TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 96, 21 September 1874, Page 2

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ARRIVAL OF THE HERO AT AUCKLAND. WITHDRAWAL OF THE NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT FROM SAN FRANCISCO AND SINGAPORE MAIL SERVICES. Auckland, September 21. The s.s. Hero has arrived. She left Sydney on September 15th. [English, bt Cable.] London, September 9. The Government of New Zealand has announced its temporary withdrawal from the San Francisco and Singapore Mail Services. Sir H, R. Storks, Tilpin-raan (?) and Lord George Manners are d(ad. My a terrible collision on the Great Eastern Railway, nineteen people have been killed and ninety are injured. Sepl ember 12. Wool Market Prices well sustained ; scoured wool maintaining a favorable posision and 156,000 bales have been sold. It is expected that present prices will continue till the close of the sales. Wheat quotations are unchanged. Copper is firm with hardening prices. Straits, £92 ; Australian, £9O to £9l. Three hundred and forty-three bales New Zealand flax have been offered, but the chief part has been withdrawn, holders wanting from £l9 to £2O per ton. The Torres Straits mail arrived off Townsville on September 14th. She brings the following items of European news, Mr Disraeli states that Fiji will probably 1)G annexed. A settlement of £15,000 a year has been voted to Prince Leopold. The Prince of Asturias will probably be proclaimed King of Spam. All Spain is declared to be in a state of siege. The P. and O. Company surrender £20.000 per annum of subsidy for permission to pass with mails through the Suez Canal. The Duke of Richmond has given notice that he intends to abolish betting forthwith, on the Goodwood course. A baronetcy has been conferred on the Lord Mayor of London. An advice from Singapore states that Agrarian outrages have been perpetrated in Ireland. A large amount of Australian gold has arrived. Money is easy. The report of the English, Scottish, and Australian Chaitered Bank recommend that a dividend of 7 per cent be declared,

Cotton (Indian) dull in demand at 5d to s£d. Sales at Liverpool, 15,000 bales ; slocks in hand, 1,108,900 bales. New Zealand fives. 104 to 105 ; South Australian sixes, 117 to 122 ; Victorian sixes, 115 to 117 ; New South Wales fives, 18881722, 107 to 109. The home markets show little change. Spain, September 10th. The Marquis de la Serna' is appointed Chief Commander of the army of the North. The defeat at Frigcarda has greatly discouraged the Carlists, who were also repulsed at Arragon. Berlin, September 11. The Ministerial journals state that the incident of Carlists firing on a German gunboat at Gutaria is of no consequence. AUSTRALIAN NEWS, Sydney. The City of Adelaide calls at Levuka this trip with the outward San Francisco mail, in order to take home the Governor’s ultimatum on the annexation of Fiji. The Victoria sails for Auckland tomorrow. The Governor sailed for Fiji on Saturday night, accompanied by Messrs de Robeck, Hutchinson, the Attorney-General, as legal advisor, and the German Consul, Herr Sakel. The Fairlie, for Dunedin, left Foochow towards the end of July, with 196,0001bs tea. The Government has determined to carry on the San Francisco service, on its own responsibities if necessary. No acting Governor has been appointed by Sir H. Robinson. Miss May Howard, the American actress, is drawing crowded houses in Svdney. The international gig race has lost a great deal of interest by the illness of Henderson, one of the Victorian crew, formerly of Auckland, compelling an emergency man to take his place. Henderson is recovering. A miner named Dacre has been found murdered near Braidwood. Victoria, Sept. 14. At the drawing for the Ballarat art union, the first prize, value £2OOO, was won by John Hannan, a farmer, of Mount Blowhard. The second prize, £750, by Bray, draper, of Geelong. During a discussion in the Assembly on the claims of deceased civil servants, the Government recognised the desirableness of establishing a life assurances office in connection with the civil service. The estimates are being proceeded with. The body of a young woman, unknown, has been found in the Yarra. The Albion was detained through damage to her rudder. A man named Goodman shot himself near Elphinstone. Yarraville sugars realised full prices for best, but suffered a decline of 20s on lower sorts. Three little boys made an unsuccessful attempt to throw a train off the suburban line. The brig Alice Maud from Greymouth was wrecked between Cape Barren and Cable Island. The crew and five passengers were picked up by the steamer Southern Cross, and brought on here, A demand is springing up for currants; sales 9-Jd. Maize—A small parcel has been sold at ss. A deputation has been appointed to wait on the Government with reference to the establishment of a labor bureau. In the Herald libel case the Judge declined to certify for costs. Tasmania. The stoppage of three more firms is announced—namely, Sidler and Co, Messrs White, Mills, and Co, and Messrs Dowie and Woodgate. The Legislative Council, by a majority of one, rejected the Government bills—viz, the Mersey and Deloraine Railway Bill, the main branch road, bridges, and other general public works Bill. Adelaide. Much indignation is expressed in South Austrab'a at the increase of imports, the excess of which over exports for the first thirty-five weeks of the year amounts to nearly three-quarters of a million. The Legislative Council has rejected the Bill to increase the salaries of the clerks of the House of Assembly beyond those of the Council. The second reading of the Local Court Bill has been carried; the Bill extends the jurisdiction of the courts to actions involving sums to the amount of £SOO, and embodies other features of supreme court law administration. John Wright Anderson, clerk at the National Bank, pleaded guilty to embezzling £IOO, the property of the Bank. Sentenced was deferred. SHIPPING; Newcastle. Arrived—The Joliba, Emelia, and Camille. SYDNEY RACES. FREE HANDICAP. Conqueror ... ... ... 1 TOWN PLATE. Maid of Avenel ... ... 1 president’s handicap, FitzYattendou ... ... 1 MARES’ PRODUCE STAKES, Kings borough ... ... 1 SYDNEY HANDICAP. Garry Owen... ... ... 1 MEMBERS’ HANDICAP. Llama ... ... ... 1 WAVERLY HANDICAP. Maid of Avenel ... ... 1 STEEPLECHASE. Duffer ... ... ... 1 RANDWICK PLATE. Dagworth ... ... ... 1 FORCED HANDICAP. Westminster... ... ... f Sterling ... ... ... f INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, September 19. The Pacific, schooner, from Samoa, reports the Albion, an Auckland whaler, is at Samoa with 160 barrels oil. The barque Glimpse has arrived with 540 tons coal from Newcastle. She met a gale on Saturday, which swept away her deckhouse and part of her bulwarks. Sargent, a German, was thrown against the bulwarks and seriously injured in the leg. Arrived —Bella Mary, from Hobart Town. New Plymouth, September 19. The wet weather has prevented the meeting at Pariaka from commencing. 600 natives are there, The Superintendent has

issued a notice offering to buy up volunteer land scrip at 10s in the pound, ■Wellington, September 19. A requisition requesting Mr Geo. Hunter, M.H.K., to become a candidate for the Mayoralty, is now being carried round for signatures. FIJI NEWS. Auckland, September 19. The Star of the South arrived at noon from Levuka with a full cargo of cotton, maize, copra, and the first shipment of Fijian sugar, consisting of one hundred bags; she left on the 13th. Great interest is taken in Sir Hercules Robinson’s expected visit. The Fiji Times says that the Polynesian scheme is too absurd to merit serious consideration. Considerable depression is experienced consequent upon the change from cotton growing to sugar planting. The Times calls attention to the serious defalcations in the Treasury chest of the late Government;, and the immense expense of the loans. A great native meeting has been held at Loma Loma which is supposed to have important political significance. The Chiefs Maafu and Tui Cakau were present. The hostile preparations are said to be for punishing the refractory tribes, but war is considered probable unless annexation takes place.