Act, 1870, clause by clause, and adjourned at 4.30 p.m. In future they will- sit from half-past ten m the forenoon till one o'clock. CHRISTCHTJRCir, Tuesday. . A most disastrous N.W. N gale has . been ' experienced, by which several buildings have been blown down. The Ashbu'rton and Eukaia rivers are higher than they have been foronany years. The Jockey Club has removed the disqualification on Fishhook- • The lease, for thirty-three y ear?, of a piece of land opposite the Triangle sold for £16 13s 4d per foot. " PORT CHALMERS,- Tuesday. ■■ Last night, Henry Mai tland, eldest son of the Chief Commissioner of the Waste Lands Board, Was thrown from his horse while mounting. He fell heavily on his head, and has sustained concussion of th'e brain.