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Evening Star, Issue 4896, 9 November 1878, Page 2

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Irkutsk's telegbams to the press aqenov.] France and Egypt Paris, November 6.—-The French Government, in consequence of the British occupation of Cyprus, require assurances respecting French interests in Syria and Egypt. Lord Salisbury, replying, expressed a desire' for the co-operation of France and England regarding Egyptian aflivirs. [Special to the Prkss Agency.] An Ultimatum to Russia. London, November 7. —England and Austria have jointly notified to Russia that they have agreed to a Treaty to compel her to evacuate Turkey in accordance with the Berlin Treaty. Russia is fortifying Schumla, Silistria, and Widdin instead of removing her troops. [special to\he argus,] London, November G —The Lord Mayor (Mr Alderman White) has been knighted. France and Italy are jointly supporting Greece's demands on Turkey. The Right Hon. W. H. Smith and the Right Hon. Colonel Stanley have left Cyprus for the Suez Canal, thence to Noland. The yacht Czar, conveying General Grant and Duke Sergius to Odessa, foundered. No Hvc3 were lost.

Many exhibitors at Paris have applied for space at Sydnsy. France has appointed a representative to watch over the interests of exhibitors, and will probably despatch the exhibits in a Mar vessel. A committee is forming in Paris to establish a Permanent International Exhibition at Sydendam. London, November s.—At a meeting of the London Committee of the Australian Exhibition at Melbourne and Sydney it

transpired that many exhibitors had applied for space. The French Government We appomtod a special reprewtpf«>A French Tho OutwaMltfalL x "' Sydney, November Sydney cleared Sydney Heao*B at nine this morning. Floods on the overlaid route having detained the Victorian mail*, it became necessary to postpone the Bailing of the San Francisco steamer. The detention however, will not interfere with the steamer's departure from New Zealand, as she will be pressed on the passage to Auckland.

[Feb Press Agency.] Parliament oat of Session. Auckland, November B.—Mr Moss addressed a crowded meeting of his constituents at Parnell to-night. He traced the progress of the session, and said the Government had no alternative but to reject the Electoral Bill. He reviewed the state of paities at the opening of the seseion, and contended that a compact Opposition had existed throughout. After tracing the measures of tho session, he said tho great question for future consideration would be a Government for

each Island, with a Federal Government at Wellington. He advocated decentralisation, and a return to some form of local government similar to Provincialism. He condemned the Rating Act as an attempt to crush Road Boards and monopolise power in the hands of Counties. Monday's Holiday. Wellington, November 9.—Monday is proclaimed a Customs holiday throughout the Colony. Native Affairs. Wellington, November 9.—The ' Patea Mail' has been officially authorised to state that the reported intention of the Native Minister to place an armed force at Parikaka is entirely false. Some Natives thought the Hawera Cavalry Volunteers were in training to catch Hiroki and the rest is supposed to have been concocted by an evilly-disposed European. Mr Williams, a Government officer, and Captain Wilson have been sent to the plains to allay the fears of such Natives as may have heard the rumor and become alarmed. Tho MaX Wellington, November 9.—The City of New York, with the London mails of October 10, sailed from San Francisco for Auckland on the 28th ult., her due date. The Zealandia, from Auckland on the 12th ult., arrived at San Francisco on the sth inßt., two days in advance of her due date, Coach Accident Westport, November 9.—A narrow escape from a serious accident happened to the Reefton and Westport coach yesterday. While fording the Ohika river the coach and team were swept down the stream for several chains, only escaping by a miracle. A Proper Inquiry. Auckland, November 9.—An official of the Native Department having obtained a block of 10,000 acres ef Native land north of Auckland, the Government have ordered the Crown grant to be put aside pending an inquiry. Acclimatisation. Auckland, November 9.—-Reports from the Thames River show that attempts to acclimatise the Californian salmon there have proved successful.

(From Ora Owsr Corrkspondknt.) Wary Ecclesiastics. Christchurh, October 8. At tho last meeting of the Diocesan Synod the members let it slip out that the church property here had accumulated to the value, of LIOO,OOO ; still the Cathedral is unfinished, and the public are appealed to for subscriptions. This mdiscret speaker was immediately silenced, and the reporters present were prevailed on to suppress all mention of the statement, leßt the public should discontinue subscribing and leave the expense of completing the Cathedral to the church itself. A Narrow Escape from Drowning. Christchurch, November 9.—A girl named Exall, three years old, was found by its parents head first in a cask of water, supphed from the artesian well for the nse of | the house. It is not known how long it had been immersed, and was taken out apparently lifeless, but a neighbor happening fortunately to have Btudied the latest method of resuscitating drowned persons, put it into practice, and after much trouble and buspense, restored the girl, who is now none the worse for her ducking. Criminal Christchprch, November 9. James Robinson was thia morning charged with committing a rape on a girl of sixteen, at Ashburton, and was remanded on bail. It is understood that hearing a warrant was out he gave himself up to the police. Sporting. CnßisTtibtTßCH, November 9.—Tlie entries for the Canterbury Derby for 1880 close here on Monday evening. The stakes on the past meeting will not be paid till Monday evening, but the bookmakers' settling (a going on to-day. These gentry have mostly done badly, and, in addition to this, a large number of the public are not paying up. Drowned. Queekstown, November 9. A Chinese miner named Ah Soon was drowned in Moonlight Creek. It is supposed he was overcome by the Btream while coming to Queenstown for provisions.

There was a storm last night and a verv heavy rainfall. The lake and rivers are veiy ugh. The weather is now fine, but the barometer is still lowering. The Wreck at Wellington Heads. Wellington, November 9. —Captain Williams's collar barque Carlotta, of 310 tons Captamßayner, bound from Newcastle to Wellington with coal, was totally wrecked just inside Pencarrow this morning in a furious N.W. gale. She went on the rocks at the top of high water. Pilot Holmes and a crew went to the apsistance of the vessel and she is io .v high and dry. Theie is no chance of getting her off. The crew are fafe, and can jump ashore at any time It is supposed that the Carlotta was either trying to beat in against the gale and missed stays, or else tried to anchor inside and parted her cable, in either of which cases it was inevitable that she would be blown ashore. .She is i.sired for LI.OOO in the Victoria, of which LSOO is re-insured in the Globe, and the cargo is insured for L4OO in the Victoria.

The Surreyor-GeneraL Wellington, November 9.—Mr J T Thomson has just returned to this Colony after an absence of twelve months, and has resumed his official duties as SurveyorGeneral, his rumored intention of resignine being entirely unfounded. During his stav in Great Britain he made it his business to inspect carefully, and to compare the various systems of town drainage in use at Homo A comprehensive paper from his pen on the who'e subject will be read before the Wellington Philosophical Society. Female Operators. Wellington, November 9.—The 'Post' says it is understood that the employment of female operators in the electric telegraph oifice has not proved a success, and that the discontinuance of the system is only a question of time. It had been found that close confinement during the day is very detrimental to the health of female operators, the consequence being that absence on account of indisposition is of frequent occurence to the obviouß disadvantage of departmental efficiency • hence it is not contemjlatad to extend iihe system or to make any fresh appointment ot female operators; but if vacancies occur they wiU be left or the places of retmhg operators supplied by .officers of the sterner sex.

The Old Story, Wellington, November 9.-Katc Davies was to-day committed for trial foe attempted suicide. She is a remarkably good-looK young woman, about twenty-four/ d 3 well and w th taste. She has fo^mS Fn^hln* 110 Wlf f ° f in this town, who was recently bankrupt oit 0 rf?«!f Whm ? d that he hR * tumSher out of doors, and sooner than embrace the only path ot life open before her, sho attempted to put an end to her existence Her case has excited much consideration. ' Encouraging Local Industries. the difficulties in the .way of; tendeVfo? manufacturing steel rails, the GoveramcS

offer to pay one half the coßt of the passage to the Colony of workmen to be engaged in their manufacture. The Agent-General has received instructions to furnish all available information as to the situation and character of our Colonial iron deposits, means of transport,' etc. The American tenderers can obtain similar details from Mr "W. Evans of New York. As it is unlikely that intending contractors will enter into an engagement of this nature without first satisfying themselves by personal inspection as to the position and extent of the raw material in New Zealand required for the manufacture of iron, every facility for information on this subject will be afforded on application to Dv Hect< r. Daring the last eight yeaw 15,500 tons of cast iron and 93.000 tons of wrought iron, exclusive of iron for the railways, have been i nportcd into the Colony.