TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 114, 12 October 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(JSer Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph Agency .) LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA. ♦ Greymouth, October 10. The brigantine Zephyr arrived off port today from Melbourne. She made a rapid passage, having left on the 3rd instant. She brings later English and Australian news. The following is a condensed summary from the files of th q Argus :— Paris, September 29.

A republican has beateu a Septennate candidate at the election of a deputy for Marne et Loire. It is cousidered of importance. London, September 30. Sir James Fergusson is gazetted K G.M G. St Petebsburgh, September 30.

The Journal St Petersburgh declares that agreement between Austria, Germany and Russia remains intact, although Russia has not recognised Spain, being desirous of not interfering in Spanish affairs. In reply to a letter of Don Carlos, thanking his Majesty for not recognising the Spanish Republic, the Czar simply acknowledged it. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Sydney. The Premier and the Postmaster-General of Queensland arrived in Sydney on the 30th to confer with Messrs Parkesand Vogel with reference to telegraphic communication, and the Singapore and Torres’mail service. It is proposed to expand the service, and employ swifter steamers. The questions of postal reciprocity and the registration of debentures on the London Stock Exchange are to be discussed.

The City of Adelaide takes the next month’s Californian mail.

The report of the Australian Mutual Benefit Society was unanimously adopted. The gross surplus exhibited in the quinquennial balance sheet amounts to £295,899 ; £24,714 is the estimated increase in the value of Government debentures requiring re-valua-tion at the quinquennial period, taken at the market price on 30th September, The amount set apart fordistribution is £235,185. Teas (new) at auction realised 2s l£d per lb, A schooner from Newcastle to New Zealand has put in dismasted. Adelaide.

A motion has been carried for a preliminary survey of the line of railway from Adelaide to effect a junction with the Victorian line.

Wheat is steady at 5s Id, but none is offering. Mr Forrest, the explorer, has arrived at Peake station. It is proposed to give him a public banquet. The Adelaide Government will place boats at the crossing places on the rivers eti route for the Palmer goldfields. Hobart Town. The American scientific expedition sails in a week for New Zealand, thence to the Chatham Islands, Melbourne. Mr James Gair, late of Preston, near Melbourne, an old colonist, is dead. Arrived—On the Ist, Otago.

COMMERCIAL

The markets are dull. Breadstuffs are rising. Flour £l2 12s Gd to £l2 15s. Oats are dull. Quotations rule 5s to 5s 2d for common to good feeding, while up to 5s 61 is required for milling. INTERPROYINCIAL. Auckland, October 10. Sheep are in moderate supply at irregular prices— 4£d to 5d ; fat cattle, 35s to 40s ; ewes and lambs, 15s 6d to 23s each. Arrived —Wellington. Wellington, October 10. The Resident Magistrate gave his decision to day on the question of the liability of mail coaches to pay tolls. He maintained that the Legislature had exempted the mail coaches irom payment of tolls. The Cartvale was towed into the harbor last night. There have been nineteen deaths of children from measles and diphtheria. They have gone into quarantine. Dr Johnston and the immigration officer have gone off to Quarantine Island. [FROM OUR DUNEDIN CORRESPONDENT.] Dunedin, October 12. There is a conflict between the Provincial and General Governments. The latter agreed to make an advance towards the construction of the Maerwhenua bridge. Conditional plans were approved by the Colonial Engineer, but the Provincial Government refuse to go on with the work. Mr Reid writes:— “As so serious an innovotation, and one which by giving a divided responsibility and control in the carrying out of public works would have a most injurious effect, that the Government cannot agree to allow the Minister of Public Works to have the control over the expenditure of provincial funds.”