TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 292, 19 May 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

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FRIGHTFUL LOSS OF A MAIL STEAMER, OVER 300 PERSONS DROWNED. MR VOGEL’S HEALTH. THE WOOL SALES. London, May 8. The reported arrival of the Californian mails on the 4th was false. The steamship Schiller, homeward bound from New York with the Australian and New Zealand mails via San Francisco, and over 260 passengers was totally wrecked off the Sicilly Isles. Only a few passengers were saved. The Berlin Post considers the recent Belgian note in reply to Germany, meaningless and unsatisfactory. The health of Mr Vogel is very precarious. His medical attendants, in consultation, decided that a course of German baths was indispensable. Mr Vogel cannot return to New Zealand before September. The April exports from Great Britain show an increase on the previous month. Wheat is depressed. Metals unchanged. At the wool sales competition is unabated, foreign buyers, especially the French, operating keenly, buyers being eager to supply the immediate requirements of the trade. The average prices obtained are equal to the highest realised at the March sales. Total sales to date amount to twenty-six thousand bales.

Arrived : John Duthie, Vincent, Calypso, Galle, May 8. The Nubia sailed for Australia. London, May 10.

The Schiller went ashore during a fog; 311 persons perished. Forty-four persons and a portion of the mails were saved. The Emperor of Russia arrived at Berlin to-day. The result of his interview with the German Emperor is anxiously awaited. The Italian Parliament has been engaged during the week in discussing a motion blaming the Government for undue leniency towards the Bishops, and allowing the Law of Exequatur to remain a dead letter. Senor Menghetti promised to introduce legislation to protect the State and administer the ecclesiastical property. He also stated that the relations of Italy with Germany were excellent. A vote of confidence in the Government was passed. Mr Bourke has announced that the Government have received an entirely satisfactory assurance from Germany, and that there is no cause to apprehend any disturbance. The Brindisi mails were delivered yesterday.

The passengers by the Schiller were principally Germans, no Australians are traceable. * Fifty-six mail bags, chiefly of newspapers, were saved. The colliers strike in South Wales has ended, the men returning to work on the masters conditions. The Czar and Prince Gortschakoff interviewed Prince Bismarck immediately on their arrival in Berlin. It is generally supposed that the Czar will exercise a pacific influence. Prussia has voted for the suppression of religious orders. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, May 13. Olsen, one of the three sailors who leaped overboard from the Carletdn at Queenscliff to desert, and was supposed to be drowned, turned up on the 9th. He was twelve hours in the water, and has been hiding with some fishermen since. The insurance companies paid £3700 losses on the Barwon Woollen Mill Company’s fire at Geelong. At the dedication of a new Catholic Church at Gordon’s, near Ballarat, Archbishop Goold again attacked the Education Act.

Captain Kay, clerk to the Executive Council for many years, is about to retire. At the Mayor’s quarterly luncheon the acting Governor, the Premier, and the members of the Ministry were present. The Mining Department is calling for tenders for sinking bores to test auriferous areas.

The repairs to the coffer dam at the Yarra Wharf are completed. The National Agricultural Society are attempting to prevent the importation of sheep from Tasmania, on the ground of the extent to which scab is prevalent there. The Rev Charles Clark reached Melbourne on the 11th, and begins his services at the Athenaeum next Sunday. The Irish residents will hold an O’Connell centenary celebration. The Rev Charles Strong will succeed Mr Menzies, deceased, at the New Scots’ Church, the spire of which is completed, and is the tallest in Melbourne.

William Speedy, of Wainui, Hawkes’ Bay, has been granted letters patent for improvements in pressing wool, &c. The Minister of Lands has announced the auction of no more country land until Parliament has had an opportunity of expressing its opinion on the Land Bill. The Government analyst reports of colonial beer, that he found a few samples from brewers all slightly adulterated with fusel oil; the publican’s samples were free, but common salt had been added in some cases, thereby increasing thirst. The imperfections of colonial beer are attributed to the large use of sugar instead of malt, a deficiency in the quantity and quality of hops, and the high temperature of fermentation. The King of Siam, it is stated, will probably contribute an interesting collection to the Melbourne exhibition,

The Uttings, mother and daughter, have been committed for trial for perjury at the trial of Frank Sperrin who was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment, and to two whippings, for a criminal assault on the daughter. The Victoria Permanent Fire Insurance Company has been registered, with a capital of £1,000,000.

The nominations for Ararat are Messrs Beveridge, McLean, Girdlestone, and Samson.

James Barker, a laborer committed suicide on the 10th, while in delirium tremens, by throwing himself from the railway bridge at Williamstown. He was run over and killed instaneously by a train. Arrivals—May 9tb, Falcon, barque, from Oaraaru, which she left on 18th April; Eliza Mary, Oamaru, 22nd April ; 13th, Otago, from Dunedin.

Departures—May 9th, Rosebud, for Dunedin.

Sydney, R, F. Stubbs and Co have failed. Their direct liabilities are £IOO,OOO. Barlow, a wholesale grocer, and Cohen, ironmonger, have called meetings of their creditors; the liabilities of the former are £28,000, and assets £18,000; Cohen’s liabilities are £IB,OOO, and his assets £9OOO. A large and influential meeting was held on the 11th in favor of the annexation of New Guinea by the Imperial Government. The Herald’s Cooktown correspondent attributes the rush of Chinese to the representations of Canton and Hong Kong merchants.

The Queensland Government proposes to raise a loan of a million and a half for railways and public works. The Philadelphia Commission determined on the representation of the colony at the Melbourne Exhibition. The Governor attended Maitland races, the cup at which was won by Kingsborough. Numerous burglaries in the suburbs are causing uneasiness. The Assembly are discussing the Land Bill. A verdict of wilful murder was returned in the case of the body of a child found in the harbor bay. Murphy, charged with the murder of his wife by poison at Shoalhaven, and acquitted, has been re-arrested. Adelaide wheat, 4s 4d to 4s sd. The Hero arrived from Auckland on the 10th.

The Attorney-General has decided that volunteers are not entitled to a second land order.

The Postmaster-General has received a telegram that the Sydney mail bag was saved from the wreck of the Schiller.

Adelaide, The Gothenburg fund has reached eight thousand nine hundred pounds. The heavy rains have caused floods, and greatly injured the Botanic and other gardens and the Glenelg railway. New Zealand malting barley has been sold at Cs 6d.

The address, in reply, was carried in the Assembly; the Council has adjourned the debate. Mr Inglesty, a member for Victoria, has given notice of the establishment of model and experimental farms. Wheat is dull at 4s to 4s Id. INTERPPvOVINCIAL. Auckland, May 19. The Provincial Council last night passed a grant of £IOOO to Mrs Williamson. A motion was carried for the retention of the police department by the General Government as now. Greymouth, May 19, Arrived—The Tararua, from Nelson ; the St. Kilda, from Wanganui. Sailed—Tararua, for Melbourne; Charles Edward, for Nelson; Mary King, for Timaru. Hokitika, May 19. Arrived —The Alhambra, from Melbourne; the Maori, from Dunedin. The Tararua is coming up. Port Chalmers, May 19. Arrived—The ship Leucadia, from London. She reports speaking the ship Hindostan, from London to Wellington, in latitude 35deg. 52min. N, longitude I7deg. 32min. W. On the 15th May she was in company with the Cicero, from London to Lyttelton, in latitude 4deg. 50min, south, and longitude 165 deg. 57min. east. Arrived —The Kennington, from London, with 200 immigrants, all well. She reports passing icebergs on the 14th April in latitude 47deg. SOmin. south, and longitude 36deg. 55min, east. The ice was one mile square and 800 ft. high. The Frederick Bassill has also arrived from London via Melbourne. Dunedin, May 19.

The discussion on Mr Bastings want of confidence motion was resumed last evening in the Provincial Council, and was brought to a close at midnight. The Government sustained a defeat. The,voting was 22 for the motion, and 20 against it. The Council adjourned till two to-day. The acceptances for the Queen’s birthday races are declared, and are as follows : Hurdle Race—Medora, 12st; Tommy Dodd, list 101 b; Ivanhoe, list. There are eight entries. For the Birthday Handicap there are only seven—Atlas is top weight, at 9st lib; Envy and Rory O’More, Sst 51b; Right Bower, Sst 41b; King Philip, Sst; Kathleen, 7st. For the Tradesmen’s Handicap there are ten entries, with Atlas top weight, 9st; Right Bower, Sst 61b; Envy, Sst 51b; Kathleen, Sst 21b; Rory O’More, Sst 61b. [FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, May 18. In a paper read at the Auckland Institute Dr Purchase advocated, as the best line for the cable between Australia and New Zealand, a line from Botany Bay to Ohipara Bay, north of Auckland, a route which he said was forty-five miles shorter than to Cape Farewell, with a better bottom and an average depth of only 350 to 750 fathoms, which gave a great advantage for repairing over the Cape Farewell line, which showed a depth of 2600 fathoms, 1975 fathoms, and 1100 fathoms. Ohipara also was in a favorable position for extending the cable to Fiji. It was suggested that a copy of the paper be sent to the Government, on account of the valuable information it contains.

The annual report of the Board of Education shows the cost of the educational system for the year to be £20,530. The number of pupils on the roll is 8284, being an average cost, inclusive of buildings and all contingencies, of £2 10s per head. The education rate realised £10.520, exclusive of buildings, or £2 5s per head. This is the lowest average in the colony, being less by Is per head than Nelson, 9s lower than Wellington, and Sa (id lower than Otago,