LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 190, 10 September 1878, Page 2

LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS.

f Reoter's Telegrams ter Pres3 Agency.] London, September 7. The Russians entered Batoum without opposition. Mahomet Ali Pasha and twenty of his suite have been masacred. Bank minimum unchauged. Market rate, three months' bill, 4*, per cent. Consols are extremely depressed, having experienced a heavy fall of one per ceut. The wool market betrays symptoms of weakness in medium aud faulty parcels, which preponderate. Superior wool firm. Thc corn market is unchanged. The weather line for harvest. Captain J. C. Watson succeeds Commodore Hoskins ou the Australian station, Tbe Paris exhibition closes on November 15th. Further Colonial awards are expected. Iu the cricket match Australians v. Gloucester, the first innings of fche Australians closed for 183; Gloucester second innings, 85. The game was won by Australia by teu wickets. The bowling of the Australians was very effective. The wicket-keeping of Blackhaiu was excellent. The attendance was large, and the weather very hot. The wickets were good. Spofforth bowled bv Gilbert, 44; Murdoch run out, 0; Gregorycaught off Mills, 1; Blackham bowled by Mills, 0; Allen caught off Dr Grace, 24; Boyle, uot out, 11. Gloucester, second innings— Gilbert, 1; Townsend, 18; Bush, 3> Mills and Hall bowled by Spofforth, oj Cranston caught off Spofforth, 0; Grace, leg before wicket, bowled by Garrett, 5; Maherley caught off Allen, 0; E. Grace bowled by Garrett. 5; Dr Grace caught off Garrett, 13: Wright bowled by Allen, 12; Smith not out, 19; sundries, 4, Australians second iunings— Bailey not out, 9; Spofforth uot out, 4; sundries, 4, Constantinople, Sept. 8. An insurrectionary movement has taken place amongst the Mahommedans in Albania The insurgents massacred several Turkish officials. The Mahommedan population of Batoum emigrated to Trebizond when the Russians occupied it.