LOSS OF A SHIP FROM NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 72, 24 August 1874, Page 2

LOSS OF A SHIP FROM NEW ZEALAND.

ANOTHER CONFLAGRATION IN CHICAGO. GREAT FLOODS IN PENNSYLVANIA [Via Hokitika.] London, August 11. Marshal Bazaine escaped on Sunday night, by a vessel supposed to be bound for Italy, In a circular he has dispatched, Prince Rismarck proposes the European recognition of the Spanish Government. The Northumberland has arrived. The Macgre<ror has reached San Francisco. Sir James Fergussou has resigned the Governship of New Zealand. The Marquis of Normanby succeeds him. August 13. England and France recognise the Spanish Government. Marshal Bazaine's escape was planned by his wife. He descended the cliffs by a rope ladder, and was conveyed away by a vessel in waiting. The officials connected with the fortress have been placed under surveillance. August 14. Mr Cairns, brother of the Lord Chancellor, succeeds to the Governorship of Queensland. [Via. Auckland.] Auckland, August 21.

The Tartar has arrived with the English mail. She left San Francisco on July 2Sth ; arrived at Honolulu on the sth August, having made the fatest passage on record ; she left on the 6th, and arrived at Kandavau on the 18th; finding'no vessel there, she proceeded to Auckland, arriving last night at eleven o'clock. Passengers for New Zealand —saloon : Mr and Mrs Morrin, Mr and Mrs Webster, Mr and Mrs Anderson, Captain Neavc, Messrs O'Neill, Coombes, Mills, Carratt, Y. H. Kecsing ; steerage : Mrs and Miss Knight, Messrs R. Kershaw, Ivcy, G. Rogers, J. Burt, N. B. Pearse, J. Stephens, R. Williams, J. V. Smith, E. Griffiths, W. Murray, R. Fergusson. AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, July 28. The ship Warrior Queen, from Otago, New Zealand, went ashore at G p.m. on July 20th, four miles north of Point Heyes. The boatswere got out immediately. The captain remained aboard all night, and at 4 a.m. the following day all hands left the wreck. She was sold the following day for 760 dollars, but up to the present time, nothing has been done towards saving the property, in consequence of the state of the weather. The accident occurred during a dense fog. Remarkable charges have been made by Theodore Filton against the Rev Henry Ward Beecher. the celebrated pastor of the Plymouth Church, and brother to Harriett Beecher Stowe. Filton charges him with criminal connection with Mrs Filton, time and places being specified. Mrs Filton has published a card denying the charge in toto. Mr Beecher is preparing;'a statement defending himself ; he totally denies the charges. Tha whole matter is before a committee of Mr Beecher's friends, who are investigating the charges.

the Tartar arrived from San Francisco sheriff's oflicers have" been oa board, J. C. Meikle and Co. having sued the agents, Messrs Levien. for 11),55-1 dollars, being the amount expended by them as agent.s. Matters have been arranged as far as the steamer is concerned, in order to allow Williams, Blanchard, and Co., agents for the owners of the Tartar, to send her on with the mails and passengers. Another great conflagration has devastated Chicago. The fire broke out at 5 p.m. on July 14th, and continued with unabated fury until 2 a.m. on the 15th, during which time it swept down some of the finest buildings in the city ; about sixteen blocks were burned, and the loss is estimated at 3,000.000 dollars, which is partly covered by about 800,000 dollars insurance.

A terrible storm broke over eastern Nevada, at the town of Euraka, Nevada, with full force. In addition a waterspout, which had been gathering for some hours, burst, and deluged the town. Twenty lives were lost.

Feaiful}floods have taken place in Pennsylvania which deluged several towns. Twentytwo miles of country was submerged and two hundred lives lost. One millions worth of property was destroyed. The accounts accounts fill several columns of the papers.

In Allegehany city the sewers burst, and the water rushed down the streets to the depth of ten feet, in torrentsjsweeping away the houses aud drowning many persons. Pitsburgh has suffered greatly. The Government intend to prosecute all the Mormons at Salt Lake who have gone into polygamy since the passing of Mr Poland's Bill.

Eleven persons were murdered in a house in Spencer country by some persons who entered to rob it.

EUROPEAN NEWS. The Scottish team won the Klcho shield at Wimbledon, meeting the English team who were second, aud the Irish, third. The English Insurance Company lost a case before the Court of Exchequer, in which the question as to whether a policy holder had the right to travel without the company's permission, was concerned. Dr Beasley insured his life for £IOOO sterling and went to New Zealand, where he died. His heirs were refused the money, on the grounds that the company had not allowed him to go to New Zealand. But the Court compelled them to pay. Mr Gladstone's wife has inherited property to the value of £15,000 per annum by the death of her brother.

The London papers say that the Liberal party will lose their leader, iu consequence of Mr Gladstone proposing to take his ease in Italy. If a statement contained in a recent letter from Berlin is to be credited, Prince Bismarck is preparing to take another important step in the war upon the Church. It is stated that the Government will present a Bill during its present session, to [regulate religions processions and prevent them from using public highways. Nothing ha? yet been heard of the Austrian expedition which started for the Polar Seas in Legthoff .two years ago. M. Constant, an imperial messenger, requests all travellers or stamen, who may have learned any news about the expedition, to communicate with the Foreign Office at Vienna, or to the Admiralty at St Petersburg. Thirty victims of the disaster to the yacht Foam wen: found on Hie 31st, on th eAmericaa shore, nearly opposite Niagara,

In the House of Lords, on the 24th July, a noble lord asked whether the Government made any remonstrances to France, against the connivance of the authorities in the violation of the Spanish frontier by Spanish Carlists, and urged that by the ordinary courtesy due from one civilised nation to another there should be no unnecessary delay in a formal recognition of the Spanish Government by Great Britain. The Earl of Derby, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, replied that the recognition of the Spanish Government at present would be premature, and said it would be better that such a recognition should be a collective act of the European powers. London telegrams of July 24th, say there is an alarming outbreak of smallpox at Newmarket; upwards of sixty cases are already reported. The authorities asked the Jockey Club to permit them to convert the grand stand into an hospital, where the afflicted persons may be quartered. John Mitchell arrived at Cork on July 27th. He is ill but will come to Dublin. The Fenian Amnesty Association are in procession by torchlight. A demonstration and banquet are to be given in his honor. The Berlin journals say that war between Russia and China is inevitable, in consequence of the designs of the latter upon Kashagar. The committee of the Agricultural Laborers' Union, in London, have adopted resolutions declaring that "As we are not justified in appealing to the public for support for locked-out laborers in the Eastern counties during the harvest, therefore we offer them the alternative of emigration, or depending on their own resources." The committee is ncgociating for easier terms for emigration to Canada. Goskell Brothers, cotton merchants, at Liverpool, have failed ; liabilities, 480,000 dollars. A special dispatch to the Daily News reports the destruction of property by floods in Moravia. 200 persons died, and the houses were swept away. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, August 18. ■ The want of confidence motion in the Government, after being debated for two nights, was negatived without a division. The Government then proceeded with the ordinary business, and it is likely that matters will proceed quietly until the Treasurer makes his financial statement, when a fresh onslaught will be made over the tariff question. Two vacancies in the Council have been filled by the unopposed re-election of the retiring members. The libel action of "Walker v George, the publisher of the Australasian, resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff on two counts. Damages a farthing. And for defendant on one count. The Judge refused to certify for plaintiff's costs. In the slander action, McKean (solicitor) v Neeley, where the plaintiff was accused by the defendant, who is a clerk iu the Crown Solicitor's office, with putting his name to a list of witnesses expenses after it had been signed by the Judge, a verdict was returned for the defendant.

Rumors are current that the California!! Mail Service has collapsed, occasioned by Mr Hall's sudden departure per Mikado. The Government has telegraphed to London for information. Meanwhile the City of Melbourne is advertised to take the next mail, under the management of the A. S. N. Company, calling only at Honolulu. The Nubia, with the Suez mail, is expected at Adelaide to-day or to-morrow. By a mining accident at the Prince of Wales claim, Ballarat, yesterday afternoon, two men were killed.

At a meeting of shareholders in the Tookey mine, held at Ballarat yesterday, it was resolved that the capital of the company be increased from £77',500 to £117,500, by the issue 20,000 new shares at £2 each. It was also resolved that the Tookey Company, in connection with the United Pumping Association, borrow £50,000 from the New Zealand Government, and the Tookey Company to give mortgage of £15,000 as their proportion of the loan, but no security to be given which would have the effect of creating any liability to shareholders.

COMMERCIAL. Business dull. Breadstuffs a trifle firmer, wheat, 0s 4d, 6s 5d for prime ; oats not much dealt in, 4s lid to 5s for feeding. A London telegram, reporting blight in the hop crops, caused sales to be made at considerable advances. Large sales of bottled ale and stout reported. Brandies dull. Latest Mauritius dates report the canes to be yielding badly ; the first cargo is not expected to leave before the middle of August, and as the market is cleared, nothing can come forward for six weeks. SHIPPING. Melbourne. Sailed, 14th—Eliza Firth, for Greymouth ; Plorinda, for Wanganui ; 16th—Mary Bannatyne, for New Zealaud. Newcastle. Arrived, 15th—Ribord. from Wellington ; William Ackers, from Wanganui ; Isabella, from Auckland ; Woodville, from Dunediu. Kith—John Bull, from Lyttelton ; Ada, from Dunedin. Sailed, 12th—Cyrene, for Lyttlelon ; 14th— Memento, for Auckland ; 15th— Fleur de Meurice, for Auckland ; Ann Mclbuish, for Wellington ; Montana, for Auckland. Sydney. The Rooparelle was towed into Newcastle, having been damaged during a severe squall. No lives were lost. The Captain sprained his ankle while clearing the wreck. The ship Chrysomone from Newcastle to California has been towed in dismasted. The Government has addressed the Imperial authorities, advising the annexation of New Guinea.

Captain Golwand, R.N., Admiralty Survejor, was engaged in a boat with three men. surveying at the Heads, when the boat upset; Captain Gowland and one man were drowned, the others reached the shore. Parliament has been further prorogued to the 15th September. A singular case of madness occurred aboard the Minora, from Aucklaud to Newcastle. James M'Lean, a stowaway, hung himself, he was just cut down iu time to save his life, and found to be a raving maniac. Hawkesbnry Races Mr Tait's Goldsborough, won. the Grand Handicap ; Sir H. Robinson's colt Kingsborough. won the Hawkesbury Guineas and Mares Produce Stakes.

Adelaide. The Intercolonial Freetrades Bill is being opposed Seventy-two thousand tous breadstuff reported during the year,