The Globe. SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 306, 5 June 1875, Page 2

The Globe. SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

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ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

[Per Taearua.J London, May 26,

Governor DuCane, on returning to his home in Essex, met with a most enthusiastic reception. A grand banquet to celebrate the event will be given shortly at Colchester. A drama, based on the Tichborne trial, is in preparation for the French staere. The Censor, however, refuses to license it until the trial and name of the leading character are altered.

The Cospatrick boat, in which McDonald and his < ompanions were rescued, has been presented to the Crystal Palace. A valuable chronometer has been presented to the captain of the British Sceptre, for saving the survivors. The ironclad Alexandra has been successfully launched, and christened by the Princess of Wales, in the presence of a distinguished company. Cardinal Manning has returned to Eng - land. A discussion has been started regarding the recognition of his titles. A handsome testimonial is being raised for him. The Duke of Norfolk heads the list with £IOOO.

Captain Shaw, of the London Fire Brigade, is in Egypt, preparing a scheme for the protection of Alexandria from fire. Mr Froude has returned from South Africa.

Bridgeport has returned Mr Kalla, a Greek merchant, and a Liberal. A large meeting has been held in Exeter Hall to support the Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Bill. The meeting strongly insisted upon an efficient and compulsory survey of all unclassed ships, as well as of the load line. . .

Alderman Jessop, of Sheffield, has given £12,000 towards the erection of another hospital in that town. With a view of prosecuting his theological studies it is understood that Mr Gladstone has engaged rooms at Oxford, where he will have access to the valuable libraries.

Dr Kenealy has visited various towns demonstrating, with Messrs Whalley and Onslow, in favor of the claimant. i The Norwich jury decided that the responsibility of the Thorpe accident rested primarily with the night inspector Cooper, who was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment. Robson, the telegraph clerk, was acquitted. By the explosion of a boiler at Swansea two men were killed, and six seriously injured. There have been several brutal attempts at wife murder.

Cambridge won the four-handed billiard match; also the chess match, winning tjo games out of sixteen. The Woman’s Disabilities Removal Bill was rejected by 187 to 152, The farmers everywhere are pronouncing vehemently against the Tenant Eight Bill. The measure is regarded as a cruel mockery, and will alienate a large class from Mr Disraeli’s Government.

The Liberal party are greatly dissatisfied with the Marquis of Martington’s bad leadership. The Budget has excited no interest. The estimated surplus is £859,000, Obituary—Count Burnlow, William Barry, author ; Lord Wesfbury, E. H. Budd, father of cricket; Lord Hobart, Governor of Madras, who died, after a short illness, from gastric fever.

Spinaway won the One Thousand Guineas; Per Se, 2nd ; Chaplet, 3rd. General Cissy, the French Minister for War, in a circular to the Generals, calls the attention of the Generals-Commanding to the new Constitution adopted by the Assembly, and enjoins loyal adhesion to it. This has reassured Paris, where there where apprehensions of a violent restoration of the Empire. A very vivid reaction is rapidly proceeding in Spain. What the King gains in personal prosperity the Ministers forfeit by their retrograde policy. The priests are in the ascendancy, and the liberals are alienated. General Cabrera has left the Carlists. Numerous officers have followed his example The exports for the month to New Zealand are £198,800 ; Tasmania, nil.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Auckland, June 4,

The Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency has received the following commercial telegram per Tararua: —London, May 28th— Wool: up to date 130,000 bates have been sold, Competition on French account is active, but the German demand is dull. For scoured the market is firmer; for medium and inferior greasy the market is easier; and for superior greasy cross-bred lambs the market is easier. Superior clothing washed and superior combing washed have advanced l£d to 2d per lb. The wheat market is quiet. Adelaide is worth 49s per 494 lbs. The weather is favorable for the crop here.

Telegrams,from Wangarei states that vague rumours are afloat of a serious native disturbance at Ngunguru. There is nothing definite. Tomahawks are said to have been used. It is probably a mere drunken row. The Auckland Steam Packet Company are negotiating for the purchase of a new steamer, the Llewellyn, built in Sydney. If completed the vessel will replace the Star of-the South on the Fiji trade. Captain Holmes has proceeded to Sydney to-day to inspect her. Tauranga, June 4.

Rewi addressed the Tauranga natives yesterday, and expressed his gratitude for their kind reception of him. He spoke in energetic terms of the Native Minister, whom he termed bis mother. The meeting between Rewi and Hopkins Clarke was likened to marriage between the Queen and the Maori King. Dunedin, June 4.

Air George Andrew has been appointed hoa.e agent for Otago, vioo Mr Auld, deceased

Nelson, June 5,

The Provincial Council yesterday in view of the Governor’s expected visit passed a resolution that no expenditure under the item “General Contingencies,” should ever be incurred for fetes, entertainments or celebrations. The Council is now prorogued. Wellington, June 5.

His Excellency and Lady Normanby visited the Catholic Convert and schools yesterday afternoon, and expressed themselves greatly pleased with the arrangements of the schools, but not so with the accommodation for the reverend sisters. That defect is about to be remedied.

The Express steamer, formerly trading between Dunedin and Bluff, is to make Wellington her head quarters and engage in the Napier and East coast trade. Mr Seager has taken a contract to build a steamer to run between Wellington and Napier. Arrived —The Ladybird from the North.-

(FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.) Auckland, June 4.

The Southern Cross says that cases have been brought under its notice in which the Government land purchasers have paid the surveyors double their proper fee on behalf of the Government, receiving back half as their own perquisites out of the transaction. It thinks that Sir George Grey’s letter on the land purchase abuse should lead to an investigation. A correspondent of the Star writing from Raglan, and residing in the vicinity of the Hau Haus, states positively on native authority, that at the meeting between the Native Minister and the Maori King, Sir Donald McLean offered to restore to the Kingites the whole of the land on one bank of the Waipu river, confiscated for rebellion, and that Tawhaio refuses to accept the offer as a condition of allegiance. It is currently talked of among the disaffected Hau Haus that Tawhaio and his sons shou'd be deposed from the Royal Office for drunkenness, and Te Whiti, the Maori Prophet of Taranaki be made King. The settlers along the line of the Auckland and Mercer railway are holding meetings and protesting against the high fares. Complaints against the management continue rife; goods after lyingall day atthe Auckland station have been carted away and taken to their destination on drays. An old man named Robert Savage has been found dead in a closet; ,he had been brought up a few days before on a charge of vagrancy and liberated to give him another chance. Disease of the heart caused his death.

The value of gum exported, which it is proposed to tax, is shown by the departure of the Marathon for New York with a cargo of Kauri gum only, of the value of £19,400. The proposed tax on this one cargo would be £2130

[FROM OUR DUNEDIN CORRESPONDENT.] Dunedin, June 4.

Two men named Cavanagh and Caulfield, have been committed for trial for a murderous assault on their brother-in-law. Bail was refused.

Some of Mr Sutton’s sheep were worried by a dog, and the owner of the latter paid £166 sooner than risk a law suit.

Mr Andrew, our new Home Agent, was Mr Auld’s right hand man for the past twelve years, and practically did the work. Mr Vogel appointed him General Government agent in Scotland. There was warm wo.rk in the Council last night between Messrs Bastings and Reid. The latter provoked Bastings by saying he was fond of blowing his own trumpet, and Mr Bastings said that the speaker dared not repeat that expression outside the Council Chamber. Mr Reid replied that he was not afraid of the consequences, but alter such a threat refused to hold any intercourse, except in Council, with Mr Bastings. Mr Vogel proposes to utilise the Otago Provincial Agency for emigration purposes. The Otago Home Agent is to do all the work and the province will only be asked to contribute £3OO towards the cost of tbe agency, &c. There is really no later news by Suez mail.