LATE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 230, 7 April 1874, Page 3

LATE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

'J '■-;■ "O (Daily Tinws.) ( ,/ > FIJIAN NEWS. A terrible canoe accident haß occurred at Kow, in which sixty-nine natives lost their lives through its upsetting. The majority, however, were devoured by sharks while attempting to reach the shore. A special issue of the Fiji Gazette, dated March 20th, has the following:—" At the interview between the King and the British Commissioners this morning, the King stated that, after consultation, he and the chiefs were willing to cede the island to Great Britain." The Commodore desires it to be known that he and H.B.M. Consul investigated the financial position of Fiji, and that it appears the expenditure of the Government during the two years ending December 1873, was £124,000, while the revenue was only £42,000. Further, that there is nothing to show for the expenditure but public offices which cost about £I2OO and a few hundred rifles. The interest on the debt of Fiji is stated to be £24 4s. per month, and the Commodore, it appears, states there is no prospect of paying the. amount. The Commodore is anxious it should be known that the Fiji chiefs formally request her Majesty to undertake the Government of Fiji, and pending the Queen's consideration of their request the Commodore is consulting with the Foreign Consuls respecting a Provisional Government.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, March 25. The population of the colony, on the 31st of December, amounted to 790,488. The Government contemplates the prosecution of Maher for perjury in connection with the Buckley will case. The English cricketers played their concluding match against 22 of Yorke's Peninsula, and won in one innings and nine runs. The scores were—Peninsula 42 and 13—the Eleven, 64. Greenwood and Jupp were the only two who obtained double figures. The Englishmen leave Adelaide by the mail steamer on Saturday. In the libel action Walker v. George, publisher of the Australasian, for an allegation made in that publication with regard to pulling the horse Marquis of Lome in the Melbourne steeplechase, the jury found for the plaintiff, assessing the damages at £3OO. The verdict has been much commented on. Foster, the spirit medium from California, has given some seances, which have not been, very successful. Miss Juno and Mr Ireland leave the Australian stage and proceed to England. A representative of a. London and Melbourne firm has absconded from California with heavy liabilities. Victor, the gymnast, Lottie's husband, was drowned in a water-hole at Ben&lla, while bathing yesterday. Sydwbt, March 25. The agent for Sieraen Bros, has submitted an offer to the Government to lay a cable to New Zealand. There is encouraging news from the Palmer River Gold-fields. Several new reefs have been discovered. Provisions are very Bcarce. Large numbers of miners continue to arrive. Several deaths have occurred through dysentery. The Blacks are troublesome on the road.

GABLE TELEGRAMS. London, March 19. In the Queen's speech at the opening of Parliament she states that the foreign relations of the country are at present friendly, and that the Ministers would not fail to exercise the influence thus derived for the maintenance of peace and for the faithful ob.

servanco of all international obligations. The marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh would lead to a pledge of friendship-between*= = the two great Empires. She trusts that not gotiatiops with the king of Ashantee will lead ' to a more satisfactory condition of things on v> J the West Coast, and warmly eulogises the conduct of the forces engaged hi^taV^s^eiAti'' 1 tion. ~': ,-c |' ; ; 4> mUttrOOC ,Sf r 1 Great regret is expre/med at the extreme ing to actual famine, extending over an area inhabited by many millions of people. The Viceroy has been directed toraparelnniaAiM pensft>in tirjring-to thercf&cts of : thjß ~ ealamityv;.;-) : , : j,.') j|n the House of Salisbury announced that the famine loan amounted tp, ; ;ten .millions, of^ : which threemillions would be required immediately. '.',', , ™ ■"■ '' M^chW'^' 1 The Hon. Is. Disraeli 1 intend* shortly to"-f release the Fenian prisoners, foil meM orf.J noqo •,„•.'.;■ ,'?.-.■. : f a M , March.?!. n{r „ Mr Butt, moved an an\endmeutW the address in reply to the' Queen's speech,l'thSf '• the House legislate in favour of Irish selfgovernment. The; amendment was rejected by5tytem..,..„;..,,,,.; v '„...;""■' . General Wplseley has arrived 'at Portsmouth. ■'' '■■"■ ' '' ■ '"■" :'-' : i ■";-•■■> ," ; l; n.t The London Wool Sales olosed last night.: ol 154,034, balss were, catalogued, and. 75tOMO f „ were disposed of. Home buyers bought re-' lnctantly to kitap their machinery going. Prices clo«d easier. 240,000 bales remain if for next U )<;i> ,.,.-.■ jr, : rf fi ;,,,.. r: . l7o j^

, ,'>BAN : FRANCISCO: MAIL. ~,,;,, J)flf: London, March Gth. After the verdict the Tichborne Claimant expressed a desire to address the Courfo bui . i was refused. He was strajgb* to ,..,, Newgate. , , . . . '. "_..' ( ' Mr Dillon, a member of thV Livingston* ;: ' search expedition, has committed "suicide. ' ( '.vb A Conference of the leading .working'men, • , representing 80,000 workman in the West of .' England, was held in Bristol. . t A resolution was adopted favourable tb 1 the settlement of all international disputes by arbitration.'•:'', i. 1 Serious riots have occurred in Poland in ~. consequence,of closing.a church by order of the Government. At one place the military "' fired on the mob, killing and wounding 70; r Livingstone's, remains Were expected f/aV,,-,'; Zanzibar on the 20th February. The. Came-, ron expedition proceeds to.Ujiji to optain his documents and property. " . ' •' lif Dr Kenealy will move for a new trial in ;, the Tichborne case, qn the ground of misdk, , rection of the Judges. If refused he wilt apply to the House of Lords.' The Press approves of the sentence. : ■ K *'-'" r: '■ ■■■>< AMERICAN NEWS. ■:: U The Indiana are becoming, very trouble-, . some at Utah..- r A. fire at Panama has destroyed a greater part of the city. The loss is estimated at one million dollars. ■ ,'•» ' •„ ■ A quarrel between two rival townsmen, in the. state of Vera Cruz, Mexico, resulted in a, fight. Seventeen persons were killed The infuriated men began, indiscriminately, to ' massacre and kill the children, and cut oft .the breasts of the women. Numerous ice accidents have occurred in Canada. A lartje ice floe with 300 ltten on it broke away iu Michigan and floated for milea from the shore. Most of the people on it r . were rescued. ''„*-. The army standard is fixed by Congress at " 26,000 men. A great temperance agitation is going on throughout the States. An ice house of 1700 tons capacity at Phila- 1 delphia fell, killing eight persons and injurt ing eleven. A medical post mortem examination of the Siamese twins showed such a close connection that it probably would have been fatal to separate them by operation during life. A railway accident, with the burning of cars and loss of life, has occurred at Illinois.