The Globe. FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 323, 25 June 1875, Page 2

The Globe. FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

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London, June 12. The coin market is heavy and flat. June 14. Arrived—the Adamant, from Wellington, June 15.

The tenders for the San Francisco service has been opened. The Pacific Mail and Railway Combination is the lowest. The service via Fiji, is estimated to cost £89,500; that via Auckland, £74,500. The concordat between Rucsia and the Vatican, announced by L' Universe, has been contradicted. It is stated to be only a reapproachment. Alexander Collie, commission merchant of London and Manchester, has suspended payment ; the liabilities are estimated at three millions. Lord Carnarvon has leceived numerous deputations urging the annexation of New Guinea. He stated such a step required very careful consideration. INTERPROViNCIAL. Wellington, June 25. By a proclamation which appeared in last night's Gazette sections 21 to 45 inclusive of Public Health Act are brought into force in the Province of Canterbury. Flour £ll to £l2 per ton; wheat, 4s 4d to 4s 6d per bushel; oats, 3s 9d; maize, 6s 6d; pollard, 8s; bran, Is 3d to Is 4d; potatoes, 90s to 100 s; cheese, per lb ; ham. Is 2d; bacon, Is. The Chief Justice has given a decision which settles the liability of mail coaches to pay tolls, by dismissing Young's (coach proprietor) appeal with costs. Sailed—Bee, for Lyttleton. The Easby arrived at 1 p.m., *rom Sydney. Auckland, June 25. The barque Comet (Hokulea), which left Dunedin for Hobart Town in February last, and which has not since been heard of, was insured in the Standard Insurance Company, Auckland branch, for £2003. Fat cattle have advanced 2s 6d per 1001 b, best, 30s to 355; inferior, 255. woolled. ewes, 12s; half-bred, 9s to lis. Dunedin, June 25. An altercation, which led to an exchange of blows, took plac3 last evening between Robert Gillies, one of the directors of the Otago Daily Times Company, and James Smith, barrister. The dispute is said to have been caused by the Times refusing to insert a letter written by Smith. [from our dunedin correspondent.] Dunedin, June 24. In the dock this morning, Mrs Schmidt, charged with bigamy, treated matters with the utmost nonchalence, and seemed to have a perfect " down" on Dryden, the second husband. When he married her, he well knew she was another man's wife. She was committed for trial.

At the cricketer's meeting, Mr Meares reported that a sub'Coramitte had considered the probable cost of bringing a team from Victoria, and had arrived at this estimate: —Passages for twelve men to Dunedin, £132; seven days stay Dunedin, at ten shillings each, £42; passages to Christchurch, £36; seven days' stay there, £42 ; passages to Wellington, £24 ; five days' stay; £3O; passages, Nelson, £23; five days' stay, £3O; passages, £36; seven days' stay, £42; passages to Sydney, £120; and passages of Victorian six from Sydney to Melbourne, £27. To this totrl the coir ir.ttee thought it politic to add for contingencies and expenses, £165. It was at first proposed provinces should contribute £750 in equal shares, but the meeting carried a countpr proposition that on behalf of the Otago ciicketers it gaaranteed £175 as provnees' contribution, on the assumption that no more than required. It appeared to be the unanimous opinion of the meeting that £750 would be amply Lufficient. A motion was made that in the representative match, Victoria v New Zealand, fifteen players, representing various provinces, should meet the visiting team at a place hereafter to be deteimined, and wlrle various opinions were expressed as to the number who should represent the colony, it was the unair' nous feeling that it was inadvisable to cauy any resolution that might tend to hamper the a jtiton. of the other provinces,