TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 189, 16 January 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

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■ ♦ Auckland, January IG. The Wonga Wonga has arrived. She left Sydney on the 9th, the day before the Albion left Melbourne. She brings Suez telegrams but not the mail. London, Nov. 28. Lieutenant Dawson is ordered to make an Admiralty survey of Fiji. An old English sailor has published a circumstantial statement, that after rescuing Roger Tichborne from a boat drifting on the Pacific, they were landed on Sydney island, where he nursed him eighteen days till he died. He then buried him. Before death, Tichborne wrote a statement with the blood of a bird, which is now faded. The British Consul at Honolulu is to investigate the affair. Orton’s sisters have presented an address to the queen for the claimants release, on the plea that he is not their brother. The Home secretary refused. Mima Jury has been pursuing a career of hotel and lodging house larcenies. She lately escaped from Macclesfield gaol, but was recaptured uext day, and received a

sentence of six months imprisonment. A crowded meeting at Peterborough resolved to present a petition to Parliament for the removal of the three judges who presided at the Tichborne trial, and for the abolition of Gray’s Inn. Failures De Pass with liabilities of £IOO,OOO, and Broad ziak with £400,000. The Hon Mrs Kinniard has presented an address to the Duchess of Edinburgh, and a handsome bible, subscribed for by 7572 maids of England. LATE TELEGRAMS. London Dec. 3rd to 17th. The Pope receiving Archbishop Manning, said he rejoiced greatly at the progress which was being made by the Roman Catholic religion in England. Russia is making a campaign against the Turcomans, and has commenced operations in Khiva. The expedition was caused by the refusal of the Turcomans to recognise the Khivan Khan’s power, or to pay taxes. A succession of heavy gales on the English coast have caused disastrous shipwrecks. The Assembly has adopted a Bill subjecting all foreigners born in France to military service in the French army. An attempt was made to poison Colonel Phoergreqpolitical resident at Baroda, by the introduction of poison into his sherbert. 700 deaths were caused by the earthquake already reported. Several districts have yet to furnish statistics. The Transit of Venus was seen here. The weather was favourable for observation on December 9th. General Addison’s arrangements for taking observations of the Transit of Venus were most elaborate, all previous computations proving correct. The first contact happened before sunrise, at lOmin. 26‘sec. past 6 a.m. The first internal contact was when the sun was about four or five times his diameter above the horizon—13min. before 7. The second internal contact happened about 25min. to 11 a.m. ; the last external contact at 11.3 a.m., when the planet quitted the sun not far from its highest point. The Baroness Rosen, abbess of a convent, has been convicted of forgery and extortion, and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and eleven years’s banishment to Siberia. New Zealand exports for November £450,000. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, January 15. Business is dull ; flour, £l4 to £l4 10s ; bran, £7; sharps, £7 10s; wheat, 6s to 6s 3d; barley, 4s 6d ; maize, 6s ; hams and bacon, Is ; cheese, 8d ; butter, lOd ; potatoes, £6 10s to £7 10s ; oats, 6s to 6s 3d. The Wesleyan Conference was opened last evening. Thirty-five ministers were present and the church was crowded with visitors. The Rev Mr Buddie presided. The Rev James Waller was unanimously elected president. There were missionaries from Samoa present, including native assistants. The conference hymn was sung with great spirit. Wellington, January 15. The vital statistics for December arc as follows : Boroughs Auckland : Total births, 53 ; total deaths, 16 ; proportion of deaths per 1000, 1*25. Thames: Births, 19 ; deaths, 8 ; proportion, 0’99. Wellington : Births, 54 ; deaths, 24 ; proportion, 2-27. Nelson : Births, 17 ; deaths, 15; proportion, 2 64. Christchurch : Births, 41 ; deaths, 22 ; population, 2T3. Dunedin : Births, 73 ; deaths, 42 ; proportion, 2'27. Hokitika : Births, 10 ; deaths, 30 ; proportion, 1 89. Yesterday’s Gazette contains the list of officiating ministers under the Marriage Act, 1854. The total number is 395, which includes the following churches and denominations ;—Church of England, 164; Roman Catholic, 60 ; Presbyterian, 84 ; Wesleyan, 51 ; other denominations, 45. The Government have received no further information regarding the loss of the Cospatrick, by the Albion. Wellington, January 16. Communications have been addressed to the Government from Ballarat, inquiring whether the Government would be willing to pay the passages of, and offer suitable inducement to 5000 immigrants from that district to New Zealand. It is stated that the number mentioned of highly respectable people and families could be found there ready to transfer themselves to New Zealand within three months. Nelson, January 15. The members of the bar to-day presented Judge Richmond with an address expressive of regret at his departure. Dunedin, January 15. Oats, 5s to 5s 3d for feed, and to 5s 6d for prime milling; feeding barley, 4s 3d to 4s 6d ; wheat in demand, at 5s 3d to 5s 6d ; medium, 4s 8d to ss; stocks of flour are low, prices from £l3 to £l3 10s ; pollard, £6 ; bran, 5s lOd, and scarce. At the next meeting of the City Council, Councillor Reeves will move that the Corporation enter into negotiations with the proprietary for the purchase of the gasworks, and failing a satisfactory arrangement that new works be immediately erected by the Corporation. Owing to the arrival of the English mail at the Bluff, the departure of the Wellington is postponed till to-morrow to enable her to take the Northern portion of the mails. Dunedin, January 16. Strachan was insured for £SOO in the Standard, and £250 in the Royal. He lately allowed a policy for £SOO in an English Company to run out. He estimates the loss to plant and stock at nearly £2OOO. (PROM OUR DUNEDIN CORRESPONDENT,] SUEZ ITEMS. The directors of the National Life Boat Association send two new lifeboats to Fort Napier. John Anderson has been sentenced to death for connection with the Satsuma mutiny. Emigration to New Zealand continues at the rate of 4000 per month. Holloway reports very favorably of the colony. The press blame Disraeli for a grave blunder in his speech at the Lord Mayor’s banquet. He contrasted the liberty enjoyed by British workmen with the tyranny to which foreign nobles are subjected. It was at once supposed that the allusion was to the prosecution against Count Arnim, but the following day, in consequence, it is alleged, of a comm unication from Berlin, Disraeli denied that he intended any illusion to affairs in Germany. The British public consider that the premier paid too much deference to the wishes of Bismarck. Dunedin, January 15, The Wellington takes on the (Suez mail,

Bathgate to-day decided that no night licenses were in existence, and said that they were necessary. In the test case, Police v Barker, he inflicted a fine of 20s and costs. Notice of appeal was given. The spontaneous combustion of some bags of malt caused the fire at Strachans. The Standard and Victoria had each risks to the extent of £SOO. The amount of damage is not extensive. William Smith, employed ballasting on the railway at Greytown, was killed by a fall of earth. Deceased was a single man and had no relations in the province. The fire at Strachan’s brewery originated in a mash tub near the furnace. It is attributed to spontaneous combustion. A quantity of patent malt was delivered late yesterday, and for convenience placed in the yard near the furnace. The Royal and Standard had risks of £SOO each on the building and stock. The amount of damage is 4 not ascertained. The Synod to-day rejected as informal an overture from the Dunedin Presbytery in favor of hymnology. The Government is being urged to expedite the contractors to finish the Awamoko Branch Railway in time for next grain season. It was stated by- the deputation to the Superintendent that the main line from Oamaru to Moeraki could be opened in less than a month. Macandrew referred to the inability of the contractor to get an engine for ballasting. A Fairlie engine has been ordered from home by the Provincial Government, of greater weight than the rails could bear, but it is intended to try and use it. It is rumored that the General Government intend to open the section of the Clutha line from Chain Hills to Tokomairiro in March. 'The volunteers are terribly disgusted at the postponement of the steamer, by which they will only arrive one day before the shooting commences. A girl named Myers, aged three years, was drowned by falling into a waterhole at Waikivi. The whaler Legado at the Bluff reports that she has been nineteen months out from Boston. She has 500 barrels of sperm oil. She reports speaking off the Solander the Tamerlane, with GOO barrels; the Eliza Adams, with 1300 barrels; the Matilda Sayers, with 80 barrels. Turnbull is appointed acting Resident Magistrate at Invercargill, M'Culloch declined the testimonal which the inhabitants wished to give him. Leary has resigned the secretaryship of the Guardian. A tempory Californian contract for seven months, during which the Mikado, City of Melbourne, Macgregor. and Cyphrenes are to carry mails, has for the present no connection with Fiji, the only ports of call being Honolulu and Auckland. [KROjf OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, January 15. The Wesleyan Conference to-day resolved that Bond Harper be ordained on the return or the president to Canterbury. May Howard has been a success. She has shown considerable talent. She accompanied P. G. Collier as a passenger per Taranaki to-day. She will give a season in Christchurch. The f Sunday School Union has sold the panorama of the Holy Land to the Christchurch Union.