THE SUBMARINE CABLE.

Evening Star, Issue 4110, 29 April 1876, Page 3

THE SUBMARINE CABLE.

INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Sydney, April 28. Oreit crowds are attending the Exlli( ill drtilv.

Sir Will lam Manning has accepted the Judgeship, vacant by the death of Judge Cheeke,

April 29. The barque Mary Mildred has arrived at .Newcastle with three survivors from the ship Isabella, who were left on Brunton Reef. Three others who were saved from the wreck died on the reef from exposure and privation. Arrived : Hero, from Auckland. Melbourne, April 29. The Mining Department Commission has reported. Mr R. Brough Smythe is adjudged guilty of excessive severity, of using unwarrantable language, of being imperious aud irritable, and of lacking self-control. The commission consider his co-operation, with the officers of the department impracticable.

The Bank of Victoria at Seymour has been robbed of over 500 sovereigns. The clerk was bound and gagged.

The following items dated April 11 have not yet been publishe I here : Her Majesty has presented her portrait to Mr Disraeli.

Mr George Anderson, the member for Glasgow, inquired of the Premier, in the House of Commons, whether there was a precedent for the Queen’s absence abroad during the session of Parliament. In reply, Mr Disraeli cited the precedent of 1872, and further stated that the causes of her Majesty’s visit to the Continent were strictly of a domestic nature.

It is rumored that, owing to illness, the Czar will retire temporarily, and a Regency will be established under the Czarewiteh.