TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 328, 11 December 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND ‘ ] jo -Ndon, i)ec.-7.'- ' r “ At the wool sales to-day,' szoo hales were offered, making a total of'-S2,SOQf bales catalogued opening. The tone of the sale is fir/n. ( A serious riot place at Brooks - borough, County of Armagh,. Ireland, owing to a land meeting held there being prohibited \by tile authorities. The Riot Act was read. Large bodies ■ of the police and dragoons were called out, when the rioters were dispersed, Mr Parnell has been presented -with - the freedom of the city of Waterford, Ireland. \ _ Dec.vß>_;. v Adelaide wheat per 4961b5, ex wa.e* house, 50s fid- ' - Vienna, Dec. 8^ The northern district of Croatia, in South-East Austria, which last month suffered so teribly from earthquakes, has again been vis 1 ’ted by a severe shock, which has caused further damage to the town of Agram and its surroundings, ” The panic which previously prevailed amongst the inhabitants has been, renewed with increasing intensity. The greatest consternation exists, aud the. greatest fears are entertained that further shocks of earthquake may have a worse effect than any yet experienced., Calcutta, December Bth. The Viceroy (the Marquis of Ripon), who had recovered from a fever which recently attacked him at Allahabad, in the North-West Provinces, is now de-. tained at that town by a serious sunstroke which he has received . His Excellency, is completely prostrated, but his •.medical attendants give hopes of his early recovery. San Francisco, Dec. 7. Five Russian war vessels, 1 stationed in the Pacific, have sailed from different ports to Japan. The object of theic mission has not yet transpired. Washington, Dec. 7. President Hayes has made a recoin- . mendatien to the Cabinet, that Geneial .; Grant should be appointed Comm ander-y'-in-Chief of the United States army, /a. - „ post at present nominally filled by the President. New Yore, Dec. T. A project is on foot for the tion of a cable, to be laid from San Francisco to Australia, via the Sandwich Islands.