The Globe. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1875. TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 180, 6 January 1875, Page 2

The Globe. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1875. TELEGRAMS.

(Per Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph Agency.')

LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA. ♦ SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS. Auckland, Jan. 5.. Twenty-one lives were lost during Saturday’s and Sunday’s gale on the Scottish coast. A ship supposed to be the Pontiac, from Sunderland for Bombay, has been burned at sea. Twenty-six of the crew perished. A despatch from Berlin says it is reported that .Great Britain has finally refused to take part in the international law conference which Russia proposes to reopen at Petersburgh. Prince Bismarck, in the course of his reply to Herr Windhorst in the Reichstag, said, “I am in possession of conclusive evidence that the (Ecumenical Council was cut short on account of the Franco-German war. Its councils would have been very different had the French been victorious. He knew from the best sources that Napoleon was dragged into the war very much against his will by Jesuitical influences. At the eleventh hour he determined on peace, and kept his resolution for half an hour, but ultimately was overpowered by persons representing the Vatican.” The German Federal Council has accepted tbe principle of the Impsrial Bank, and agreed to tbe conditions submitted by the Government for the cession of the Bank of Prussia to the Empire. Archbishop Manning has obtained an and'ence of the Pope, who received him and expressed the fullest confidence in the progress of Catholicism in England, despite tbe present misrepresentation of the policy of the Church. The Carlists have laid siege to Berga, fifty miles from Barcelona,

The Chamber of Deputies has unanimously adopted a motion for the immediate consideration of Garibaldi’s pension.

News has been ro.ceivid of the illness of Hip Czar of Russia. It is believed he is insane. l iie Iris says Italian unity is irrevocably accomplished. If France wishes to preserve the friendship of Italy she must recognise this fact, and not adopt a clerical policy towards the country. The Pope has absolutely refused to recommend the bishops imprisoned in Brazil to resign their sees, as a measure for the reconciliation of their differences with the Government of Cuba. The Spanish coasting steamer Tomas Broods, from Santiago de Cuba, for Guantanamo, struck near Guantanamo and sunk immediately. Thirty lives were lost. The Cuban insurgents are operating successfully. In an engagement at San Gregorio recently, sixty soldiers were killed and much bootv captured. The Spanish garrison surrendered after the fighting. Twenty-five Spanish soldiers belonging to the artillery, garrisoning fort St Hillaco, in the central departnnnt, revolted, seizing a coasting schooner, and under threats of death ordered the captain to take them to the neighboring island. The captain set sail and ran the vessel aground in the neighboring key, and went to the nearest military post, and notified the fact to the commander, who arrested the deserters. Eleven were shot next day and the rest imprisoned. AMERICAN HEWS. Twenty-three bodies have been recovered from the wreck of the steamer Empire at New Orleans. The schooner Augusta went ashore at Point Maitland, Ontario, and four of the crew were frozen to death. William Blake, a member of the Californian Board of Brokers, suddenly departed with ten thousand dollars entrusted to him for the imrchase of stock. A tornado at Tucimbia, Alabama, destroyed 100 buildings, killing sixty persons, Mr William Westgarth is engaged in San Francisco. He is specially despatched by the New South Wales Government to secure specimens of Californian industry for the Metropolitan Exhibition in Sydney. He is also endeavouring to open up trade relations between California and Sydney. COMMERCIAL. New Yobk, December 7. Sales of New Zealand wool, 53c; sperm oil, Idol 65c; white, 60c to 650, San Francisco, December 8. Sales of flour, 4dol 50c per 1961b5; wheat, Idol 50c to Idol soc per cental; barley, Idol 200 to Idol 25c; and for feed oats, Idol 35c to Idol 600. Liverpool quotations of Californian wheat on December 7th were 9s lOd to IPs 7d. AUSTRALIAN NEWS, Wellington, January 6. The s.s. Easby has arrived from Sydney. She left on the 13th December. She brings no later European news. Sydney. The New South Wales Parliament opens UXI tllC-fiTiilr-illoW ~T ' •' 1 During December six thousand meals were given, and fifteen hundred cases of shelter afforded at the City Night Refuge and Soup Kitchen. The markets are inactive. Arrived, 29th December—John Knox, from Lyttelton. Melbourne, By a large fire at Sandridge, in Beach street, several buildings were destroyed, and a large amount of property damaged. The cause is supposed to be incendiarism. Sir Redmond Barry is to be sworn in as Acting-Governor on the departure of Sir Geo. Bowen. There is no business doing. In the continuation of the intercolonial cricket match, New South Wales made 96, with four wickets down. Thompson scored 35. Adelaide, Shipping parcels of wheat sold at 4s Id ; flour, £lO ss. Newcastle, Sailed, 28th December—Brig Fawn, for Lyttelton, coal ladon. INTERPROVINCIAL. Napier, January 6. The Celestial Queen, from Lyttelton, will load wool here for London. Arrived—Clarence, from London, with 348 immigrants, all well , 21 deaths, chiefly infants, from diarrhoea, and two births. The passengers are now being landed. Wellington, January 5. A new Presbyterian Church is about to be erected in Wiliis street at a cost of £3270. Wellington, January 6. The Easby leaves for the South about noon. . , , 1.50p.m. The Otago has just arrived. Auckland, January 6. At the Supreme Court, Henry Devoy, several times previously convicted, was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment for horse stealing ; Thomas Morris, for forging an order, to two years; George Moss, for illegally pawning, to nine months. The Southern mails are shipped aboard the Wellington. The Macgregor will proceed to Sydney and complete her voyage. The outgoing mail will be taken by the City of Melbourne. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency’s Circular of November 17th reports : Tallow, 33s 9d to 44s 6d per cwt for mutton; 36s to 42s 6d for beef. Leather and hides firmer. Preserved meats in demand at improved rates. There is a speculative demand for spring wheat. Cargoes afloat have been purchased at an improvement of 2s to 3s per quarter. New Zealand wheat 46s to 50s per 4961 b. New Zealand hemp, in common with manilla, is exceedingly dull. Small sales at £l6 10s to £2l for good clean. Any rise in value is out of the question. Port Chalmers, January 6.

Thomas Bassett has been arrested on suspicion of having murdered his mate, George Aldridge, during a drunken spree. Both are fishermen in the harbor. An inquest will be held to day.

[FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, January 5.

The Sydney Marine Board held an enquiry into the circumstances attending the abandoning of the brig Windhover, owned by Wright and Co, and insured, on a voyage from Sydney to Lyttelton with a cargo of hard wood. Evidence showed that in consequence of the heavy weather she lost her

starboard bulwarks, and connaenced to leak seriously the day after her depasture from port. An attempt was made to try and land, but heavy south-westerly weather prevented this, and caused the leaks to increase. The barque Saxon was sighted, and remained by the Windhover for some time, and eventually sent a boat and took the crew off the Windhover on board the barque. The Board did hot consider there was any ground for charging Captain Reels, master of the Windhover, for the loss 6f the vosaal. While New Zealand Five per Cent Debentures are being moved off in the Sydney market at par,.New.. South Wales Five per Cents are firm at 109 g. There was great dissatisfaction in Sydney nt the scratching of Goldsborough for the Hawkeshury Handicap, and not announcing it till some time after. The Sydney Herald says one of the bookmakers netted a large sum by it. The Empire says, any one who backs Goldsborough hereafter will be a fool. The Christian Company closed their concert season last night with a full house. Miss Christian is the sweetest and most finished vocalist that ever visited New Zealand. She is admitted to he the first contralto in the colonies. She will probably, visit you. The Rev Charles Clark, lecturer, is ex pected here from Melbourne next steamer. # —r Auckland, Jan. 6. Alluding to Bowen’s proposal to charge £2 an acre for all colonial lands, the Star compares it to Procuates love of uniformity, and method of securing it, by building a bed and stretching or lopping off the legs of those lying thereon, so as to adapt them to this measurement. The Star says the proposal is characteristic of a man who has only seen one part of the colony. Two pounds per acre being found a suitable price for Canterbury . land Bowen would measure all lands by only the measurement his limited experience suggested. The Star adds that there are thousands of acres in the Auckland province which would not bring one shilling an acre. Such a system ns Bowen’s would effectually stay settlement ou nine-tenths of the land in the Auckland province for twenty years. The Star considers the proposal evidences such a gross ignorance of the circumstance at north, as angurs badly for its Government when the provinces are abolished. At San Francisco the following vessels have arrived from Lyttelton and received charters:—Eastern Monarch, Hereford, St Lawrence, all loading wheat for Cork. Cyrene loading railway ties for Lyttelton. [FROM OUR DUNEDIN CORRESPONDENT.] Di NEDIN V > January t>. In the continuation of Melbourne Cup match on December 19th, in the South Melbourne second innings Conway made 31 ; Tinsley, 24; Blackham, not out, 47. Rain came on and interrupted the game, leaving the South Melbourne total for the second innings 439 for eight wickets. The game was to be resumed on the following Saturday (28th). Papers of that date are not to hand.

At the Supreme Court to-day McCormack Fowler, for robberies from a dwelling, and John Fraser, for forgery, were sentenced to two years’ imprisonm. nt each, and Samuel Carey, for theft, to nine months. Jones, charged with arson, was acquitted.