LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 734, 16 August 1878, Page 2

LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

fi-.ilfTEil'.S 'XEt.K!2KA}SS 1-KR fItKSS AftKNCY.] Lonook, August 15. The sickness at Cyprus gives no cause for anxiety. Yiknxa, August 14. After live days continuous fighting, the Anstriars were compelled to fall back oil (iracami; v.a. fsi'i:ci.-,i. To i'l;r.ss A<;r.NcY.] n-nst 14. The i v'/.-. s wiii le- r.'!.!it<}d in Paris ->ll "lie 18 ii S r. Tho ia.l w::itebait dinner took place ves'pfda.y. The British Association will meet the Dti'-lin Uoyal (Jomiui-ssiou. T'h.e St-'cb Exchange recommends incorporation under thr; Charter. tjir Garnet Woisiov telegraphs that there is no serious sicknes3 at Cyprus. The despatch boat, Lively, collided with the Queen's yacht, and she sunk the private yacht at Cowes. The Queen was not on board.

In the cricket match Australian Eleven v. Eighteen of Dudley, the second innings of tlis Australians terminated for 240. Boyle made 41, Dudley had seven out for 40. The game was drawn owing to the rain. . The Queen reviewed the neet at Spithead vesterday. There were ten broadside ships, eight turret ships, six sloops, and two torpedo boats. Tne weathei beincr boisterous, evolutions were eonsc'jiientlv abandoned. 'July salutes were -h-ed. The Queen sailed between the lines. Manj- peers and commoners were aboard the E-.iryalns. I' 11- re were a thousand spectators, two hundred yachts, and a great number of excursion steamers

present. One boat and a waterman was drowned; the only casualtv.

Obituary-—The Rev. George Gilfillan, of Dundee.

. - There has been rioting at Ottawa. The Catholics, after the Orange procession, insulted the Orangemen, and the latter retaliated, the priest's house being attacked and demolished : several arrests were made. Serious injuries were inflicted oti man}- people. Mr. Roebuck has been appointed a Privy Councillor. Subscription for the City of Melbourne h>an covered twofold at a minimum of LI 00.