TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 7, 8 June 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Per Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph Agency.) LATEST FROM EUROPE Bluff, June 7. (Reutkr's Special Telegrams.) The AlbioD, with the English mail, left Melbourne at 2.30 p.m: on the 2nd instant, and arrived at the Bluff Heads at 1 a.m. on the 7 th, and came to the wharf at 8 a.m. Had a quick run of four days nine hours and a half. She brings thirty-one saloon and twenty-five steerage passengers, and 200 tons for all ports. She sails for Dunedin at one p.m. London, May 26. Prince .Arthur has been created Duke of Connaught and Earl of Sussex. The Commandant of San Jose in Guatemala has been sentenced to be whipped and then shot for the outrage on the British ViceConsul. Paris, May 2G. A Bonapartist candidate has been elected for the Assembly for the Department of Loire. London, May 30. Bank rate, 3-J-. Berlin, May 30. Bishop Reinkcus has opened the first Synod of Old Catholics at Boun,

Paris, May 30. The Assembly met after an adjournment, but no Ministerial declaration was made.

Several Paris papers allege it is contemplated at Madrid to propose a German Prince as candidate for the Spanish throne. Home, May 28. The Pope is suffering from fever. Madrid, May 30.

General Concha has assembled 26,000 men at Vittoria preparatory to an attack on the Carlists at Estella.

London, May 30. Money is easy. Bank rate, 3£. A reduction of discount ia expected.

Wool —Prices continue firm. The corn market is active. Adelaide wheat is in demand, at 6Gs to 67s per qr. Mr Saul Samuel is gazetted C.M.G.

" Nord Deutsche Gazette" has an article declaring that Belgium is awakening to the fact that France would attack her in case of war with Germany, which has caused much discussion in the French press. They scout the idea and affirm a peaceful policy. Prince Gortschakoff has invited the powers to a congress at Brussels on international law to be observed during war, as affecting the treatment of prisoners. The Pope is recovering from the attack of fever and ague and is able to take exercise. SPECIAL CABLE TELEGRAM. London, May 30. New Zealand hemp, ordinary to good, has beon sold at £l7 to £24. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, June 2. Intelligence received on Sunday of the loss of the ship British Admiral, 1800 tons, from to Melbourne, on King's Island, on the 23rd of May, with the loss of seventy-nine lives. Only nine survivors, including four passengers, four of the crew and third mate. The ship's chronometers were out of order, and she lost her reckoning. She struck on a rock on the west side of the island, and went to pieces in a quarter of an hour. Not a vestige was left. She had forty-nine passengers, including eleven women and a number of children. The scene is described as heartrending, as all were swept away. The captain and first and second officers were lost. The wreck occurred at the spot just two miles from where the Netherby was wrecked, nine years ago. The survivors arrived here in a small ketch, and are being cared for. The news created a profound sensation, as most of those lost had friends and relations in the colony. The Government sent a steamer this morning to search the coast. An enquiry will be held to-day. After au uninteresting debate, the address on the Governor's speech was carried without a division. The Bill for the reform of the Council has been read a first time. The O'Ferrall frauds continue the subject of debate, and will lead to further investigation. Mr Degraves has resigned his seat in the Legislative Council. Messrs Taylor, Balfour, and Thomas Smith are candidates. The Government is unlikely to join in the Customs arrangement with the other colonies. In the divorce suit Bishop v Bishop, the petitioner obtained her verdict. None of the bodies have yet been recovered from the Duke and Timor mine, Maryborough. A tender of £139,767 has been accepted for the new Government offices. In the action for libel against the "Licensed Victuallers' Gazette," the plaintiff received £250 damages. A vessel has been seen bottom up between Cape Howe and Kent's group. Seventy-nine entries were received for the Melbourne cup last Light, including four from New Zealand, Governor Ducane returned to Tasmania today. The firm McCallum, Neil, and Co., merchants, has suspended payment. Thejdirect liabilities are £36,000. The south channel was lighted for the first time last night, and the Nubia was enabled to come up. The " Argus" has made arrangements to get the result of the English Derby through for publication the same morning. The Cable Company anticipated that the news would occupy au hour in transmission from London to Melbourne. There is only the weather to contend against. The cable was lately broken between Singapore and Batavia, but has since been repaired. Sydney. Colonel Contenley, another Communist prisoner, escaped as a stowaway in the steamer Egmont. The Government carried the ratification of the Californian mail contract without a division. The Commodore sent a complimentary letter to Captain Grainger for getting off the steamer Macgregor, and bringing her here. The French barque Charles Auguste was wrecked in Torres Straits, and the Blue Bell, schooner, pearl fishiug. COMMERCIAL. Wheat is firm, and little offering. Oats, 5s 8d to 5s 9d for prime milling. Brandies are again inquired for : Hennessy's 10s 10id; case, 31s. Rum is wanted. A late telegram from China states that the market has not opened owing to the excessive rains preventing teas coming forward. It is likely to open three taels higher. In sugars there is little enquiry. Kerosene very heavy. SHIPPING. Sydney—Arrived, 28th May, Fawn from Lyttelton. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, June 6. Intelligence from Waimate, Bay of Islands, forwards particulars of a dispute between the Maoris, which is likely to end in 'open hostilities. A party of natives have been digI ging gum on a piece of tapued land near I Haikohe on the Hokianga side. Waimate had collected between twenty and forty tons when Mohi Tawhia, a leading fighting chief, with a party, objected to the removal of the gum on the ground that that land was tapn, and claimed it for himself. The two factions ranged themselves in hostile bands, mustering from 150 to 180 a-side of well armed natives. Those who dug the gum remained to protect it, and erected a pah on the field, while Mohi and his party went over to the property of the gum diggers and commenced an onslaught on the potatoes, pigs, and sheep on which they have been living for over a week. Mohi also built a pan

there. The natives protecting the gum are now getting short of food. Mohi is deter mined to starve them out. Shooting was expected to commence between the contending factions yesterday (Friday). All Europeans have been ordered by Mohi not to touch the gum. Sales—Alburnia, 46s ; City of London, 25s ; Whau, £5 10 ; Beach, 18s ; Cure, 14s. Buyers—South British, 47s 6d; National Bank, 66s ; Caledonian, £9 12s 6d ; Freedom, 85s ; National Insurance, 295. Grahamstown, June 6. An explosion of fire damp occurred in the Crown Prince. The manager narrowly escaped. This is the first time explosive gas has been met with on the Thames. Thousand ounces are expected from the Old Whau, for three weeks crushing. The Alburnias have taken a sudden rise in consequence of Old Whau having obtained splendid gold near boundary. Alburnias : sellers, £4 17s. Hokitika, June 6. Mr. Hayworth's Lower Saw Mill was burned down this morning. The loss amounts to a thousand pounds. There was no insurance. Timaru, June 6. There was a shock of earthquake at 5 a.m. and a second and sharper one at twenty minutes to eight, lasting several seconds. The direction was East to West. No damage was done. THIS DA TS TELEGBAMS. Auckland. June 8. Arrived—The Flirt, from Timaru; the Mary Melville, from Lyttelton; the Governor's yfcht left for Manukau. She will take the Governor and his family to Wellington on her^arrival. William" Baiton is at Alexandra waiting for Te Wheoro. They proceed to Kuiti to see Tawhio. If the mission comes to anything, they will then proceed to Wellington to report.