The Globe. TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 279, 4 May 1875, Page 2

The Globe. TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

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, « London, April 21. Compulsory liquidation has been ordered in the case of the Australia direct Steamship Company. Arrived—The Merope, City of Auckland, and Charlotte Padbury from New Zealand. April 24. In the House of Commons, Dr Kenealey's motion for the appointment of a Royal Commission of enquiry into tho Tichborne trial was rejected by 434 votes to 1, after a protracted debate in which Messrs Disraeli and Bright powerfully opposed the motion. Dr Kenealey's. speech was principally confined to a weak attack on the alleged misbehaviour of the judges. The lock out in South Wales has been withdrawn; a reduction of 15 per cent on the wages was rejected. The price of wheat is drooping owing to large expected arrivals. The wool market is quiet, but prices continue firm. Hemp is dull. Fifty bales of New Zealand sold at £l7 to £2l. Bombay, April 24. The Guicowar of Baroda was deposed yesterday. This decision was passed on his gross misgovernment, not on the report of the commissioners of the inquiry into the poisoning of the political resident as they disagree. The native administaation in Baroda continues. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, April 2S. Although Parliament meets within a month no indications of a Government policy are forthcoming, but there are rumors abroad that the Ministers do intend to throw off the Protectionist mask and appear in the Free Trade garb. The Commissioner of Customs is still ill, but it is said that he is anxious to get about again in order to announce his recantation. There will be great fiscal changes, there is no doubt. O'Farrall has been sentenced on two charges to nine years' hard labor. It is yet uncertain whether the other charges will be proceeded with. Heavy rains have fallen all over the country, doing much benefit. Pleuro-pneumonia appeared amongst the cattle at Shepparton, and numbers died. The new Scots Church in Collins street is completed. Sea-breeze won the coursing Derby; Baratta the Oaks. Everything is very dull. A vein of gold bearing quartz has been found in the Prince Patrick Mine at Stawell at a depth of 1110 ft. Three men were charged at the Supreme Court with polluting the Yarra by depositing filth there. One was fined £3O and the others discharged. Sydney. Mr Nelson's motion of censure on the (iovernment was negatived without a division. An influential commission has been appointed for the Philadelphia Exhibition. The Chief Justice is chairman. The Anglican Synod is resolved to oppose any alteration in the present educational system. The rush to the Palmer still continues. Sickness is very prevalent there, and the blacks are troublesome. Floods have occurred in Northern Queensland, and people were compelled to seek refuge in trees. Mr Holdsworth, an ironmonger, who died recently, left about £200,000. The Queensland Parliament met yesterday, and the opening speech states that a Bill will be introduced to provide increased homestead areas, to encourage and facilitate legitimate settlement. There are Bills also for the payment of members, and to set apart a railway reserve fund. The address in reply was carried in both Houses. Adelaide. The quarter's expenditure exceeded the revenue by £83,000. The deficit on the year

is expected to amount to £200,000. It is probable that fresh taxation will be resorted to. There was a very high tidal flood at Port Pirie. It submerged the township, causing several thousand pounds worth of damage. SHIPPING. • Melbourne. Sailed—24th. Bassil, for Duuedin. 26th. St Kilda, for Greymouth. Sydney. Arrived—24th. Moa, from Timaru; Lookout, from Timaru. 25th. Amy, from Lyttelton. Newcastle. Arrived—22rd. Charnier and Addephus, from Lyttelton. 24th. Win. Gifford, from Oamaru; Maggie, from Napier; Garelock, from Dunedin; Camilla, from Lyttelton. 26th. Derwent, from Auckland; Candidate, from Dunedin. Sailed—2lst. Helen, for Napier. 26th. Ann Melhuish, for Wellington. COMMERCIAL. The markets are very dull. Wheat slightly improved, 5s 2d. Sales of oats are neglected; feeding, 3s lOd to 4s; seed, 4s. There is an improved feeling for brandies, and a slight advance. There have been sales of butter for shipment to New Zealand at Is. A good demand exists for teas. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, May 3. For hocussing and robbing a man in a boarding-house by putting tobacco in his beer, a man named Campbell was sentenced to twelve months ; and Martha Nicholson, aged thirteen, to three months with hard labor. Wellington, May 3. Mr Joseph Carter, for very many years tidewaiter in her Majesty's Customs, died suddenly in the cabin of the Sunbeam this afternoon while checking over the day's work. He laid his head on the cabin table, and expired without a movement. Wellington, May 4. Arrived—The Otago from the South. Nelson, May 3. Judge Gillies opened the Supreme Court to-day. There were six cases on the calendar. The Grand Jury found "No bill" in the case of Jones, committed for manslaughter in connection with the recent accident on the Beach road. James Thomas Smith, over seventy years old, pleaded " Guilty " to an indecent assault upon his grand-daughter, seven years of age, and was sentenced to five years. Dunedin, May 3. In the'Provincial Council, the Speaker stated that, as it was held by some to be incompatible with his holding the office of speaker, that he should be at the same time secretary to the Harbor Board and ex officio member of that body; he intended to send in his resignation to the Government this evening. The Council would thus have an early opportunity of expressing its opinion on the matter. Dunedin, May 4. Two thousand pounds of the Cromwell Water Works seven per cent debentures have been sold to the Colonial Bank at eighty-seven. The farewell banquet to Sir John Richardson, at the Molyneaux, was an immense success. He stated that to his friends he was the Magor, and hoped ever to remain so, while for himself he did not desire the honor. It was not a personal one, but had been conferred on his position as Speaker of the Legislative Council. He had not been officially apprised of the fact. In the case of Mrs Jeffreys who died*frbm supposed injuries inflicted by Crossan, the jury, after several hours consideration, returned the following verdict at 10.30 last night—" That deceased died from inflammation of the bowels but how, and by whom, the injury was caused, there was not sufficient evidence to show, as the medical testimony was conflicting. The Provincial Council sits at 2. Mr McLean was returned for Waikouiaiti by a majority of 52. In the Supreme Court yesterday a passenger named Barrowman sued the captain of the ship Auckland, and claimed damages £SOO for putting Barrowman in irons during the voyage. . The case is now proceeding. The defence is that the act was absolutely necessary for discipline. [FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, May 3. The following are the nominations for the Autumn Meeting on the 24th May : First Day. Hurdle Race (Handicap) of 30 sovs., with a sweep of two sovs each, sweep to go to the second horse. Weights to appear on the 7th May. Distance two miles, over eight flights hurdles. Bobbett's b g Arrow, 6yrs ; Buckland's Kate, 6yrs; Halstead's Isleman, aged; Silver's Don Jnan, syrs; Clarke's b g Middy Ashore, aged ; Pohika Hapaka's Shamrock, aged. Birthday Handicap of 60 sovs., added to a sweepstake of nVe sovs. each. Distance, one and a half miles. Watt's Ngaro, 3yrs; Parawhenua; Walter's Yatterina; Delamain's b g Elfin King; Mcßobert's Belle; Hunt's Skylark ; Quinlivan's Belle of the Isles ; Young's Bedouin; Pohika Hapaka's Maori Weed. Second Day. Autumn Handicap of 50 sovs., added to a sweepstake of three sovs. Distance, one and three-quarter miles. Watt's Ngaro and Parawhenua; Walter's Yatterina; Delemain's Ellin King; Mcßobert's Belle ; Hunter's Skylark; Quinlivan's Belle of the Isles; Young's Bedouin; Pohika Hapaka's Maori Weed; Joseph Ellis's Waitara. The entries received are more numerous than were expected. [FROM OUR WELLINGTON COK RESPONDENT.] Wellington, May 3. Jeffreys who died, and whose wife was killed in Dunedin, was well known here, where he lived two years. He was well connected, his family being shipowners in Liverpool. His real name is supposed to be Lockhart. He emigrated in consequence of marrying below him, his wife being a music hall singer. Both were of intemperate habits here. Crassan lived with them here, and it was supposed that he was improperly intimate with Jeffrey's wife. They paid his passage to Dunedin when they removed there a few weeks ago. [from our dunedin correspondent.] Dunedin, May 3, The evidence at the inquest on M. Lansigne's body showed that for some time past he had complained of his head being affected. A letter to his wife just before committing suicide reads—" I am mad. When yon re-

ceive this letter I shall be out of the world. I hoped to have had time to see to everything before my position was opened to the public, but I could not bear tke idea of being brought before a court of justice. Please God, pardon me, but I kill myself to save you from misery." In other letters he orders his wife to return to France, and gives directions about his property. A verdict of temporary insanity was returned. The Star, in answering Mr Macandrew, says that it is not a necessary consequence of the abolition of the northern provinces that the abolition of those in the South should immediately follow. The latter and principal part of Mr Macandrew's speech dealt at considerable length with the abolition question. He denied the necessity for change. It was not far to seek the cause of the present condition of affairs. One thing was clear, that there must not be a partial abolition of the provinces, but they must stand or fall together, or else merge into one another, as Otago and Canterbury might well do. It was useless to disguise from themselves the fact that the abolition of the provinces meant the appropriation of provincial revenue for colonial purposes. Otago and Canterbury, which hitherto supplied the lion's share to the consolidated revenue, have still more to do so. It is implied that revenues from the railways constructed by the provinces will become colonial revenue. The administration of waste lands and settlement of the country would be conducted with less responsibility to the people than at present; and, so far as Otago was concerned, in a manner less conducive to public interest. Personally, he did not share in the belief that the land compact of 1856 was an unalterable law. It could not be so while the Parliament of New Zealand was composed of such conflicting elements. The main question for the people of Otago was whether they would submit to be swept into the maelstrom. The destines of the province are in their hands if they only rose superior to local jealousies. A radical change in the political framework of the colony was necessary, and if it only took the right direction it would be a happy day for the colony. It would be a disastrous day fer the colony when the new Provinces Act was passed. He was persuaded if they went back to the Constitution Act, and would allow the respective provinces to rely upon themselves with a central Government for purely federal purposes, the having full disposal of their revenues, and contributing pro rata to the maintance of a central Government, and the payment of the colonial bebt,it would be the best thing, and more conducive to the reduction of the cost of administration and greater efficiency. At present the central Government were neither able to reduce one or increase the other. The colony had already abstracted two millions from the provincial revenue, not one farthing of which had been expended in the province.