TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 188, 3 November 1876, Page 9

TELEGRAMS.

•« (From our Daily Contemporaries.) London, October 14. The conditions alone on which the Porte will agree to an armistice until March are the present possession by Turkey of the positions occupied by Servia, and Servia's evacuation of all strongholds ; the Great Powers to settle details. The Porte asks that importation of arms and entry of volunteers from foreign nations into Servia and Montenegro be prohibited, and insists that he will jy£fect the armistice while numbers of Russians are joining the ° Lord Abercorn resigned the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland. He will be succeeded by the Duke of Marlborough. Brisbane, October 23. Consequent on the superabundance of labor in the Northern Territory, Government have instructed the Ag-ent-General to reduce ' the number of immigrant ships sent out. A meeting of laborers at Townsville adopted a manifesto to send to the Agricultural Labourers' Union of England, holding up Queensland asTa field for labor to public scorn as a gigantic imposture. A tender for the Western Railway extension has been accepted at .£2700 per mile. Blenheim, October 30. The shearers here held a large meeting on Saturday evening and unanimously resolved to strike for 20s. per hundred. There ts every probability of the runholders giving way. London, October 20. A rumor of a prospect of war caused a panic on the Stock Exchanae. Foreign stocks fell heavily, especially Kussian. All Home securities suffered much. Consols have dropped li-, and are quoted at 94. Colonial debentures were slightly affected. The price of money is suffering. The Bank reserve of specie has been reduced to about £19 000,000. The wool demand is on the increase at a slight advance on August closing rates. Continental inquiry is brisk. Wlieat firm. New Zealand, 44s to 51s. New Zealand flax is firm. The charge for the transit of the mails between New York and San Francisco has been largely increased. November 1. An Adelaide telegram, dated London, 20th October, was read in the Assembly yesternight from the Agent-General for South Australia, stating that war between Turkey and Russia was inevitable, and that stocks had fallen in consequence.