CABLE MESSAGES.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 313, 17 April 1878, Page 2

CABLE MESSAGES.

— —• [Reuter’s Telegram to. Press Agency.] LONDON. April 15. , There has been desperate fighting at Transvaal. The situation serious. BERLIN. April 12. There is an active exchange of diplomatic communications; wherein Germany •strongly urges England and Russia to agree to mutual concessions. CONSTANTINOPLE. April 12; The Porte has sent a note to the Powers intimating acceptance of terms of treaty. April 13 The Austro-Hungarian Ambassador here is negotiating for the eventual occupation, by Austrian troops of Bosnia and Herzegovina: April 14. The Russians require the Turks to evacuate Shmnla and Varna without delay. The Servian army is being disbanded. VIENNA. April 13. Germany and Austria rebuffed the Roumanian appeal re the cession of Bessarabia; [Special to Press Agency.] LONDON; April 13. The University boat-race came otf to-day; Oxford won easily by eighty lengths. The money market is" easier. Bank rate 3; market rate, 21 Consols, 95. Australian securities arc resuming their usual activity, and advanced 1 cent. The corn market is easier. JfF NEW'YORK. April 12; Boss Tweed died to-day. [Special to the Argus.l LONDON. April 12. , The murder ot Earl Leitrim was debated in both Houses. A disorderly scene occurred in the Commons, in which several Irish members were concerned. Reporters were excluded for three hours, owing to aspersions on his Lordship s private character. Germanyis attempting mediation through Ministers accredited to Berlin. • • April 15. • Serious rioting took place at Glasgow on Saturday. The Papal allocation was burnt. Rioting was renewed on Sunday. Several persons injured; Twenty arrests.

Dr Lemon is continuing Ins experiments with the telephone. He is able now to cany on a conversation with case between his private residence on the lerrace and the telegraph office. He has had a large instrument constructed with five diaphragms and magnets, by which the sound is greatly magnified, and can be heard distinctly all ovdr the room without requiring the dilivering telephone to be held to the ear. In an experiment the sound of conversation in Dr Lemon’s house was clearly audible in a room at the telegraph, office, adjoining that in which the delivering telephone was placed, and the voices of speakers not before known to be at the former place were recognised immediately at the latter. — Post.

A West Coast paper states that while in Milford Sound, which he visited with Sir George Grey and party, the Hon Captain Fraser discovered a workable vein of statuary marble 12£t. in thickness.

, Strangers and country settlers coming to Carlyle, are very often at a loss to know which is tire best and cheapest General D ran cry and Clothing Establishment in the ‘ district.' It. A. Adams’ Cardigan House, offers special advantages that can be met with nowhere else in the district. .He keeps the largest and best assorted .stock of every description of drapery ;goods, imported direct—and from the best colonial bouses ; which, being bought.on the most advantageous terms, and having thorough knowledge of the business, ’enables him to, offer goods of sterling 'quality at pi ices that cannot be improved on by any other house in New Zealand. 'Every article is marked in plain figures, .from which there is no deviation ; so that 'inexperienced people are as well served as the best judges, the terms being net ;casb, without rebate or abatement of any kind. Note the address —K. A. Adams; Cardigan House, nearly opposite Town "Ball, ‘Carlyle.— advt. - Holloway's Ointment and Pills. —Bad .Legs.—'When from impure,'feeble circulation, foul blood, or neglected chill, inflammation, succeeded by ulceration, has attacked the lower limbs, the sufferer may .turn forja cure, without fear of disappointmment, to Holloway’s celebrated Ointment, whose fame for such disorders has resounded, throughout the habitable globe, ■ and testimonials in all languages have been received universally praising this ■ celebrated Ointment. In all old cases, 'Holloway’s Bills should be taken while 'his unguent is used ; both together are gnost effective, and the cure is accomplished painlessly and readily. , Under their joint 'curative influence the worst wounds or .ulcers assume a more healthy character, ‘ and shortly begin to fill up or contract and soundly heal.