The Globe. THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 247, 25 March 1875, Page 2

The Globe. THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Press Telegraph Agency.) Auckland, March 24, Sir George Grey was elected Superintendent to-day, unopposed. His speech referred mainly to the General Government's extravagance, to the reckless way the loans were raised, and the unjust apportionment of the land fund. He maintained that the province was in a sound state. Heattacked the system of land purchase out of the £700,000 grant. GRAHAMSTOWN, March 24. Yesterday, at Ohinemuri, the prospectors broke into their reef. It is 4ft thick, with well defined walls. Gold is seen in the stone. Wellington, March 24. The Provincial Council in a Gazette published this afternoon is summoned to meet for the despatch of business on the 30th of April. Nelson, March 24. Captain Walker, of the steamer Lady Barkley, brings a report from Collingwood of portions of a wreck being found at West Wanganui. Amongst other things was a piece of carved wood sixteen inches square with an anchor, sheaf of wheat, men on horseback, and ship in each corner, and evidently broken off from one end ; on the other a kangaroo on a piece of wood four inches wide ; the word Melbourne in gilt letters on a small tool box, and coat of arms repeated, and above it " Advance Australia." On one side of the box was the word " Kadcliffe" cut in, and letters painted black. Another small bit of board has been fastened to something with two nails, which also bears the word " Radcliffe." There were no signs of the crew, or anything but the deck of the after part, except a portion of boat with keel fifteen feet long. From the reported size of the boom it is conjectured that the vessel has been about a hundred tons. HOKITIKA, March 24.

Arrived—Steamer Maori, from Westport. She sails at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning for Greymouth. Dunedin, March 24. It is feared that the three-masted schooner Euphrosyne, of this port, bound north, and fourteen days out, is lost. She was only provisioned for a few days. THIS DA YS TELEGRAMS. Auckland, March 24. An inquiry has been commenced into the cause of the wreck of the steamer Pretty Jane at Poverty Bay. Captain Fernandez deposed that the vessel was got under weigh without his knowledge, but with his authority. The mate said it was customary for him to take the vessel from the wharf to the river without the captain's express instructions, but with a pilot on board. No new facts were disclosed regarding the grounding. The case was not completed. Wellington, March 25. Arrived—Ladybird, at ten, from the south; Alhambra, from Nelson. The Alhambra does not leave till Saturday afternoon. [FROM OUR WELLINGTON CORRESPONDENT] Wellington, March 24. The Post, commenting on the Dallam Tower case, says the story told in the police court shows the utter absence of proper discipline on board, and a strange disregard of the responsibility of their position by more than the officers of the ship. The captain seems to be a man of weak and irritable temper, rather deficient in self command, and not well qualified to control a large body of such men as he had on board. It was, we believe, his first voyage as captain with immigrants, and the presence on board the vessel of a considerable number of single girls served indirectly to develop his peculiarities. Captain Campbeil is a married man and accompanied on the voyage by his bride. It was not therefore at all probable that he would wilfully do anything to endanger the safety of the ship or cause a i mutiny, yet his action seemß to haye beep

well calculated to promote both results. A little firmness and discretion would have obviated all danger, but it was not forthcoming on the captain's part, and he does not seem to have been well-advised by that other great pow er on board ship, the doctor. The result of careful enquiries, which we have made, tends to show that Captain Campbell in his dealing with the immigrants, relied almost entirely, as it was natural perhaps he should to some extent do, on the doctor, it being that officer's third voyage in a similar capacity. It is stated that some of the single girls used constantly to be permitted to walk the poop with the officers at night after hours, at which time, according to the regulations, they should have been under the charge of the matron below, and that this was done despite the remonstrances of the matron, a most respectable woman, who has made several voyages to Queensland in a similar position, and that Jack in the forecastle, seeing what was going on aft, tried to obtain similar privileges forward. Communication between the crew and the single women seems to have been carried on to a much greater extent than should be in a properly disciplined ship. When it was detected, the offending nautical Lothario was summarily ordered into irons, and we believe nearly a score such cases occurred. Jack not unnaturally failed to see the enormity of his speaking to a girl, when his officers constantly set an example. The latter, however, strongly resented this claim to equality in the matter of privilege, and hence most of the rows. The captain, although of course the person by whose orders the punishment was inflicted, and who was thus brought into immediate personal conflict with the crew, was not altogether tha responsible party, and was probably ignorant of a good deal of what was going on. If half the stories which are current as to the incidents of the voyage are founded on fact, the matter is one which requires the attention of the Government. Tht scene which took place on board the ship when the single girls left her to be landed, gives an air of credibility to those reports. It is not difficult to imagine that discipline was not very strict on board during'the voyage, when so many affectionate farewells were taken on leaving. We do not know whether hugging and kissing are classed as medical comforts, but on the occasion referred to, they were certainly prescribed rather liberally, and duly administered, to the great edification of an admiring, but perhaps slightly envious crowd of spectators. The following are the tenders for section three of the Thames water race—Wm. Loughy, £5992 (accepted); H. H. Adams, £G9b'4; James Heron, £7BOI ; K. and H. Smith, £7927; A. Watson, £8641 (declined). The Theatre Eoyal here, after alterations, re-opens on Easter Monday with the Bates' Company. [FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, March 24. About six hundred electors were present at the nomication to-day. The warmest expressions of approval attended Sir George Grey's address. He is a quiet but very effective speaker, and is considered certain to form a strong opposition in the Assembly next session as leader of the provincial party, or if not of the provincialists, to lead the malcontent provinces in the onslaught on the Cantarbury and Otago land fund. He is a man of great determination, active mind, and is likely to make a powerful effort to achieve his purpose.