TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Press, Volume XXX, Issue 4094, 10 September 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

THE RUSSIANS ~ MURDEROF MBHEMET ! gOKETART THE GLOUOESTER MATGE. : S" [BPBOIAIIO TUB PBBSB ASBHCT.] ; " liosvov, September?. The ;: Russians. entered Batoum without opposition.- - ■■-- .. Mehemftt Ali Pasha and twenty of his suite have been massacred. * .-.-,. The Bank's miTriiminv v unchanged. Market rate for three months' bills, 4J; Consols are extremely depressed, and have experienced a heavy fall of 1 per cent. The wool market betrays symptoms of weakness in medium and faulty parcels, which preponderate. Superior wools are firm. The corn market is unohanged, and the weather is fine for harrest. . J. C. Wilson succeeds Commodore Hoskins on the Australian station. , : The Paris Exhibition will close on November Isth. Further colonial awards are expected. In the Gloucestershire match, the first innings of the Australians closed for 183. The Gloucestershire in their second innings made 85. The game was won by the Australians with ten wickets to spare. The bowling of the Australians was very effective, and the wicket-keeping of Blackham excellent. The attendance was large, the weather hot, and the wicket good. The scores were :—A. Bannerman, run out, 19; Spafforth, bowled. Gilbert, 44 ; Murdoch, run out, 0; Gregory, caught off WOs, 1 $ Blackham, bowled Mills, 0; Allan, caught off Dr. Grace, 14; Boyle, not out 11. Gloucestershire—Second Innings Gilbert, 1; Towntend, 18; Bosh, 3 Mills, 4; all bowled Spofforth; Cranston, caught off Spafforth, 0; Grace, lbw,- b Garrett, 5; Maberley, caught off Allan, 0; Fred Grace, bowled Garrett, 6; Dr. Grace, caught off Garrett, 13; Wright, bowled Allan, 12; Smith, not out, 19; sundries, 4. The Australians' Second Innings wa» Bailey, not but, 9; Spofforth, not out 4; sundries, 4. Console, rate* of discount, and wheat and flour quotations, are unchanged, New Zealand fives, 1001. Australian securities are declining. , Pabis, September 7. Boiisto, of Melbourne, received a medal for his pharmaceutical exbibiU.