TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 47, 24 July 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Per u. fjlo-Australian Press Telegraph Agency.) arrlyal OF THE “ CYPHRENES ” AT AUCKLAND, WITH THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL. —_— Auckland, July 22. The Cyphrcnes has arrived wit.h the San Francisco mail. She left San Francisco on the 2lst June. Passengers—Rev Mr Hassard ; Messrs Hawkins, Frengrove, and Goodman. Cargo— 3347 sacks barley, 6880 sacks oats.

The following are the chief headings of news :

The steamer Prince Alfred has been totally wrecked.

A duel between two editors in the open street in San Francisco resulted in one being shot.

Small pox is causing great distress in Canada.

The steamer Tartar grounded on Caldrew reef. They lightened the ship and she got off the reef without injury, leaving Honolulu mi the 22nd of June. She had been set forty miles to the eastward by a current. SUMMARY. Mr Disraeli announced in the House of Commons seventeen domestic bills. He urged diligence to avert a protracted session. The Earl of Yarborough has been missing. Ho was discovered on Jersy island. He left for London in charge of his friends, and policemen. Mr Gladstone has presented a petition signed by 8(»00 laborers asking for the assimilation of the county and borough franchise.

Jforty deaths from cholera are reported from India. Moslen’s cotton mills near Manchester have been burned with a loss of £50,000. Extensive inundations have occurred in Hungary and many villages have been swept away. Copies of the new New York “Herald” containing Rochfort’s letter have been seized in Paris owing to its attack on MacMahon. The Turkish steamer Ivors with 380 persons has been run into in the sea of Marmora, by an Egyptian vessel. She sunk and 320 lives were lost.

The Emperor of Austria has summoned an international congress to consider sanitary measures for the prevention of cholera. Dispatches from Algeria stnte that the insurrection at Fez has been extinguished by the Sultan bombarding the town, by which ninety inhabitants were killed.

Despatches from India announce famine riots at Darjeling. The troops fired on the rioters. Several were killed.

A letter from a China missionary published in Paris states there were 80,000 Christians in that country, but 10,000 had been strangled, burned or drowned. He adds he does not expect to escape martyrdom.

The Pope in answer to urgent solicitations from exalted political personages for reconciliation with the Italian Government, said he would yield nothing. The Spanish Government solicit a loan of fifty million reals. A special despatch from Berlin says that that the Government of Germany have offered their services to Roumania, and confidentially states that the other European powers have concluded an agreement to mutually protect their interests against the designs of Turkey. Despatches to the “ Daily Telegraph,” from Berlin, assert that the differences between the Khedive of Egypt and the Sublime Porte are serious, and intimate that grave complications in the East arc probable. The “ Times ” Berlin correspondent says the Congress which assembles at Brussels next month to consider the subject of International Rights in the time of war, will first codify the recognised usages of international law which affect the actual conduct of war, and then enact anew code in the form of an international treaty, which promises to become the first law, common to the whole. A draft of the treaty has been made, having seventy-six clauses, stating the rights, obligations, and mutual claims of belligerent States, and individually specifying what arms may be legitimately used. They are making regulations for the treatment of prisoners.

At a banquet given in honor of the agricultural exhibitors, the Crown Prince, Frederick William of Germany, in reply to the toast of the Emperor William, expressed a hope that the foreign exhibitors would, on their return home, convey the assurance to their countrymen that nowhere was the wish for the peaceful continuance of labor and civilisation stronger than in the re-united German Empire,

AMERICAN SUMMARY; There is great distress in consequence of the incessant rains since the disappearance of snow, and the farmers have been eating their seed grain; Cattle have died, and fears of famine are entertained.

Small-pox is very prevalent, and has broken out in an asylum containing 600 patients at Toronto, Ladies’ fairs and balls have been successfully held in aid of the Louisiana sufferers. An excursion train with 700 people ran off the track at Louisville. Three negroes were killed and ten injured, and ten whites killed.

: Another railway accident occurred at Syracuse, by which thirty were injured by one of the cars jumping off the track. Thirty disguised men entered the gaol at Louisiana and took out two murderers, and hung them in accordance with Lynch law. Mrs Doyer, released from the lunatic asylum a year ago, has murdered her husband and three children, in a shocking manner. She says she loved them dearly, and wanted to send them to heaven before herself.

An explosion in a Pensylvania mine killed three miners. Seven men while fighting the fire were overcome with the gas, and carried home unconscious.

The sufferings by the Mississippi overflow continue. 20,000 rations are daily issued. A hurricane at Kempeville unroofed and demolished a number of houses, and injured several persons. Large fires have occurred in various parts of the States.

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS,

A Loudon letter says A slave ship with 275 negroes from Mozambique, bound for Madagascar, was captured by the English man-of-war Daphne, on. March 14th. The slaves were put on board with only two days provisions, and the voyage was prolonged to eight. Their sufferings are alleged to have been indescribable. Many died in agony. Indian telegraphic reports relative to the growing crops are favorable. A special to the “Times” says the Government continues to furnish assistance to 500,000 natives. There can be no crop in Tirhoot until December, and the Government admits that some people may die before assistance reaches them.

The prospect of the settlement of the lockout in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire seems very distant. The Norfolk Farmers’ Labor Defence Association contemplates alterations in their rules, so that instead of lock-out being adopted, a general meeting of masters will be called to consider the course to be t aken.

The “ Post” says the Public Worship Regulation Bill now before Parliament, which is intended to restrain the Ritualists, threatens to lead to a coalition of the High Church clergy with the Liberals, which may result in an attempt to replace the present members of Oxford University with Messrs Gladstone and Montague Bernard. Mr Gladstone heads the opposition to the Bill. It is said that the special commission appointed by the Russian Society of Manufactures and Trade have reported in favour of the construction of a line of railway from Russia to Pekin through Siberia. The line, with ramifications, would traverse a thicklypopulated country, and open up immense cattle and wool-growing districts now isolated from the commercial world. The line would be made in sections, commencing at one of the fortified towns in western Russia, ending in Pekin.

Nows from Japan states that eighteen Japanese shins have been wrecked on the Oorcan coast. The crews were beheaded, “ because they were Japanese.” A lire has destroyed 1358 houses in the town of Hamaraatsyn. Two men and women were burned to death. SHIPPING.

Arrived, May 30th—Celoeuo, from Wellington.

Sailed—For Lyttelton—Carisbrook Castle, on May 31st ; St. Lawrence, on May 22nd. For Otago—Columbia, on June 2nd, and Corona.

Loading—For Canterbury—Cathcart aud Merope. For Napier and Poverty Bay— Queen Bee For Nelson—Celestial Queen and Pakeha. For Otago—Cordelia, Haddon Hall, Otago, Tweed. For Wellington—St Leonards, Strathnavcr, Douglas, and Auckland.

The “Star’s” correspondent writes that the Tweed was to sail for Otago on the 10th of June. The Columbus takes 14 rams for Mr T. Russell, and 20 rams aud II ewes for Sir Cracrofc Wilson. The third ship of the Shipping Company, the Waitangi, was launched on Ist June, by John Blinner and Co., Sunderland. Her tonnage is 1143 register. She will sail for Canterbury in August. ENGLISH COMMERCIAL. June 2. Mr Schwartz reports the wool market is firm. Faulty lleccc meet with more reregular competition, and prices were in favor

of sellers. There is an excellent demand for greasy wool, and prices are firm without change. Foreign purchases comprise twothirds of total sold on the 27th May. New Zealand washed realised 10|d to Is 2d; greasy skins, 8d to ll jd. Jacombs and Son report the New Zealand wool offered is mostly of heavier condition than last year. Clothing parcels do not show much improvement ; lambs’ wool and coarse half-bred fleece improved towards the middle of the mouth, but are now duller.

Flax is very dull. The following marks were disposed of: —Ex Celestial Queen, sound, D and S over KK at £2O ; ex Sam VVendel, OL, £lB to £l9 ; ex Halciorie, Logan and Nichols, £23 to £24 ; ex Wild Duck, Ashley Gorge, £l6 10s; ex Excelsior, sound and damaged, C R and Co, £lO ; ex Jessie Roadman, R & Co, in diamond, £l2 lOs ; various marks, sound and damaged, £9 10s ; tallow, sheep, fine in tank, 39s 9d to 40s 3d; slightly veiny, 395; veiny, 38s 9d ; hides, light, average, s£d ; third class, 4d ; leather has declined, quoted Is to Is 4d. AMERICAN COMMERCIAL. ,-, San Francisco. The flour market is quiet, extra, 6 dols 25 cents to 5 dols 75 cents ; wheat, 1 dol 65 cents to 1 dol 72 cents per 284 ; barley feed, I dol 15 cents to 1 dol 20 cents ; oats, : quiet at 1 dol 70 cents. Liverpool. Wheat quotations on June 20th, were 12a 4d to 12s 7d for average per cental. New York. Wool, from 25 cents to 26 cents. The Western wool market is firm. THIS DA YS TELEGBAMS. Auckland, July 23. The Miltiades has arrived, eighty days from London. She brings 470 immigrants. The Miltiades,when coming up the Channel, grounded on a sandbank, four miles beyond the place where the Anatore went ashore. The steamer Lady Bowen observing her position towed her off without damage. The Cyphreues sailed at two o’clock yesterday afternoon. . . ", Port Chalmers, July 24. Arrived, the ship Sam Wendel, from London, after a passage of 70 days. She brings 371 passengers. Wellington, July 24. The Corrido has arrived, with a cargo of timber, from Picton for Lyttelton. She had to put in yesterday through stress of weather.