Telegraphic News.

Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 958, 13 August 1878, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

EUROPEAN CALOGRAMs.

VIENNA, August 3.

There is further Austrian mobilisation, in consequence of recent events in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ' The Austriaus attacked and completely routed the enemy, after some severe fighting, with heavy loss. The Austrian loss is trifling. LONDON, August IQ. The Indian regiment at Cyprus re-embark in five weeks. LONDON, August 9.

Subscriptions have been opened for the Dunedin 5 per cent, loan of £OOO,OOO at 9.5.

[special to press agency.] LONDON, August 9.

The Select Committee of the House of Commons adopted the proposal to; adjourn the decision of the Clare election until next year, giving Sir B. O'Loghlen the option of beingheard. Sir M. Hicks-Beach represented this to the absent member. Prince Louis Napoleon is engaged to marry Princess Thyrza, of Denmark. A Court circular of to-night publishes in extenso telegrams received by the Government from meetings held at Sydney, Melbourne, Ballarat, Newcastle, Grahamstown, and Brisbane, congratulating Earl Beaconsfield and Lord Salisbury on their action, and the result of the Berlin Congress.

ROME, August 9.

The Pope appointed Caivliu a ' Nina Pontifical Secretary of Stat e * LONDON, August 9.

Sir J. Vogel vindicated the Municipal Loan for Dunedin against some depreciating remarks in tne 'Times.' The Queen reviews the fleet at Spithead on the 13th. The.' Daily Nesvs' reports serious sickness among the troops at Cyprus, but no deaths.

The armed populatiou of Batoum is preparing to resist Russian occupation. JSiuety thousand Turkish Voludteers have gone to the frontier.

A tornado visited Mailing-ford, Connecticut. Thirty persons weie killed, and many houses demolished. Martial law is proclaimed in Bosnia. . Sir Stafford Northcote stated that the estimates for the Kaffir War were within £40,000. Money market, stringent; Bank minimum, unchanged ; Bank charging 6 per cent. Australian securitiet continue depressed with other stocks. The increasing value of money io producing a temporary inactivity. Corn market, ' fiat. The weather is splendid for harvest operations. Covent Garden is burned down. Tae loss is estimated at £30,000. Parliament is now expected to be prorogued on the 16th. The corvette Cormorant, bound for the Australian station, sprung a leak in the Channel, and returned to Chatham. SPEGJ 4L TBDI'JGKA 3£S. AUCKLAND, last night. A meeting of the Licensed Victuallers Association, held to-day, condemned the action ot the brewers in raising beer two pence per gallou. It was resolved that the prices by retail could not be iucreased to the consumer, and that the brewers, therefore, be asked to keep beer at its former price. Dickiusou, undertaker, was committed to trial for fraudulent bankruptcy, by concealing- goods in Playford's house, adjoining. The Rev. Dr Somervillo is expected in Auckland by the mail steamer, en route for England. News per Hero shows that it wss not Wright, of Auckland, but a trader named Townsend, who was murdered at Solomon Islands. A German was killed at the Line Islands.

Oonsiderab'e distress exists among miners in New Guinea, Nothing" beyond the colour of gold is reported. Active operations are being carried on against the rebels in itfew Caledonia, but with small results, the natives having taken refuge in inaccessible mountainous strongholds. WELLINGTON, last night. The ' Tunes,' referring to the Waikato election; says : " If politi-

Lictil apathy in regard to the exercise of the franchise by electon* be the rule an exception occurs to prove its stated in Waikate that the total numbera of votes! recorded at tLe lato election for Waipa was actually n excess of "the total number of voters known to be in the electoral Wheiher extra votes were polled for the/Government candidate or for_hi.B; 'oponent of course cannot at present be known. We heai that the Aucklaud — Committee have a reserve of votes always on stock qualified for emergency, and that some of those found their way to Mercer on the polling day by special train, and were not required to produce tickets. We may hear more of this curious phenomenon." Humors are current that a combined hostile movement is on the tapis; also, that Sir George Grey, ia speaking on the Electoral Bill to-morrow, will disclose a split in the Cabinet by declaringlhis opposition to the Bill in its present form. DTJNEIN, Thu-.»*Bday. The New Zealand; < Tab^t' says the Jesuit'-Fathers'/will arrive in Dunedin next month, and open a college if 'sufficient 1 inducsmenfc offers. THE DUNEDIN BREWERS ON THE BEER TAX. A meeting of Brewers was held last night, when the following resolutions, were passed :—" That the proposed duty of l|d per gallon on \ beer is oppressive and unbearable by the brewers, and, ssa matter of fact, sweeps away at least half of the present profits " ?• That, whereas a concession of on sugar is only equivalent to lOd per hogshead on beer; that the proposed duty of 6s 6d per hogshead is equal to a tax of Is 6d per bushel on malt used in brewing; if the proposed duty is carried into effect it will stop competition by at once closing many small already established breweries, and thereby throw the.monopoly of the into the hands of capitaliits." " That the tax niust fall on brewers and hotellceepers only—as consumers cannot be charged more than they at present pay—therefor making it class legislation, and defeating Jthe ends £oc which it was proposed." "That the drawback allowed on beer exp n't is inoperative, as no ! beer is exported to other colonies, on account of the want of a reciprocity on their part." "That the proposed duty on beer manufactured on or before the 7th of June is unjust, as many brewers had on hand large stocks of ale for six months, and that the law should not be retrospective, and many brewers have large contracts on hand which will have to be executed at at the old prices." " That Messrs. Joel and Marshall be appointed delegates to oroceed to Wellington to act in conjunction with the delegates of the other parts. of the colony." HOKITIKA, Friday.

The Christchurch coach, due on Saturday night, only reached town yesterday evening-. The road is in an almost impassable condition. A.valanches of snow have fallen over portions of the road, and filled up the guliies. CtSsidy, driving from this end, got nearly to the middle peg between Westland and Canterbury, when the coach and horses got bogged in snow. He sent the horses back, and shouldered the mails and attempted to get through"6h foot/and managed to get five miles* wading- through the snow waist-high in places, keeping the road by means of the telegraph poles. The' snow then became too deep, and he was obliged to return, mails and all, to the Otara Hotel, for shelter. Four additionaiv'oadrnen were obtained next day, and worked catting the snow from Sunday till Wednesday, when a track for four horses was opened. Those who can ride can go through easily enough, but vehicle communication is entirely cut off. Numbers of died last we?k while trying to get through, and others were so famished and foot-sore that they had to be lifted out of the wav to allow the horses to pass. Sheep and cattle ou the way had no food for six days. The mails started again this morning. The weather ■ has improved.