BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3157, 2 April 1873, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

[From the New Zealand Press Association.)

Auckland, April 2,

The Nebraska arrived at 10 o’clock last night. She brings San Francisco papers to the d!h March, and London dates to March 4. The Nevada arrived at t-an Francisco on the 21st February with the Colonial mails for December, after a passage of 47 days. The Moses Taylor brought the January mails on March 2, The Dakota made good time to Honolulu.

California, March 4.

Commercial. —The grain market has given way (id per cental, and it is anticipated that the surplus will be 25 per cent, more than last year’s, which was nearly 5W0,000 tons. It is estimated that a million pounds of wool of the last clip is still warehoused; it is chiefly low priced. Hops, 40c. line. Freights, 80 01. to SOdol, 80c. Harley, Mol. 2c. t Mol 25 - ; bp-wing barley, Idol, 20c. to tool 30c. and Iml 58c. Flour, extra, Odoy 75c. ; superliue, 4dol. 50c, to 4dol. 874 c. At New York, phormium is quite steady, and in moderate demand at 8.4 c, and has been at that figure sold in fair parcels. Kerosene : A further decline, which ranges from 28c to 32c, according to brand. Tobacco is scarce and in active demand. London, March 3.

Phormium is quoted at LSI 10s to L 33 ; for medium half-dressed, L 34 to L 35 ; for fairly dressed tow ranging from Ll3 10s to Lls 15s. Preserved Meats : Mutton, 5s (i.fd ; beef, 6s 74d, The stockholders in the London, Liverpool, and Globe Insurance Company held a stormy meeting in consequence of not receiving dividends, on account of the company’s losses by the Chicago aud Boston fires

The Great Eastern has on board 2,567 miles of cable to be laid between Britain, Halifax, and New York, aud will sail with other ships at the end of May. The cable is expected to be working before June. The charges preferred against the priests of intimidation at the Galway election have been proved to be a complete failure. Yellow fever is prevalent at Brazil, The deaths are 30 to 40 per day. Foreigners are leaving the country. March 4.

A telegram states that Noxes, clerk to the confederates of the forgers of tbe Bank of England, has made a startling revelation. A member of the house of Kothachild is visiting him in Newgate. It is reported that

the frauds amount to two millions sterling, >f which L 350,000 were drawn upon the Vmcrican house of Jay Cooke, and M‘Cu! loch, and Co. ; L 200,000 on Rothschilds; and a large amount on Barings The trial of machinery at the Vienna Ex* hibition takes place on the 18th and 25th June, and of steam ploughs on the 20th July, The Corona, an Australian clipper, lay at anchor within three hundred yards of where the North fleet disaster occurred. Neither t lie terrible shock, the cries, nor the rockets continually fired from the deck of the sinking ship could arouse the watch on the Corona’s deck, who slept. Had the watch bce i aroused, the captain and all the passengers and crew of the Northlleet would have been saved.

All the French arsenals are being replenished with materials of war. The Municipality of Paris refused a bequest of OljOUOdol. by a wealthy German, to be devoted to the benefit of the German poor of Paris, but accepted l,oooclol. for a Protestant consistory by the same testator. The police authorities of Berlin have ordered the cabmen on strike to resume work, under penalty of losing their licenses. The revolt of the Ukarine has assumed alarming proportions. The attrocities committed by the insubordinate peasantry show most revolting cruelty. The insurgents are massed together in large numbers, and are extending their depredations through the district, laying waste some of the principal towns. The Government profess ignorance of the circumstances.

A great irrigation scheme is on foot in California.

Several steam boiler explosions and fires are reported. At the prize-fight in Pennsylvania, the referee decided in favor of Hicken after the twenty-fourth round. O’Baldwin was badly beaten at the ring by the friends of Campbell. At Collins’s Station, Virginia, on March 4, the prize-fight for the light-weight championship took place, for 1,000 dollars a side, between Hickcn and Campbell. After 36 rounds, the ring was broken up by a row, and the referee threatened to kill O’Baldwin, llicken’s streoud gave no decision. There has been an attempted escape of convicts from Blackwell’s Island, New York, amongst them Mineaber Cuchich (?). All were caught. There is a rumor of cholera at Vienna. The authorities are keeping the matter quiet. The roof of a church at New York fell in witli a terrible crash. The loss is thirty thousand dollars.

A railway accident occurred at Fort Smith by which twenty four persons were killed. The superintendant says the train was going at a reckless speed. The Nebraska brings the mails. Captain Harding knows nothing of the reported stoppage of the service. LATEST CABLEGRAMS. The Wonga Wonga left Sydney on March 27, and brings cablegrams to March 26. London, March 20. Money is scarce ; discount brisk ; stock market slack ; telegraph stock agitated. Victorian six per cents, April-October, New South Wales lives, 107 ; New Zealand Consolidated, 104; New Zealand sixes, 113. Bank of New South Wales shares, L4l. 1 allow, quiet; mutton, L4O to L 45 ; beef, L3O to L 42. Petroleum, 16,|d. Sperm oil held for L 95. New Zealand hemp stagnant; average sales dull and show a decline. Queensland cotton sold at an average price of 9d. The copper market is excited; prices firmer; present cash quotations—Wallaroo, L 94 to L 95. Tin, ready of sale; Straits, L 147. Wheat quiet. The Baltic is open. 262 cargoes of Californian are on their way to the United Kingdom. Its value is 12s per cental. March 25,

Unofficial correspondence from Khiva, relative to the military expedition sent out by Russia, is authoritatively forbidden. A difficulty is apprehended in dealing with the Kirghese, whose territory lies between Russia and Turkestan. To secure their neutrality Russia has ceded them Bazantchich, According to the latest Russian account, the Khivans attempted, without success, to incite the Kirghese to revolt, and assume a hostile attitude towards Russia. The full equipment of the Khivan expedition is completed. Madrid telegrams state that the insubordination of the troops in Catalonia is causing considerable excitement. The Cortes have agreed to the abolition of slavery at Porto Rico.

UNPUBLISHED TELEGRAMS.

Loudon, March 26,

Mr Gladstone has intimated that the Geneva award will not be payable from the present surplus revenue. The French budget gives the next year’s revenue as 3,525,000.000 francs, and the expenditure 2,523,000,000 francs. The English press and public strongly support Mr Plimsell’s efforts to legislate against unseaworthy and overladen ships. Sydney, March 27. Governor Bowen arrived here on Monday, and remained till Wednesday, being the guest of Sir Hercules Robinson. He sailed for Melbourne in H.M.C.S. Victoria. Earl Kimberley has telegraphed to the Government that he intends introducing a Bill to remove all obstacles to intercolonial commercial reciprocity, as recommended by the late Conference. A large and influential meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, yesterday, appointed a deputation to urge the Government to reopen the Californian mail line. The Government is making preliminary arrangements. Great efforts are being made to obtain the reprieve of the murderer M'Crow, on the ground of insanity. A new and fatal disease has broken out in the Groydie district.

The Upper House Reform Bill passed the Assembly.

Commercial. Business dull ; sugars easier.

Melbourne,

During the voyage of the Buckinghamshire, Dr Fairthorne was swept overboard. A prisoner named Lawson was found dead in his cell at Peutridge. The last gold returns from .Sandhurst are not up to the average. The dividends amount to LlO,oO(), At Ba'Tarat, a woman named Catherine ihomps'in was found dead in bed, a victim of intemperance, Brcadsiuffs improving. Candles firm. Sugars selling freely. F'ews from Mauritius confirms the previous advices of the smallness of stocks.

Sir Redmond Barry has been appointed Acting-Chief Justice during the absence of Sir W. F. Stawell.

The naval forces take part in the Easter volunteer operations. The Government decline to allow Judge Cope to retire from the County Court Bench under pension. A prospectus has been issued of a new banking institution, to be called the Industrial Mercantile Bank of Australia, with a capital of L200,0U0. A large number of cattle have died suddenly. Their death is attributed to a poisonous plant, called the Lobelia Pr'iUode*, which cattle eat.

Governor Bowen will be sworn in on .Saturday as Acting Chief Justice. Mr Richard Fash, who formerly occupied the position of Secretary of the Government Railways, has been charged with forgery and uttering. The rowing crews are doing good work. The Sydney men are daily increasing in favor. Sir Wm. Stawell embarked at noon. The Volunteers camp at Easter below Brighton.

The Somersetshire has sailed for London. The crews of vessels lately arrived from Mauritius suffered much from fever.

The inscribed stock up to the present, ex* ceeds L 600,000. The Sydney crew have stopped hard work. The Melbourne, Hobart Town, and Ballarat crews are practising daily. The Gig Bace will not come off till Saturday. UNPUBLISHED. Melbourne, March 27. The Pharmaceutical Society consider the new Pharmacy Bill proposed by the Government too sweeping. Last year’s Customs returns show the imports to have been L 13 ,: 89,000, exports L 13,571,000, and the revenue L 1,078,000.

Wellington, April 2. The captain of the Glenlora was fined L 25 in each case, on three informations for insufficient supply of provisions on the voyage from Mauritius here. The Luna did not arrive last night. She left the Maeakau at 10.30 on Monday morning for this direct. Serious fears for her safety are arising.