LATE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 170, 11 February 1873, Page 7

LATE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

UY THE SUEZ MAIL. T »e Duke of Edinburgh is in Germany with matrimonial intentions towards a daughter of the ex-King of Hanover. An advertisement appears in the Oxford papers for 500 farm labourers, accustomed to rough out-door work, as navvies for New Zealand. | The Royal Humane Society has given a silver medal to Christian, grandson of Chris- , tian, one of the mutineers of the Bounty, for saving the life of a girl named Browne, at I Omaha, Auckland. The Home papers publish a despatch by Sir George Bowen regarding the defences of tho Colony on September 28th, showing there to be between 11,000 and 12,000 armed Europeans in the Colony. Sergeant Bates, of the U.S. army, marched from Gretna Green to London with'the United States flag flying, unmolested, and thus won his wager of 1000 dollars. Mr Lee, F.R.G.S., gave a lecture in London on the people and resources of New ZeaI land, and made many converts to the belief i in New Zealand as a fane held for emigration, | Several letters have been received by friends of emigrants speaking highly of the Colony. An omnibus lately passed through London full of navvies, and carrying a flag inscribed I ; “Oft - to New Zealand.” The passers-by cheered them lustily. The papers give many extracts from Mr Anthony Trollope’s letters regarding his soli journ in New Zealand.

BY THE SAN FKANCISCO MAIL. New York, Dec. 26. A severe snow-storm has occurred. Business is interrupted, and the streets are impassable. The thermometer has sunk to ten degrees below zero. There is great suffering amongst the poor. The floor of the Baptist Church, Philadelphia, gave way, precipitating 500 persons into r a cellar below. Fourteen were killed, and I forty seriously injured. During a storm that swept over the British I Isles on Dec. 18, trees were uprooted, con- | servatories smashed, chimneys and stacks dei molished by the dozen, houses unroofed, a I large factory levelled, and forty people inI j«red. At Liverpool, the Great Britain I dragged her anchor in the Mersey, pitched against the pierhead, stove in her stern, and the water swept into the cabin. The Melpomene vent ashore. A tug went to the assistance or the Great Britain, and was swallowed up by the sea. Church steeples have been | destroyed in Clifton, Yeovil, Crewe, Kerne, and Tanteton. In Wiltshire, ninety magnifiI cent forest trees have been demolished! A | stone wall at Richmond, nine feet highland one hundred long, was prostrated. Several r accidents have happened to gasometers, leav • ing whole districts in darkness. The highest I "'ind pressure ever known in England oc--5 curred during this storm.

I . January 1. ; The ship R. C. Winthrop, from Antwerp, . reported a meteoric shower off Madeira, which j lasted three hours. Over one thousand meI teors fell. ;; The Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, which | liad accommodation for 500 guests, has been I destroyed by fire. Twenty-two persons were I burnt to death, and sixteen bodies were reco- | vere( i- The tire resulted from neglect on the i part of the servants. | | Stokes has been sentenced to be handed I I for shooting James Fisk. the revenue receipts of Great Britain for 1 | the past quarter were £15,000,000, showing I an iueiease of £1,000,000 over the previous I I quarter. ; . January 0. ; A terrible accident occurred at Buffalo ' ; bury, on the Pittsburgh Railroad. The cars j were turned completely over, and fell a disAanceof twenty feet, when a fire broke out. ''hen help came, nineteen were burned and I unrecognisable, eighteen were missing, and nineteen seriously injured. Roasted” flesh , and headless bodies were scattered around. At an exhibition game of billiards at Bos-ton-100 points up—between Miss Bassiner ! and Mr Lohin, the lady won by 51. Barnaul's menagerie has been burned, and , contents destroyed, save two elephants ! and a camel. Six women were also burned to death. The loss is estimated at 500,000 dollars. -i c<- . . London, Jan. 8. i ~ kir Charles Dilke was speaking on the subject of the land and people, the Derby 1 I 1 ™ attempted to disperse the meeting. The adherents of Dilke resisted, and a severe I • j struggle ensued, in which several people were i ! jujured, and many windows broken. The j 'Siting lasted over an hour, amidst great ; I excitement. Order was at length restored, | and die meeting brought to a close. A largo . |Cio\ul arrived with sticks and bludgeons, and hotef ed th ° SpGakcr aUcl llis wife to tlieir ’

The London Post denies that Eliza Cook, r le aut horess, is dead. A person bearing the Ame nave, popularly supposed to be” the • * ied at Deptford. CABLE TELEGRAMS. Tl v January 23. W r eathoraton has shipped 120,01)0 salmon v *' P (;r Oberon, for Otago. Ihc Bonapartists ore intriguing actively in fance for an Imperial restoration. An acL 6 surveill ance is kept over the Bonapartist ,cT I s ts in the French army. French are quiet. * , it I® Vixen’s Government have notified the Wi!. bUrgh oabinet that nn attack by , auams u P°u Aifghaniatan will be re-j

garded as a declaration of war against Groa Britian. An uneasy feeling prevails. The Welsh colliery strike continues, am notwithstanding its magnitude, tho action o: the men is family sustained by the Unions. The Russian and Gernlail Courts are ir mourning for Napoleon. Lord Lytton, the celebrated novelist, ctiec at Torquay, after twenty-four hours’ illness, during which time he suffered from ear-aclu and inflammation. He had just returned the last proof of a new novel he was preparing for early publication. A despatch has been received from Dt Kirk, the British Consul at Zanzibar, dated November, which states that the men and supplies sent to Livingstone reached him safely, and that the doctor started on his exploration of the interior in August. The ship Northfleet, for Hobart Town, was sunk at Dungeness, through coming iutc collision with a steamer. She had 412 emigrants on board. Only 100 were landed safely, and the fate of the remainder is uncertain. The passengers were chiefly composed of navvies, sent out by the contractors for the Tasmanian Railways. Masses have been said at the various Paris churches for the repose of the soul of the late Emperor. The churches were crowded. The Emperor of Germany will visit the Czar in April. The visit is said to have no political significance. England s declaration to Russia is not likely to result in political complications, . The Russian Press writes defiantly of the situation, but the official journals are guarded in their tone. Later accounts regarding the sinking of the Northfleet state that the number of fives lost was 255, inclusive of the captain. AUSTRALIAN. J. B. Wallis, the bookmaker, has been warned oft the Melbourne race-course for two years, and expelled from Tattersall’s, for offering a bribe to a jockey. The Hall of Commerce property, in Collinsstreet, Melbourne, was sold for £40,000. A boy named Higgins, son of a contractor, lately mysteriously disappeared from a steamer on a voyage from Sydney. It is supposed he fell through a porthole. Achilles King died in a lunatic asylum. Three men were drowned in a mining claim at otawell recently. The number of cable messages to the Colonies is increasing.

I A motion in the New South Wales Assembly | in favour of secular education has been negatived. ° Captain Gay, of the steamer Wainui, has been committed for trial in Sydney for kidnapping. It was proved that 130 men and seven women were stolen from the Solomon Islands. The New South Wales Legislative Assembly recently sat from Wednesday to Friday at daylight, being forty-two hours. Several disgraceful scenes were enacted. In Northern Queensland provisions are at famine prices, on account of the floods. All Charles Gavan Duffy is to be knighted, j It is rumoured that it 'is intended to appoint Sii James M 4 Culloch Governor of South * Australia. The Victorian Education Act is working ad- j mirably ; nearly the whole of the schools in ! the Colony have come within its new system, i The Melbourne Exhibition has finally i closed. The visitors numbered 150,000, and ; the receipts were £5,000. There is great! dissatisfaction in reference to the awards. I