The Globe. SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 237, 13 March 1875, Page 2

The Globe. SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

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ADEITIONAL NEWS PER THE CEYLON. Dunedin, March 12 Mr Frewe has been created a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, for his services as Commissioner in the enquiry respecting the treatment of immigrants in British Guiana and Mauritius. M, Chevalier and Mr O, Mackay have been appointed a committee for the selection of modern works of art for the national collection of New South Wales. The Victoria, the first steamship of the new Australian Steam Company, leaves London on 27th February for Melbourne Two of the directors accompany her, for the

purpose of arranging a contract with the Victorian Government. The Timaru has on board 20,000 salmon eggs, frozen in an ice-box, for Otago. The Tintern Abbey takes out 1130 living birds for New Zealand, including blackbirds, thrushes, starlings, goldfinches, linnets, and partridg's. With the view to ulterior proceedings, Mr W. Cobbett still persists in his attempt to obtain from the Governor of Millbank Prison a copy of the warrant committing Arthur Orton, or failing that to recover £IOO penalty for refusal. Mrs Pittendreigh still shows fight. Her father has summoned her before the Police Court for abusive and threatening language, she having refused to relinquish the tenancy of a house after notice served. The landlord sent men to take away the doors. -These persons she assaulted, and being summoned was sent to prison for fourteen days. The Rev W. C. Harris, M.A., late of New Zealand, has been appointed head-master of Winborne Minster Grammar School, in succession to the Rev Dr Fletcher. Dr Ball has been sworn in Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and a new writ has been issued for the election to fill the vacancy thus created in the representation of the University of Dublin. The Duke of Abercorn, Lord Lieutenant, has been installed as Grand-Master of the Masonic body in Ireland. The leading non-conformists of Glasgow have resolved to found a National Association, to promote the abolition of the State Church of Scotland. Ample funds are forthcoming. The revenue returns to December 31st justify the Chancellor’s favorable view that the estimates will be exceeded, probably yielding a surplus of a million. Mr Gladstone’s announcement of his intention to retire from the leadership has created great consternation in the Liberal party. After forty-two years of a laborious public life, the ex-Premier thinks he is entitled to repose, and intends to devote himself to his favorite literary pursuits. Efforts were made to dissuade him from his decision, but in vain. No possible successor will command the support of all sections of the Liberal party. The Queen has offered to confer a mark of royal favor on Mrs Gladstone, same as conferred on the late Mrs Disraeli. The first Cabinet meeting of 1875 was held on the 12th instant. The Premier was sufficiently recovered to be present. Mr Justice Keating is about to retire. The paper on Bishop Patteson in the Quarterly Review was written by Mr Gladstone. An indictment has been prepared against Mr Albert Grant, charging him with misdemeanor in connection with the Kidderminster election. In the libel case between Rubery and Sampson and Albert Grant, the jury found that the Times articles were libellous; that the charges against Rubery were not proved. They awarded £SOO damages against Sampson, and acquitted Grant of having insti gated the articles. The Times expresses its astonishment and indignation at the disclosures made. Four men were executed on the 4 th January for murder in London, and three in Liverpool. The Bessemer saloon steamer has made a successful trip from Hull to Scarborough and back. A speed of eighteen miles per hour was reached. Numerous and severe railway accidents are reported from various parts of England. At Rhyl a number of persons were injured and much rolling stock destroyed. Three miles from Glasgow seventeen persons were mutilated. A great number of fires are reported in different parts of England. On sth January, eight colliers perished at Aldwarke Main Colliery, near Rotherham, belonging to John Brown and Co. Three hundred men were working in the colliery at the time. Four miners were suffocated by after damp, in a colliery near Dudley. Fatal boiler explosions, arising from freezing water pipes, have occurred at Chartley, Fulwood, and other places. Obituary—Vice-Admiral Harding, formerly on the Australian station. Exports for the month of January to the various colonies are as follows; Victoria, £644,200 ; New South Wales, £435,900 ; Queensland, £50,600 ; South Australia, £130,100; Tasmania, £40,700; New Zealand, £320,400. Spain. Thejnew King has made the usual speech, professing the usual liberal sentiments. He was accompanied by his mother. France. The peace footing of the army has been fixed at 480,000 men. The Budget for 1875 shows a deficit of 8,850,000 francs. The press is warned that the most stringent measures will be taken against any newspapers presuming to attack the Assembly or the president. The committee in liquidation of Napoleon’s civil list, proposed to give his heir four million francs, the State retaining the Museums of Perrifonds and of Fontainbleau, and the pictures and works of art. Germany. The German ironclad fleet is to be raised to eight frigates, six corvettes, two monitors, and two batteries. When completed these will render Germany the second maritime power, and give her complete ascendancy in the Baltic. The Bishop of Paderborn has been deprived of his see by order of the chief ecclesiastical tribunal. The number of Catholic priests fined or imprisoned amounts to 1400, Mr Kingston, the Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, has been again sura moned before the Criminal Court to give evidence respecting the sender of certain telegrams to his paper. INTEEPEOVINCIAL. Wellington, March 12. Sharp work occurred at the Waste Lands Board to day. A short time since Dr Buffer applied for a large area of 10s lands in Rangitunea. As the Provincial Government found the land was worth more they with drew it from sale by proclamation, but neglected to advertise, as required by the Act. Another application was made for the “ eyes ” of the block. Then Mr Bunny, the Provincial Secretary, applied for the whole block, hoping the larger claim would swallow up the lesser. The cases came before the Watte Land? Board, and a good deal

of excitement followed. The Commissioners eventually refuse to entertain any of the applications. Wellington, March 13. The New Zealand Times comments upon the Naval Training School Act, and regrets that there has been such a sorry outcome since the Act has been in operation. Present appearances show that this Act is likely to become a dead letter. It asks, is it the fault of the Eesident Magistrates or the police that the young roughs of Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Auckland are not brought up. NotAvithstanding the many larrikins, ami vagrant and neglected children in the colony, thore are still only nineteen inmates of Kohojohama, while there is accommodation for sixty. The Times suggests as a remedy for such an unsatisfactory state of things, that instructions might be issued to the Eesident Magistrates to assist in carrying out the Act, and to obtain through Superintendents the co-operation of the police for the same purpose. Despatches from the Agent-General have been received, stating that the most searching inquiry Avill be made into the origin of the Cospatrick fire. The Times understands that the cause of Mr Vogel being detained a considerable time at Florence was an attack of gout. By the last San Francisco mail the Hon W. Eeynolds ordered lanterns and apparatus for the six new lighthouses to be erected on the coast; but it is not anticipated that the lanterns and apparatus will arrive here under eighteen months, as only two firms in England make lighthouse apparatus, and it takes a long time to manufacture; but all the preliminary work is being proceeded with. The Soukar brought lanterns for the Cape Foulwind and Tory Channel Lighthouses. Dunedin, March 12. The Dunedin water supply is very low, and threatens to give out, caused by the very dry weather, and owing to the increase in the population. The reservoir is insufficient. The railway works at the Port Chalmers section of the Dunedin and Moeraki line are progressing rapidly, with the exception of the two tunnels. The work will be finished in nine months. The cuttings are all through hard blue rock. At the meeting of the Board of Health yesterday, the medical [officer reported all the cases of scarlet fever on Quarantine Island well. All in quarantine will be released on Monday. In the case Macassey v Bell, libel action tried in May last, in which a verdict was given for defendant, the Court this morning gave judgment at great length, granting a new trial upon various grounds. The principal ground was that the articles were clearly defamatory in several respects, and that the defamatory statements were not justified either by the pleas or evidence. A further ground was that defendant’s counsel had acted wrongly in telling the jury that if they gave the plaintiff even a farthing damages he might be entitled to costs, as the Court itself is not entitled to tell the jury what sum will carry costs. The defendant asked for leave to appeal, which was granted. [FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, March 12, Mrs Duke, the widow of James Duke, died suddenly in her house at GrahamstoAvn under rather extraordinary circumstances. The deceased was of intemperate habits, and the landlord of the British Empire Hotel had prevented her from getting any liquor there, but she had evidently got some elseAvhere yesterday afternoon. She went to her own house, and a short time after the servant at the hotel went to see if she would have any dinner. On looking through the window she saw Mrs Duke half sitting on her chair, with her head resting on an American bucket, and part of her face in the water. The alarm was given, but although the body Avas still warm she was quite dead. An annuity was left to the deceased by her late husband, and but for her unfortunate habits she might have been comfortable and respectable. An instance of the uncertainty of mining is cited in connection with Ohinemuri. Three years ago a miner who prospected there for some months, at great risk from the natives, returned to the Thames with some quartz which yielded a high average of gold. Being unable to proceed with the development of his discovery, he went to the West Coast, leaving instructions to telegraph for him immediately the district was opened. Before the field Avas proclaimed he was telegraphed for, and returned without waiting a moment. He secured ten men to peg off a man’s ground each, but has been unable to find the reef again, although positive that he has, after much searching through rough country, discovered somewhere about the spot. The Pacific arrived at Manakau, from Lyttelton, after a quick run of four days, [from our avellington correspondent,] Wellington, March 12. The Post says that the neAvs of Dr Buffer's elevation to the rank of Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George will cause a feeling of mingled astonishment and indignation throughout the colony. Astonishment that Lord Carnarvon can have been so ill-advised as to recommend such an appointment, and indignation that so many worthy men should have been passed over in Dr Buffer’s favor. Who, it will be asked, is this briefless barrister, that he should be selected from Noav Zealand’s colonists for a special mark of her Majesty’s grace and favor? What has he done to merit such a distinction? As a member of the civil service of the colony and as Eesident Magistrate, Avhat have been his services compared with those of Messrs Beckham or Strode ? As a man of science he is nowhere by comparison with such men as Dr Hector, Messrs Mantcll, Travers, Kirk, and Sutton, or even in his oavii ornithological branch by T. Potts, of Canterbury. As a barrister he is unknown, and the only possible ground, apart from his unblushing self-assertion on which he has been singled out in this way, may be found in his having published, at the expense of the colony, a sei’ies of burlesque illustrations of New Zealand birds, and in having depicted, in the pages of a professedly scientific work, a number of birds which, if they could be reproduced in the flesh, and clothed with the plumage represented, would be pecked to death as strangers by the real Simon pures, or killed as extraordinary specimens of nature’s freaks by the first person Avho met them in the bush. It is really an insult to the colony (unintentional, no doubt) that Dr Walter Buffer’s name should be bracketed Avith the names of those other distinguished colonists

who have received the Companionship of the Order as a reward for, and recognition of, long and distinguished public services, Messrs Vogel, Fitzherbert, and Fitzgerald, must certainly feel highly honored at the new Companion given them, but the colony will wonder and grieve) at the strange companionship. The brightness of the honor the gentlemen mentioned have honorably and by long and faithful services won, is considerably tarnished by being so unworthily extended. We venture to say that in every province of New Zealand at least 100 men could be named who have better deserved her Majesty’s favor by their services to this portion of her Majesty’s dominion. Truly Dr Duller has turned his capital of birds to good account. A long leave of absence on salary, obtained under circumstances which were made the subject of Parliamentary enquiry, resulting in peremptory instructions (of course disregarded) to the Agent-General no longer to employ him as secretary; a grant of £3OO of public money towards the ornithological monstrosity already referred to; a course of Temple dinners undergone while nominally acting as secretary to Dr Featherston, and drawing a liberal salary ; a doctor’s diploma in philological science, and a foreign decoration obtained in some way or other; now the companionship of a noble English order, all this has Mr Duller plucked from the simple birds of the colony. That there is nothing like cheek for getting on in this world, and that merit of any kind is quite unnecessary is truly shown by the career of our modern colonial representative of the immortal Peter Pangloss, LL. D. and A.S.S. [FROM OUR DUNEDIN CORRESPONDENT.] Dunedin, March 12. The reservation by the General Government of 66,000 acres on the West Coast of this province for purpose of public utility excites surprise. The circumstances which led to the disqualification of Exile at Oamaru are these. When the flag fell for the Members race, Ivanhoe rushed to the front, but Medora collared him opposite Ohalders, and from there to the turn for the straight they raced together. The rider of Ivanhoe, finding his horse beaten, shouted to Darton, the rider of Exile, to bring up his horse ; but Darton had got some dust thrown in his eyes from the hoof of the other horses, and was taking it very quietly, deluding himself with the idea that it was Ivanhoe and not Medora that was sailing ahead up the straight. Darton at last hearing Hedge calling for him, took Exile up ahead of Ivanhoe, and made a determined effort to catch the mare, but without avail, as she passed the post two lengths ahead of Exile. The rider of the latter horse received quite a storm of yells and derisive cheers as he rode into the saddling paddock. Hedge, the rider of Ivanhoe, offered to back Exile against Medora for £l5O to £2OO for the same distance and conditions, but the people only yelled the more. March 13. The booths, gales, &c, for the forthcoming meeting sold for £1348. Passengers by the Albion for Lyttelton— Mr and Mrs George Case, Mrs Hood, and Mr Campbell. EXTRA MAIL NEWS. The new emigration scheme sanctioned by the Canadian Government is now in working order. Agents acting under Dr Jenkins are visiting all parts of England, and a great outflow is expected in the spring. Mr Dali has been sworn in as Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Mr Bird, who lately gave £500,000 to the Church of Scotland, will receive a baronetcy. Lord Carnarvon has affected a final arrangement between Canada and British Columbia. The latter colony would consent to federation only on a pledge that the Dominion Government would construct a railway from the head of the chain of Great lakes to the Pacific. That contract they could not perform, capitalists shirking so unprofitable a contract. Through the mediation of Lord Carnarvon, sixteen years is to be allowed for the completion of this great work, but in the interim the Dominion Minister is bound to open a local line into the Pacific colony, and to clear the road for ordinary wheel and baggage traffic from the head of the lakes to the coast. The annual expenditure is to be two million dollars. The revenue returns to 31st December justify the Chancellor’s favorable views that the estimates will be exceeded, probably yielding a surplus of a million. The projected submarine tunnel under the Channel was the subject of conversation bethc Lord Mayor and the French Minister of Public Works during his Paris visit. The two Governments have sanctioned the preliminary experiments. The steamer Faraday has returned home without succeeding in laying a direct cable. Several more cases of brutality have occurred in Liverpool, and the authorities, roused by the reproaches of the press, are devising measures for the suppression of street outrages. One gentleman offered £IOOO as nucleus of a fund for that object. In all the chief towns the magistrates and judges are pronouncing in favor of severe discipline and flogging. By the death of old Mr Atwood, formerly of Birmingham, he is discovered to be the donor of the £IOOO anonymous cheques which during several years have been dispensed to the extent of £350,000. He has left more than a million of money, and no will. The Obituary includes Mr Bushe, the cricketer who came out with Grace’s team, and Sir Samuel Bignold, for fifty-three years in the Norwich Union Insurance Company.