BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

Evening Star, Issue 3708, 11 January 1875, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

LATER EUBOPEAN AND AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Bluff, January 10. The s.s. Omeo, Captain Caldcr, arrived at the Bluff at 8.30 p.m. on the 9th. She left Melbourne at 3 p.m. on the 4th. She brings thirty-live saloon and thirty steerage passengers, 300 tons of cargo and 116 horses for all ports, and she sails for Dunedin at 3 p.m. on the 11th.

Passenger# for Dunedin : —Saloon : Mrs Hamilton, Mrs Rumington and family (3), Misses Evans, Dennells, Campbell (2), Moran, Messrs Craig, Orr, Ross, Fleming, Cole, Scott, Rev. J. C. Martin and family (3), and twenty in the steerage. Two hundred tons of cargo and ninety horses, in splendid condition, are also for Dunedin.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS,

Melbourne, January 4. Parliament having been prorogued, there is political quietude, and the last ten days have been almost entirely devoted to holiday making. As usual, country visitors have streamed into town, and town visitors into the country, by thousands, during the Christmas and New Year holidays. All the places of amusement have been crammed, and Blondin, who is about to visit New Zealand, has performed to ten and twelve thousand at a time since he reduced his prices. Governor Bowen left for Europe in the mail steamer on the 31st, and will not return until July or August. Sir Redmond Barry has been sworn in as Acting-Governor until the arrival of Sir William Stawell by the next mail steamer, expected here on the 9th inst.

Mr Benjamin Williams, an old colonist, and a member of the Upper House, is dead. The Rev. Charles Clark, who leaves for Sydney to-morrow en route for Auckland, has severed his connection with the Albert street Baptist Church. The Intercolonial cricket match resulted in a victory for the Sydney eleven by six wickets. Kelly, for Victoria, made the highest score - 86, and Bannennan, for New South Wales,— 81. It was an excellent match, and largely attended.

At the New Year’s race meeting Wollamai won the Midsummer Handicap, and Lapidist the Canterbury Stakes.

A sea serpent is said to have been seen by those aboard the Carlyle Castle on her outward voyage in lat. 45 deg., 12 W. Sullivan continues in gaol, awaiting departure for New Zealand.

A conference of Statists is about being held in Hobart Town.

Sydney, January 4. Two bush carpenters quarrelled during a drinking bout, and one took a butcher’s knife, and while the other was in bed, ripped him up. The murderer surrendered. The emigrant ship Gauntlet was dismasted off Moreton Bay. Five men were drowned at Mackay by the capsising of a boat.

CABLEGRAMS,

TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT. ALPHONSO KING OF SPAIN, BURNING OF THE COSPATRICK WITH THE LOSS OF 460 LIVES. LoNdon, December 26 to January 2. The death is announced of Lord Romilly, late Master of the Rolls. A railway accident that has occurred at Shipton is unparalelled in the history of railway disasters. The train consisted of two engines, with sixteen carriages attached, and was proceeding at the rate of forty miles an hour when the axle of a third-class carriage next the engines broke. After running thirty yards, and tearing up the rails, the back part of the train was precipitated over an embankment: part into a meadow, and part into a canal. The actual number of deaths is reported to be thirtyone, and fifty persons are in the hospital at Oxford suffering from in Junes. Another railway accident occurred on December 25. An express train on the North-Wes-tern railway dashed into a coal train at Wigan. One person was killed on the spot, and twenty were injured. Fifty thousand miners have struck work in various parts of Wales. Sir Hercules Robinson has been gazetted a Knight Grand Cross of St, Michael and St. George, and Mr limes, Attorney-General of New South Wales, has been knighted, for services in connection with the annexation of Fiji. The Queensland mail, via Torres Strait, has been delivered,

The deaths are announced of M. Ledrn Rollin, the French statesman, and the Duke of Montrose.

The emigrant ship Cospatrick, bound for Auckland, was burned off the Cape on the 19th of November. The mate and two of the crew were saved, but the remainder of the crew and emigrants, to the number of 460 souls in all, are supposed to have perished. The origin of the tire is unknown, but an hour after the flames broke out the vessel was completely gutted. Hundreds cast themselves overboard, only to perish by drowning. Captain Elmslie and Dr Cadsa stayed by the ship until the last moment, and then jumped overboard. Two boats, filled with thirty persons each, under the first and second mates, put off from the ship. Of one no tidings has been received, but the other, after being afloat for ten days, was rescued by the ship British Sceptre, This boat contained only three survivors out of thirty— Messrs Macdonald, Lewis, and Cotter—and they subsisted on the bodies of their dead comrades. The others died raving mad. The three survivors arrived in Loudon on Jan. 1. A relief fund, to which the Lord Mayor of London, and Messrs Shaw, Saville, and Co,,'owners of the Cospatrick, each subscribed L2OO, has been started in London. Berlin, December 26. An appeal is being prosecuted against the judgment in Count Arnim’s case. Paris, December 31, At a conference of party leaders convened by President Macmahon, it was unanimously resolved to discuss Constitutional laws as a whole, but a divergence of opinion exists concerning the transmission of powers. Madrid, December 31. In an Alphonist pronunoiamento promulgated at Madrid, Don Alphonso, Prince of Asturias, and sou of Queen Isabella, was pro claimed King of Spain. He was recognised by the armies. Don Alphonso has arrived in Spain, and was everywhere peaceably recognised, and the monarchical movement effected without bloodshed. The pi’onunciamento is generally acquiesced in and a new Liberal Ministry has been formed. Bombay, January 2. The supposed Nana Sahib, arrested by the Scindia, has been declared an impostor. Galle, January 2, The Nubia arrived on December 24,

■Wellington, January 11. The construction of new salt-water baths near the railway-station has been commenced. Notwithstanding the decision of the Court of Appeal, Messrs Yeung and Hastwell have been advised not to pay tolls for mail coaches, and the point is about to be tried again. One case comes on to-day. A ‘ Gazette Extraordinary,’ published on Saturday, gives a proclamation of his Excellency’s assumption of the Government, and also contains his commission and the names of the members of the Executive Council appointed.

Captain Fairchild has received instructions to endeavor to remove the rock at the entrance to Tauranga, upon which the s.s. Pretty Jane was recently damaged. He has taken a large quantity of dynamite for that purpose.

{From our oton Correspondents.)

. Lawrence, January 11. ihe Tuapeka Timee ’ issued as an extra this morning the following “ We received th’e following telegram yesterday from Mr J, 0,

Brown, M.H.R., who is on a visit to the Palmer ‘ goldfields 54 Cardwell, Queensland, January 3, 1575. There is much sickness at the diggings. Numbers are dying, and many returning. There are no fresh discoveries. The ground is all alluvial, and quickly exhausted. Caution people against coming.’ ”

Auckland, January 9. The action against the s.s. Hero, which resulted in Ll5O penalty, is believed to have arisen out of unpleasantness on t)te passage across. The vessel was very crowded, and the weather wet, rough, and miserable, and the voyage protracted. Everyone •was out of temper, and the Governor also displeased at having to travel with a theatrical company in a crowded saloon. At breakfast table one day the Marquis spoke sharply to Captain Logan, and said he should not travel in that steamer again. Captain Logans, equally out of temper, replied he could do without him, and would not miss him. Captain Logan has had to pay pretty dear for his sauce.

Arrow, January 11. A Chinaman was stabbed dangerously by another at Skippers. Another Chinaman was drowned at Matatapu on Friday. The body has not been recovered.

A terrific thunderstorm occurred on Friday at the had of the Shotovei, at Matatapu, and at the Arrow. There was only a slight flood at the Shotover at Matatapu ; but at the Kawarua the flood was disastrous, and nearly as high as the “ old man” flood.

Mr Parsons, who was injured by the coach accident, is recovering.