The Globe. TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 314, 15 June 1875, Page 2

The Globe. TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

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ADDITIONAL NEWS BY THE MACGREGOR.

Advices from India state a revolt has occurred at Baroda, and that the infant son of the Guicowar’s daughter was placed on the throne by the excited populace. The revolt was ultimately suppressed. Cholera is raging in India. People have been attacked and died in the railway trains.

The Gothenburg relief fund has been divided. The captain’s widow and familyget £4OO, the widow and family of the chief officer £4BO, Mrs Goulden, widow of a passenger, having eight children, £535, and others proportionately. A young man has been arrested on suspicion of having participated in a recent garotting case in Sydney, by which a man was killed.

Another case of garotting and robbery is reported. John Charles Ray, recently from Melbourne, has been arrested in Sydney on a Melbourne warrant, charged with misappropriating £louo trust money. Five thousand Chinese are now on the right and left branches of the Palmer, and some of them are getting plenty of gold. The latest news from the Palmer is very good. All the white men are doing fairly. The Chinese are making a good thing of the abandoned ground. In some cases the Chinese are making from half an ounce to an ounce per day in ground left by the whites as not payable. Many of them have come in with heavy gold, and intend leaving for China by the next mail steamer. Provisions have risen on the field. Packing and teaming are vigorously carried on. Horses are still low in price, but the market is steadily rising. A notice has been posted at Sandy Creek, stating that any Chinamen coming will be hanged. The Sybils, schooner, which has arrived av Maryborough from the South Islands, with 118 ]ar)t/„ r 8 on board, reports famine at the Islands througn hurricanes, earthquakes, and tidal-waves.

INTERPHOVINCiaI. Auckland, June 14. The Macgregor has sailed for Ban Francisco with sixteen saloon, and seven steerage passengers from New Zealand. Bhe shipped carpenters here for the voyage to repair the damage by the gale. H.M. Dido has arrived at the Bay of Islands. Heavy floods have occurred at the Kawakawa and Waitani block. A bridge has been washed away and a large quantity of Kauri gum lost. Auckland, Juno 15, Charles Padon, a solicitor, recently from Christchurch, who has been many times before the Resident Magistrate’s Court lately, yvaa picked up in the streets intoxi-

catecl last night, and conveyed to the lock-up on a hand cart. Tw o hours afterwards he was found lying dead in the cell. Gkahamstown. June 14.

The discovery reported some time ago from Oliineniuri of a rich gold deposit in pipeclay is said to be a deep swindle. The Star's correspondent reports that the general belief up coir try is tiiat the discoverer only used pipeclav to get rid of stolen property The Advertiser gives further particulars, and amongst others states that James Stewart, the supposed discoverer of the rich yield, was once a “boss” of the shaft in the Union Beach mine, Coromandel (formerly Green Harp); that the gold sold by Stewart corresponds in value to the Union Beach gold; and that Stewart is now in Sydney. The police had him under surveillance for some time. The pipeclay holes have been found, but there is no trace of gold. Stewart disposed of about 200 ounces of gold altogether. Napier, June 14. The Chief Justice has been entertained at dinner by members of the club. His Honor has left for Wellington. It is reported that the Government have offered Mr McKirdy £<so per week for every week his portion of the railway |is finished under the contract time. Wellington. June 15. Sailed —Reward for Lyttelton, in ballast. The Licensing Bench to-day refused to grant three licenses to new hotels under sub-section 5 of clause 28 of the Licensing Act 1873 Amendment Act 1874, because the houses were not in existence, although plans were handed in and the houses guaranteed to be erected. Westport, June 14. At the official declaration of the poll, nine votes were struck off Mr Humphries’ total for double voting. The returning officer expressed his intention to prosecute the offenders. Upwards of twenty are suspected, Timaru, June 14. The case of arson against Miss Dodds broke down through a flaw in the indictment. On the second count she was found not guilty. T. S. Hardy, Waimate, charged with the manslaughter of his wife, has been acquitted. The missing small craft have all returned to the roadstead. The farmers are holding wheat for 4s per bushel. A rise is expected. Dunedin, June 14. H. Bennett, formerly providore for the New Zealand Steam Navigation Company, is the successful tenderer for providing the Harbor Company’s steamers. A meeting is to be held this week with the view of inviting Messrs Saukey and Moody here. It is expected they would start through New Zealand. The Wesleyaus are the principal movers. A match came off on Saturday between Edwards, of Wellington, a pedestrian, and Burke, a amateur, for £4O a side. The former engaged to walk seventy yards while the latter run one hundred. It resulted in a dead heat. The butchers have raised the price of meat Id. A co-operative provision company is projecte 1. A Bill has been introduced in the Council providing for a Harbor Board at Moeraki, [FROM OUR WELLINGTON CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, June 15. Mr Vogel has placed the whole of the proceeds of the late loan on deposit with the Bank of New Zealand at 2h per cent., the colony paying 5 per cent. Major Atkinson will deliver the financial statement. The ketch William and Mary was upset sixteen miles south-west from Opunake. The captain and mate were in the cabin at the time, and remained there sixty hours, when the water rising, they dived out. The mate sank, but the captain remained on a spar close to the wreck till next day, when he was rescued. The vessel was bound from Motueka to Patea, and had five men aboard.

The Eimutuka railway tunnel is now a quarter through. Progress at the rate of one foot per day is being made.