CABLE TELEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Issue 3750, 1 March 1875, Page 2

CABLE TELEGRAMS.

L6ndon, February 16. John Mitchell, of Young Ireland notoriety, has been elected member of Parliament for Tipperary, unopposed. In the House of Commons, the Government moved for the production of the certificate of his conviction* for felony. The motion was agreed to. A motion will be moved on Thursday for the issue of * new writ for the election of a member. February 17. Dr Kenealy has been elected a member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent. John Mitchell landed at Queenstown to-day. England’s refusal to attend the Conference has produced an 'unpleasant impression In Russia. • has recognised Alphonse as King of The Brindisi mail has been delivered two days behind contract time. Twenty-five thousand coal miners are locked out at Dewsbury. (From our t own Correspondents.) Chwstchobch, February 27. It is reported that fine seams of coal have been struck on the estate formerly belonging to Mr J. B. Sheath but now in the hands of Twentyman, Saunders, and Pratt. The land is in the Malvern district, within easy distance of Christchurch. A three-foot six seam has been struck at a depth of fifty feet, and another seam of eight feet at a depth of seventy-five feet. It is computed that the eight-foot seam mil yisld ten thousand tons per acre. The crops about Christchurch are very heavy. A paddock of oats of Hon. J. Hall’s yielded on threshing out no less than ninety-one bushels per acre. The testimonial to Mr John Anderson now amounts to over LIOQ. There was a special meeting this morning of the City Conned to consider applications for licenses under the new hackney carriage bye law, sent in by some of the cab owners. The City Council have adjourned the consideration of granting licenses to cabmen for one week There were nine applications, but the Council wished twenty to apply before they would grant any. There appears some chance now of the quarrel being settled. An enormous number of entries is expected for the ram fair, which is to be held on the Bth and 6th of March. It was reported this afternoon that a malignant disease out

amongst cattle in the Tay Tapu district, and that from thirty to forty head have died. The Government have sent up the vetinary inspector, Hill, to make a full report before Monday morning. The traffic returns of the Canterbury railways for the month ending January 28 show a total of L 10,503 lls, as against the corresponding month of 1874 of 1.8,123 10s. . , March!. Ihe reported malignant disease among cattle at Tax Tapu proves to be a false alarm. TVcm thirty to forty head have died, but the cause is asceitained to be erogtised rye-grass. Wellington, March l. The Kcv. C. Clark preached at the Wesleyan Chapel in Manners street yesterday to the largest congregation ever seen" in the building. There were fully fifteen hundred people present. Auckland, February 27. ■Particulars are to hand of the destruction of Tibbal’s Hotel at Poverty Bay, and the burning to death of Mrs Tibbnl and her two daughters. The fire was first observed by the Natives at midnight. The bodies were found charred almost beyond identification as human beings. The unfortunate victims slept on the ground floor, and there can be no question that had Mrs Tibbal been content to save herself, she could have done so without difficulty. Her first thought, however, was for her children, and instead of making either for the front door or the window, she heroically made lor the room where they slept. Having roused them, all three apparently attempted to make their escape together; but whether they were suffocated by smoke or killed by falling bricks or timber, or destroyed by fire and the explosion of powder—a 151b keg being in the house is uncertain. Their bodies were found Wing beside each other in a room where none of them ordinarily slept. The deceased was universally spoken of as a thrifty woman. Her daughter Emily, who, together with the baby, was burned, was a promising girl of fifteen years of age. . _ Paliiekston, March 1. While fishing on the Shag River on Thursday last, Dr Campbell, of Christchurch, landed a fine trout weighing eleven pounds.