TELEGRAPHIC.

Evening Star, Issue 4267, 30 October 1876, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

[PER SUBMABIME CABLE.] 01 Latest Betting. I) Melbotibse, October 28. The betting on the to Derby is unaltered, except that Tocal| is firmer, tt For the Cap, 7 and 8 to 1 agaiußt Feu d*Artifice, 8 to 1 against Irish Stew, Valentia, and Timothy, 15 to 1 against Sterling. ■ - Railway Collision. g[ Sydney, October 28. —By a collision yesterday tl sixteen trucks were smashed and two men killed. ai [Psb Pbess Agenct.] lo ; —_:■ ' of A Defaulter. JJ Auckland, October 28.—8. J. Debney, a clerk in t^ the Waste Lands Office, was arrested to-day aboard „(■ the barque Adela, leaving for Newcastle, charged p, with the embezzlement of a considerable sum. jg . Fatal Accident, fii . Auckland, October 30.—Two young men, named *T £ Henry Smalifield and Gcntil, engaged a boat for a "■ sail on the harbor yesterday afternoon. When off 71 Kohimarama in going about the boat capsized, and i; both got on the keel, but were washed off several Jj times. The accident occurred not a hundred yards f; from shore, and was. seen by men at the cattle f? Station, wlio put off to their assistance, but when . they reached the boat Smalifield had disappeared, 1B and Gentil, who bad kept hold of an oar, was nearly v ' gone. SmaMeld's body was found late in the E 1 afternoon. & Shearers' Strike. ™ Blenheim, October SO.—The shearers here held a large meeting on Saturday evening, and unani- TO * mously resolved to strike for twenty shillings per hundred. There is every probability of the run- ir holders giving way. t j Prorogation of Parliament. 2! Wellington, October 30.—The prorogation can- w not take place before to-morrow. ? Australian News. s Melboxihke, October 23.—-A chemist's assistant at Cellingwood died from an overdose of chloroform. A man named Griffiths, at Ballorat, has been committed for trial for the unskilful treatment of a midwifery case. " A BiJ prohibiting the importation of indecent v literature has been passed. j. Governors Cairns and Norman!>yare unable to v accept Governor Bowen's invitation to visit Mel- g ( bourne. Governors Musgrave and Bobinson have accepted. ' *» Two riders in the hurdle race at Wilson's circus i, sustained concussion of the brain, and one has since Jt died. \ 5 I 'The cutter Lcelia is starting for New Guinea and ~ the islands of the Pacific, to open up the trade for. „ an English company. The Premier declined a definite reply to a depu- « tation re street tramways. » John Bell's estate pays L 30.000 legacy duty. ' A London telegram quotes Henessy's brandy at v 7s 6d. New Kent hops sold at 2s 6d; oats, 3a Id to - Ss 3d; flour, Ll4. v The National Bank dividend is twelve per cent., ~ and it earries forward L 76.000. r Adelaide, October 28—The expenditure for Sep- c tember quarter is L 399,347, being L 87.000 more > than the corresponding quarter of last year. , + Sales of wheat at 6s Id. I The Loan Bills Public Works pa? sed. . Sydney, October 23.—Two brothers named Man- " ning were drowned in the Hunter Biver through J, the capsizing of a boat. V Sydney is being supplied with milk from Berrina, kept fresh by subjection to intense cold. * Bbisbane, October 23.—Consequent on the super- g abundance of labor in the Northern Territory, * Government have instructed the Agent-General to « reduce the number of immigrant ships sent out. A i meeting of laborers at Townsville adopted a mani- 1 festo to send to the Agricultural Laborers' Union of l England, holding up Queensland as a field for labor ] to public scorn as a gigantic imposture. A tender for the Western Railway extension has „ been accepted at L 2.700 per mile. \ [FsOM OTJB OWN COBBESPONDENT.J / Splendid Yield. ! Lawbence, October.SO.—A cake of gold over 860oz has been sefat down from the Otagb claim at the Blue Spur and lodged with the Colonial Bank < on Saturday. The cake is the result of a month's < crushing. The weather is sultry. . ] Latest from the Kumara. 1 Kttmaba, October 28.—Accounts of yields; and ] prospects are very conflicting. A great reduction in the population is going on, people being certain that the yield will not afford employment for half ' the numbers poured in, and the working requires ! more capital than the majority of the arrivals can command. Death of an Old Colonist. Chbistchttbch, October 28.—Mr C. J. Bridge of Soufjhbridge, died on Tuesday. He arrived in the Province in 1850, and was one of the originators of the first Freemasons' body here. The new theatre is to be opened on Saturday next. TUnaru Agricultural Show. Timaku, October 30.—The entries for the show on Wednesday are:—Merino sheep,9s; long-woolled, 231;.» cross-bred; 2; fat wethers, ; 2; cattle, 42; draught horses, 58; other horses, 46; pigs, 12poultry, 35; implements, 26; butter, 15; agricui: tural produce, 15; extra exhibfts,9; total, 505, as against 398 last year. Nearly L2OO has been collected for • the regatta ■ t on; December 16. Invebcabgill, October 28.—The local 'Times' . says r , it is contemplated to observe holiday * re x^ n tbe dsv " ' -Abolition takes' effect, «• Provincial organ says - a petition calling on the Mayor to proclaim a holiday on the day ou which the Southland representatives arrive from Wellington, " in recognition of their praiseworthy efforts to preserve local self-government to the people of Southland," is already extensively signed. A public dinrter in honor of Messrs Lnmsden, Joyce, Wood, and Hodgkinson is also talked of.