The Globe. SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 271, 24 April 1875, Page 2

The Globe. SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Press Telegraph Agency,') Auckland, April 23. Judge Gillies to-day discharged with costs the rule nisi obtained against Mr Meredith, clerk of the Court at Carlisle. The affidavits and evidence adduced were in a very muddled state, and were commented on by the Judge. Charles King, A.C., Turanga, was brought up by writ of habeas corpus at the Supreme Court to-day, and discharged on the ground of illegal imprisonment. He was confined in gaol three months, and degraded from the rank of sergeant by a Hoard oflnqni-yat I’auranga, for calling his officer “skunk.” Ring intends tu bring au acliou for false impriiomaeat.

Grahamstown, April 23. The crushing for Ohinemuri prospectors indicates the probable yield of one and ahalf to two ounces per ton. Sir George Grey arrived this afternoon for a stay of eight or ten days. Typhoid fever is following closely on the heels of measles, mumps, and similar complaints. The prevalent death rate continues high ; water supply almost run out. Wellington, April 23. The Hon Dr Pollen is gazetted president of the Executive Council of New Zealand. The Superintendent of Otago has notified in the Gazette that the whole of Dog Island off Bluff harbor is reserved from sale as a site for a lighthouse ; also that the islands in Dusky Sound, including Resolution Island, Break Sea Island, Gilbert Isles, Entry Island, Curlew Island, Heron Island, Indian Island, Pigeon Island, Parrot Island, and Anchor Island, have been reserved as stations to be ust d for the restraint and safe keeping of male offenders under sentence of penal servitude. The total value of gold exported from New Zealand up to 31st March, 1875, was £29,968,193; for last quarter, 97,681 ounces value, £391,177. Otago is highest yielding £134,835; Nelson, £100,471; Westland, £79,114; Auckland, £73.991 ; Marlborough, £2776 9s. The following are the accepted tenders for performance of mail services in undermentioned postal districts for 1875, at per annum ;—Between Ashburton and Timaru, and between Timaru and Waitaki, John Cramond, £llOO. Between Christchurch, St Albans, Ricearton, Addington, Waltham, Stanmore road, and Knightstown, James Turnbull, £7B. Between Christchurch and Sonthbridge, via Lincoln, J. H. Doyle, £4OO. Between Christchurch and Sumner, Christchurch and Woolston, C. Dalwood, £3O. Between Christchurch and Grcenpark, Chas. Kimber, £4O. Between Kaiapoi and Hurunui, and Hurunui aud Hawkeswood, Sansom, £4OO. Between Huruni and Lake Station, J. A. James, £BO. Between Leithfield and Cheviot, John Boyce, £l5O. Between Kaiapoi and Kaiapoi Island, H. Hookhara, £lO. Between Flaxton and Railway Station Flaxton and Swannanoa, via Eyreton, Geo. Watson, £4O. Between Cust and AVest Oxford, John Olphert, £IBO. Dunsandel and Hororata, T. Kneeshaw, £6O. Dunsandel and Killinchy, James A. Meharry, £2O. Between Dunsandel and Greendale, T. Kneeshaw, £SO; Ashburton and Mount Somers, E. Cookson, £SO; Mount Somers and Ashburton, George Lambrie, £3O; Ashburton Forks and Alford Forest, P. Fisch, £25; Rakaia and Drayton, C. Wason, £150; Geraldine, Pleasant Valley, and Waihi Bush, Wm. H. Gummer, £100; Timaru and Lake Tekapo, and Timaru and Burke’s Pass, Henry Gardner, £220 ; Timaru and Pleasant Point, Wm Warren,£7s 10s; Burke’s Pass and Dr Fisher’s Station, J. Burgess, £25; Lyttelton and Port Levy, James Harris, £6O; Lyttelton and Pigeon Bay, Joseph M'Lean, £3O ; Pigeon Bay and Akaroa, R. J. Greening, £US; Lyttelton and Gibbie’s Flat, Peter Fox, £55 8s ; Duvauchelle’s Bay, Lyell, Akaroa, and Okain’s Bay, J. B. Parker, £6O; German Bay and Le Bon’s Bay, A. C. Condon, £3O; Waiau and Hanmer Plains, Thomas Fraser, £7O ; Christchurch and Akaroa, via Halswell, Taitupn and Little River, John Cramond, £3OO ; Irwell and Brookside, George Kidd, £2O ; Rolleston and West Melton,Wm. Jos Simpson, £l7 10s ; Dunsandel and Lake Coleridge, T. Kneeshaw,£l2o; between Akaroa andWainui, C, W, Bridge, £25 : between Lyttelton Post Office, Railway Station, and Wharf and vessels in harbor, G. Agar, £150; between Timaru and Upper Pareora, Thomas Priest, £SO; between Post Office, Cust, and Railway Station, Stephen Early £lO. Nelson, April 23.

In the interprovincial cricket match between Westland and Nelson, Nelson won the toss, and sent Westland to wickets. Glasgow b Cross, 0; Staite b Cross, 7; McGregor c Hale b Cross, 3; Turner c Tunnicliffe b Cross, 1; Perkins b Cross, 2; Gird wood c and b Cross, 10; Bowen b Eden, 11; Tennant c and b Cross, 10; Carewb Cross, 12; Guinness not out, 5; byes 11, leg-byes 11, wides 2; total 77. 7.40 p.m. The cricket, match assumed a very interesting phase, there being a tie on the first innings, each side scoring 77. Hal) id ay a.nd Eden went in first for Nelson, and scored 29 before separated ; Knapp scored highest, Cross making only 9; then four wickets fell for almost nothing, when Speed joined Knapp, and between them they ran up the total to 77. Nelson —First innings: Eden c Turner b Bowen, 9; Halliday run out, 17; C. Knapp 1 b vv, b Bowen, 25; Cross b Bowen, 9; Fowler b Bowen, 0; Tunnicliffe b Bowen, O; Wix Ibw, 6; b Bowen, 1; Knappc McGregor b Perkins, 0; Hale c Staite b Bowen, 2; Speed not nut, 7; Colls b Bowen, 0; byes 5, leg-byes 1, wide 1; total 77. The match will be resumed to-morrow if fine, but the weather looks very threatening. Dunedin, April 23. The banks and public offices were closed to-day, it being St George’s Day. A special meeting of the City Council was held yesterday, to consider the draft deeds of submission to arbitration between the Corporation and tenants on the Corporation reserve re the widening of Prince’s street. Ultimately it was resolved that previous to the adoption of submissions to arbitration the tenants be requested to state what amounts they would be satisfied with, taking down and removing each of their holdings to the intended width of the street. Major Atkinson has resigned the command of the district at the end of the month. He is succeeded by Sub-Inspector Rowan. Mr A. C. Atkinson remains in the province. He has purchased the Commercial Hotel at Tokomairiro, and is arranging for the purchase of the Club at Invercargill.

Invercargill, April 23. The salmon ova received from the Clyde hy the ship Timaru were taken to-day to the ponds at Makarewai. The ova latest collected were first unpacked, and the first sight was not promising, and it is feared that 'he final result of the importation will be unsatisfactory. A quantity of eggs were perfectly opaque, a sign that all vitality has departed, and not a few were in a crushed condition; but it was evident that no pains had been spared m packing. A large number of the eggs retain a healthful purple appearance; but some of the best looking of these, cn examination by a magnifying glass, were found to contain no vital germ; they had not been fecundated. It is believed that the majority of the eggs found to be opaque had been fecundated, and that those vhich retain a purple colour had never been It is just possible, however, that some of flu purple colored eggs may contain a germ of life,