TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 289, 15 May 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

{Press Telegraph Agency.") AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, May 8. Parliament meets on the 25th. A writ has been issued for Ararat to fill the place of Mr Carroll. There are several candidate;?. The City Council has accepted the offer of the Mayor to plant Collins street east with shade trees. The City of Ballarat loan of £SOOO has been successfully floated. The experiments of the new specific as a cure for fluke have abruptly terminated, dogs destroying the remaining sheep. The specific, however, is reported favorably of. The Golconda with the English mail reached Melbourne on May 3rd. A respectable elderly woman, named Elizabeth Brossman, committed suicide by cutting her throat at Sandhurst. The Catholic clergy are still continuing the agitation against the Education Act.

There has been a collision on the North Eastern Eailway, by which some damage was done, but no persons injured. The locomotive department reports that breakdowns are less frequent or serious in Victoria than elsewhere. The National Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend of 10 per cent, with a bonus of £2.

The Rev Charles Clark reached Sydney in the Hero yesterday. Captain Audley Coote is in Sydney on New Zealand cable business.

The National Labour Bureau, so far a comparative failure, has decided to reduce the fees for employees to one shilling. The Local Board of Health in Melbourne intend to prosecute several factory and workroom owners for breaches of the sanitary regulations. The Exhibition buildings are rapidly completing. Arrangements are concluded for floating off the Blencathra on King's Island, as she is now clear of cargo. The Hon S. D. Hastings continues his lectures in favour of Good Templarism, and several demonstrations have taken place. There has been a shocking suicide at Daylesford. A young woman named Mary Anne Wilson, aged twenty-four, swallowed a bottle of laudanum. She had led a wretched life with some Chinese.

The Minister of Railways visited St. Arnaud on May 6th, to inspect the proposed railway routes. At a banquet he promised to submit a measure next session to further railway extension. A public meeting held in Melbourne on May 6th, passed resolutions in favour of a progressive land tax. There was an enthusiastic meeting at Sebastapool to support the Education Act. A Royal Commission on the state of the Volunteer force is sitting. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, May 14. An address was presented on board the City of Melbourne to-day to Sir G. Arney, prior to his departure. The Superintendent delivered an address on behalf of the inhabitants. Sir G. Arney. who was deeply moved, in reply, alluding to statement that he had tempered justice with mercy, said that if he had passed light sentences it was not without reflection. He believed fear of punishment had very little influence in deterring from crime, not so much as desire to stand well with our fellow men. If fear of punishment influenced mankind very largely none of us would sin.

A sailor on the Tien Tsin fell from the maintop to-day and fractured his skull. The Rifle Association firing took place today. Kelly won the Evening Star cup with a score of 48. He also won the National Rifle Association medal with an aggregate Bcore of 89. Skinner, the champion, stood ninth in the aggregate score of 82, and eighth for the cup, with a score of 39. Timaru, May 14.

The wrecks of Cyrene and Princess Alice were sold for £275 and £SO respectively. 8700 sleepers in the Cyrene fetched £950. Dunedin, May 14,

In the Council last night there was laid on the table a return showing the amount of freight paid by the province during the past financial year, detailing the rate per ton and amount of freight by each vessel. The total amount was £1676 4s Id. A return of the quantities of gold received per escort for the year 1874-5, ended the 31st March, was laid on the table. The totals were—April, 9550 z; May, 7265; June, 10,629; July, 3944 ; August, 7053 ; September, 10,801 ; October, 12,940; November, 10,717; December, 17,915 ; January, 7378 ; February, 7567 : March, 9291 ; grand total, 114,4500z5. There is great vitality in the building trade. Messrs Smith and Fotheringham are building a large brick kiln on the German principle, capable of burning: out 90,000 a week. This will make their total per week 150,000. The Governor has been busy inspecting the Cadet Corps at the High School, also the hospital and lunatic asylum and other public institutions, He expressed himself pleased with the management and conduct of all. Wellington, May 15.

The Wellington arrived last night at nine o'clock, after twenty-seven hours'passage, having encountered a strong northerly gale, with a heavy head sea. Bluff, May 15.

The Omeo, Captain Calder, left Melbourne at 2.30 p.m. on the Bth and on the 13th experienced strong gales from the N. and N.E., with a heavy sea. She had to heavetoon account of the large number of stock on board. She arrived at the Bluff at 8 a.m. on the 15th. She brings eighteen saloon and thirty steerage passengers, ninety-seven horses, twenty sheep, and 260 tons of cargo for all ports. She sails for Dunedin at 4 p.m. to-day. Passengers for Lyttelton—Mr Sibley, Miss Holly, Kev F. A. Hare, and five in the steerage, and thirty-five tons of cargo. She will probably return from Lyttelton to Melbourne via Bluff. (FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.) Auckland, May 14. The Treasurer, in presenting his budget, made a clean breast of the impecunious state of the province. The main source of revenue is from the publicans licenses. The estimates include no public works of consequence. The gaols and other departments are absorbing all the revenue. Education is be carried on by such funds as can be raised from the rate, and the bank overdraft. Something will have to be done during the next session of Parliament. There has been another instance of absurd railway management. The train could not be delayed for five minutes for the Southern mails by the Taranaki, and although some of the passengers caught the train the mails were kept till the next train, two hours later, causing the detention of the mail steamer in Auckland for that time. A thousand people went to the wharf to see the mail steamer away to-day, on account of many old colonists being aboard.