TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 264, 16 April 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

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LATEST FROM EUROPE AND

Auckland, April 16. The Cyphrenes has arrived. She left Sydney on the 10th, and proceeds to San Francisco this evening. London, April 7. Germany has sent a note to Belgium suggesting that the latter country should make some alterations in her laws, in order to repress any attack of Ultramontanes. It is intimated that States wishing to preserve the advantage of neutrality should avoid anything tending to affect it. Belgium replied that her existing laws were sufficient. The Australian Direct Steam Navigation Company has collapsed. A liquidation petition has been presented. The steamship Victoria, announced to leave on the 27th February last, has been detained up to the present time. The disappointed passengers appealed to the Lord Mayor for redress. James Hennan Pricci has been appointed Attorney-General of Fiji. Arrived—The Ferndale, from New Zealand, which she left on November 13th ; the Christian McAusland, from New Zealand, which she left on December 14th.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS,

Sydney. A lire at Young has destroyed nine business premises, Avith the loss of £20,000. Fifteen thousand visitors attended the exhibition yesterday. Melbourne, Thursday.

The quarterly revenue returns amount to £909,276, being a decrease on the quarter of £97,000, and on the year of £65,000. There is a great falling off in the customs and excise, and also of the territorial duties. The revenue for the year amounts to £3,955,800. The Minister of Education, in opening the State school at Brighton, said that an arrangement had been made with a literary man to write a history of Australia. The Bendigo Advertiser states that it has been informed that C. E. Jones was crushed to death in a railway carriage in America. The revenue for nine] months shows a deficiency of £217,000 below the estimates of the Government.

Tasmania has agreed to join in the erection and maintenance of a lighthouse on King's Island.

Rain is badly wanted in the country, and sheep are suffering from the lack of it, Martell's old dark brandy sold at 7s 4kl. New Zealand oats, 4s 3d. Large finds of gold at Creswick caused much excitement. The March land sales were 5160 acres, averaging £1 4s 3d per acre. Wheat 4s, unchanged. The market is quiet. Brisbane, Thursday.

A woman bled to death last night. AVhen fetching some beer she slipped in the street, and, falling on the jug, cut her neck. The net increase of revenue for the past quarter is nearly £SOOO, but the expenditure exceeds the revenue by £45,000. The Leichardt, en route from Cooktown, brings nearly 1000 ounces of solid gold. The blacks have cruelly murdered one Conn, a settler, forty miles from Card well, and carried his wife off to the bush. Two steam winches and a quantity of effects, marked with the names of the passengers, have been recovered from the wreck of th\e Gothenburg. Newcastle.

Arrived : The Tasso, from Nelson; Cathcrina, from Lyttelton; Neptune and Ardintimiey, from Wellington, aud Frowning Beauty, from the Bluff*.

INT ERPRO V LK CIAL.

Grahamstown, April 15

The crushing of forty five tons of general staff and three cwt. of specimens from the Caledonian yielded 324 ounces of retorted gold. Trouble is expected at Tairua. Mi Kennan, the surveyor, was forced to leave yesterday, having been obstructed in laying out the license area by the men who claim to have pegged out the same ground. Wellington, April 15.

At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce the scale of mercantile charges, subject to the following alterations, was adopted.— Collecting and remitting rents, 5 per cent to 10 per cent; collecting aud remitting interests, 5 per cent to 10 per cent; on procuring moneys on mortgage, 1 per cent to per cent; and on English and foreign bills, 10 percent.

At a sale of horses to-day, draughts ranged from £2O to £25 each, hacks and ponies from £2 10s to £6. According to the bidding there was little demand. Mr A. Kerr, manager of the local branch of the National Bank of New Zealand, has been appointed manager of the Nelson branch.

Wellington, April 16. Flour, £lO 10s to £ll 10s; oats, 3s 6d to 4s; wheat, none; maize, 7s 6d; potatoes, £4 108 per ton; cheese, lOd to 10£ per lb; bacon and ham, none. Arrived—The Tararua, at 9 a.m. She will not leave till Sunday morning, at seven. Nelson, April 16. The Waimea Steeplechase yesterday was won by Tommy Dodd, with Sultan second. Ten started, and it was an excellent race. The Hurdle Race was won easily by Tommy Dodd. Hokitika, April 16. The long pending tramway claims against the Provincial Government have been decided by the Council recommending the Assembly to grant 800 acres of land per mile to the companies. There was only a bare quorum present. The second resolution, asking that the land, should be selected in such distances as shall be determined on by the Provincial Council, was carried by 10 votes to 4. The Council is expected to close to-day. Dunedin, April 15.

In the case of John Walters, charged with the murder of Amos Holmes at the Northeast Valley, the jury, after an absence of ten minutes, found a verdict of manslaughter. Sentence is deferred till Monday- The case lasted till 7 o'clock. Mr W. D. Stewart, assisted by W. Taylor, voluntarily conducted the defence. Mr Stewart made an able speech on the prisoner's behalf, lasting over an hour and a half. A waterworks company is being formed at Tokomairiro with a capital of £2«,f100 in pound shares. 6000 shares are already subscribed. Margaret Collins, charged with infanticide at Milton, was found guilty of manslaughter, with a recommendation to mercy. She was sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labor. The Judge directed that the prisoner should be kept apart from the other females in the gaol. In the case Police v Dodson the defendant pleaded guilty. The Bench stated that as it was only to test the case he would inflict a nominal fine of one shilling. Although sweeps had* been very generally carried on in the colony, still they were against the law. Mr Harris, for the defendant, cited lotteries for benevolent purposes, which were recognised all over the world. He also produced lottery tickets sent from Ireland to Dunedin, on behalf of a benevolent institution in Dublin. The case excited considerable interest in sporting circles. Port Chalmers, April 15. The yacht Jessie Nichol has not yet shown up. Port Chalmers, April 16. Sailed: The Star of the South, for Levuka, via Northern ports. Arrived : The Jessie Niccol, from her cruise in search of the schooner Euphrosyne. She proceeded to the Chatham Islands from Dunedin, making a zigzag course, but saw nothing of the missing vessel. The barque Kedron, from Liverpool. During her passage she encountered a very heavy gale, which washed a man overboard and carried away her bulwarks, smashed the boats, and broke the skylights.

[from our dunedin correspondent.] Dunedin, April 15. The Star publishes returns of the provincial revenue, 1874-5. The total receipts from ordinary sources were £503,974, and the expenditure £544,735 ; but as the year 1873-4 commenced with a credit balance of £IOI,OOO, and the expenditure exceeds the revenue by £41,000, the credit balance carried forward this year is only £60,000. The receipts of £421,759 for the sale of Crown lands show an increase o\ er the estimate of £50,000; the gold fields, of £9000; the harbor jetty dues, of £5000; and the railways, of £9OOO ; the latter actually earning £58,000. For the election for Waikouaiti, the nomination is on the 28th, and the poll on May 3rd. Misfortune seems to follow W. Hooper, estate agent. A few weeks ago he lost a valuable property, next he sustained a great loss in the accidental death of his son, and now he himself has suffered by an accident. Yesterday, as he was in the act of mounting his horse to come to town, the animal bolted, and he was thrown on to the road, receiving injuries that have produced concussion of the brain. At the District Court at Invercargill, J. W. Hall, for obtaining money under false pretences, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment; John Beddle, for personating a bailiff, to six months. On Regina v. Wilson, the Riverton gold case, being called on, the Crown Prosecutor intimated that there was no offence. Judge Ward, in stating that it was not even necessary to discharge accused, said, "If a man received from another more than he was entitled to, the mere fact in law would render him liable to be charged with a criminal offence," This case was all a mistake on the part of the officer of the bank. This mistake cost McGavin his life. The Otago district of Oddfellows now number twenty-two lodges of 1474 members. At a meeting last night, a proposition of the Hokitika district to establish a moveable committee for the colony was negatived, it being the opinion of this district that it was inadvisable to appoint such a committee until more speedy communication was established throughout the colony. Judge Ward, in opening the Southland District Court, paid a most touching tribute to the late Judge Wilson Gray. Hossack, the young man who would a-wooing go at Oamaru, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for being illegally on the premises of Miss Alport. The decision is appealed against. The Times fails to see that Sir P. Bell lias thrown any new light on the abolition of the provinces question. As regards education, it wishes to know whether the educational endowments of Otago are to he administered to by the Road Boards, or would there be one Minister of Education for the colony, to whose coffers the proceeds of local educational endowments would be paid, and from whose office all regulations would issue. The adoption of any new plan will depend entirely, in so far as Otago is concerned, upon the way in which these questions are settled.

At Balclutha Races to-day, Both well won the Maiden Plate. The Members Handicap, of 40 sovs, distance H miles —Envy 1, Atlas 2, Unknown 3. Kathleen 0, Sir Tatton 0. Betting 2 to I on Envy, emi against

Atlas, 2 to 1 against Unknown, 3 to 1 against Kathleen and Sir Tatton. After one false start all got off well together, Envy leading, and the horses passed the Grand Stand in a ruck. There afterwards was a good race between Envy and Atlas; at the straight Atlas made his effort, but it was unavailing, and Envy won by a length. Sir Tatton fell at three quarters round the course, and injured his jockey, Wiseman.