CABLE TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 392, 19 September 1874, Page 3

CABLE TELEGRAMS.

London, September Ist The Australian mails via Brindisi and San Francisco were delivered together yesterday. September 3rd. Sir George Berkeley has been appointed to the goTernorship of Western Australia, as successor to Governor Weld, appointed to Tasmania, The Ship Suffolk, from London to Brisbane, is at Mauritius refitting. Tallerman's Meat Preserving Company has declared a dividend over 10 per cent, September sth. The Austrian Arctic Polar explorers have arrived at Norway, after abandoning the expedition. Tehettoff reports travelling in sledges over mountain ridges beyond latitude 80 degs. The Great Eastern has completed laying the knew Atlantic cable. The Marquis of Ripon has adopted Catholicism, and has resigned the Grand Mastership of Freemasons. The fifth cable across the Atlantic has been succcaofully laid . Arrived. — Loch Maree, from Melbourne ; Hudson, Bedgauntlet, Nineveh, Robert Burns. Dilharee, Margaret Galbraith, Pallam Tower, Abbey. Berlin, September Bth. An extensive conflagration has occurred at Meiningen, which destroyed half the town, and 3000 persons rendered homeless. New Yoek, September Ist. The committee having investigated the charges preferred by Theodore Tilton agp.inst the liev Henry Ward Beecher, pastor of Plymouth Ckurch, acquitted Beecher.