TELEGRAPHIC. (From the DaiLy Southern Cross.) Bluff, Tuesday.

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TELEGRAPHIC. (From the DaiLy Southern Cross.) Bluff, Tuesday.

The s. s. ' Gothenburg ' arrived at the Bluff nt 6 a.m. to-day. She left Melbourne at 4 p.m on the 30th, and brings 7 saloon and 27 streerage passengers, and 150 tons cargo and 110 ranis for all ports. Her dates are European news to the 28th, and Australian to the 30th September. London, September 25. Mr Disraeli's contemplated visit to Ireland has been indefinitely postponed. He is suffering from bronchial affection. September 26 The Prince of Wales has accepted the Grand Mastership of Freemasons. Money ia tightening. The bank rate three per cent. Wool and wheat markets unchanged. A livpil; ' Cothcrstono.' .Mi.ud : •Northumberland,' for Melbourne. September 28. Tiic Australian mails vL'i Brindisi, have been delivered. Paris, September 25. In a speech recently M. Thiers said that with the help of M. (Ja&imer Perrier he will found a republic. Berlin, September 25 Dp Conrad Marten, Bishop of Paderbovn, has been condemned to three months' imprisonment for a pastoral he issued last March. September 28. It is denied at Berlin that Denmark remonstratecl concernirig tlio explusion of Danish agitators from Schleswig, and dudaied that the expulsion of

foreigners from Gorman territory cannot occasion diplomatic action. Hong Kong, September. An awful typhoon occured at Hong Kong. Eight ships foundered or were wrecked; many vessels are missing. The damage to property is immense, and the loos of life is estimated at a thoucand. Gallo, September 28. _ The ' Pera ' left on the 25th, three days before time. Nelson, Tuesday. A large public meeting woe* held at Reefton (West Coast) to-day, to urge the Provincial Government to keep the road to Greymouth in a proper passable condition, and to purchase Daltons Suspension Bridge. [This bridge was built by a private person, who was empowered to levy certain tolls, from which the people of Reefton now desire to see all traffic freed by means of the Government purchasing Daltons rights.] Great indignation was expressed by the meeting because of the Government's neglect of the district. Resolutions to that effect were passed. So many waggons are capsized in consequence of the ruts in the rood, that the Reefton traders contemplate withdrawing their traffic from tho road. Christchuch, Tuesday. Statistics from the Registrar General are published, showingthe comparative health of the various municipalities of the colony, which place Christchurch in an unfavourable position, and have excitsd much attention. At a meeting of the City Council held last night, it was decided to inform the Registrar General that the hospital is not in the city, and that it receives all its patients from all parts of the province ; consequently all deaths there should not be included in the Christchurch retui'ns. A report from Dr Powell on the statistics was read. This states that the high per centage of the death rate during the past three months was casual, and not in any degree attributable to the sanitary condition of the city. The depths were principally amongst the young children, and were due to the \ cry changeable nature of the weather. It pointed out the fallacious nature of the percentage returns as they registered small communities, extending over short periods of time, as such returns were largely influenced by casual circumstances, and stated that the death rate of 1873, in proportion to births, was 20 per cent, less than in 18G4, and 1869. The charges against the captain of the ship ' C.ithcart, 1 for shooting three seamen on the voyage our, were thrown out by the Grand Jury.