TELEGRAMS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5161, 24 August 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

CABLE TELEGRAMS.

(RKUTER'S TELEGRAJI3 TO PiIEBS AGENCY.) LONDON, August 21. .Nares commands the Alert on an expedition to the South Pacific. VIENNA, August 21. The Austrians have further successes, and have occupied another town. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 21. It is semi-officially stated that a depatch has been addressed to Musurus Pasha, commanding at Batoum, to refuse to surrender that fortress to the Russians. The German, British, and French Ambassadors at Constantinople, in decisive language, urge on the Porte the unreserved execution of the terms of the treaty. . LONDON", August 22. The Home Secretary said at Liverpool that after the hopeful forecast of the solution of the Eastern difficulties it was the duty of the Government to reduce the expenditure to a great extent. ST. PETERSBURG, August 22. The Russian troops will occupy Batoum on the 27th August. SYDNEY. -August 23. In reply to a deputation, the Colonial Secretary said the Government were indisposed to take action to restrain Chinese immigration to the colony, being bound by the policy of Great Britain. When '.the' influx .assumed perilous proportions the Government would be prepared to act.

Special to tub Press Aoknot.) LONDON, August 21. • • The British Government have resolved to prevent a Russian-Afghan alliance, even at the cost of seizing Khandar, and possibly Herat, Jf or strategic purposes. The Government will unofficially support exploring railway routes in Asia •Minor, but declines giving any guarantee. r . The large Republican majority at the "elections for the French Council General assures a Republican victory at the Senatorial elections. Undated. Higdon won the cricket match against the Australians by 24 runs. The wicket was dead, and Higdon had a good team. The Australians are now playing against Scarborough. The Australians have four out for 192. The Mayor of Liverpool entertained Mr Cross, Mr Stanley, Mr Sandon, and a company of 250 persons, including several Liberal members. MELBOURNE, August 22. The Cable Company decline to accede to the Press combination for the proposed reduction of Press messages. It is likely to fall through altogether. August 23. The presentation to Mr Pearce took place at the Town Hall to-day by the Mayor of Melbourne. The Victorian contributions amounted to nearly £600. He leaves by the Loch Sunaret on Monday. Mr ' Jenner has been elected without opposition for the South Privince. It is expected there will be a close contest between Professor Hearn and Mr O'Brien for the Central Province. The woman who stole Mrs Pitt's baby pleaded guilty, and was remanded for sentence.

(From thk Prkss Aoenot.) AHAURA,, Angust 23. Three valuable horses were drowned in endeavoring to cross the junction of the Grey river. The driver, George Page, is a very steady man. He had to swim ashore, and escaped with difficulty. He is now confined to bed. He had got over the first crossing of the Grey river, but on reaching the second ford he found the water too high, and he tried to return, when the current swept the horses and dray down the stream. The dray was lost. Mr Alcorn, the proprietor of the horses and dray, estimates his loss at £120. Page was engaged draying timber for the Grey Junction bridge, for the erection of which a tender was recently accepted by the Government. The Grey ford is always dangerous with the least fresh; AUCKLAND, August 23. Mr M'Murdo, agent for the Government Life Insurance, has received £50 from the' Borough of Parnell for their leaving a heap of stones on the road, which his horse stumbled upon, throwing him and spraining his ankle. DUNEDIN, August 23. Mrs Cowan, who on Sunday last^ at Maori Hill cut her throat with a knife, died in the hospital yesterday. A person named Robert Rinnie, released some time ago from the Lunatic Asylum, and who has since been in the city with his family, became possessed of the idea that it was his duty to cut the throat of one of his children, and for that purpose he procured a razor, but instead of carrying his extraordinary idea into effect he voluntarily proceeded as quickly as possibly to the Lunatic Asylum, and with the razor in his hand demanded, admittance. He was detained until the arrival of the police, who conveyed him to the lock-up, and after medical evidence, he was committed to his old quarters in ■ the asylum. WELLINGTON, August 23. A supplementary Gazette to-night publishes bye-laws fixing a uniform scale of fares and charges for passengers on the New Zealand railways, commencing from the 22ud instant. Passenger rates : — ]?;;•<•'• olass, single, threepence per mile ; second class,, twopence ; return fares, onehalf ; children half rate"; Minimum charges, sixpence and fourpence. trains with one large carriage, 15s per mile. Season annual tickets £3 for 2 miles to £21 for — (?) miles, and in pro--portion -for six, three, or one month. .School tickets, irrespective of distance-, 10.3 per quarter. School parties, £d per mile each person. Family tickets for f our persons, two-thirds ordinary rates of season tickets. News-boys, half ordinary rates. Each passenger is allowed to take 1121bs of luggage free, Id per 501bs extra. Dogs, 6d per'2s miles, the maximum to be charged, 2s Gd. ? Milk, %& per gallon for 10 miles ; |-d for each additional 10 miles; and grain, 2.1-d per ton per mile, with terminal charge Is 9d per ton. On goods consigned to or from private sidings or shedu, owners to load and re-load":-Minerals, 2d per ton per mile; wool undumped, 1 per mile per bale, not exceeding 4 cwt ; double dumped, If d per bale. Timber, owner loads and unloads — §d per 100 feet superficial per mile. ' Live stock— Sheep, pigs, etc., 10s per truck, up to 10 miles, for each additional mile up to 50, 4d. Freight for a lot of sheep of not less than 9000, for a distance* not exceeding 170 miles, £360: Cattle, 15s per truck up to 10 miles, for each additional mile 5d per truck up to 50 miles. Horses, single, 8s Bd, up to 10 miles, 2|d per mile after. Hay and straw, 6d per truck for 5 miles ; for each additional mile, 7d. Posts and rails and firewood, lOd per truck per mile, up to fifty milos, 7kl per truck for each additional mile. Corpses, Is per mile ; minimum, £I. ' . Native coal, Is 6d per ton for 3 miles, 2d per ton for each additional mile up to 15. General regulations — Truck load computed at five tons. Drivers of public vehicles charged an annual fee of £1 for license of plying for hire within the precincts of any station. Road matal, Is per ton per mile. _