The Globe. TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 227, 2 March 1875, Page 2

The Globe. TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

* {Press Telegraph Agency.) * LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA. ♦— Bluff, March 2. The Otago left Melbourne on the 24th, and arrived at the Bluff on the 2nd. She brings 38 saloon and 40 steerage passengers, and 400 tons of cargo for all ports. She sails for Dunedin at 4 p.m. Passengers for Lyttelton—Miss Stewart, Miss Wild, Mr Childger, Mr Ellis, Mrs and Miss Ellis, Mrs Gair, Miss Gatehouse, and seven in the steerage ; 175 tons of cargo. [reuter's special teleurams.] London, February 20. Honeymoon won the Waterloo Cup, beating Corby Castle, Hawthorne, and Lucella. Frank Gardiner, the coursing judge, left for Melbourne in the mail steamer. Wheat depressed. Tallow has recently fallen 2s. GOO bales of New Zealand (leather ?) sold at a reduction of 20s to 40s. The Australian mails of December 31, via Brindisi, have been delivered. February 19. Dr Kenealey entered Parliament imintroduced, when the Speaker intimated that two sponsors were required, to which Dr Kenealey objected. In the House of Commons a motion was moved by Mr Disraeli declaring John Mitchell disqualified from taking his seat. The motion was adopted, and a new writ ordered to issue for Tipperary. Bank rate of discount per cent. In consequence of the tardiness of Spain to afford satisfaction in the Gustave affair, Germany is preparing a naval expedition against Carlism. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, Februarj 24. Political affairs are stagnant. Parliament stands further prorogued to the 6th of April, but it will not meet for business until about the middle of May. The population of the colony at the end of last year was 807,756 souls. The Barwon woollen mills, near Geelong, was burned down yesterday. They contained £6OOO worth of wool. The company was insured in various offices for £25,000. Incendiarism is suspected. Joseph Husler, tried for the murder of his wife at Richmond, has been acquitted on the plea of insanity. The American sloop of war Swatara is at present in Hobson's Bay. The members of the astronomical expedition proceed home by the mail, and the Swatara returns to New YorV /n*o©* «x a weeK. Ellery, the Government astronomer, and the Government astronomer of Sydney, proceed to England on leave of absence. The City of Melbourne arrived at California four days under the contract time. The racing mare Lurline was sold for 700 guineas, and Calumny for 475 guineas. The confederation amongst the banks is about breaking up. The Bank of New South Wales has given notice of withdrawal. A woman named Colman was burned to cinders during a fire at Linton. Brooks, a bookseller, was sentenced by Judge Fellows to three months' imprisonment, for contempt of court in prejudging a case in which he acted as juror. Next day he made an affidavit that he was under the influence of liquor, and was discharged. The Rev J. Stobbs has been accepted as pastor at the West Melbourne Church. The Rev Phillip Badhache, successor to the Rev Charles Clark, will arrive in May next. The intercolonial cricket team proceed to Sydney, and play next week. Ella won the Launceston Cup easily in 3min 44sec. At a sale of short horn cattle of the famous Derrimut herd, the bull Earl of Geneva was sold for 1650 guineas and thirty-six animals brought an average of upwards of £405 per head. Joseph Israel, convicted of sweating sovereigns, has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment. Dr Jenkins, formerly an army surgeon in the 14th and 84th regiments, died suddenly yesterday. Sydney. All the Ministers have been returned unopposed. In the action by Boucicault v Bennet for playing a piece without the author's consent a verdict has been returned for the plaintiff with damages £SO. Parisier's blasting powder factory at Kedron Brook near Brisbane exploded, and the proprietor was killed. The premises were shattered to fragments. Adelaide. Twenty-two of the old members of the Assembly were returned, eleven of them being oppositionists. Last month's statistics show only twentynine increase of population, owing to the great mortality. Hobart Town. Burdon's coach factory has been burned down, It was insured. Governor Weld is visiting Launceston. COMMERCIAL. Breadstuffs are improving. Wheat, 4s 9d; flour, £l2 12s 6d to £l2 15s. Oats unsettled, prices being nominal. The Mil ion Badjer, from California, brought 1203 sacks of oats. Tobacco is in request at an advance, especially navies and aromatic. Sugars continue in good demand. New Victorian hops, Is lldta2s. SHIPPING. Sydney. Arrived, February 18.—Rose M., from Lyttelton. Newcastle. Arrived, February 17 —Wolvererne. 22 — Albion, from Lyttelton. Sailed, February 18—Transport, Fawn, M. A. Annieon, and Syren, far Lyttelton;

INTERPROVLNCIAL.

Auckland, March 1. Buyers—City of London, 37s 6d ; Queen May, 78 6d ; Bismarck, 10s ; Royal Oak, 12s. Sellers—Bank of New Zealand, £lB 5s ; Standard, 12s 6d ; South British, 50s 6d. Mr Dargaville has issued an address announcing his determination to go to the poll in the anti-provincial interest. Auckland, March 2. The Mayor has conveyed a meeting for Friday to inaugurate a "Williamson fund. Grahamstown, March 1. The news that Ohinfimuri will be pronounced a gold field on Wednesday has caused considerable excitement, and an increased number of persons are leaving. The steamers to-day were all crowded. The North Shore Ferry Company's boat Hatapuna left with 200 passengers. Mr Mack ay returned to Ohinemuri this morning. Applications for miners' rights will be received to-morrow, and the rights filled up all ready to issue as soon as the proclamation is read, in order to prevent the delay and confusion which would ensue in the scramble if the whole matter were left until the field were declared open. The City of London claim is coming to the front as a gold-producing claim. The first crushing since the erection of winding gear is just completed, and the result is 745 ounces from about 240 loads stuff. This was fiom the deep level, and has revived interest in the reef. Wellington, March 1. Bethune and Hunter sold to-day sixty-three bales washed merino at Is to Is 4d; greasy ditto, 9£d; locks and pieces, 5d to 7£d; thirtysix bales ewes greasy, ll£d; sixty-seven bales washed long, Is 4d to Is 2d; locks and pieces, from 9Jd to lljd. C. B. Borlase, the late mayor, is very ill, and faint hopes of his recovery are entertained. An endeavor is being made to establish gas works at the Hutt. Wellington, March 2. A fire broke out at the Star Hotel, Newton, at one o'clock this morning. The landlord had been engaged in bottling in the cellar storeroom after midnight, and it is supposed that some straw accidentally ignited after his going to bed. He heard a noise like the bursting of bottles, and went down and found the storeroom full of smoke and flames. He gave the alarm, and got his wife and children out, and went upstairs and aroused the lodgers, the fire meanwhile spreading so rapidly in the wooden building that they barely got downstairs to the street in time to save themselves. One was unable to do so, and jumped out from an upstairs window and sustained serious injury, being picked up insensible. He was conveyed to the hospital. Another lodger, named Smith, was very much burned, and went himself straight to the hospital unobserved, and great anxiety was felt throughout the time of the fire owing to fears that he was burned to death. The fire caught an adjoining building occupied by Hennis, a bootmaker, and both that and the hotel were completely destroyed. The exertions of the people successfully prevented the fire from further extending. The insurances are not yet ascertained. Blenheim, March 1. Some human bones were found last Thursday on the beach near White's Bay. There was also a boot, with a stocking which had the initials A. J. M. worked on it. At the inquest this afternoon the evidence proved the bones were those of a young immigrant who was working on JDr Home's farm in September last, and who was drowned in the Opawa while riding after some cattle. The name of the deceased was Alfred John Merritt, a native of Jersey. Napier, March 1, Dr English, an old settler at Waipawa, was found dead in his bedroom in the Empire Hotel. Waipawa, yesterday. Dunedin, March 1. Sir George Arney arrived at the Bluff from Hokitika yesterday, after visiting the Lakes. He comes on to Dunedin. A series of Sunday evening revival lectures in connection with the Young Men's Christian Association was commenced in the Princess's Theatre yesterday. On Thursday, while fishing in the Shag River, Dr Campbell, of Christchurch, landed five trout weighing eleven pounds. [FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT,] Auckland, March 1. There was a singular and serious accident at the Phoenix Foundry to-day. Two workmen placed an old iron quicksilver bottle on a furnace, intending to make a lead spoon out of it, but neglected to remove the stopper. The expansion of some water in it, or the remains of the quicksilver inside, caused the bottle to burst, seriously injuring about the face both the men. It is feared that the eyesight of one is completely destroyed. A large committee has been appointed to obtain signatures to the requisition to Sir George Grey to stand for the Superintendency. A deputation will then proceed to Kawau and invite him to give a declaration of his views. The Government proclaimed the boundaries of the sheep district, under the Act of the last Provincial Council, and fixed a fee of 2d per head as an inspection fee for all animals imported. There have been extensive bush fires in various parts of the province, especially near Coromandel, where two residences were saved with difficulty. At "Waiku £2OO worth of fencing and a bridge have been destroyed. 700 people left Grahamstown for Ohinemuri to-day. [FROM OUR DUNEDIN CORRESPONDENT.] Dunedin, March 1. Ths Customs revenue for February amounted to £33,613. A bequest of about a thousand pounds is to be divided between the Benevolent Institute and the Female Refuge. The sum was left by Smith of Maitland street, who died on Saturday. The Rev Mr Stobo, of Invercargill. has been granted nine months' leave of absence to proceed to Great Britain. He was presented by his parishioners with 135 sovereigns. Mr Locke, late manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Oamaru, on leaving the district to join the National Bank at Wellington was presented with an address by the citizens, and a purse of fifty sovereigns. There has been a public meeting at Invercargill to petition the Government against Sunday trains. The want of water is much felt on claims on the Dunstan flat, and mining operations are mostly suspended in consequence. At Tinker's Flat the Blue Duck claim is idle. This company, consisting of four men, only

worked for four months last season, and realised 800 ounces. The adjoining claims return £l4 per man per week. Duaburn, the original contractor for the Chain Hills tunnel, says the engineer department is solely to blame for the delay. On penetrating about seventy feet, the centres were found to be wrong, and the levels as much as six feet out. He says the engineering difficulties are not unsurmountable, and are quite within the compass of any practical contractor. DUNEDIN RACES. Dunedin, March 1. The following are the weights for the handicaps at the March meeting:— Steeplechase Sir Tatton, list 41bs-; Medora, list ; Maid of the Mill, lOst 71bs ; Ivanhoe, lOst 41bs ; Banjo, 9st 71bs ; Mistletoe, 9st 71bs; Kildare, 9st 21bs ; Glenora, 9st; Maid of Arrow, 9st. Hurdle Race—Sir Tatton, list 71bs ; Medora, list 2lbs ; Maid of the Mill, lOst 121bs ; Ivanhoe, lOst 71bs ; Banjo, 9st 91bs ; Unknown, 9st 91bs; Bismarck, 9st 51bs ; Mistletoe, 9st 51bs ; Kildare, 9st 51bs ; Glenora, 9st ; Maid of Arrow, 9st.