LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 99, 24 September 1874, Page 2

LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA.

♦ DEATH OF M. GUIZOT. Auckland, Sept 24. The Victoria has arrived from Sydney. She left on the 17th. ENGLISH. London, Sept 15. A Republican has been elected to the National Assembly as representative of Maine et Loire. President Macmahon has been visiting the northern departments ; wlien replying to an address presented to him, he expressed his determination to pursue his mission with firmness, and have regard to moderate men of all parties. The Journal des Debats has been warned for having said that whoever was not a Republican was an adherent of the Empire. The German and Austrian Ambassadors have presented their credentials to Marshal Serrano as chief of the Spanish Executive Government, and given expression to cordial good wishes and assurances. M. Guizot, the eminent French statesman and historian, is dead. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Sydney, September 17. Gilchrist, Watt, and Co, the agents for the steamer Cyphrenes, have chartered her to the A.S.N.Co. They also offer the Macgregor and Mikado. The Cyphrenes has undergone a thorough refit during her stay in port. She has left for Newcastle to coal. On her return from her trip she will take cargo, &c, for Sau Fraucisco, She leaves with mails for England on the 26th inst. Her substitution for the City of Adelaide is in every sense advantageous. Mr Russell's arrival from Auckland is anxiously looked for both in this colony and Victoria. The Mikado left San Francisco to dale, as the 13th there is our 12th. Melbourne, September 17. The Commodore, in reporting ou the Victorian naval training system, approves of the system. After a strong opposition, the Tariff Bill, increasing the duties on somo articles from 10 to 20 per cent, was carried. The Church Assembly has met. The .Bishop reports that there worn forty-t— • consecrated Churches, and 1% uneousecrated, with other buildings, making a total of 403 places u. . ■■ '.''? £4,500 has been olfuica for Goldsborough. The miners are petitioning for a reduction of the duty on kerosene aud candles, recently increased by the new tariff. Business dull—Currants, 5d ; Tennant's ale, 10s ; brcadstuffs unchanged ; maize, ss. « ■ Adelaide. 14,000 bushels of wheat have been sold at 5s Id. Tasmania. A youth sixteen years of age has been sentenced to death for rape on a woman of seventy. There are three more failures in Launceston. In the estate of White, Mills and Co, the direct liabilities amount to between £12,0U0 and £13,000; the only available assets amountto about £3OOO. The firm are indebted to Peters, Barnard and Co £34,000 for accommodation bills. INTER PROVINCIAL. Auckland. September 23. A very heavy w slerJy gale has been blowing all day, and has done about £15.000 damage to the shipping at the wharf. The

barques Thames, East Lothian, Harriet Armitage, Nonpareil, and the schooner Mera were damaged by grinding agaiust the wharf. The gale is moderating. Grahamstown, September 23. At the banquet last night. Mr Sheehan, in reply to the toast of his health, spoke nearly an hour, referring to the opposition offered to the Waste Lands Act by the Upper House. He said he was not inclined to goto extremes regarding the Upper Hou«e, winch had given evidences of a sound Conservative spirit. There was one question, however, in which they were always wrong, in which they were so deeply interested, that they were prevented from dealing with it fairly and justly, and that was the question of land. There were very few members of the Upper House without a very large estate, and some reckoned their properties by hundreds of thousands of acres. These men jealously scrutinised every measure which had for its object to enable them to acquire land easily, and settle down upon it. The Bill which he introduced was in the hands of such people in the position that the person who was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, who fell into the hands of a certain company, which he need not particularise. Referring to the representation, he saw that, whenever a proposal was made to give another member to a North Island constituency, it was met by the cry that the balance of power was in danger. He found the Southern goldfields members always came forward manfully and straightforwardly on the goldfields question, and the opposition to the alteration of our present representation came mainly from Wellington and Taranaki. Those provinces knew their case was rotten, and if the House ordered an increase of representation it would be made at the expense of one or other of them. The claim of the Thames to additional representation was so just that the House could not longer delay to recognise it. He thought the Native department viewed the proposed railway from the Thames to Waikato with disfavor. He believed the same department viewed with alarm the very advancing wave of civilisation, thus hastening the time when their services would no longer be required. He considered that the veil of mystery was about to be lifted from Ohinemnri. which when opened, if not auriferous, contained 100,000 acres, which would profitably repay men to settle down upon as farmers. New Plymouth, September 23. Mr Fitz Gerald is now here inspecting the books of the various Government departments. Land is changing hands at fair prices. Mr Vavasour, of Wellington, has purchased Mr William Baylee's Tatarimaka property at £5 per acre. Mr Drake, of Wellington, has bought Mr Dingle's farm, at, Asusua, at £3 10s per acre. Some land in Devon street sold at £l2 per foot. In the centre of the town £ls to £2O are asked per foot. Napier, September 23. The Diocesan Synod met yesterday. There was a long address from the Bishop on the affairs of the Church, He calls attention to the spreading of intemperance, and recommends the consideration of the subject to the earnest attention of the Synod. Wellington, September 23. Mr P>orlase, Mayor, is bringing an action against Mr Ludlam, of the Hutt, for libel contained in words used at a recent meeting reflecting on his character and capabilities as Provincial Solicitor. Wellington. Sept, 24. Messrs Pearce and Hunter addressed their constituents last night. Both members were well received. Mr Pearce said he never was a warm provincialist, but was confident that the abolition of provincialism would not necessarily reduce taxation, but whatever good they did in the past he thought that the time had gone by for rendering them necessary. He held himself thoroughly free to vote for the Bill when brought down. Mr Hunter who said he was holding very decided views against the abolition of the provinces, would also give any measure brought down for that object, his most careful consideration, and if convinced it was an improvement, would support the changes. He did not consider that that the colony had reached the extent of its borrowing power, so long as the revenue increased. He paid a a high compliment to Mr Vogel in befriending Wellington. The question of compact was an unimportant matter, as in a few years the North Island would have a far more valuable landed estate than the South. Votes of thanks were given to both gentlemen. Dunedin, September 24. The cutter Glimpse lies on Hampden beach full of water. Her cargo of railway iron will be saved. Herhull is insured in the Victoria Company 'for £4OO, cargo in the Standard for £RBO. The Mera, injured at Auckland yesterday, belongs to an Oarnaru firm; she had just been brought from home, and cost ofifOOO. She was insured for £l5O » in the National, and £ISOO in the New Zealand companies. The programme of the March race meeting is published: — first day. Maiden Plate of £BO Dunedin Cup Newmarket Stakes of £fiO Publicans Handicap of £IOO Selling Race of £SO. SECOND DAY. Handicap Hurdle Race of £S() Jockey Club Handicap of £2OO, with a five guinea sweep. The Rous' Stakes, of £75. The Novel Race, of £IOO. THIRD DAY. The Steeplechase, of £IOO, with £5 sweepstake. The Town Plate, of £IOO, with £5 sweepstake. The Master F.owe Produce Stakes, for a sweep and cup. The Forbury Handicap, of £l5O, with £5 sweepstakes. The Flying Handicap, of £GO. The Consoiation, of £SO. The Dunedin Cup.—Nominations close on October 21st, weights to be declared on November 20th, acceptances on January 21st. A visit of a Victorian cricketing team this season is certain. A resident here offers to bring them over himself, and supply the necessary funds. Mr Heal, as representing three gentlemen who hive already taken the matter up, is now in Melbourne negociating. Mr Bass, chief assistant of the American expedition for observing the transit of Venus, with Messrs Thomson and M'Tvrrow, leave for Clyde on Saturday to select a station. The w;ir sloop Swattara, with the rest, of the expedition, is expected at the Bluff early next month,

The council of the Otago institute recommend Clyde, but Mr Bass is likely to select further south, Judge Chapman gave judgment to-day in the Otago Guardian contempt of court case. He said if the article complained of had ended with its primary object of advocating the expediency of preserving the inviolability of a telegraph, there would have been no occasion for a rule. But it went beyoud that. Its general tone was studiously subdued, but that tone was a condemnation of the plaintiff's proceedings, therefore, in his opinion, it had a tendency imputed to it, though not so strong as to evince a depraved intention. If he had thought that this case came within the more gross and reprehensible clause, he would probably have considered a line as the proper mode of dealing with it; but he did not consider it so, though it was not excusable, He decided that the usual consequence as to costs would be a sufficient vindication of the law. Above all, as a sufficient warning that the Court would not sanction any writing being put forward pending on an action, which reflects however cautiously upon the proceeding of parties to an action, of their solicitor, or their counsel. Kule made absolute, with costs. [ FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] KAiAroi, Sept 24. The Northern Railway has been seriously damaged by floods at Flaxton from the overflow of the main drain, which has removed ballast for the distance of several chains. A locomotive and one carriage of the first train proceeded to near the place. The passengers, mails, and Press parcels were forwarded by a trolly thence to Katigiora. Workmen are in readiness to repair the damages on the subsidence of the Hood. Traffic will be stopped probably two days. The Government have been very remiss after the experience of former floods, in not providing ample culverts. They will have to do so. Loud complaints are being made about this state of things.