Telegrams.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 276, 16 August 1878, Page 15

Telegrams.

(SPECIAL TO THE MELBOUBNE AEGUS.) London, August Bth. The Select Committee of the House of Commons has adopted the proposal for the adjournment of a decision in the case of the Clare election until next year, This is to give Sir B. O'Loghlen an opportunity of being heard. Sir M. Hicks-Beach requested this as an act of justice to the absent member. Prince Louis Napoleon is engaged to Princess Thyra, of Denmark, sister of the Princess of Wales. The Court circular to-night publishes in extenso the telegrams received from meetings at Sydney, Melbourne, Ballarat, Newcastle, New South Wales, Grahamstown, and Brisbane congratulating the Earl of Beaconsfield and tho Marquis of Salisbury on their action at and on the result of the Berlin Congress. (BEUTEB'S SPECIAL.) Vienna, August Bth. There is further Austrian mobilisation in consequence of events in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Austrians attacked and completely routed the enemy after severe righting, with heavy loss. The Austrian loss was trifling. London, August 9th. The Indian regiments at Cyprus re-embark in five weeks. (SPECIAL TO THE PEESS AGENCY.) London, August 9th. Subscriptions have been opened for the Dunedin five per cent. loan of £00,000 at ninety-five. (EEUTEE'S SPECIAL.) Rome, August 9th. The Pope has appointed Cardinal Nina Pontifical Secretary of Slate. London, August 10th. Consols, 95£- Bank aud market rates of discount, 4 per cent. Adelaide wheat, 50s to 51s ; flout, 35. New Zealand five per cent, loan, 101. Vienna, August 10th. The resistance to the Austrian advance in Bosnia and Herzegovina is increasing. There is continuous fighting, (SPECIAL TO THE MELBOUENE AEGUS.) London, August 10th. Sir Julius Vogel writes to the papers vindicating the Dunedin loan against deprecatory remarks on it in the money article in the Thm-cs. The Daily News reports serious sickness among the troops at Cyprus, but no deaths have yet occurred. The population of Batoiun is armed and preparing to resist Eussian occupation. Twenty thousand Turkish volunteers have gone to the frontier. Martial law has been proclaimed in Bosnia. A tornado has visited Wallingford, Connecticut. Thirty persons were killed, and many houses demolished. Sir Stafford Northcotc stated last night that the estimates for the Kaffir war were within £400,000. Parliament is now expected to be prorogued on the 16 th inst. H,M.S. corvette Cormorant, bound for the Australian station, sprung a leak in the channel, and put back to Chatham. The money market is stringent. Bank minimum unchanged. The banks arc charging 6 per cent. Australian securities continue depressed, with other stocks. The increasing value of money is producing temporary inactivity. The corn market is flat. The weather is splendid for harvest operations. (eeuter's special.) Vienna, August 11th. On the 6th the Austrians obtained a victory over the Bosnian insurgents, capturing a battalion of Turkish troops of reserve. A sanguinary engagement ensued next day at Lynbingi. It is believed that the insurgents number 100,000 fighting men. London, August 11th. The Russians have occupied Varna, Constantinople, August 11th. Greece is making cflorts to obtain Crete as a concession in the interests of peace. The Porte, however, refuses to grant such a demand. London, August 12th. | Saf vet Pasha, who represented Turkey at the treaty negotiations at San Stefano, has been created a Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India. Much sickness continues among the troops at Cyprus. Constantinople, August 12th. The Mahomedan population in the Province of Batoum have assembled to resist Hussion occupation. London, August 13th. The Chancellor oE tho Exchequer, in reply to a question, said the British ironclad squadron would quit the Sea of Marmora when the Russians evacuated Turkey. Bombay, August 13th. The Indian Government will despatch missions to Cabul, where a Russian mission has arrived. (FROM THE MELBOUENE AItGTJS.) London, August 12th. Thcßight Honourable W. E. Forstcr's refusal to pledge himself to accept the decision of of the Liberal Committee of Bradford at the next election is causing much comment as effecting an attempt at the caucus system in England.

An English, French, and Assyrian railway scheme has been submitted to the Porte. It includes a railway through the Euphrates Valley. The Chimborazo has arrived at Plymouth, thirty-nine days out from Adelaide, She anticipated the Suez mail. The Canadian papers exhibit enthusiasm at the appointment of the Marquis of Lome and the presence amongst them of the Princess Louise. They say that this policy has sealed the union of the colonies to the Empress. [special to the press agency.] London, August 13th. A portion of the Indian contingent has embarked for India. There have been serious riots at Odessa. m BOMB, August 13th. Democratic meetings in various parts of the kingdom for the annexation of the Tyrol and Trieste have recommenced. London, August 13th. The Irish Sunday Closing Bill has passed the Commons. August 12th. The British Australian Trust Company, with a capital of two millions sterling, has been flor.ted. The first issue of one million sterling was subscribed two-fold.

Timaeu, August 9th The telegram with reference to Father Hennebery's remarks here on Sunday last, re mixed marriages, were partly incorrect as it appeared in the New Zealander and some other papers, not being as sent by the Press agent here. Father Hennebery did not liken newspaper men and editors to a curse, but said he treated them as adverse to him as a traveller would a yelping cvr — take no notice of it. He said if he preached the doctrines imputed to him he would be stopped by the priests and perhaps suspended by the Bishop.