The Globe. FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1874. TELEGRAMS. LATEST FROM EUROPE

Globe, Volume I, Issue 29, 3 July 1874, Page 2

The Globe. FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1874. TELEGRAMS.

LATEST FROM EUROPE

(Per Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph Agency.)

[Reuteu's Special Telegram.] The Albion, with English mail, left Melbourne at nine p.m. on the 27th. Had head winds all the passage, but made the rapid run of four days sixteen hours, and arrived at the Bluff at 3.40 p.m. on the 2nd. She sails for Dunedin at seven p.rn. to-night. She brings twenty-eight saloon, thirty steerage, and 250 tons cargo for all ports. Passengers for Lyttelton—Miss Crosby, Mr Winslow, Mr Woodward, Mr Hammersly, Mr Alington, 5 steerage, and thirty tons calgo. London, June 24. . In the House of Commons, Plimsoll’s Merchant Shipping -Survey Bill has been defeated on the second reading by 173. to 170. The Government opposed the measure, stating that the Royal Commissioners’ report was signed, and would be distributed shortly. The Queen is expected to visit St. Petersburg in September. Paris, June 24. The distribution of the photographs of the Prince imperial is prohibited in France. Berlin, June 24. Government administration.lias been appointed in the diocese of Posen § London, June 25, At the Merchant Taylors’ banquet Mr Disraeli, in responding to the toast of “Her Majesty’s Ministers,” defended the Church, as an institution of the country. The Conservative policy was not a policy of inaction, but of progressive improvement for the people. Earl Derby spoke on the general aspect of European affairs, which was more and more tending to quiet. . . UNPUBLISHED CABLE. London, June2G. The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Bill for the prevention of Ritualistic practices in the Church of England has ; passed the House Of Lords. 1 The visit of the Queen to, St Petersburg is formally contradicted, A Conference of German. Bishops has assembled at Fulda.for discussing the ecclesiastical laws. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. f.ivGcv/ffii-.;... ->*■■•■- ... ■ ■“ • Melbourne, June 27. f The Assembly is discussing the Constitution Bill in Committee as to .whether Money Gills should or» f hould r not ho. dealt with by the two Houses sitting together. Steamship Somersetshire has arrived after a oil days’ passage. ■ The Cyphrcnes with the Californian mail left-San Francisco.on Sunday, June 2lst. Samuel House and Co, grain factors, have failed ; liabilities, £15,000. Maher has been committed.for perjury. Buckley’s will case will be tried by a special jury. ■ i ■ ... The Geelong Hurdle race was won by Rory O’More, and the Steeplechase by Sheet Anchor. The Governor was present, Several arrests have been made for sugar thefts from Dalgety, Blackwood’s. A new steamer for the New. Zealand trade is being built in England fur MeMeckan, Blackwood and Co, The sum of £G4 has been subscribed for a monument ,to J. P. Faulkner. About £'lsoo has been subscribed for Burns, the boy rendered armless at Portland by an accident. Sydney. Parliament was prorogued on Thursday, The speech congratulates the .House on the state of the revenue, the establishment of the Californian service, and promises early attention to the new electric cables sanctioned by Parliament. The Governor’s minute on the Gardiner case confirms his intention to exile him. The matter is causing public dissatisfaction. Mr Neale has resigned his seat for Sydney. The Electoral Bill has been slidvedior the session. Incessant rains have fallen on tliG coast district. The stcanicr Flintshire has been got off, and proceeds to Sydney for repairs. Most of the effects are being saved. Brisbane. The Land Bill has passed the Assembly. The Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill has passed the second reading in the Council. Adelaide, The barque Contest for Port Darwin was wrecked on the coast near Frccrnantlc. All hands were saved. Several cargoes of wheat have been taken up for the Cape. Wheat, 5s Bd. COMMERCIAL. Melbourne. The markets arc dull. Flour is lower. Oats arc firm, the stock being light, quotations, 5s 4d to 5s 7d. Candles are in good demand. Largo sales of teas are made in consequence of news from Foo Chow stating the market is higher and the quality of teas inferior. A telegram from Batavia reports that sugar is advancing-rapidly. A ••telegram states Conuessy commences selling brandy at 200 francs per hectolitre. Salt has advanced owing to the small simply shipped.

SHIPPING. Newcastle, Sailed—June 2Gth —John Cull' for Lyttelton. INTERPROYINCIAL. Auckland, July 2] 8 p.ra. A fire broke out in the store of Mr G. W. Owen, Lower Queen street, adjoining Messrs Owen and Grahams. Shortly after seven the flames have just broken through the windows, and it threatens to be a moat destructive lire. There was no water for half an hour after its discovery, and there is no organised brigade. Mr J. McKay’s sou

has been earned out of Owen and Graham’s store suffocated; Dr Wright is with him. He is expected- to recover. The wind is S.W. It is likely to burn The block, including the Waitemate Hotel, f \ ' .■ / 9.15 p.m, \The firm has been confined to Mr G. W. X>wch!s buildings, in which it originated. It wa’H-extipgtiished.Ghicfly through the splendid S.itpply.\.6f ’"wa'top'. tom Messrs Thornton, 4%tfcWeam lire engine connected with‘the mill situated a few stores above. The adjoining premises, occupied by Mr Gilfillau and*“flic" HarbPF'Bonid,''twice caught, but were- soon, extinguished. t After the roof fell in the daViger to the surrounding premises was comparatively small, the solid brick walls 'rendering the -spread of the flames impossible. The store contained kauri gum, paper, &c., which gave out a very heavy smoke, increasing the difficulty and danger encountered by those engaged, in extinguishing it; nevertheless, a large number of willing volunteers, including Mr Thomas Russell, mounted the roof and did good service. Mr Mackay, who was carried out, is recovering. The insurance is not yet ascertainable. 9.45 p.m, G. W. Owens, the Harbor Board, and Mr Gilfillau’s belonged to the New Zealand Insurance Company ; Owen’s was insured - in the Victoria for £4OO, and the balance in their own office. Owen’s stock was insured as follows—New Zealand, £1500; Royal, £500; Liverpool, London and Globe, £500; South British, about £BOO. The Victoriau had £I2OO on the three buildings. Their loss will be only about £SO. Nothing was saved from Owen’s store., - The grain , market is firm. Oats, 5s Gd ; wheat, (is 3d to 6s 6d ; oatmeal, £26 ; pearl barley, £2B ; pollard, £ ( J to; £lO ; bran, £8 to £9 ;- flour, £l4 to £l4 10s ; hams and bacon, lOd to lid ; cheese, 8d ; butter, Is 2d to Is 3d ; peas and beans, 5s ; maize; 5s 9d to 6s. Port Chalmers, July 2, The ship Dunedin was spoken by fhe tug Geelong-off the heads last- evening, eighty .days from Greenock and eighty-two from the' Scilly Islands, with 500 immigrants.■ Fourteen .deaths had--occurred. She passed on to Lyttelton with a line 8. W. breeze. The Phoebe sails for the North this afternoon. ••• •-• 1 '* THIS BA TVS’- TELEGRAMS-; ' Wellington, July 3. Flour—Oamaru, £l3 12s Gd to £l4 ; Can-, terbury,--£l2--5s to £l3. 1 Wheat—Milling, none ; chick, 4s to 4s-3d. Oats —4s 9d to 6s for milling. Maize, Gs 9d to 7s. Potatoes are scarce at £5 10s.-•• Brad; Is 4d ;• pollard, £7 “'cheese, 7d-to 7.]d; butter, 2s ; hams and bacon, 7d to--8d ; fowls, 3s 'Gd- per pair ; turkeys;-8s; ducks, 6s. ""'g ' DuNßriifr, July 3. Flour,- £l2 -to £l2 10s; oatmeal, £23; pearl barley, -£26 ; bran,- £5 ; l 'pollard, £6 chaff, -£G ios-;--hay, £G Gs ; potatoes, £4 '10s; carrots, £3 ; -turnips; £2 !f los ; wheat, 4s Gdto 58; oats, 4s-to 4s--2d ; butter,'' Is - 2d’tp Is •3d ; cheese, Gd-to 8d;- ! ”