LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AMERICA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 2036, 16 September 1874, Page 2

LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AMERICA.

f. I : WHEAT STEADY AT A DECLINE. • f&BTTTfcB's; SradlAli TeLEGBAMS. TO THS* ; AwCJIO-ATTBTBAMJUSr PbBSS TELBGBAPB .;. AGBNqrOOMPAWX.iI .'•:." ; I '' ; "' :' '' '■' * '■■' London, Sept. 1. ( i • ; The Australian mails, via Brindisi and San -jFrancisco, were delivered together yesterday.' -The Mikado arrived at San Francißco on j;Aug; 30. -■ : '■'*■' ■" ■ "''■'■ < ■ . ' ' I .»':■'!: . Sept. 3. I Mr George Berkeley is appointed Governor of Western Australia, as successor to Mr Weld, who is appointed to .the Governorship of Tasmania. The ship Suffolk, bound from London to Brisbane, is at, the Mauritius, refitting. Tallerrnan'sjMeat Company .has declared a dividend of 10 per cent. .-., : Sept. ,5. ■ The Austrian Arctic Polar Explorers' have arrived in Norway, after abandoning - the expedition. Captain Tergetsoff reports travelling in sledgeß over mountain ■ ridges, beyond latitude 80. .. v -. The Great Eastern has completed laying an Atlantic Cable. The Marquis of Eipon has adopted CathoK*" cism, apd resigned the Grand Mastership of the Freemasons. At the wool sales 100,000 bales were sold, principally to the home trade. The tone of the market ia now weaker. '■-. Messrs Balme and Co., woolbrokers, report of tke series, that an advance was established as follows :— superior scoured, lid, to 2d ; washed halfbreds, Id, to lid ; greasy half-bred, id, to Id ; greasy merino, < • ■ Wheat is steady at a decline. Adelaide, 55s to 58s per quarter of 496 lbs; flour, 39s to 43s per 280 lbs. The fifth cable across the Atlantic is successfully laid. Arrived. — Lochmaree, from Melbourne. Hudson, Bed Gauntlet, Nineveh, Robert Burns, Dilharee, Margaret Galbraith, Dallam Tower, Abbey. Pabis, Sept. 5. On -Sept. 4 a disturbance occurred in the department of the Meuae. The gendarmerie intervened and one rioter was killed and nineteen wounded. There were, slight demonstra* tions in other places, ' and at Lyons several arrests wa9 made. . - • Sept. 8. £' Univers newspaper was suspended for a fortnight for publishing offensive articles against Marshal Serrano. Madbid, Sept. .4. Senor Zabala and his Cabinet have resigned, and a new Ministry has been formed, with Sagasta as Premier and Minister of the Interior, and Senor Bedaga, Minister of War. The other Ministerial Offices, including Finance, the Colonies, and Foreign Affairs remain unchanged. The Carliats have abandoned Pinqucerda. .;.■"' . Sept. 5 Tho Carlißts at Guetaria in the north Hired

upon a German gunboat, which replied, sending twenty-four shells into the town. Beblin, Sept. 8. : An extensive conflagration at Meiningen destroyed half the town j 3000 persons were rendered houseless. : New Tobk, Sept. 1. A Committee, having investigated the charges preferred by Mr Theodore Filton, against the Rev Henry Ward Beecher, pastor of the Plymouth Church, acquitted Mr Beecher. .