CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 748, 3 September 1878, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. (SPECIAL TO THE PRKSS AGENCY.) London, August 27. The Government has accepted the feuder of the P. unci O. Company for the conveyance of the Indian and China mails for eight years, from February, 18S0. In the cricket match Australian Eleven v. Eighteen of Hastings, th<- first inuings of the la*; r closed for 131. The AuV . j.iiis uiivo three out, for IUO. Bailey, . out, ICO ; Jliir.ii'Ch, not out, 1. London, (Undated). The French Government has postponed the distribution of the Exhibition prizes till October 2Lst, in order to secure the presence of members of Parliament and other eminent visitors. There is great discontent in consequence amongst exhibitors. A deputation has requested that the awards be published immediately, and the matter has been referred to the Minister for Commerce. The report of the Rhodope Commissioner confirms the worst outrages committed by Russians and Bulgarians. The British, Fiench, Italian,, and Turkish delegates agre d on a report, but the :!vssi:tn and Gorm-in de],-gates refuse their sign-i: uros. The Austrian delegate' Was ;:hs--!:<: i'rotii ih'-l" S. T e D -;ka>. war shin, has been ordered from the Copr- io Australia. Ti.'ere has 1 o-n a disastrous fire at Riga, and distsu-ous floods in the Tyrol. The de-true; ion of prop rty was immense. There has hi en a severe shock of earthquake at /Clh.-nf.-ldr, an I Cologne. It is I'.'.oojihle tiitre ivili be a, compromise re the ovssh.ii of BaVoum, T.he people paying tribute to Russia, and maintaining their pi'vsent institution's and exiscing officials.

Dni'v'.'T U'STRALVa.N NEWS. {in-:l'TKit's TEf.!-:i I .i:.\".rs. i-Ki:. ritrss ,v;knoy. SI'DXKi", -Sep! ember 2. The latest New Caledonian m-.ws "tates tha + the Fi'i.-iu-'i worship Ranee arrived from Cochin wiiii two hundred troops. The revellers hold out m the mountains, and other tribes have joined them, lu the engagements which have taken place the troops were successful. T : ie revolters are well organised, but it is beiiev-d they will eventual!v lie reduced by starvation.