The Globe. THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 293, 20 May 1875, Page 2

The Globe. THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

* {Press Telegraph Agency.') Auckland, May 19. An excursion train ran to Mercer to day with about forty guests of the Messrs Brogden. They accomplished the journey (forty miles), in one hour and fifty minutes. The news of the Schiller calamity creates great excitement. Abner Jones Turner, mate of the barque Marathon, was brought up charged with a violent assault on Charles Brown, a sailor, on the high seas, by hittin" him on the head with a marlin c,scike. and remanded

A special meeting nf the Education Board struck the rates for the current year the same as last. The Board expressed an opinion that these rates will not raise sufficient funds to carry on till August 31st. The secretary presented his general report on education in the province, which was adopted, and it was resolved that it be presented to the Superintendent. J, W. Waller, timber merchant, failed for £20,000. Wellington, May 19. The Government have received a telegram from Mr Vogel corroborating the information given by the Press Agency as to the state of his health and consequent detention in England. The following telegram has been received from the Agent-General, dated London, May 11th: The following shjps were despatched in April Lamraerslaught and Collingwood, with 709 immigrants, for Wellington and Taranaki; Ktar <>f China, with 241 immigrants, for Lyttelton; Fleming and Aidegrove, with 667 immigrants for Otago, and 2090 tons rails and ten locomotives, turntables, six cranes, eleven wheels, and 400 tons lighthouse material. Nelson, May 19. A new morning paper, entitled the Nelson Daily Times , appeared this morning. The Provincial Treasurer made his financial statement last night. He complained that Mr Curtis had misrepresented the state of the ordinary revenue, in stating that it had fallen off, whereas it actually showed an increase of £B7OO. Dunedin, May 19. An attempt was made last night to rob the Treasury. All the burglars got was a packet of cancelled Bank of New Zealand notes. The Government has resigned. Mr Bastings, Jit is stated, had been sent for by the Superintendent. The House adjourned till Tuesday. THIS DAY’S TELEGRAMS. Auckland, May 20. The Provincial Council last night carried a motion in favor of levying an export duty of £5 per ton on all gum sent out of the colony, the proceeds to be devoted exclusively to education, and that the Superintendent should memoralise the General Government to give effect to this resolution. Wellington, May 20. The Times this morning reviewed the posh tion of the Ministry in the light of Mr Vogel’s illness, and detection at Home. It says now that the doubt is removed, and we need not hope for his (Vogel’s) return before September, there can be no possible object gained by postponing the opening of the session beyond the usual time early in July. It also says :—“lt would be idle ,to shut our eyes to the fact that the Government, as now constituted, is perhaps as weak a one as could well meet the House at the present crisis.” It says Sir D, McLean will have enough to attend to in native matters and Mr Richardson in public works, and neicher can be of much assistance to the Ministers in other business. It also says that neither Mr Reynolds or Major Atkinson is equal to the conduct of the Government business in the place of Mr Vogel. The article altogether is very hostile; it says virtually that rightly or wrongly the colony has not confidence in the present Executive without Mr Vogel. Hokitika, May 20. The cattle market is short of supply. Beef averages 4Cs per 1001 b, and sheepjlls to 15s. ■ ■ 1 The resident agent at the Jackson’s Bay special settlement, reports that an extensive deposit of limestone exists half a mile from the town. He says the quantity is unlimited, and forwards samples to the Superintendent. He also picked up pieces of coal shale, and observed patches of fire clay. The Government survey party came across fine continuous belts of timber. Dunedin, May 20. A man named James Rixton, in the employ of the Harbor Board, dropped down dead in Cumberland street. He had been drinking heavily. At the inquest to-day on the body of the man Borland, killed by a train, the driver said he heard cries to stop the train, but he thought it was some children. The night was intensely dark, and it was raining heavily. The inquest was adjourned, A subscription has been started for the relief of Borland’s widow and six children, all of whom are girls, the youngest being only three years old. The Governor was at the performance of the Fakir of Oolu last night. The house was crowded.