FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 120, 12 February 1879, Page 2

FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

The Nihilists arc giving trouble at Moscow.

A column of British troops has occupied Tuerirsk, in the vdcinity of Cahul. Prices of wheat and flour are falling in London. Australian Avdmat, on the Bth, Avas quoted at 45s to 48s.

The Board of Trade returns for January show a decrease in impoits of four and a quarter millions, and in exports of nearly one and a half millions. Thirty thousand Avharf laborers are on strike at Liverpool, and riots are occuring. The Marquis of Hartingdon, leader of the Opposition, in a speech at Liverpool, said the verdict of the country on the Foreign Policy of the GoA r ernment would be the principal question for tire next general election. In explaining the programme of the Liberal party, ho slated that it Avonld include the extension of the franchise, a county re-organisation of seats, the reform question, local government, and religions equality.

ndA-ices from New Caledonia state the Natives are completely pacified. The barque Kate Waters, from Sydney, Avas seized and scuttled, and her officers murdered by a Chinese crew on the voyage from Hong Kong to Foo Chow. The mutineers have been captured.

The Government of U.S. W. is nov/ considering the question of combining with Victoria to erect a bridge over the Murray to unite the railway .systems of the t v o colonies. The foundation of the Exhibition buildings Sydney will be laid to-morrow by Lady .Robinson. The buildings are to be finished before the Ist May, 1880. It is estimated that they will cost between L 60,000 and L 70,000. Specimens of native soda and sulphur have been collected by Dr Hector from islands in the Bay of Plenty for the Exhibition.

Gold-bearing quartz is said to have been found near Wellington. The H 3’ drab ad has been got afloat, but she leaks so much that it is determined to beach her again. Intense heat has prevailed on the other side. Up to the 4th instant there had been ten deaths from sunstroke in Melbourne, and fourteen in Sydney and the neighborhood. Busbfires have done a considerable amount of damage and caused losses of life.

Au interesting race took place at Auckland last week between two schooners — the Torea and the Transit—for Ll5O aside. The race was a long one, commencing on Friday evening and being won next morning. Half way the Transit was only nine minutes ahead, but the Torea getting jammed with an ebb tide, came in nearly four hours behind the other. The loser is still fancied, however. A notice was posted up the same day : “ The schooner Torea can be backed to sail against the Transit again for .! .400, A | ip: vi n .f. 11 1 ■: mo a. ’’

The total number of officiating minister* of religion registered under the Marriage Act for colony is 494. The Church of England claims 185 ; the presbyterian 57 ; Roman Caiholic 110 ; Wesleyan Methodist 74 ; Congregational Independents 13 ; Baptist 14 ; Primitive Methodist Connection 16 ; United ' ditto Free Church 12; Lutheran Church 8 ; Hebrew 5 ; Church of Christ 1. An A merman paper states that three hundred and sixty thousand acres of white oak timber and mineral laud in Western Virginia were sold in New York in large lots for a halfpenny an acre—probably the cheapest sale of land on record. The mining news of late from Reefton is very discouraging-, says a West Coast paper, and many of the oldest residents here are longsincesick of the name of quartz speculations. In fact it is questionable if any one of them, even the most successful iu years gone by, will be able to reckon any profits. The once famous Hopeful Company lias followed suit with the rest, and has made a call of sixpence per share, payable’on the 12th of February. The Wealth of Nations Company, which was wont to pay regular dividends, is crushing for the Independent Company, and the Golden Fleece Battery is reducing stone for the Venus Company. Some of the most promising claims at Boatman’s are at a standstill, and altogether the prospects for some months are far from reassuring. Great hopes were entertained that after Christmas there would be a reaction in quartz mining in the Inangabua district, but the expected dividends appear as far off as ever.

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