TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5298, 4 February 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

• " [By Cable.] [REUTEE'S TEIEGBAMS.I PARIS, January 28. Marshal MacMahon has refused to change the anti-Republican commanders of.thearmy corps, as his. Ministry desired, and which he recently declared he would avoid unless the consequences proved detrimental to the nation. The Marshal threatens to iresign rather than that the ai'my should bo disorganised. The majority of iihe Chambers have intimated that if the resignation of the Marshal is tendered they will accept it. January 29. Marshal MacMahon, persisting in his refusal to make the changes in the com manders, he has virtually resigned. The formal resignation will probably be made to-morrow. The Congress of the Sonut j and of the Chiamber of Deputies will then meet to elect the President's successor. January 30. The probable candidates for the Presidency are M. Grevy, the President of the Chamber of Deptities, and Admiral Pothnan, Minister of Marino and of the Colonies. Latek. Marshal MacMahon has resigned the Presidency. The Senate and Chamber of Deputies are specially convoked to electjhis successor. Grevy's election this evening is a certainty. Evening. M, Grevy was elected President by a large majority, and has been proclaimed President of the Republic for soven years. January 31. The Ministry remain in office, the President refusing to accept their resignation. Marshal MacMahon retires into private life. M. Gambetta has been elected Presi- : dent of the Chamber of Deputies, /

LONDON, January 29. Tho City of Glasgow Bank Directors made no •defonbo ; they merely called witnesses to character. Pottor and Stronach were found not guilty as charged. The others have been found guilty of issuing false balanco sheets. They will bo sentenced on Saturday. January 30. The Bank discount has been reduced to. 3 per cent. BOMBAY, January 30. General Stewart's cavalry have occupied Kilalizhilzie. January 30. Vali Mahomed, brother of the Ameer of Afghanistan, has arrived atKuram, and has solicited General Roberts to receive him. A number of chiefs of Shimbari accompany Vali. LONDON, February 1. The •sentences on the City of Glasgow Bank Directors are as follows : — Potter and Stconach, 18 months' imprisonment ; Taylor, Inglis, Wright, and Solomon Stewart, eight months' imprisonment. Their counsel urged that they were not guilty of issuing false balance sheets and that they had no motive for falsifying them. New Zealand fives are one per cent, higher. All colonial securities are buoyant. Consols, 97. Market rate of discount, 2£. Bank reserve, 12$ millions. News from the Cape states that Cetawayo not. having submitted, war is declared against him. [SPECIAL TO THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.] LONDON, February 1. The money market is rather firmer. The Bank reserve is stronger and has nearly reached 13 millions. Consols 96J. The market for Australian Securities has experienced a strong revival. Tho wheat market unchanged. There is a quantity of inferior New Zealand in tho market. I "Wool is quiet at current rates, but ' there is a recovery in the demand for ■fine wools. Business is less depressed.. Tho Zulu war has commenced, The King refused to listen to the British ultimatum, and the British troops immediately crossed the frontier, attacking and carrying the principal outposts. Owing to repeated inroads on the settlements on the Guinea Coast, the Portugueso Government has declared war on the hostile tribes, and a strong expeditionary force is being fitted out. BRISBANE, February 3. Mr Thomson, the Minister of Justice, has been re-elected for Ipswich by a majority of 14. , The prize essay has been awarded to ; Carl Fieldberg, a popular journalist. The aboriginal Captain Piper has been arrested for a murder committed in 1866. j MELBOURNE, February 3. There is a scandal in the Reforn League. An officer is alleged to hay( accepted £100 to get a person- appointei a magistrate. Other corruptions in thi Land Office are alleged. j SYDNEY, February 3. : Owing to. the heavy rain the cricke match between the Englishmen an< Bathurst was not played out. The body of Captain Fraser,* burnt aboard the brig Islerbrook six weeks ago, was recovered safely on the vessel being pumped out, but it was almost unrecognisable. It is rumored that Mr Weld of Tasmania will be our new Governor. A man named Wilson, alias Smith, was arrested aboard the Francis Thorp, from London, on Saturday, for fraudulent insolvency at Hull, England. [prom the press association.] GISBORNE, February 8. Ripera and other natives being unable to come to terms with the late Captain Read's trustees in reference to some blocks of land, those interested in the matter nave taken possession ef his house at Hapera. The Magistrate deoided that an upstairs bar, removed from the thoroughfore, in the Albion Hotel, is illegal, as tho consent of the Licensing Bench was not ifirst obtained. A fine of £5 was inflicted. There is groat diversity of opinion as to whether such bars are paid for elsewhere, and the proprietor in the present instance is likely to apply for a re-hearing of the case. He asked that a case should be stated, to which the Magistrate readily consented. The Resident Magistrate's jurisdiction will be extended, with the powers of the District Court. [By Special Wire.l AUCKLAND, February 3. It has been raining heavily all day, which is much needed in the country districts, and also in the suburban districts, for filling water tanks, which 'were empty. The City of Sydney sailed this afternoon, at 4 o'clock, after having had the pin fitted in a satisfactory manner. The open sailing boat race, which was not satisfactorily run on the regatta day, was sailed to-day, at 2 o'clock, and was won by the Toy. She has now won the first prizes in three of the principal ports i of the colony, and is therefore the champion sailing boat in New Zealand. Charles Veitch, boarding-house keeper, was charged at the Police Court to-day with having committed an indecent assault on Saturday night upon a Maori married woman, who was sleeping in his house, but he was ultimately discharged. CHRISTCHURCH, February 3. Two deaths have occurred at. the quarantine station; one, an infant, on Sunday, and the other yesterday of a girl seven years old. Fishhook has been scratched for all engagements. Mrs Groves, a well-known resident of Kaiapoi, died suddenly of heart disease yesterday. She was found about 10 a.m. lying dead in her garden. At the inquest it was ascertained that death resulted from apoplexy. DUNEDIN, February 3. Mr Conyers remains about the same. A telegram received to-day states that the crew of the Clyde are all safe. They left in their boats when the vessel got in the breakers. The Rev, Mr Fitchett preached to a large congregation in AH Saints Church yesterday. WELLINGTON, February 3. The Hon. Mr Buckley has resigned the Governorship of the College, being dissatisfied with the management of the majority of the governing body. Miss Jones, of College fame, is announced as lecturer of Carey's Arctic Panorama. On Saturday night a house owned by Mrs Hughey, at Taita, occupied by a shoemaker named M'Kenzie, was burned to the ground through the explosion of a kerosene lamp. M'Kenzie, his wife, and six children escaped, but one little girl, aged 4, was overlooked, and was burned to death. The house was insured in the South British for £200. M'Kenzie was not insured, and is left destitute. It is the second time he has been burned out within a year.