The Globe. TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 255, 6 April 1875, Page 2

The Globe. TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

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LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA.

London, March 26. The time for recpiving the Califomian mail tenders has been extended to the Ist of Jane. The wool sales closed firmly; two hundred and six thousand bales in all were catalogued; onejhundred and twelve thousand were bought on Foreign account. The opening decline recovered, and ordinary good Australian brought equal to November rates, while superior kinds brought equal to May, and early rates. Half-breds realised good prices. The manufacturing trade is inanimate. The steamship Northumberland left Plymouth yesterday. The British Viceroy has been docked at Liverpool. Arrived—The John O'Gaunt, from Melbourne ; and Glen Osmond, from Adelaide. March 27. The Prince of Wales is slightly indisposed. March 80. An immense Tichborne demonstration was held in Hyde Park yesterday, Dr Kenealy presiding. The Spanish Government have refused to allow the Due De Montpensier to return. Obituary—Mr Martin, member for Meath. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, March 31. Since the departure of the last steamer the time has been devoted to holiday making. The weather throughout the whole of Easter has been exceptionally fine, and all places of public amusement have been most liberally patronised. Mr W. 0. Bid die, well known in cricketing circles, died yesterday. Sir Redmond Barry, Acting Chief Justice, was thrown out of his buggy on Sunday, and broke his arm. Mr Cohen, Commissioner of Customs, continues in a very unsatisfactory state of health. The murderer Sullivan still remains in the Melbourne Gaol. Successful Volunteer reviews were held at Castlemaine and Geelong on Easter Monday. The first day of the Rand wick Race meeting in Sydney, Sir Hercules Robinson's Kingsborough won the Leger, beating Melbourne, his only opponent. Sir Hercules was very successful, winning also the Champagne and Trial Stakes, and running third for the Doncaster Handicap, which was won by Priam, Diver winning the Cumberland Stakes. Mr Wisdom again opposes Mr Allen for the Sydney Speakership. Arrived—27th, Prosperity, from Hokitika; St Kilda, from Greymouth ; 28th, East Lothian, from Auckland. Newcastle . Arrived—27th, Janet Cowan, from Dunedin; Isabella, from Lyttelton; 28th, Thomas Browne, from Dunedin; Seeli, from Lyttelton. Sailed—27tb, Corido, for Lyttelton; Celestia, for Bluff. Sydney. Virulent cattle disease has broken out amongst the herds around the city. Mrs Murphy, a resident of Shoreham, went to the house of a neighbor named Mrs Boland, and found her sitting over a bottle of rum, quite dead. Mrs Murphy drank from the bottle, and died soon afterwards. Both women drank from the bottle on the previous night. It is supposed to have been poisoned in the interval. Roberts, a cafe proprietor, has absconded from bail, on which he was on a charge of fraudulent insolvency. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, April 5. The criminal sessions began this morning, when Mr Justice Gillies took his seat for the first time on the "Auckland Bench. Mr Wbitaker, on behalf of the members of the bar, aade a abort ipeecb, congratulating hie

Honor on his accession to his new dignity. His charge to the Grand Jury was very short. He congratulated them that, though the cases were numerous, they were all light There was no matter of law on which he need direct them. It was a remarkable fact that not one was a newly arrived immigrant, giving satisfactory promise for the future of the colony. A large proportion of the prisoners were educated men. Oases of larceny preponderated. As usual, there were several cases of forgery and uttering. He thought it extraordinary that men should commit grave criminal offences to release themselves from debts which were so easily cancelled. Several old offenders figured again, which suggested a grave question to the Legislature. He concluded, after calling attention to the nature of the duties of the Grand Jury. Grahamstown, April 5. The number of birthßand deaths registered during the last quarter for the Thames, was deaths, 58 ; births, 127 Hokitika, April 6. The Alhambra is in the roadstead from Melbourne. Arrived —The Lady Don and Strathnaver from Lyttelton. Dunedin, April 6. Three men were brought up in Court yesterday for breach of railway regulations in getting into a carriage while in motion through the windows. The accused pleaded guilty, but the magistrate dismissed the case, as the railway regulations were deficient, and did not meet the case.

Hori Kari Tareo intends calling a meeting of the natives of Canterbury and Otago to be held at Otago Heads on the 24th May to consider what steps should be taken to secure the payment of the two millions sterling claimed by him in 1872 as a compensation for unfulfilled promises made to them by Colonel Wakefield. Messrs Kemp and Mantell will be at the meeting, and it is intended to collect money for the purpose of defraying expenses, and sending certain of their number to England to petition the Crown and Parliament on the spot, and to request Mr Mantell to go with them to advocate their claims.

Mr Adam, the immigration agent for Otago, writing to a friend here says, New Zealand has enemies where one would least expect them. For example, the Lord Mayor of London said the other day he hoped the fate of the Cospatrick would be the means of turning the tide of immigration from New Zealand to Canada. This was said at a meeting held for the purpose of raising funds for the relief of sufferers by the loss of the Cospatrick. A committee of ladies waited on the Superintendent to ascertain what assistance the Government were likely to give towards the establishment of a servants' home and registry office. The deputation stated that £4OO were collected, and £IOO more promised. His Honor promised to bring the matter under the notice of the Government.

The "Victoria insurance lose £7OO by the fire at Orepuka on Thursday last. At a meeting of the Dunedin shareholders of the Greymouth Coal Company, held yesterday, many shareholders expressed their dissatisfaction with the way the mine was conducted. It was stated that the prospect of the mine would be good when the railway was finished, which will be in six months; they will then be able to raise 500 or 600 tons a day. It was stated that one ton of Greymouth coal gave 11,600 feet gas, while the Newcastle coal only gave 9,600 feet.

[FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, April 5, The drowning of William Hancock, mate of the brig Derwent, it is feared adds another to the victims of drink. He was seen the night before he was missed intoxicated, The next that was heard of him was that his body had been cast upon the beach. A fire to-day destroyed fourteen tons of hay, owned by one Codling, and insured for £2O in the New Zealand office. The fire was communicated from a furze fence adjoining, and is supposed to have been lighted by some children playing. The first prejudice against Judge Gillies presiding on the Auckland Bench seems wearing off, in consequence of the expressions and actions of the new Judge. He has intimated his intention not to take any case in which he has been personally engaged in the remotest degree as counsel. These cases will be deferred till the next Circuit Court, when Judge Prendergast is expected to preside. [from our dunedin correspondent.] Dunedin, April 5. The Otago Daily Times this morning has five columns notice of Mr Wilson Gray from the pen of Judge Chapman. In one part he says—" So far as pounds, shillings, and pence were concerned, Gray was a human puzzle. He not only seemed to fight against nis own interests when any individual, or Government, of friendly disposition manifested a desire to help him onwards, but whenever he had money at his disposal, his aim seemed to be to discover somebody upon whom it could be lavished. There are men in the province who owe whatever they have to him. Men to whom hundreds of pounds have been advanced without a particle of security. There are rough swagsmen who owe many a lift on Cobb's coach to the gentle little creature by whom the reckoning was paid. There are widows whose money was invested in unfortunate mining speculations, but which money has been repaid by one upon whom they had neither legal nor moral claim. There are thousands of travellers by the coach, and many publicans and sinners who can bear testimony to the quiet, unobtrusive, gentle manner, and kindly disposition of their mere travelling but judicial companion. Mr Gray's failing health was a subject of comment among his friends long prior to his decease. They urged him to avail himself of leave of absence to which jhe was entitled in virtue of length of service, but this he would not hear of until he " had done his ten years,' - and then when the ten years were done he insisted upon waiting a little longer, he couldn't afford to go just then. Nolens volens the legislature insisted with the best and most kindly intentioned meaning that he should |fgo, and have moreover his year's pay and an annuity of £3OO. Gray took this to heart very sadly. "They want to shelve me," said he, "why don't they send a shovel and wheelbarrow, and put me decently into my grave at once." It was a little burst of broken spirit, because his physical tenement was crumbling to pieces. But to the last the same old sensitiveness of conscience stuck to him. He was very ill when he left Dunedin on his final round "this is |my last," said he," and when I came back I will laugh 'and grow fat." At Queenstown he had to be carried up to &s bed, and was

so ill that one [coachman declared that he would not take the risk of carrying him. At Clyde he was even worse, and so impressed were those who saw him that that was the occasion of their final interview that they pressed forward to say a kindly farewell. Then, as he travelled on to Lawrence, his last halting place before reaching Dunedin, he became worse and worse, and had to leave the coach at Teviot, as he was suffering much from dysentery. From Tevoit he travelled to Lawrence by a buggy and reached his final destination on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the 31st of March, Mr Gray's last judicial day, he insisted upon being carried to the court-house to discharge the remaining duties, even if he died in harness. Remonstrance proved unavailing, and from the Court he was carried back to his bed, from which he will be only removed as part and parcel of the funeral cortege. His sense of duty remained strong to the last. In one of his later moments of consciousness he said—- " What day of the month is it ?" On receiving a reply, he said—" Then I still have jurisdiction." Another writer in the same journal concludes, ''Tenyears spent in coaches running over the roughest roads, in deep mire,under broilingsuns, and in piercing cold. Ten years of roadside inns, and shanties of little comfort, much discomfort, and endurance, and among many rough-tongued and hard-visaged men—his mission had been to deal out justice, and his aim to heal the broils and quarrels amongst men. His life and his service were not spentj among the great of the world, but for the comfort and happiness of suffering humanity. His ambition had been to do good for his fellow men. A willing ear, an open heart, and a ready purse had always been his, as many a poor and needy one has often known. He had no other ambition, or else he would have been a bigger but not a greater man, with a larger office, but not a larger heart. Guileless as a child, he had wit, whose flashes were bright and sparkling as the sunshine gleams on a wintry day. A mind strong in all but its own consciousness of power, a will weak only when self-interest required that strength of purpose should predominate. When nature demands thy last and only debt to all mankind, many a silent pean shall be sung in honour of my tenderhearted, noble, gentle friend, dear old Wilson Gray." The racing stock of the province have received a valuable addition in the shape of Kory O'More, the well-known hurdle and flat racer, on the 22nd ult. H. Yeend purchased him for 325 guineas. Eory O'More arrived here in fine condition.