TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 305, 4 June 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Press Telegraph Agency.)

LATEST FROM EUROPE AND A.TJSTRA.LIA..

[news per tararua.] London, May 26.

Mr Lowther, under-secretary for the colonies, addressing his constituents at York, declared that the present Government had thoroughly resolved, under the circumstances, to countenance the dismemberment of the Empire. Considerable. excitement prevails in Lincolnshire, owing to the extensive emigration promoted by the labor league ; two Canadian and two New Zealand agents are holding meetings nightly. Captain Richard Mayne (who commanded the Eclipse) owing to the severe nature of his wounds, received in the New Zealand campaign, has retired from active service, and the command of the iron-clad Invincible, has been transferred to Captain Jago. The Colonial Secretary, inreply to a question from Mr Whalley, declared it was premature to state whether the Government contemplated establishing a settlement in New Guinea.

The Duke of Connaught has returned from Egypt. ARoyal Commission of which Sir James Fergusson and Sir Charles Ducane are members, has been appointed to inquire into the.operation of the Factory and Workshops' Act. On the 13th the House of Commons presented a scene of great excitement apropos of a motion by Mr C. Lewis that the Times and Daily News had committed a breach of privilege by publishing certain evidence taken, before the Foreign Loans Committee. The printers were summoned before the Bar of the House. The investigations of the committee are producing consternation. The Arctic expedition sails about June Ist, and is to return in 1877. The revival services of Messrs Moody and Sankey continue to attract undiminished crowds. The Messrs Johnston, Geographical publishers of Edinburgh, have obtained a verdict with £1275 damages against the Athenmm for libellous remarks in a review of an atlas of theirs.

The Exchequer receipts for the year are nearly half a million in excess of the estimated revenue.

Paris, May 27.

The Assembly has appointed a new committee of thirty, containing twenty members of the Left, favorable to the elections by departments. The Ministry insist t on the elections by arrondissements.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Melbourne, May 29.

The business of the Parliamentary session has scarcely commenced, but the Mining on Private Property Bill has been introduced, and a motion for the reduction of inland postage discussed and withdrawn. The Treasurer stated the present loss on inland postage was £IOO,OOO. The Government intend submitting resolutions relative to the annexation of New Guinea by the Imperial Government. It is probable an expedition will proceed from Melbourne shortly. An outbreak of typhoid fever has occurred at Kew, and several deaths have taken place. Mr Thomas McKellar having resigned his seat in the Council, Mr Samuel Wilson, of Ercildoun, is a candidate. A quack doctor named Botherill has been fined for practising without qualifications. Business is dull. Breadstuffs are unchanged. Hennessy's brandy is advancing. Sydney. The steamer New England went ashore yesterday at Clarence Heads. Tenders for the Oalifornian service are invited up to the 10th of June. The defective railway iron imported is causing a great loss to the colony. Proceedings will probably be taken against the contractors in England. Arrived—Glimpse, from Auckland, at Newcastle.

Adelaide. Lurline won the Queen's Hundred in Adelaide easily. The no-confidence motion in the South Australian Government resulted in the defeat of the Government last night by a majority of four. The lateßt accounts from the Palmer are very good. The whites and Chinese are doing well. In some cases the Chinese are making from half an ounce to an ounce per day from ground left by the whites. The steamer Killarney has arrived from Hong Kong with 500 Chinese. Others are announeed.

INTEEPRO^INCIAL.

Bluff, June 3

The Tararua, with the English mail, left Melbourne at ten p.m. on the 291 h, and arrived at the Bluff at 6 p m. on the 3rd. She brings 21 saloon, 30 steerage passengers, and 350 tons cargo for all ports. She sails for Dunedin at 4 p.m. on the 4th. Passengers for Canterbury—Miss Stack, Buttler, Hulbert, Master Price, and six steerage, and 100 tons cargo. Wellingtok, June 4.

A telegram has been received per Tararua stating that the Cyphrenes with the mails via San Francisco, left for Auckland on May 24th, being her proper date. Port Chalmers, June 4.

Arrived the Earl of Zetland from London, 77 days out, with 287 statute adults. All well.