LATEST EUROEAN NEWS.
I Reuteb's Telegkamb per Pbesb Agency."] London, September 14. The Princess Alice relief fund amounted to £14,000. The Government have sanctioned the appointment of Mr Rivers Wilson to control Egyptian finance. Race for Doucaster Cup yesterday : — Pageant 1, Hampton 2, Kingslake 3. The Australian Eleven played twelve of the West of Scotland. Eirst inniugs Australians 268. First innings opponents 99 Second inningg, 85. The Australians won in one innings.
In the match Australian Eleven v. eighteen of Sunderland, the latter in the first innings scored 58. Australians 77. Sunderland second innings, one out for 3.1 The money market is unchanged. Business on the^ Stock Exchange continues dull. Australian securities show no sign of recovery. Consols are recovering, and are now quoted at 95. The tone of the wool market is weaker, best scoured, a penny lower; faulty scoured, a penny to two-pence; good greasy maintainsjits price at about a half-pcnhy lower than last sales. Inferior is neglected, and crossbred heavy. The corn market is fiat, and foreign arrivals are very heavy; 1,2S 1,000 quarters are on the way to England. New Zealand wheat ex store, per 49C lbs., 45s to 48s. By the collision at Woolwich, six huudred and sixty-six persons are known to have perished in the Princess Alice. September 15. In consequence of the llussian evacuation of Erzeroum, the Archbishop there, learning of a massacre of the Christians by the Mahommedan population, has invoked Sir Austin Layard to grant English protection. The Daily News says the envoys of two great Powers have intimated to the Porte that a second Congress will probabiy be proposed, on the ground of Turkey's unsatisfactory fulfilment of its Treaty obligations. The Pope is ill. The Lord Mayor has opened a fund for the relief of the sufferers by the late colliery explosion. Destructive floods have taken place in Canada. Toronto was flooded. Lord Chancellor Cairns has been created an Earl. The Vienna portion of the Austrian head quarter staff goes to Bosnia. September 16. It is reported that England has refused to join the other Powers in enforcing the Berlin Treaty on Turkey. The Kussians have evacuated Erzeroum. September 18. Karolyi succeeds Baron Beust as Austrian Ambassador at London. War between Turkey and Greece is now considered inevitable. The Queen of Greece proceeds from Lividia to confer with the Czar. Sunderland in their second innings Ecored 147, and the Australians in their second innings, 58. The game was won by Sunderland. This is the last game to be played by the Australians in England. Constantinople, September 14. The discovery of a large quantity of coins has produced seditious manifestations here, and many arrests have been made. New York, September 16. Yellow fever is diminishing in the Southern States, consequent upon the cold weather. Rome. September 16. Mount Vesuvius is showing considerable violence of action. Vienna, September 17. The Austrians now occupy all Bosnia and Herzegovina except where the insurgents hold their entrenched positions. The Austrians are bombarding Epallisat. [Special ] London, Sept. 17. Elliott won the championship of the Thames beating both Higgins and Boyd.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIIL, Issue 198, 19 September 1878, Page 2
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