NEWS BY CABLE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5735, 16 August 1879, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.} ANOTHER BANK STUCK UP IN VICTORIA INCENDIARY FIRES IN SPAIN. Madrid, August 14. Numerous incendiary fires have occurred in Spain, one of which completely destroyed forty houses, and thirty persons perished. London, August 14. A conference of delegates, representing 200,000 workmen, met at Manchester, and resolved to encourage emigration. The Dominion Government of Canada offers to defray the expenses of delegates from English farmers to Canada, with a view of encouraging the emigration of that class to Canada. St. Petersburg, August 14. Three very influential lawyers have been brought to St. Petersburg, charged with disaffection. Police supervision is very stringent, although several officers have been punished for neglect of duty. Melbourne, Friday. The departures from London for New Zealand from June 21 to July 4 were : —The Crusader and Waitangi, for Canterbury ; Mataura, for Otago ; lone, for Wellington ; Jessie Readman and Lebu, for Auckland, The Lanoefield branch of the Commercial Bank of Australasia was stuck up to-day by two men, when first opened in the morning, and Morrison, the accountant, was gagged. A local customer was looked up in the manager's room, and the manager was kept in the back yard with four men during the robbery. The bank was robbed of £665. The police do not think that the robbery was committed by the Kelly gang. Black trackers are starting in pursuit. Later. Some people believe that the robbers of the bank at Lanoefield were Ned Kelly and Hart, but nothing definite is known. Sailed :Arawata, with the Suez mail, for the Bluff. Stdnet, Friday. Parliament is further prorogued to the 23rd September. The population of the colony on the 30th June is estimated at 712,019 persons. Kerosene oil, diamond brand, Is. 7d. per gallon ; New Zealand wheat, 4s. 3d. per bushel ; oats, 2s. 6d. Other lines remain unchanged. Sailed—Wakatipu, for Wellington. Adelaide, Friday, Wheat, ss. 2d to ss. 3d. per bushel.