The Globe. MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 272, 26 April 1875, Page 2

The Globe. MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Press Telegraph Agency. ) LATEST FROM EUROPE ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL. [Pee Macgeegoe j Auckland, April 25. Arrived—Macgregor, from San Francisco. She left that port on the 30ih, and arrived at Honolulu on the Bth, and sailed at midnight the same day. She passed the Mikado on sth, between San Francisco and Honolulu, On the 2nd, Mr Mitte, a saloon passenger and native of New York, died of cancer. She had favorable weather throughout. Passengers—For Wellington : MrNancarrow. For Lyttelton, Mr Coates. For Nelson, Miss Griffin, Mr Macßeath, Postmaster, Grey* mouth, mail agent. GENERAL SUMMARY. Messrs Moody and Sankey, revivalists have held a conference with ministers of all denominations in London, to consider the question of the succ( ss of the revival movement. It opened with great success. It was arranged that Mr Moody should by telegraph invite to England some of the most popular preachers of America and Australia. A conflict has occurred at Dublin between Bishop Moran’s and Father O’Keeffe’s parties. Much violence was used. Father O’Keeffe’s church was completely wrecked. There have been t.isturbances among the coolies at Mount Bay, Jamaica. Men-of-war and marines have left Port Royal to quell the disturbances. A Calcutta despatch states that the Indian Government expedition sent to survey western China, some of the membeis of which were recently murdered, has arrived at Rangoon, The attack was made bp the Chinese

officials, and in the fight forty Chinese were killed and many wounded. Communication with the Chinese frontier has been stopped by bands of armed men. A meeting, attended by one hundred thousand persons, was held in Hyde Park under the auspices of the Tichborne release committee. There was a baud of music, and flags and banners, having for their mottoes claims for justice, were displayed. Dr Kenealy, Messrs Onslow addressed the meeting. The enthusiasm was tremendous. The people unhitched the horse from the carriage and drew the speakers to Hyde Park. A resolutionfwas passed denouncing the partiality of the judges, and declaring they would know no rest until the enormous judicial crime was rectified. In the German Reichstag a resolution has been carried by a large majority withdrawing State grants from the Roman Catholic Bishops. Prince Bismarck insisting on the imperative duty of the State not to pay fomenters of insurrection. The Roumanian Government has issued orders for a levy of troops. This warlike order excites comment. Over ten thousand attended the funeral of John Mitchell. An explosion in a coal mine at Brussels killed and wounded a number of people. St Peterburgh despatches state that affairs in Turkistan have caused General Kauffmann to lose favor with the Czar, who has rejected the General’s plans for reorganisation in Central Asia, A mass meeting of thirty thousand Irishmen in Hyde Park demanded the release of the Fenian prisoners. Messrs Moody and Sankey’s revival services in the Agricultural Hall were crowded. France has determined to join in the United States centennial exhibition. By a destructive fire at Foo Choo 400 houses have been destroyed. Smallpox is still raging in Japan. The Czar of Russia has sanctioned a new ministerial plan for the construction of 5000 miles of railway in that country. Don Carlos has requested more contributions. Four of the provinces met to consider the request, and replied that the country is exhausted, and ought to procure funds abroad. There has been further fraternising between the Carlists and the Government troops. General Cablera has issued a manifesto declaring his adhesion to Alphonso, on the ground that grave responsibility was incurred in opposition to a Prince bearing the title of “ Most Catholic.” Don Carlos has ordered all persons found reading this manifesto to be shot. All hope of settling the war by a convention is considered ended. Don Carlos is marching sixteen battalions and artillery on Ramales, twenty- five miles from Santander. Spain has paid Germany 11,000 thalers as an indemnity for the Gustave outrage. AMERICAN SUMMARY. There were great ice floods at Fort Deposit on the 19th March. In the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph office there was over sft depth of water. The ice floated three miles an.hour, and the crashing was tremendous. The people were fearfully excited. The water was 4ft higher than ever known before. The railroad for five miles was covered with ice. The bridges were all crushed. The damage is estimated at half a million dollars. The floods subsided next day, but the damage was immense. It is reported that at Pittsopen, Wilceshoon, the water cut a channel forty feet deep through the country, and flooded the streets of Kingston, and people go about in boats. The loss by inundation at Harrisburgh, Columbia, and Marietta is very great, A telegram from Augusta, dated 20th March, says a severe storm and fall of hail passed over several towns in the interior, which suffered severely by the loss of life and property. At the canal on the Georgia Railway all the houses were blown down. A man named Thomas Gosling was killed and several were wounded. Near Thomson, a few miles from Augusta, several were killed, and a large amount of property destroyed. At Aiken, the Catholic church was destroyed. The telegraph wires are all down. At Appling, i Martha Davey, Maggie Bailey, and others were killed, and more wounded. A telegram from Wachate, Kansas, dated March 19th, says Catherine Germaine has identified four Indians as the murderers of her father and brother. Thirteen otheis known to be implicated, have escaped. The prostration is very great in shipbuilding both in England and America. Of about one hundred steamers plying between Europe and the United States a year ago, sixty have been withdrawn. There is the same stagnation in the coastwise marine. Of the two lines between New York and Orleans the Southern Steamship line has been discontinued by the merchants here, and there is only the Cromwell line left. The New York Mercury has a despatch from Worthington stating that the excursion of Senator Cameron and others to Mexico is with the object of arranging preliminaries for annexation, by purchase, to the United States of the Northern States of the Republic, and that the Mexican authorities have already acquiesced in the transfer. The story is considered improbable. Secretary Firth has been tendered a mission to England, but he has declined. There has been a large Irish meeting of citizens at Chicago to arrange a demonstration in honour of the late John Mitchell, Similar meetings are reported at Memphis, St Louis, Louisville, and other cities. The labourers in the Drabo shoe factory, Pittsfield, have struck for higher wages. Other strikes of shoemakers are threatened. Mr James Lick has revoked his great trust deed in favor of the different institutions in San Francisco. This causes considerable comment. In his revocation Mr Lick refers to his returning health and the claims of kindred. The d( ed of trust was made under mental depression, and the apprehension of speedy dissolution. It is expected that the alteration of the will will make great work foi the lawyers. According to the Call, he has proposed simply to resume the control of his estate, and give directly instead of through his trustees. Opinion is expressed that the n vocation is not valid in law, bnt'this idea is not generally entertained. The estate is valued at five million dollars. The American Bible Society, during the last eighteen months has granted 16,000 dollars worth of Bibles and Testaments to auxiliary societies.

Cook, the English champion, has accepted a challenge lately made by Dion for an in ternational billiard match for 2000 dollars. Boucicault has been retained for Wallack’s theatre during the next season. Jefferson will resume acting in April at Nashville. J. L. Toole is meeting with great favor in Chicago.

Brigham Young was arrested at his residence, taken before Judge McKean for disobeying an order to pay alimony and fees to Eliza Young, his nineteenth wife, and fined twenty-five dollars, and imprisoned for twenty-four hours. The Mormons are indignant, COMMERCIAL. San Francisco. The wheat market is firm. We quote shipping Idol 60cto Idol 65c; choice milling, Idol 67c per lOOlbs. Oats —The market is quiet at Idol 500 to Idol 75c per lOOlbs. New York, March 29. Wool is steady, Spring fine, 25c to 35c; burry, 20c to 25c; pulled, 35c to 42c. In Liverpool wheat is quoted at 9s 2d to 9s 6d ;' club, 9s 7d to 9s lOd per cental. The New Vork hide market is dull at 22£c to 23c for dry white. The oil market is steady at 65c to 72c; winter bleached, 72c to 77c. Sperm oil is steady at Idol 88c to Idol 95c ; winter bleached, 2dol to 2dol 15c. Cotton, 15£c. Petroleum—Devoe’s is steady at27£c in plain cases, to 30c patent nozzles and fancy cases. Outside brands, 25£c. Downer’s kerosene, 40c per gallon, [Per Hero.] Auckland, April 26. The Hero has arrived ; she left Sydney on the 20th. Galle, April 13, The Golconda left Galle for Australia on the 11th instant The mails via San Francisco were delivered in London on April 17th. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Northcote, brought up the Budget in the House of Commons. The estimated revenue for the coming year is £75,685,000, and the estimated expenditure £75,268,000 leaving a surplus of £417,000. He proposes the re-adjustment of brewers’ licenses and the stamp taxes, which will reduce the surplus by £37,000. There was an excited debate in the House of Commons yesterday on a motion of Mr Disraeli’s to reject a petition from some residents at Prettiwell accusing the judges who tried Arthur Orton of unfairness, and demanding their impeachment. The petition was rejected. Mr Bright condemned the agitation tactics of Dr Kenealy, and requested him to substantiate the charges he made. A second note has been sent by Germany to Belgium, in which the former power disclaims any desire to interfere with the Press laws of the latter. The Prussian Parliament have voted a measure which abrogated the privileges of Roman Catholic Bishops and others of that faith who decline to conform with the civil law. A debate on the charges made by Dr Kenealy and his position in connection with the petition from Prettiwell has been renewed. April 13. In political circles the uneasiness consequent on warlike reports is subsiding. In the House of Commons Mr Disraeli stated that the Belgium difficulty had been settled, but if the independence of neutrality of Belguim was threatened the Government would not fear to meet Parliament, The Messrs Rothschilds have issued a Russian loan of fifteen millions. [Mail News per Macgregor. ] [FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, April 26. The Star correspondent writes that Rothschild’s name to the New Zealand debentures caused them to be quoted at a premium immediately after issue. New Zealand debentures are in favor for investment with persons of limited income. Mr Vogel has played his cards remarkably well, and has secured the general support of the English press. The Daily News of March Ist, is the first paper which referred to the financial condition of New Zealand in anything but most high-flown language of prophetic assurance It reviews Mr Vogel’s article in Frazer’s Magazine and says “thefinancial condidition of New Zealand can hardly be said |to be in so satisfactory a state for the colonists themselves, as we should wish the affairs of our colonies to be.” A great 'fuss is made in the press about the “ Reconciliation ” of Tawhiao, based on an interview between ,Sir Donald McLean and the Maori King official. The Handbook has been sown broadcast over the country, and has received most favorable notice. The Board of Trade statistics show that the tide of immigration from United Kingdom is setting in decidedly from United States and towards our colonics, especially New Zealand. A division in Parliament shews that the Conservative Ministry has grown in strength. Woman’s suffrage agitation is proceeding actively. Native troubles are threatened at the Cape of Good Hope, some men of War are ordered there. Sir Garnet Wolsely has also gone out to initiate a new native policy policy towards the Kaffirs. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, April 24. A man named William Phillips, in a state of mental aberration, threw himself from the wharf but was rescued and taken to his lodgings, but he got up, ran out without his clothes. He has been committed to the asylum. Auckland, April 26. The hon Mr Reynolds left in the Taranaki this morning for Wellington. Napier, April 24. Captain Fairchild, of the Luna, endeavoured to raise the sunken sleam tug Una, but she was too heavily laden, and too firmly embedded in the sand. The decks were torn asunder in the attempt. The buoy on the Pania Rock has been replaced. It is intended to make an experiment on the 450 feet artesian piping expended in the recent attempt to get water at the spit. Captain Fairchild purpeses placing a charge of lithofracteur at the lowest attainable point in the pipe, which will be filled with waterto an iron cap fastened on the top. When the explosion takes place the shock is expected to be sufficient to raise the pipe or loosen it so that it may be easily drawn out. Doubts are expressed as to the feasibility of. the scheme. The duration of Sir D. McLean’s stay here is uncertain. There are reports that many persons are out duck shooting. The season does not commence till May Ist, The birds are reported to be plentiful, the long dry season being very favorable to the young birds. Complaints of want of rain still continue. Fat stock is rising in price. There were sold yesterday thirty fat cows and steers, &c.: — Fat beasts realised £8 5s to £3 15s; two

and-a-halLyear-old heifers, spayed, £slos to £6 15s; store steers, £3 to £5 10s. There are many cases of sickness, but not a serious increase. The new Colonial Bank premises are being rapidly completed, and will be opened for business shortly. A neat and appropriate building for a new hotel is being put up at Woodeville, Seventy Mile Bush, at junction of Masterton and Main South road from Napier to Wanganui and Wellington via Palmerston. At present there is no, f hotel from Tamaki to Palmerston. The bridge at Manawatu Gorge is expected to be open in a few weeks. Wellington, April 21. The New Zealand Steam Shipping Company have at length accepted a tender for a new boiler and other repairs to the steamer Wellington. That of Yeoman and Co, of Auckland, was accepted mainly because that firm contracts to do the work in eighteen weeks, a shorter time than the other tenders required, and because kauri timber for new spars, deck, &c, could be had on the spot, thus saving carriage, and also because the weather at Auckland would be better than at the other places* The price of the successful tenderer is £2885. The rejected tenders were—B. W. Mills, Wellington, price £2BIO, time seven months; Kincaid and McQueen, Dunedin, £2718, and time nineteen weeks; Robertson and Co, Wellington, £3164, time six months; Fraser and Tinnc, Auckland, £3,445, time six months; J. Anderson, Christchurch, £SOOO, time six and half months. Cleared —Ship Carnatic, for London, full of cargo, composed of grain, wool, tallow, hides, pawa shells, preserved meats, bones, rags, and sheepskins. Total valued at £36,286. The following is the result of the Bangitikei election:—Ballance, 112; Watt, 106 ; Hutchinson, 27. The Marton votes carried the election. Wellington. April 26. Arrived yesterday—Brig Alarm, from Lyttelton ; Light of the Age and Mercury, from Dunedin. Sailed—Australian Sovereign, for Newcastle. Arrived yesterday Brig Omaka, from Lyttelton. Nelson, April 24. A misunderstanding hasarisen between the Nelson cricket team and Wix, the captain, on account of the latter not going on to the ground, but deciding to postpone the match without consulting them. They are so annoyed that some of them refuse to play on Monday, and the country men, five in number, have returned home, determined not to return. The match, therefore, will not be completed. Blenheim. At the opening of the Provincial Council the Superintendent, Mr A. P. Seymour, M.H.R., announced his intention to proceed to England by the May San Francisco mail. Mr Hodson, Mayor of Blenheim is to be appointed deputy superintendent.