The Globe. MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1875. TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 184, 11 January 1875, Page 2

The Globe. MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1875. TELEGRAMS.

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A NEW ZEALAND IMMIGRANT SHIP BURNT; 460 PEOPLE LOST. FRIGHTFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT; 31 KILLED AND 50 WOUNDED. DON ALPHONSO, PRINCE OF ASTURIAS, PROCLAIMED. KING OF SPAIN. DEATH OF LEDRU ROLLIN. SUPPOSED NANA SAHIB AN IMPOSTER. Bluff, January 10. The Omeo, Captain Calder, left Melbourne at 3 p.m. on the 4th, and arrived off the Bluff at 8.30 p.m. on the 9th. She brings thirty-five Baloon and thirty steerage passengers, 300 tons cargo, and 116 horses for all ports. She sails for Dunedin at 3 p.m. on the 11th. Passengers for Lyttelton—Saloon: Mr and Mrs Schouross, Miss jStewart, Misses Anson, Robertson, Snow, Message, Rev A. M. Henderson ; five steerage ; twenty tons, sixteen horses.

London, December 26. The death is announced of Lord Romilly, late Master of the Rolls. The corn market is firm. There is no Adelaide wheat iu the market. Wool issteady. Stocks are low, with a moderate consumption . The next sales are fixed for the 23rd of February. Hemp is inactive, and price 3 remain steady. Arrived— Hampshire from Melbourne; Wenuington from Dunedin. The railway accident at Shipton is unparalleled in the history of railway disasters. The train consisted of two engines, with 'sixteen carriages attached, and was proceeding at the rate of forty miles an "hour, when the axle of the third-class carriage next the engines broke. After running thirty yards and tearing up the track, part of the train was precipitated over, the embankment into a meadow and part into a canal. The actual number of deaths is reported at thirty-one, and fifty persons are in the hospital at Oxford suffering from injuries. Another railway accident happened yesterday. An express train on the North Western Railway dashed into a coal train at and twenty were injured. December 28.

The emigrant ship Cospatrick, bound for Auckland, was burned off the Cape on tbe 19th of November. The mate and two of the crew were saved, but the iemainder of the crew and emigrants, 460 souls in all, are supposed to have perished. December 29.

The origin of the fire on board the Cospatrick is unknown, but in an hour after the flames broke out the vessel was completely gutted. Hundreds cast themselves overboard, only to perish by drowning. Captain Blmslerand Dr Cadle stayed bytheshipto.the last moment, and then jumped overboard and were drowned. Two boats filled with thirty each, under the first and second mates, put off from the ship* Of one no tidings have been received; but the other, after being afloat ten days, was rescued by the ship British Sceptre. She contained only three survivors out of the thirty—viz, Messrs MacDonald, Lewis, and Cotter—and they subsisted on the bodies of their dead comrades. The others died raving mad. Berlin, December 26. An appeal is being prosecuted against the judgment in the Arnim case. London, December 28. A New South Wales loan of a million sterling was announced on Saturday, and an Adelaide loan of six hundred thousand is announced to-day. Both are four per cent., the minimum being ninety. Madrid, December 31. An Alpbonslst pronunciamento has been promulgated in Madrid. Don Alphonso, Prince of Asturias, son of Queen Isabella, has been proclaimed King of Spain, and recognised by the armies. Paris, December 31. At a conference of party leaders convened by Macmahon, it was unanimously resolved to discuss the constitutional laws as whole; but a divergence of opinion exists concerning the transmission of powers. London, January 1. Fifty thousand miners have struck in various parts of Wales. MADRID, January 2. Don Alphonso has arrived in Spain, and is everywhere peaceably recognised, and the Monarchical movement effected without bloodshed. The pronunciamento is generally acquiesced in, and a new Liberal Ministry formed. London, January 2. E ir Hercules Robinson is Gazetted a Knight of the Grand Cross of St Michael and St George, [and Mr Innes, Attorney-General, is Knighted for services in connection with the annexation of Fiji. A Cospatrick relief fund is started by the Lord Mayor, and the owners of the vessel, Messrs Shaw, Saville and Co, have subscribed £2OO each. The three Burvivors have arrived in London. The Queensland mail, via Torres Straits, is delivered. The deaths are announced of Ledru Bollin, the French statesman, and the Duke of Montrose. Sailed—Whampoa, s.s., for Sydney. Bombay, January 2. The supposed Nana Sahib, arrested by Scindia, has been declared an impostor. Galle, January 2. The Nubia arrived on the 24th. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. ■ Melbourne January 4, Parliament having beeu prorogued there is political quietude, and the last ten days b»s been almost) entirely devoted to holiday

making. As usual country visitors streamed into town, and town visitors into the country, by thousands, during the Christmas and New Year holidays. All the places of amusement have been crammod, and Blondin, who is about to visit New Zealand, has performed to-ten and twelve thousand at a time since he reduced his prices. Governor Bowen left for Europe in the mail steamer on the 31st, and will not return until July or August. Sir Redmond Barry has been sworn in Acting-Governor until the arrival of Sir William Stawell by the next mail steamer. He is expected here on the 9th.

Mr Benjamin Williams, an old colonist and mem er of the Upper House, is dead. Rev Charles Clark, who leaves for Sydney to-morrow, en route for Auckland, has severed his connection with the Albert street Baptist Church. The intercolonial cricket match resulted in a victory for the Sydney eleven by six wickets. Kelly, for Victoria, made the highest score of 86 ; and Bannermau, for New South Wales, of 81. It was an excellent match, and largely attended. At the New Year's Day race meeting Woollamai won the Midsummer Haudicap, and Lapidist the Canterbury Stakes. An extensive fire at Sandridge destroyed a number of bouses in Beach street. They are partially insured. On December 29th it was the hottest day this season. The thermometer in some places registered as high as 109 in the fill fid g Sullivan, the murderer, still continues in gaol, awaiting deportation to New Zealand. A sea serpent has been seen by those aboard the Carlisle Castle, on the outward voyage, in 45 deg. 12 W. A conference of statists is about being held in Hobart Town. Sydney. Two bush carpenters quarrelled during a drinking bout, and oue toot a hntcher's knife, and while the other was in bed ripped him up. The murderer surrendered. The elections for the various districts are nearly completed. The immigrant ship Gauntlet has been dismasted off Moreton Bay. Five men were drowned at Mackay by the capsizing of a boat.

SHIPPING. Newcastle, December 28. Sailed—Fawn, for Lyttelton.

INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, January 9. Captain Logan, of the steamer Hero, is fined £l5O at the suit of the Customs authorities, at the Police Court, for overcrowding his vessel on the trip when the Governor came over. Leave to appeal was granted. In the action against Mr Logan for overcrowding the Hero, it was shown that the vessel had only space for 40$ passengers according to the Passengers' Act, but carried 62 in the saloon and 54 in the steerage. It was shown for the defence that the vessel had no more than she was entitled to carry under her certificate, which had been in force in New South Wales and Victoria, but was overridden here by the New Zealand statute. The Hero has sailed for Sydney. She took *a/-.q n!s co id, value £2613 ;of this 23340 z came from Nelson. Sir George Grey's requisition has received 400 signatures already. Wellington, January 11. Captain Fairchild has received instructions to endeavor to remove the rock at the entrance to Tauranga, upon which the Pretty Jane was recently damaged. He has taken a large quantity of dynamite for that purpose. A Gazette Extraordinary, published on Saturday, gives the proclamation of his Excellency's assumption of Government. It also contains his commission, and the members of Executive Council who have been appointed. The construction of the new saltwater baths, near the railway station, has been commenced.

The Times published the following particulars regarding the Cospatrick:—The Cospatrick was a frigate-built ship, of 1100 tons register; commander, Captain Elmslie, a brother of the captain of the Sydney clipper Sobraon. She was built at Moulmein, of teak, on the Aberdeen clipper principle. She made eeveral voyages from Calcutta to London in the interest of Duncan Dunbar and Co. A singular fatality attaches itself te the vessels which belonged to this now extinct firm. The Duncan Dunbar, which was wrecked at Sydney Heads in August, 1857, was one of their line, and the sole remaining vessel of that fleet, now that the Cospatrick has been burned is the Dunbar. The Ccspatrick was on her second voyage to New Zealand, under the flag of Shaw Seville and Co, who purchased her about two years ago for £II,OOO. Her first voyage to this colony was to Port Chalmers, she went to Newcastle, and there loaded coal for Calcutta ; from thence she conveyed coolies to Demerara, where she loaded sugar for London, arriving about July last. She was then placed on the berth for Auckland, and took in her cargo at the East India Export Docks, alongside of the ship Langstone, now lying at Wellington Wharf. The second officer of the Cospatrick was on the point of accepting a similar post on board the Langstone, but he decided to remain by the Cospatrick. The doomed vessel left the Docks on the Bth September, in company with the ship Samuel Plimsoll, bound for Sydney. Four days later the Langstone sailed for Wellington, but nothing was seen of the Cospatrick on the voyage, although the Samuel Plimsoll was sighted and spoken twice. The berth vacated by the Cospatrick in the dock was afterwards occupied by the Glenlora, which arrived at Auckland on the sth. Every precaution for the safety of the passengers, in the event of fire or shipwreck, was enforced by the Emigration Board before the Cospatrick was allowed to proceed to sea, and a new apparatus for the rapid launching of her boats was insisted upon by the Board, besides the addition of an extra engine in case of fire. Picton, January 11.

Arrived —The ship Carnatic. She entered the Torres' channel at daylight on Sunday morning. All well. There have been two deaths on the passage. [FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, January 9. It is understood that Captain Logan of the s.s. Hero was prosecuted at the request of the Marquis of Normanby, who was a passenger on the trip on which the overcrowding took place. At the Good Templar reception of Mr Hastings, the American delegate, it was stated

that out of three thousand members of the order in the North Island, seven hundred and fifty was a low estimate of those who had fallen way. m ~ The Mclanesian missionary schooner Southern Cross is a complete failure. She will neither tack, nor keep up to the wind in auy weather. She was designed by two theoretical nautical men, who forced the builder to work out their plans. She will now have to undergo extensive and costly alterations. The Rev Mr Selwyn has sent up instructions to the builder to carry them out without reference to original designs. The bitter animosity between the banks has led to some unpleasant results. One bank has refused to discount the bills of some firms doing large business, when presented by their own customers, merely because the firms in question had removed their accounts to other banks. This necessarily damages their credit, and causes inconvenience. The owner of the racehorse Bundarra was fined the nominal penalty of one shilling and costs, at the Thames, for raffling his horse. The magistrate, Captain Fraser, well-known amongst sporting men, said he failed to see any difference between raffling a horse and raffling dolls in a bazaar. The action against the Hero, which resulted in £l5O penalty, is believed to have arisen out of unpleasantness on the passage across. The vessel was very crowded, and the weather wet, rough, and miserable. The voyage was protracted, and every one was out of temper. The Governor also was displeased in having to travel with a theatrical company in a crowded saloon. At the breakfast table one day, the Marquis spoke sharply to the captain, ana said he should not travel in that steamer again. The captain, equally out of temper, replied that he could do without him, and would not miss him. He has had to pay pretty dear for his sauce.

The whaler Coral has arrived' at Mongonul with 500 barrels of whale and 150 of sperm oil. The -whaler Abraham Baker has arrived from a cruise, but has seen nothing. The Flirt cleared for Lyttelton to-day with 40,000 feet white pine,- -40--toria_of joiner's work, 25 tons drain pipes. She sails to-morrow. The brig Rio Loge arrived at Wangaroa from Lyttelton on the 24th, and is loading for the South. [from our dunedin correspondent.] Dunedin, January 9. The Otago team for the Interprovincial Match, is Downes Samson, Fen wick, Paramor, Allen, J. C. Fulton, Kettle, D. K., Rhodes, Glen, Tait, Godby, Reave. At the Caledonian sports to-day, Jacobsen won the walking match as he liked. January 11. A Chinaman has been dangerously stabbed by another at Skippers. A Chinaman has been drowned at Matapau. There has been a disastrous flood at Kawarau. The Board of Health has decided to release the Galbraith's passengers after a thorough fumigation of the vessel. S. Lambert plays instead of Fenwick, in the interprovincial match. The news of the burning of the Cospatrick granted immonqe excitement here. The newspaper offices were Vrcoie s o<a b f -orcm-ao of people struggling to obtain extras. She had no nominated immigrants for Otago, but the officials yesterday telegraphed to Auckland, enquiring if she had any persons for this province on board. A young woman residing in Dunedin had two sisters passengers, FATAL ACCIDENT AT AKAROA. Akaeoa, January 10. Mr Nalder and Mr Sale were drowned yesterday. The yacht Ripple capsized. Mr Westenra and Mr Sims saved themselves by swimming about a mile.