TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 576, 2 May 1873, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

—o— The Claud Hamilton from Melbourne arrived at Hokitika on the 20th ult., sho brings the following items of news. Melbourne, April 19. Felix Kabat, stock broker, who was arrested for altering bills of exchange, has been committed for trial. He was admitted to bail in the sum of 4,000/. Other charges are pending. TheOrme, French transport, with five hundred Communists, put in at Queenscliff. Four hundred are suffering from scurvy. She is short pi medicines and- provisions. At the Easter encampment, there were three thousand Volunteors. Butters, who was held to bail re the Polynesia Company’s affairs is mn est. Mount and Morris have been sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment each. The Calcutta has just arrived. She reports having seen a ship of a thousand tons in a sinking condition, while in the Bay of Biscay. It had been abandoned. Mr. Guyon, the actor, who was summarily dismissed from the Theatre Royal on the supposition that he was Park, of Boulton and Park notoriety, has brought an action against the managom ent for recovery of the amount of his salary. One half of the witnesses examined positively identified him as Park; the othere wore equally positive as to his not being that individual. The Chamber of Commerce are agitating the re-establishment of a Californian Mail Service. At Adelaide the Northern mining s pec u lation is active. CABLE TELEGRAMS. London, April IC. The Pope is alarmingly ill. The City of San Salvador, Guatemala, has been destroyed by an earthquake. Eight hundred persons wore killed, and twelve million dollars worth of property destroyed. Brigham Young has abdicated and fied to Arizona. The French elections are likely to result in ifavor of the Republicans. The London Exhibition opened on the 14th. The Khan of Khiva has beheaded his Prime Minister, and imprisoned his rela tivos. The Russian prisoners are to be forwarded to Orenburg. France has paid Germany another ten millions. The Prince of Wales has been installed as Grand Master of the United Masonic Knight Templars of England and Ireland. The Hawaiians oppose the American project for the establishment of a harbor in their islands. The Emperor of Germany, Prince Bismark, and Count Moltko visit the Czar at the end of April. The export of coal for the quarter ending March are twenty one and a half millions. The Russian Press demands the acquisition of Khiva.