TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 5019, 17 December 1877, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

THIS MORNING'S CABLEGRAMSthe"war. THE RUSSIAN LOSS AT KADIKOI. THE STRENGTH OF PLEVNA. THE BRITISH FLEET AT BESIKA BAY. STANLEY'S RETURN. THE CRISIS IN FRANCE. [keuter's special cablegrams.] [The following cablegram was received at 3.30 this morning.] LONDON, November 30. Suliesian Pasiia states that the Russian loss at Kadikoi was 2000, and the Turkish loss 900. The Time* Vienna telegram states that the Russians are coming to the conclusion that Plevna will hold out for some time. The British fleet has been ordered to winter in Besika Bay. Corporal punishmenthasbeen abolished. H.M. Stanley, the African explorer, has returned home, and been banquetted. President MacMahon has assured M. Grevy in an interview that there is no danger of a coup d'etat. He refused to listen to such a solution. A petition is now being signed in France, asking for a congress of both the Chambers to consider the political crisis. AUSTRALIAN CABLEGRAMS. [press agency.] SYDNEY, December 15. The Bank of New Zealand have purchased the extensive premises in Pittstreet now occupied by the Australian Mutual Provident Society, for £25,000.

Mr. Farnall is forming a now Ministry.

Hennessy's case and cask brandy is unchanged ; rice, £22 to £23; Adelaide flour, £'15 ; Adelaide wheat, Gs. There is no New Zealand wheat or oats in the market. Sugar and tobacco unchanged ; sperm, OJd to 9}d. The City of Sydney sailed yesterday for Auckland.

MELBOURNE, December 15.

Mr. Berry, at the Beechworth banquet last night, fulminated against the action of the Council in rejecting the Appropriation Bill. He said the consequence would be stoppage of the railways and mail services, and the non-payment of the public creditors. He referred to the perils of such a course. The rejection of the bill was the act only of madmen. There are capital entries for ISTcw Year's day meeting. ADELAIDE, December 15. Quotations : Wheat, £5 ; flour, £13. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. [from oub own correspondents.] WELLINGTON. Sunday. MINISTERIAL CHANGES. Mr. Ballance has been offered a seat in the Ministry, and will probably join. Negotiations are now goiug on between him and Sir G. Grey on tlie subject. Mr. Ballance is very anxious that Mr. Stout should also join the Ministry, which however would necessitate the retirement of either Mr. Larnach or Mr. Fisher. THAMES, Saturday. Queen of Beauty Extended. —Mr. T. B. Hicks takes charge on Monday morning. Piako.—Retort on Monday. The battery is closed for a short time, and work is stopped on No. 7 level. The company continue the full strength on No. S winze. New tributes are to be let in the upper sections of the Moanataiari. The return for the week is moderate. The tunnel has been extended 23 feet.

COROMANDEL, Saturday. Tokatca Tribute.—Boyle and party got good gold. Nicholl's Tribute, Tokatea. — Lodged 031ozs. retorted gold. Horoibrook and Wilson have struck a good leader showing good gold. The annual examination of the Upper Township school took place yesterday. The pupils passed very creditably, and showed considerable improvement. [press aockcy.J WELLINGTON, Sunday. Dr. Lemon received the following official memorandum from Mr. Todd to-day :—"The Port Darwin and Banjoewangi cable was repaired at 11.45 this morning (Saturday)." Mr. Cotterill, well known for his drawing, room entertainments, and who married one of the Misses Carandini, died this morning.

It is notified in to-day's Gazette that the £SOO voted by the House for prize-firing will be divided pro rata amongst the Volunteer corps according to the nominal strength on 31st October, 1577. Each district must arrange for markers at its own expense. A committee consisting of the officers commanding and two seuior Volunteers in each district will divide the amounts set apart for prizes. The Prize-firiDg Regulations for 1577 are to be adhered to. The competition is to take place not later than 31st March, IS7S.

Mr. Baker, son-in-law of the late Colonel Balneavis, has been appointed private secretary to the Hon. Mr. Sheehan, and Mr. \V. Mitchell, of the Hansard staff, a clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office. TIMARTJ, Saturday. The charge of arson against Bickerdike was concluded last night. Mr. O'Meager ably defended him. The jury gave a verdict of Not guilty. To-day, Casey was charged with stealing from the person. He was found guilty, and sentenced to four years' penal servitude. The Hon. Mr. Fox is announced to proach a temperance sermon in the Primitive Methodist Chapel to-morrow evening. DUNEDIN, Saturday. REMARKABLE PROSECUTION FOR PERJURY. A remarkable prosecution for perjury, instituted against Jane Galloway, otherwise Mrs. Bellamy, by a young woman named Ada Maria Galloway, in consequence of defendant having declared in an affidavit that prosecutrix was the illegitimate child of her first husband, was, after two hearings, again adjourned thin morning. The facts are shcrtly these :—Prosecutrix on her father's death was living at Waikari with her uncle, in whose family she had been brought up from childhood, and obtained letters of administration over her father's property, which comprised some valuable sections. Subsequently, defendant, who had married a Mr. Bellamy in the meantime, arrived in New Zealand from Sydney, and instituted Supreme Court proceedings, with a view of obtaining her deceased husband's property. Affidavits were made in which she declared Miss Galloway to be an illegitimate daughter of her first husband by a dressmaker in Glasgow. In consequence of this declaration the letters of administration were cancelled. An appeal to the Court of Appeal failed to alter the result, and the present criminal proceedings were taken with the object of removing the imputation respecting her birth. For the prosecution a certificate of registration of the prosecutrix's birth in Sydney is produced. The case has already occupied the Resident Magistrate's Court two days, and the evidence is likely to be very lengthy.

The Union Company's annual excursion to the West Coast Sounds, per s.s. Hawea, promises to be a great success. Sixty passengers have already been booked from all parts of the colony, including 15 ladies. Captain Malcolm takes charge for the trip, as be is thoroughly acquainted with the Sounds. The Havrea will not call at the Bluff, as the port dues are very heavy.