LASTER ENGLISH AND Australian News.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2097, 23 September 1875, Page 2

LASTER ENGLISH AND Australian News.

(Via Hokitika.)

(Pee Phess Agency.)

CABLEGRAMS.

LONDON

September 3. The ironclads Duke and Vanguard came into collision off Wicklow, in a dense fog. The latter sank in nineteen fathoms. All hands were saved.

The Turks have violated the Servian territory, and burned a village. They killed some of the inhabitants, and seized a quantity of cattle. The popular feeling in Servia is very excited against Turkey. The Pera arrived at Galle from Australia on the Ist.

September 4. - Wool sales are languid. There has been a further decline on medium and inferior sorts of 2d under June rates; and the better classes of wool are going lower. Well breds are shifting, but combing easily bought. 125,000 bales were catalogued, and a good many withdrawn. The sales close on October 2.

Foreign arrivals are so large as to depress the corn market. Adelaide, 55s to 57s ; New South Wales, 55s to 57s ; New Zealand, 52s to 655.

The barque St. Brycedale was wrecked at Algoa Bay. ' Arrived : Hudson, from Lyttelton. September ft. The Servian Pacha has telegraphed to the Porte that the. insurrectionary agitation is greatly allayed in consequence of the pressure by European powers. Servia is not likely to be aggressive. The insurgents refuse to assent to a conference at Mbstale, and demand that Bosnia and. Herzegovina be made European Prince (Qy. ? Power) as a tributary of the Porte.

September 8. Further fighting has taken place in Turkey, but Servia promises neutrality. Sensation was caused in Paris by a letter of Admiral Laron, commanding the Mediterranean Squadron,., declaring he will only support McMahon while he keeps aloof from the party of the September revolution.

Captain Anthony Hoskins succeeds Commodore Gropdenough in the Australian command.

Wholesale desertion, has taken place from the Carlist forces, and the collapse of the cause is believed to be imminent.

Chinese Embassy proceed to England in connection with the Margary murder., September 13. ' •At a conference respecting the colonisation of New Guinea, Lieutenant Armitrin gave the result of observations during a survey on the coast, and after a prolonged discussion, it was resolved to form a Colonisation Society, and to organise an expedition of 200 volunteers, under Government co-operation The Australian mails via Brindisi and Queensland have been delivered.

There has been an improved attendance and more animation at the wool sales, but without recovery of prices.

Stocks of tallow are unusually low. Arrived: Ship Crusader, from Port Chalmers, and ship W. W. Smith, from Auckland.