TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 268, 21 April 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Press Telegraph Agency.*)

LATEST FROM EUROPE ♦ London, April 5. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has returned from Italy. Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria and Victor Emanuel, King of Italy, have met at Venice. The meeting was characterised by great cordiality. There were some splendid fetes in honor of the occasion, and much enthusiasm was shown by the people. King Alfonso has promulgated some educational decrees, which are thought to be of a reactionary nature, and have called forth a protest from the professors. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, April 20. The general average statement of losses through the Macgregor striking the reef at Kandavau shows the total loss of getting the vessel off the reef and reDairing, £15,803 ; value of cargo jetsomed, £9973. The cargo saved was entirely for New Zealand, so that several New Zealand firms have to pay on the average. The Waikato railway will be completed to Mercer by the Ist of June. A fire at Rangariri destroyed the Government stables, The loss is serious, Wellington, April 20. The following are additional decisions as to the rates at which certain articles are chargeable under the Tariffs' Acts, dated Bth of April .— Biscuit-making machinery, free ; candle making machinery, free ; cheque books, 10 per cent ad valorem ; cocoanut oil, free ; diviug apparatus and fitting, earthen ink" wells for schools, free ; empty cardboard boxes, 10 per cent ad valorem ; fire brigade ladders, free ; galvanised iron spike nails, free ; gasaliers for places of public worship, free ; hat linings and ventilators, free; hearse plumes, 10 per cent ad valorem ; tub boring machines, 10 per cent ad valorem ; India rubber belting, free; iron girders and columns, for building, free; iron rivets, not for ships, 10 per cent ad valorem; iron sheaves for blocks, 10 percent ad valorem; iron urinals (imported by corporations), free; lead pipe making machine, free; machinery for scented soap making, free; Minton's flooring tiles, free; needles for sewing machines, free; oil colors, in tubs, 2s per cent; paints, specially im ported for railway carriages, 2s per cent; pea Hour, in tins, Is per 1121bs; peas, preserved in tins, 10 per cent ad valorem; plain cyphering school books, free; samples of carpet, tun per cent ad valoie n; Turkey oil ston 'a, free; vulcanite (artificial) teeth, free; whalebone, free; wire rope, for mining purposes (not being fencing wire), free; wood naptha, free.

In the Bankruptcy Court to-day, in the case of a bankrupt contractor, his Honor Judge Johnston said he wished it generally to be understood, beingmatter of much public importance just now, that if people without capital took contracts too low and thus kept, other men with capital and more experiem e from taking such contracts, hence causing

much loss and inconvenience, they must not consider it at all a matter of course that the Court would relieve them of the liabilities so incurred. The Court had power to inflict a substantial punishment for such conduct when proved, and it was very necessary for the protection of the public, that it should exercise that power when the case was a bad one. Port Chalmers, April 20. Sailed—Ship Waitara, for London. She takes a number of saloon passengers, and a cargo composed of wool, skins, leather, wheat, rags, and tallow. Total value, £92,400. Dwnedin, April 20. John Hearty, for rape on a married woman, at Caversham, received eight months' hard labor. Thirteen cases of sly grog selling will be brought on by the police to-morrow, THIS DAY'S TELEGRAMS. Wellington, April 21. Arrived, last night—The Star of the South, from Lyttelton. She sails North to-night. Greymouth, April 21. Sailed —11 a.m., the Maori for the Bluff, via Jackson's Bay; Augusta, for Napier; Forest Queen, for Wellington; all coal laden. Arrived—Eliza Firth, from Melbourne. Dunedin, April 21. Mary Fleming, for larceny from Herbert Haynes and Co, drapers, was sentenced to six months' hard labor, or four months more than Margaret Collins received for infanticide. His Honor directed if it was found that the prisoner was unable to bear hard labor, that that part of the sentence would be remitted. Prisoner either had been or pretended to be very ill all through the trial. The Judge directed the Governor of the gaol to bring up all prisoners sentenced without hard labor before him on Saturday, as they had been sentenced to be imprisoned in her Majesty's gaol, and he doubted if it was her Majesty's gaol. In order to save doubt he would resentence the prisoners in such terms as would render it immaterial in what gaol it was. In the case of Long Si, for murderous assault, his counsel demands a jury. Allen's case comes on on Saturday. [from our dunedin correspondent.] Dunedin, April 20. Dr Pioseby's liberalism appears to be giving great offence. On a recent Sunday in the course of his sermon, he said "There may be hope of mercy and salvation through Christ for myriads in the heathen world who have never heard His name, but who nevertheless, according to the light and knowledge they have, feared God, and work righteousness." Some of his congregation complain he is not teaching the gospel. Last Sunday, in preaching on what is Christianity, he said "Among all the great churches of Christendom there was hardly a noteworthy difference of opinion as to the practical requirements of true Christianity. It was one of the saddest sights in the world to see a church torn by differences on questions, which in this world they would never be able to settle, and which the first ray of light in the next world may show were not worth righting about. True religion was not orthodoxy, but righteousness, not the true creed, bat a loving heart." At a meeting yesterday it was stated that it was believed that only six persons went down in the Euphrosyne, viz—Spence, the master (who leaves a wife and family) ; Sharland, the mate (who leaves a wife and two children); and four seamen, named Whitehead, Brown, Falconer, and Shaw. On Mr R. Gillies stating that he had heard reports as to the condition of the Euphrosyne when she sailed, and that if only half these rumours were true, it was a crying shame that vessels should be allowed to go to sea in such an unseaworthy state; Captain Clark said that Captain Spence had never said a bad word of the ship. Captain Thomson said, as the person appointed to survey vessels trading to the port, he could corroborate Captain Clark's words, and certify to the sea worthiness of the Euphrosyne. Probably she had run ashore somewhere on the. coast in the night, evincing another proof of the necessity for a lighthouse between Port Chalmers and Oamaru.

The flag of the Government offices was hoisted half-mast to-day on the receipt of the intelligence of Mr Auld's death. The Star, in an obituary notice, says " Mr Auld accompanied Mr Buckland on board the Timaru in January to superintend the shipment of salmon ova. He fell into the hold of the vessel, and never recovered from the effect of the fall, which no doubt tended to induce the disease of which he died, viz, inflammation of the lungs. Otago is much indebted to Mr Auld for its prosperous position. A leading member of the New Zea land Company, he, with Mr Crawford, since deceased, and the late Mr John McGlashan, then secretary to the Otago Association, took a prominent part in the settlement of the province, in the welfare of which he felt a deep interest. After the winding up of the New Zealand Company thi3 interest did not abate, but he and Mr Crawford continued their agency for the province gratuitously until 1861. Business connected with Otago had then so much increased that the valuable service he rendered was acknowledged by a handsome gratuity, and he was appointed agent for the province at a salary, and zealously promoted its interests up to the time of his death." Cromwell heads the last escort with 3003 ounces.