CABLE TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 1737, 6 May 1873, Page 2

CABLE TELEGRAMS.

London, April 18. Russia and Persia have exchanged notes respecting the violation of the boundary by Russian troops during a skirmish with Turcomans in the valley of Attrek. Russia admits the possibility of a violation having taken place cm -the occasion referred to, but promises to respect the boundary henceforth. London, April 19. Arrived.— Suffolk, from Melbourne. (Sailed December 28.) Sir James and Lady Fergusson left bj the mail via Brindisi yesterday for Melbourne. Mr Chevalier, the artist, accompanies the Prince of Wales to Vienna. The prospectus has been issued of the Anglo - Australian Steam Navigation Company, for a service via the Cape of Good Hope. The capital is £1,250,000. Six steamers of large tonnage are to be employed, to perform the voyage to Melbourne in 42 days. The managers are Messrs Gibbs, Bright, and Co., of Liverpool and London, and the board of directors is an influential one, including Sir Daniel Gooeb, Messrs Dillayn, Gilpin, Brassey, and Charles Reed. The ateamer Great Britain is to be taken at a valuation for paid-up shares. The Great Australian Gold- mining Company, with a capital of £200,000, is announced. Money is in moderate demand. Discount 4 per cent. The Bank return is unfavorable, and an advance in the rate of discount ia expected. Petroleum and other oils remain unchanged. Tin ore is in good demand ; Straits, £143. Wallaroo copper, £97. Wheat is steady ; 277 cargoes are now afloat. Adelaide, now en route, has been sold at from 60s to 63a per 4961 b., the cost of freight, insurance, and bags included. The present value is from 61s to 635. Californian, Us 6d per cental, ex quay. Arrived. — Agamemnon, from Melbourne (sailed January 16) ; Cossack, H.M.S., from Melbourne. London, April 21. An official inquiry has been held by the Board of Trade into the circumstances attending the loss of the steamship Atlantic, near Halifax. The supply of coals on board is held to have been dangerously insufficient, and the whole system of management glaringly deficient. The captain's certificate has been suspended for a period of two years, and that of the fourth officer for three months. A rule nisi has been granted, at the instance of Messrs Norwood, shipowners, calling upon Mr Piimsoll, M.P., to answer a criminal information for libel, arising out of the question having reference to the condition of the mercantile marine. The French Atlantic cable is broken. Arrived. — Mermerus, from Melbourne (sailed January 7) ; Decapolis from Sydney. London, April 22. Mr Fawcett's bill, abolishing tests at the Dublin University, has passed the second reading. Arrived. — Strathdon from Sydney ; Indus, from Brisbane. The Carlißta have been further defeated by the Government troops in Northern Spain. Bombay, April 22. The Dutch have been disastrously repulsed in attacking Achen (Island of Sumatra), and wpre compelled to retreat to the coast. At a council of war which was held, it was resolved to suspend tho further progress of the expedition until the autumn, in consequence of the monsoon. The blockade, however, continues. London, April 22. In the Hoase of Commons, Mr Eastwick, member for Penryn, in moving for the production of the correspondence on the Khivan question, dwelt at some length on the alarming progress made by Russia in Central Asia, and advocated a close alliance .with Persia. Mr Grant Duff, Under- Secretary of State for India, in replying, denied that the Russian advance justified any alarm, though he admitted that it was a matter requiring vigilance. The motion was then withdrawn. Paris, April 22. Tho French indirect revenue for the first quarter of 1873 amounts to 15,000,000r. above the Estimates. Frankfort, April 22. Terrible riots have occurred at Frankfort on- Maine, in consequence of an advance in the price of beer. Sixteen breweries were sacked by the mob, and the troops were called out. They fired upon the people, killed 12, and wounded 37, and 120 arrests were made. London, April 23. The prospectus has been issued of an Eastern Australian Mail Company, with a capital of 150,000 (?), for a monthly service to Queensland and Sydney, via Singapore. The line is to be opened k shortly. One steamer has already been purchased, and two others chartered. The annual subsidy to be paid by Queens* land for the service is £20,000. Mr Gladstone, speaking on Mr Eastwick's motion, relative to the Central Asian question, said that, if anything, the correspondence furnished gave a limited right of interference in Affghanistan if deemed necessary. The correspondence embodied, firstly, a negative pledge on the part of Russia, that Afghanistan was outside the sphere of her influence in Asia ; secondly, the settlement of the boundaries of Afghanistan ; and, thirdly, a pledge that England would use her moral influence to restrain the Ameer from aggression. The. Russians crossed the Attrek and Gurgon Rivers on 12th March, and after defeating the Turcomans, recrossed on the 18th by the Achkla bridge, with the permission of the Persian commander. London, April 24. In the House of Commons, Mr Lowe's financial resolutions have been passed, with the exception of that for the re-