TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 131, 31 October 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Per Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph Agency .) AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, October 24. The Council passed the Customs Duties Hill through all its stages, at a short sitting. The partial failure of the loan on the London money market gave rise to discussions in the Assembly, The Treasurer explained that the minimum of 00 was recommended by the banks aud the Agent General, but that be himself thought more should be obtained. The five associated banks have arranged to take up the unsubscribed amount at the. Government minimum. Sir James McCulloch and Mr Langton expressed their opinion that 90 was not a fair value for our sureties, and condemned the arrangement. The Sunday freedom question has been much discussed in and out of Parliament. The debate in Assembly is to terminate on Tuesday next, aud will likely be in the negative. The Speaker’s dinner to the members of the Assembly, in honor of the Governor and Mr Francis, prior to his departure for Europe, is fixed for the 11th of November. The F cnch war steamer Coet Lo Gou, after a week’s stay in the harbor, left yesterday. H.M.S. Barracouta is shortly expected on the station. lI.M. troop ship Adventure, with supernumaries for the station, has arrived at Sydney. The body'of Miss Pettitt, the young lady who so mysteriously disappeared from a school in East Melbourne five months ago, has been found in the Yana, No further light has been thrown on the matter. An open verdict was returned. A petition has been presented to the Government for the release of Gerald Supple. If liberated he would leave for New Zealand to reside with his sisters. The prayer is not likely to be acceded to. The final payments for the Melbourne Cup show twenty-six left in a good field, including Lurline and Papapa. The other entries are very numerous. The Rifle Association matches arc concluded. Captain Kine won the Sargoodcup at IQOO yards. The Scotch team won the International match ; the Australian second, Ireland third. Blondin has at length found a site, and commences his performances on November 4th. ■ Madame Goddard is a passenger aboard the Alhambra with a company. The men in Fulton’s foundry are on strike in consequence of a reduction of wages. A London telegram recently announced that the Admiralty has offered the Rosario to South Australia as a training ship. Mr Vogel thereupon requested the Agent-General to inquire inlo-the matter, seeing that New Zealand had asked for the same vessel, and had been informed she could not be spared. The Agent-General has replied that the offer to South Australia was made by an oversight. The Colonial Office hopes to obtain a belter vessel for New Zealand. Sydney. A public meeting has been called for Monday to urge upon the Government a separate Californian service irrespective of New Zealand. Mr Russell and Mr Samuel have agreed that the temporary service continues at the joint expense of the two colonics until the permanent contract commeuces. It is intended to erect a monument to the memory of Commander Gowland. The Laboring Men’s Union have notified their intention to demand 10s for eight hours’ work, after the Ist of December, The Mikado is chartered to take the next month’s Californian mail. Advices from Noumea report the murder of all the crew of the Auckland cutter Lapwing, at San Cruz. The natives burned the vessel, and also attacked the war schooner Firefly, but she escaped. Adelaide. The Murray Railway Bill was lost ou the casting vote <sf the Speaker. M r Forrest is to have a public reception on the 3rd of November. Mr Boucaut has given notice to borrow £2,200,''00 for public works, and to increase taxation by stamp, legacy, and other duties. Launceston. Bird, the pedestrian, and two publicans, have been sentenced to six months for conspiracy in getting up a sham race. SHIPPING. Sydney. Arrived, 20th —Amherst, from Napier. Sailed, 22nd Joliba, for Lyttelton ; Easby, for Dunedin. Newcastle. Arrived, 20th—Vivid, from Auckland. 22nd—Montana, from Auckland. Sailed, 17th—Wave, for Bluff. 19th— Ann Melhuish, for Wellington. COMMERCIAL. Motion Moss has called a meeting of his creditors. The deficiency is £15,000. The creditors have agreed to accept 8s in the £. Breadstuffs are very firm. Wheat has been sold up to (is 2 .pi. Flour, £l3. Oats are very scarce aud wanted at os 3d to 5s fid. Dried fruits continue in demand, and a slight advance has taken place. Tobaccos are firm owing to the reported short crop. Kerosene is very low. Fijian sugar has been placed at 20s 3d to 245. ' INTERPROVINCIAL. A uckland, October 30. The Macgrogor has arrived. She left Sydney on the 24th, and leaves fo; San Francisco at midnight. Passengers—Mr Thomas Russell, and 28 others for Auckland, and 18 for San Francisco, Mr Russell has arranged on behalf of New Zealand with the Government of New South Wales to reestablish the mail service. The boats are to call at Auckland on each voyage upward and downward for the purpose of landing passengers and mails. The two Governments are prosecuting the sureties in order to recover the penalties incurred under their bonds for breach of contract, and they have agreed to unite in re establishing the service originally agreed upon immediately Messrs Hall and Forbes make a breach of the permanent contract. The Maegregor is to be the boat this month, the Mikado for November, and the Oyphrenes for December. Wellington, October 30. It is stated that intimation has been received from the Worthy Grand Templars of Ameiica, that the commission of Mr Mackune as D.D.R.W.G.T., has been cancelled. Produce quotations —Flour, £l3 to £l3 5b ; wheat, unsaleable ; oats, qe 9d to 6s ;

bran, Is 3d to Is 4d ; hams and bacon very scarce, at Is to Is Id ; cheese, B|d to 9d. Dunedin, October 30. In test case brought against Mr 11. B. Martin by one of those who came from Christchurch here to proceed by the Comet to the Palmer diggings, his Worship held the defendant was not liable; and admitting the hardship to the men, nonsuited the plaintiff, who asked to be allowed a warrant for the arrest of Mr Mcllroy, for obtaining money by false pretences. Mr Mcllroy had intended sending a boat direct from Lyttelton, but it being condemned, he received passage money of the men, promising them they should be forwarded by the Comet, as he had made arrangements to that effect with Mr Martin, The latter denied communicating with Mr Mcllroy. Mr Bathgate said he could not interfere with Mr Mcllroy.

THIS DAYS TELEGRAMS.

Wellington, October 31. Sailed—The Vine, French war frigate, for Lyttelton The Superintendent of Wellington has received the following telegram from Sir Geo. Grey :—“Thank you for your telegram. Surely men, worthy of the great liberties they have, will not let them be taken from themselves and their descendants without a struggle. The British Parliament, which gave these liberties, thought them so valuable that in each amending Act, it made them more secure. Pray telegraph as Superintendent to the Secretary of State, and point out that the course to be taken is unconstitutional, and pray that no action may be taken until there has been a new election, and the provinces can be heard. Parliament will at once accede to this. G. Grey. ” Dunedin, October 31. Papapa is being backed heavily for Melbourne Cup. [FROM OUR DUNEDIN CORRESPONDENT.] His Honor Judge Chapman gave judgment in ex parte Bell, who applied for land in Southland in June last, which the Government withdrew from sale. The Judge holds that Bell was entitled to the land his twentysix applications cover. There is a similar decision in Wentworth’s case. The judgment is appealed against. If allowed, it means a loss of £20,000 to the province. Mr Bathgate delivered judgment in the Comet case. He held that Mcllroy had no authority from Mr Martin to act as agent; that Martin never ratified the contract entered into by the former. In order that the men might get at Mcllroy, he would give judgment for defendant, so that an appeal could be heard immediately, or would grant a nonsuit. The plaintiffs agreed to adopt the latter course. Mr Aiming, as representing the men, asked Mr Bathgate to issue a warrant against Mcllroy for obtaining money under false pretences. Mr Bathgate advised them to proceed with a civil action. Mr Martin declined to accept costs. Mr Bathgate said no doubt the men had been grossly deceived.