Telegrams.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 274, 2 August 1878, Page 15

Telegrams.

(reuter's special.) London, July 26th. Parliament will be prorogued on the 20th August. The political agitation amongst the Italian Democrats is now subsiding. It is contemplated to send a Pontifical Nuncio to England. Brisbane, July 27th. The^steamer Success was wrecked at midnight on the Bth iust., on an unknown sunken reef off Eussell Island. The carpenter, steward, cook, and cabin boy, with some provisions, took a boat and landed on Hinchinbrook Island, and were rescued by the steamer Victoria. The Success slipped off the reef and disappeared. Vienna. July 27th. #The Porte consents to the Austrian occupation of Bosnia aud . 'lerzegovina. London, July 27th. The Enssians have occupied Shumla. It is officially denied that Parliament will be dissolved in autumn. Money is hardening and the Bank reserves improving. Consols, 95*. The Adelaide loan of £688,000 has been floated at a minimum of 95. The corn market is unchanged. New Plymouth. July 27th. A deputation of influential gentlemen waited upon the Immigration Officer to-day, with a view of ascertaining what immigrants were to be expected here to counterbalance the dearth of labour. Mr. King said men were getting seven and eight shillings a day, aud there was a great want of servant girls. He said the railway to Stratford must be completed before next summer, and that would absorb a large amount of labour. Mr. Courtney said he had called for tenders for moving a building and for ploughing, and received only two tenders for one job, and none for the other. Mr. Bayly said 300 immigrants might be absorbed next summer, not to speak of

harvesting. Mr. Webster said the grass seed harvest next year would be a large one, and if there was not more labour it would be lost. He had to pay eight shillings a day and food, and had almost to beseech men to work at that rate. The Immigration Officer said the immigrants by the Hurunui were absorbed in eleven days. He would represent what had been stated to the Government. Wellington, July 28th. About one o'clock this morning a violent north-westerly gale set in and has blown with great fierceness ever since. Several houses in course of erection were blown down, and others much twisted and strained. Many fences and outhouses were blown down. The yacht Xariffe was blown ashore, and one of H.M. Nymph's boats was swamped, but all the crew got ashore. The lifeboat was sent after them to bring them back but could not do so. and both Were hauled up on the beach. All the vessels at the wharf had out extra warps, and the Nymph had all her topmasts and yards down. . Auckland, July 29th, Another case of spontaneous combustion in an empty house has occurred in Newton — third in three weeks, all between midnight on Sunday and Monday morninfrs. The house destroyed was a six roomed two-storey building, belonging to John Carr King, insured for £200 in the National, aud which cost the owner £330 a year ago, Wellington, July 30th. Messrs. Prondfoot and M'Kay are the successful tenderers for the Tapanui branch railway. The contract amount is L 61,500. The length of railway is 15^ miles, and the contract includes the formation and supply of permanent way, building stations and platforms. The time for completion is twenty-two months. The contract was signed to-day. There were four other tenders.