CABLE TELEGRAMS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5162, 26 August 1878, Page 2

CABLE TELEGRAMS.

(RHUTBR'S TELBBIUMS TO PRB9B AdBNOY.) NEW ORLEANS, August 23. Yellow fever is raging throughout all Louisiana. VIENNA, August 23. . The announcement of a convention between Austria and Turkey is premature. The Austrian Press advocates the annexation of Bosnia and Herzgovina. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 23. The Russians attacked the Mussulman insurgents in the Rhodope Mountains. The result was indecisive. (Special to tub Press Aobnov.) LONDON, August 22. Austria has 180,000 men now in Bosnia. Austrian demonstrations are being made against Servia and Montenegro, "it is officially announced that seven millions died from the famine in China. The Russian advance in the direction of Afghanistan has been stopped, owing to British protests and serious disasters to the left column of the expeditionary force. (From thb Press AosNor.) AUCKLAND, August 23. At the Board of Education to-day several communications were read from the Minister of Education, through Mr Hislop, with reference to the appointment of an extra school inspector, as it was considered impossible for one inspector to perform the duties devolving on him with efficiency, his sphere of labor extending over so wide an area. The board fully concurred in the view expressed, but were not sufficiently strong in financial position to employ another inspector, only £500 being allotted for that office. The secretary was therefore instructed to reply in those terms. Another letter was to the effect that the board Bhould not incur any further liabilities on school buildings beyond those already in hand. The annual races of the Jockey Club summer meeting are fixed for Boxing Day and the Ist and 2nd of January. The programme will be issued in a few days hence. August 25. Two boys in a stable at Scarborough, Remuera, last night, lighted a piece of tow hanging from a roof for amusement. The tow blazed up, and they ran away. The stables and sheds with .the hay in it, to the value in all of £180, were destroyed. There was no insurance. BLUFF, August 24. Two smart shocks of earthquake were experienced here at 2.40 p.m. to-day, each of a minute's duration. It shook the houses violently. 'CHRISTOHUROH, August 23. An accident happened to-day to Mr Overton, of Kaiapoi, who was thrown from his buggy and seriously injured. There was a largely attended meeting of chemists last night, over 27 being present, when they formed themselves into a Pharmaceutical Society, in conjunction with the Wellington and other New Zealand kindred societies. August 24. | It is said that the missing man Cross and his child, who disappeared so mysteriously from Sydenham on Monday, have turned up safe at Wellington. At a meeting of the Cathedral Guild on Thursday evening, it was stated that a proposal had been made that one of the transept columns in the Cathedral should be erected as a memorial to Bishop Selwyn. It would probably cost £1000. The inmates of the Old Men's Refuge at Selwyn were yesterday removed to their new quarters at Ashburton. At a meeting of the Harbor Board yesterday, Mr Harman called attention to the loss of interest which would be entailed upon the board if the Government persisted in the system of having that portion of the wharfage dues which is paid through the Railway Department, forwarded to Wellington, and then returned to Lyttelton. In the opinion of the Board, it was absolutely necessary to have a Resident Magistrate at Lyttelton. A painful case of destitution took place at Ashburton, where an old man, 64 years of age, lay without food among the flax in the river bed three days. He was discovered by the Sergeant of Police in the last stage of inaction. A largely attended meeting was held at Lincoln yesterday, and the action of the Government in respect to the grain duty was condemned. The following resolution was carried: — "That the president be requested to represent to the Government the injustice of the proposal te abolish the protective duty on grain while retaining the protective duty on timber, and the ad vaolrem duty of ten per cent, on corn bags ; also, that the grain producers of this colony pay the highest wages of any agricultural country, while the freight for grain to the home market is also higher than that of the other Australian Cololonies. DUNEDIN, August 25. The .Northern visitors will be entertained at a banquet in Dunedin on Saturday, September 5. Mrs Reid, of Saddle Hill, was fined £50 on Saturday for sly grog selling. An inquest was held on Mrs Cowan yesterday, when the jury returned a verdict that death was due to disease and to a wound inflicted by herself while in a state of temporary insanity. FOXTON, August 23. At a coroner's inquest to-day on the body of Mrs Richard Taylor, who jumped I overboard from the steamer Jane Douglas, a verdict of manslaughter was returned against the nurse and purser of the steamer, who had been sworn in as special I constables. IIAWERA, August 23. Messrs Thomson and M'Guire sold 50 sections in Hawera which brought an average of £28 per section.- The sales are considered a success. The supply of sections is not equal to the demand. TIMARU, August 23. A man named Thomas Brooks was found dead to-day under a gorse fence, near Mr Perry's residence, Great North Road. An inquest will be^ held tomorrow. LAWRENCE, August 24. A shock of earthquake was very distinctly felt here at 2.50 p.m. PORT CHALMERS, August 24. Two severe shocks of earthquake were experienced here at 2.40 p.m. to-day, each of a minute's duration. The direction travelled west to east. RIVERTON, August 24. A violent shock of earthquake was felt here at 2.45 this afternoon. The direction was south-east; by north-west, the duration 12 or 14 seconds. Windows rattled, buildings rocked. Brick buildings were shook and furniture vibrated. Some people rushed out of their houses in alarm. WELLINGTON, August 23. The sale is reported to-day, by private bargain, of 14| acres of land, with house and buildings on it, at Gisborne, for £2500. August 24. The steam tramway was formally

opened to-day by his Excellenoy th|jft A.,' Marquis of Normanby. The compSfflrV-V, having issued a great many invitationsv^^ there were three engines and five large ' carriages placed on the line. The Gover- '■ nor and suite, with the members of the " Legislature, occupied the carriage of honor, all the others being filled by citizens and their wives. The trip from Government House to the tramway station was most successful, though nearly ' all the cabs in the city were continually driving with speed on both sides of the tramway carriages. About two hundred ladies and gentlemen sat down to a champagne luncheon. His Excellency, in replying to the toast of his health, expressed his surprise at the rapid progress of Wellington during the last four years, and complimented it upon being the first city in the Australian Colonies to venture upon the experiment of a steam tramway. Mr Kennedy McDonald, returning thanks on behalf of the directors, said the line, engines, and carriages, with other expenses, had cost the company £40,000, and that before they put Wellington in complete tramway communication they would have to spend another £60,000. He also expressed the deep obligations of the company to the Bank of New Zealand for the very valuable pecuniary assistance which had been rendered them. The day being very fine, the streets .along the line were crowded with people. The whole affair is considered a great success.