SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. (From our own Correspondents ) ARRIVAL OF THE ALBION AT THE BLUFF. Later English News. Collision of Ironclads. The Insurrection in Montenegro, Fall in Wool.

Waikato Times, Volume IX, Issue 522, 23 September 1875, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. (From our own Correspondents ) ARRIVAL OF THE ALBION AT THE BLUFF. Later Engli sh News. Collision of Ironclads. The Insurrection in Montenegro, Fall in Wool.

Bluff, Wednesday evening. The Albion has arrived. She left Melbourne on the 17th instant. i

LONDON. September 3. The ironclads Ironduke and Vanguard collided oft' Wicklow, in a dense fog. The latter sank in nineteen fathoms —all lives were saved. The Turks violated the Servian territory, burned villages, killed some inhabitants, and seized cattle. Popular feeling in Servia is very much excited against the Turks. The Pera arrived at Galle from Australia on September 4. There is a further decline in medium and inferior wools, and the better class of wool is a penny lower. The barque Beycidale was wrecked in Algoa Bay. September 6. The Pasha of Servia telegraphed te the Porte that the insurrectionary agitation is greatly allayed by the pressure of the European Powers. The Servians are not likely to be aggressive. The insurgents refuse to assent to a conference, and demand to be made independent provinces, tributary to the Porte. Further fighting occurred in Montenegro, the Servians remaining neutral. A sensation has been caused in Paris, by the French admiral commanding the Mediterranean ffeet, declariug that he will only support President McMahon while he keeps aloof from the party that caused the September revolution. Captain Anthony Hoskins succeeds Commodore Goodenough. There have been wholesale Carlist defeats, and a collapse of the cause deemed inevitable, A Chinese embassy proceeds to England in connection with Margery's murder. September 13. At the conference respecting the colonisation of iNew Guinea, it was resolved to form a Colonisation Society, and organise

au expedition of two iiiuuiiei volunteers under Government co-oper.iti >a. The Biindisi mails were delivered.

Auckland, Wednesday evening. [ A meeting of Presbyteiians resolved to ! improve the cemetery by planting trees "There was an imposing ceremony at the installation of Brother McCullough, as Deputy-Provincial Grand Master of New Zealand, under the Scottish Constitution. Captain Johnson,' late of the schooner Magellan Cloud, fell down the stairs at his lodgings, and sustained such severe injuries, that there is no hope of his recovery. The Hawea has arrived from the South. At the Police Court, Michael Co.sfceJlo was remanded on a charge of attempting suicide Joseph White, has been arrested to-day, charged with stealing £1 19s from William Murray, his landlord. John Casey waß arrested on a charge of harboring a boy who escaped from the Naval Training School. Judge Gillies decided in the case of Henderson and Spraggon v. McKenzie, that a verbal agreement by which defendant was to buy land on their joint account, was not a legal contract, B.irnett and Levy intend to build a new theatre, with shops to be erected, *it the corner of Queen and Victoria-streets. At Binney's produce sale, to-day, white oats realised 2s 9d to 2s lid; Sydney maize, 4s lOd; New Zealand maize, 5s Id ; barley dust, 5s sd; pollard, £6.

Maketu, Wednesday. The natives intend erecting a memoriatablet to Father I^ioeux. The Goyenil ment have forwarded supplies of wheat, owing to a scarcity of food ajiong the natives.

Dunedin, Wednesday. The Auckland footballers were beaten to-lay. They only scored half a point against Otago's nine. A miner named Haniock has been buried alive.