TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 194, 22 January 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

♦ {Per Anglo-Australian Press TelegraphAgency,') LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA. - * Auckland, January 21. The City of Melbourue arrived at eight o’clock to-night. She left Sydney on the 16th instant. Had a fine passage. LATEST ENGLISH. London, January 12. The report that Germany had recognised Don Alphonso as King of Spain is found to have been premature. The recognition has been deferred until a decree by the Spanish Government, suspending two Protestant journals and closing a Protestant chapel in Cadiz, shall have been rescinded; The German gunboats have returned to Santander. President Grant’s policy with regard to affairs in the State of Louisana, threatens a disruption of the Cabinet. London, January 14, The Bank rate of discount is 4 per cent. LONDON, January 14; President Grant sent a message to the Congress to-day in relation to the New Orleans embroglio. He vindicates his intervention in the affairs of the State of Louisiana on the ground of the lawlessness which prevailed, and asks for instructions from the Congress. London, January 15, The Carlists attacked and plundered a stranded German vessel, and Germany has demanded satisfaction from the Spanish Government at Madrid. Singapore, The Guicowar, a protected Mahratta Prince, residing at Baroda, has been deposed. ADDITIONAL ENGLISH. London, January 12. The Australian mails via San Francisco arrived and were delivered one day under the contract time. The Adelaide loan will remain open till the 15th inst. The Sydney loan is at 90£. The corn market is drooping. The Cospatrick Relief Fund reached £2575. The New Zealand Government subscribed £IOOO. The attempts of Marshal MacMahon to obtain a new Ministry failed, but the Cabinet agreed to remain in office provisionally. The crisis continues. Prince Alphonso has landed at Barcelona. He was received with great enthusiasm. There was an imposing religious procession in honor of the occasion. The Edwin, bound for Adelaide, was lost on the coast of Vancouver. The Capisalames, from Brisbane to California, struck on a coral reef. The crew were saved. The Star of Wales, with Australian flour, was wrecked at Natal. Three persons were drowned. The Embroglio at New Orleans has induced separate legislation, and the intervention of General Sheridan. The Conservatives constituted a separate legislature. Sheridan recommends that the white leaguers be declared banditti. Upwards of half a million of the New South Wales loan has been taken at above the minimum ; the balance was taken by the Stock Exchange at 90. The Adelaide loan was a failure, only £28,000 tendered for. Discount 5 per cent. The following produce telegrams were received by the Loan and Mercantile Company, dated London, January 7 --Wool— Next sales commence on the 23rd February. To date only 37,000 bales have arrived. There has beerr little private inquiry, as the trade in the manufacturing districts is slightly better. Tallow— Mutton, 45s per cwt;' beef, 435. Leather market firm; 2000 hides Australian sold since last report. Wheat—New Zealand worth 50s per 4961b5, Market quiet. The intervention of General Sheridan in the New Orleans embroglio has caused great indignation. The American senate requested President Grant to furnish an explanation. The ship Jason had discharged her cargo, as the damage done is considerable. The cargo is being sold on account of whom it may concern. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne. The Ministers are to proceed in the steamer Victoria to-morrow for a week’s trip. They will probably visit Tasmania. Mary Sheers has been committed for trial on a charge of unskilful treatment of a case of childbirth in connection with the hospital. It is resolved to elect the honorary medical officers for five years only. Mr Leplatrier, wine and spirit merchant, has failed for £40,000; £26,000 are secured. A meeting of creditors will be held next week. Mr Bourk, formerly member for Kilmore, died this morning. An extensive gold robbery at Ballarat has been discovered. Two men are arrested. The Government have sent relief to the men supposed to be on Logan’s Group. Blondin carried Mr Hill, his musical conductor, over the rope at the Opera House last night. Adelaide. The International Exhibition Commission agree with the Victorian Commission as to united action, relative to the Philadelphia Exhibition. They affirm that one of the chief advantages to be obtained by this colony will be the knowledge of labor-saving machinery, and that, therefore, it is desirable to send agents to collect information. They ask the Government for £4OOO. Queenscliff, Thursday. Sailed—Springbok", barque; Vivid, barque; Medea, barque ; and Suffolk, barque, for Newcastle ; Rangatira, at 7.30, for Sydney, Adelaide, Thursday. The balance-sheet of the Adelaide Marine Assurance Company, for last half year, shows over £7OOO nett profits. The directors recommend a dividend of Is fid per share. Kilsbury’s long lost child has been found in a swamp at Mingbool, Mount Gambier. A stone found in Torren’s Gorge has been declared by a Melbourne lapidist to be a white sapphire.

Wheat is easier: 3s lid to 4s; flour quiet, at £9 15s to £l2 6s, The ship Dinamore is being loaded with breadstuffs for Great Britain. Brisbane, Thursday, A meeting of subscribers to the school of arts, resolved, by a large majority, to continue /.opening the institution on Sunday afternoons. At Townsville, the missing case of silks ex Flintshire (steamer), valued at £IOOO, is reported to have been discovered. The survey of the railway from Bundaberg to Mount Perry is nearly completed. The Government have promised to support construction of the line. Brisbane, Friday. The tin ore received at Warwick for the week amounts to ninety tons. Arrived—Fontenaye, from London. Sydney. The Hero arrived on the 15th at noon. A frightful outrage was committed at Tamworth on 9th. Emma Fielder, the victim, t lived alone. On Saturday, a man unknown rode up to the door, seized the woman and violated her and rode off. He has not yet been captured. INTERPROVINOIAL. Auckland, January 21. The Auckland Steam Packet Company give £6,500 for the Goahead, half to be paid in company’s shares. The company intends to increase the capital, and extend its operations. A store at Waroa has been burned. It belonged to Messrs Brown, Campbell, and Co. It was insured for £3OOO in the New Zealand Office. The Phoebe has sailed for the South, and takes twenty of the Dilharee immigrants. [FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, January 21. A store at Northern Wairoa, belonging to Brown, Campbell and Co, has been burned. The fire first broke out at eleven o’clock, and was got under. It was supposed to be completely extinguished, but at two o’clock on the same morning it again broke out. The stock was totally destroyed. The stock on hand is estimated at between £2OOO and £SOOO ; only £2OO worth saved. It was insured in the New Zealand office for £3OOO. [FROM OUR DUNEDIN CORRESPONDENT.] Dunedin, January 21. The Times congratulates the Presbyterian Church in agreeing to union. It says the time is quite ripe for it. In gold returns Cromwell this year heads the list with 25,3050 z, against 19,9470 z last year. With the exception of Tokomairiro and Macrae’s, all the other districts show a decline ranging from 8000 oz in the case of Lawrence downwards. A serious accident occurred this morning on board the ship Auckland, at the pier, to Fitzer, the chief officer. The crew were busy dumping wool on deck, and had just put in' two bales, the door of the press not being fastened, when the table on the top of the piston canted, and the bales fell out of the press. One fell on Fitzer’s left leg, fracturing it. The City Council have resolved to borrow £50,000 for the widening of Princes street, for improving sewage, for reducing the bank overdraft, and executing necessary works. The Wakatip Mail has heard from a private source that a number of gentleman have chartered a steamer for making a tour round New Zealand. The party is said to consist of 300 ladies and gentlemen. One of their first visits is to Lake Wakatip, via the Bluff. The presentation of a buggy, with harness complete, and a purse of sovereigns, was made to the Rev Bannerman yesterday by a number of Presbyterians throughout the province as a mark their esteem of his long and unselfish efforts on behalf of the church.