TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 179, 5 January 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Per Anglo-Australian- Press Telegraph Agency.)

LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA.

* Auckland, January 4. The Hero has arrived. She left Sydney on December 29tb. London, December 25. An express train on the Great Western Railway left the rails near Shepton. The carriages were precipitated into a canal, and thirty persons killed. _ An explosion occurred in a colliery in Staffordshire, which caused the deaths of twenty men. ' AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne. Two drunKen men on the Yarra on Boxing day upset a boat and were drowned. Twenty sisters of the Cross, and several Catholic priests were passengers by the steamer St Osyth. Sir George Bowen will be entertained at a banquet by the Mayor previous to his departure. There is general holidaying, and business is suspended. Brisbane. It is reported that Communist refugees were set adrift by ships now off the coast. SyDNET, Dec. 29. New Zealand five per cents are being pushed off at par. The ship Windsor Castle has arrived a' Sydney. She reports passing a burning vessel of 500 or 600 tons on October 22nd, in latitude sdeg 20minlong23deg 50min, Afullrigged ship was standing by, which had evidently rescued the crew. Cakoban proceeded in the Dido to Fiji. Arrired -Chcvert, barque Uom Otago.

SHIPPING. Newcastle, Arrived—Firefly and Merritt, from Dunedin ; Robert Jones,- Endymion, Levi Stevens, Fadda, Especulador, from Lyttelton. Sailed—23th, Kasby, for Wellington, with 1800 tons coal, INTERCOLONIAL CRICKET MATCH. VICTORIA V. NEW SOUTH WALES. Melbourne. The Intercolonial cricket match commenced on the 28th. Five thousand persons were present. Victoria. First innings. Slight, b Spofforth 0 Cooper, c Woods, b Spofforth 45 Kelly, c Spofforth 14 Horan, b Coates ... ... ... ... 3 Boyle, run out 17 Goldsmith, c Thompson 3 Ccsstick, c Gilbert 6 McGann, b Tindall 0 Campbell, b Spofforth 25 Black ham, b Thomson 32 Murphy, not out ... 0 Sundries 4 Total ... 149 New South Wales. First innings. Gi'bert, st Blackham 11 Thompson, c Murphy 36 Sheridan, Ibw 26 Powell, c Horan 6 Gregory, c Blackham 0 Bannerman, c Cnsstick ... 81 Coates, c Cosslick ... ... ... ... 0 Spofforth, b Cosatick ... ... ... 0 Tindall, not out ... ... 26 Wood, c Horan, b Boyle 9 Sundries 20 Total 216 VICTORIANS. Second innings. Goldsmith, b Spofforth 14 Cooper, b Coates ... ... ... ... 4 Boyle, c Sheridan 3 Kelly, not out ... ... ... ... 37 Horan, not out ... ... ... ... 12 Three wickets for 70 when stumps were drawn. HAWKESBURY RACES, MAIDEN PLATE, Tait’s Melbourne, Bst lOlbs ... 1 Gazelle, 7st 61bs 2 HAWKESBURY HANDICAP. Blair Athol, 6st 61bs 1 Lord Lyon ... f M* lallum Mohr f Arrow 3 INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, January 4. The Customs revenue for the past year was £221,130, and for the previous year £194,182 —increase, £26,947. Thompson, Mr Quick’s manager, who attend pted to abscond, pleaded guilty of embezzlement to day. He was recommended to mercy on account of his previous good character and his family. Sentence deferred. Auckland, January 5. At the. Supreme Court to-day Thompson, Quick's absconding manager, was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment, with hard labor. Wellington, January 4. It is reported that a seam of coal eighteen inches thick was discovered near. Featherston on the Masterton railway. From its hardness it is thought to be anthracite or nonbitnminous. A sharp shock of earthquake was felt here at 7 p.m. A writ has been issued from the Supreme Court here, and addressed to the Hon Mr Vogel, Colonial Treasurer, which prohibits him from paying to Hayden Hezekiah Hall, and Paul Simeon Forbes, contractors for the Californian Mail Sarvice, any money now due to them until an action now pending in the Court here against them, at the suit of the Rev John Raven, formerly of Christchurch, is satisfied. The criminal sittings are concluded. Robert Taylor, for violent as*ault, received two years' hard labor ; Ivor Geislgaard, for burglary, twelve months’ hard labor; Williams, for obtaining money by false pretences, two years. The Grand Jury made a presentment to the Judge, expressing regret at his departure from the district which he had presided over in the Supreme Court for sixteen years, and expressing their deep sense of the ability, courtesy, and impartiality which uniformly marked his career. The Judge made an appropriate reply. Nelson, January 4. The Supreme Court opened to-day, with a very light calendar. The judge, in charging the grand jury, remarked upon his approaching departure from the district, and congratulated the province and the colony on the general lightness of the calendars, saying that if this lasted the colony would have cause to congratulate itself on the character of its immigrants. The grand jury made a presentment, expressing regret at the judge’s departure, to wuichhemr.de afeeling reply. Arrived—Gladstone, from London. No passengers. Dunedin, January 4. Judge Chapman, in opening the Supreme Court, congratulated the grand jury on the lightness of the calendar, nearly all the cases being offences against property. Westport, Jan. 5. Arrived: The Luna, from the South. She sails for the North to-morrow night. AUCKLAND RACES. Second Day. FREE HANDICAP. Parawhenua ... I Yatterina 2 Belle 3 Never Miss ... 4 Parawhenua led all round, and won. HANDICAP STEEPLECHASE. Rarey 1 Moose 2 Arrow, Highflyer, and Darkle also ran. town plate. Templeton 1 Ngaro m. ••• 2 There was a moderate attendance. It is feared that Rangi’s accident on Saturday unfits her for ever running again. [from our own correspondent.] 4,ucklnnd, January 4, The Chief Justice referring to a visit he paid to the gaol, spoke of the number of females there. He said it was hardly credible that in such a small community thirty women

should be found in gaol. Woman was much what man made her : and a great responsibility rested on those Who furnished these poor creatures with the drink, which was the chief cause of their frequent return to gaols. Regarding the girl Cecilia Allen, charged with arson, he said it was not surprising that the case caused a sensation. The Court would have to consider whether the child, at the time of committing the offence, was fully aware of the nature of the act she was doing. Alluding to the charge of murder against Oraki, a native, the Chief Justice said that the alleged motive was jealousy. An inquest was not held until some days after the occurrence, so that the body was so much decomposed as to render it impossible to ascertain exactly what amount of violence it had suffered ; but the examination of Dr Goldsg borough showed that the ligaments connecting the bones of the spine at the neck were so ruptured in two places as would inevitably cause death. The deceased was last seen by a boy, with her head lying between the prisoner’s knees, he leaning over her. The jury must determine whether the prisoner, at or about that time, had wrenched her neck so as to cause the injuries described. There was, then, the question of motive. They had evidence to show that the prisoner had threatened that if the girl went astray with any other native he would kill her. She was subsequently seen by him in company with another native, and the question was whether, moved by jealousy, he had seized her as she was going home in the darkness, and caused her death by wrenching her neck across his knee. The prisoner had adhered to one story regarding the occurrence, namely, that she had been punished by God, or as we would say, had “ Died by the visitation of God.” The Chief Justice passed a sentence of three years on Wilson, convicted of stealing a watch entrusted to his care. This was his ttt ttr oon vi of,ion. In sentencing a new immigrant to fifteen months for breaking and entering a dwelling, the Judge said the new comers would find very vigilant police here, and they must not hope to escape detection. Auckland, January 5. The McGregor, with the Californian mail, is signalled, and will be up in an hour. [FROM OUR DUNEDIN CORRESPONDENT.] Dunedin, Jan. 5. Alexander Wilson, M.A., of Auckland, was recommended by the Board of Advice, and to-day has been appointed English master at the High School for twelve months. Montalk appointed French master. At the Supreme Court to-day, Isabella Lyfe was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for stealing from the person of William Arche. J. C. Brown telegraphs from the Palmer, “Good news from diggings. Water scarce at the reefs, but the alluvial rich. New rush to Daintree. ” The Star's correspondent, on the other hand, says that reliable letters from Queenstown miners advise their friends to remain here. The heat is stated to be remarkable for persistent permanence, and a sufficient cause for ship loads to return without landing. At one rush, out of a population of one hundred, the death rate was one per day. First reputed diggings worked out. Only those who can afford to prospect the back corrntry are successful.