The Globe. THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 334, 8 July 1875, Page 2

The Globe. THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

{Press Telegraph Agency .) LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA. * ENGLISH NEWS. London, June 24. Sir Julius Vogel is awaiting the decision of his colleagues in the New Zealand Ministry as to whether he shall resign or not. Disastrous inundations have occurred at Toulouse through the overflowing of the lliver Garonne. One hundred persons are known to have been drowned, but there were probably many more deaths. The German Court of Appeal has convicted Count Aruim on the charge of unlawfully removing State documents. He was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment. June 27. The details of the inundations caused by the overflowing of the River Garonne are heartrending. Two hundred and fifty corpses have been found, and the destruction of property is immense. Twenty thousand people are rendered destitute. Marshal MacMahon has gone to Toulouse to afford succour. Money is easier, and the bank rate of discount is 3h per cent. Trade is depressed but confidence is slowly reviving. The wheat market is firmer, unfavorable reports haying been received of the French and American harvest prospects. The copper market is depressed, and the tin market is quiet. Arrived—The Hydaspes and Waitangi on June 29th. The Emperors Francis Joseph of Austria and Alexander of Russia have met in Bohemia, The inundation in France has extended to several departments in the South of France. The Assembly has voted 2,000,000 francs for the suffering. The Cape Cabinet objected to consider the Earl of Carnarvon’s suggestions that there should be a conference of delegates from the South African States to consider a scheme for confederation, because such a step is considered premature. The American team of riflemen won the match against the Irish team by 38 points. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Sydney, July 3. Pending the commencement of the new Californian contract, the Government have arranged with the Australian Steam Navigation Company for four additional trips to .-an Francisco and back. After a heavy debate, Mr Parkes’ resolution for adopting the Committee’s report on the removal by the Colonial Treasurer ot £750,000 from the bank of New South Wales to other banks, was negatived by 30 to 25. There are satisfactory reports from the pastoral districts, and the increase of flocks is unprecedentedly large. Extensive preparations are making for the Philadelphia Exhibition by the Commissioners. The steamer St Osyth has arrived from Melbourne. There were heavy gales at the beginning of the week, with tremendous sea along the coast. Vessels arriving at Newcastle were unable to enter the port. No _ serious casualties are reported save that the ships Ben Nevis and Result, bound for Newcastle, are ashore at Broken Bay. The schedule of F. W. Cape, broker, deceased, has been filed in insolvency. The liabilities are £93,000, and assets £254. Arrival—The John Knox, from Lyttelton. Departure—The Joliba, for Lyttelton. The North German ship R.D.8.G., from Hamburg to Wellington, was spoken on May Ist, twenty-five days out. Arrivals at Newcastle —The Helena and Maggie, from Napier ; and Emperor and Adelphi, from Lyttelton. Sailed—The Kate Monaghan, for Greymouth ; Mary, for Wellington. The heavy rains have caused floods but no serious damages. At Goulbourn snow fell for five hours. The break water at Woolongong was damaged by the gale. Four concrete blocks each of the weight of twenty-five tons, were washed into the sea. No steps have yet been taken in regard of the Australian team of cricketers to New Zealand. Melbourne, July 2, The full Court has sustained the conviction of the defaulter O’Farrell and confirmed his sentence of nine years. Frank Stephens’ life boat made a successful trial trip to Queenscliffe. The steamer St. Osyth arrived on Sunday after a passage of actual steaming of under forty-three days, being the fastest on record. The actual time occupied was under fortyfive days. She left Plymouth at midnight on the 12th of May, and was twenty-seven hours at St Vincents, She has 300 passengers and a full cargo. Sir George Bowen is expected to arrive in Victoria about October IGth. There has been a tremendous flood in the Murray, and at Echuca considerable damage was done. The estate of Thomas Luke and Co shows liabilities at £36,000, but the deficiency will probably be small. There are fears for the safety of the ship Crown Princess. She left London in January last, since which time nothing has been heard of her. The Land Bill has passed the second reading without a division. The creditors of Mr McEwan’s estate agreed that the bank should be paid 6s in the £ on their claim, and the estate afterwards wound up on behalf of the other creditors. The barque Corrido, from Newcastle to Adelaide with coals, was wrecked on Swan Island. The crew were saved. All hope has been abandoned at saving the Blencathra, now ashore at King’s Island. The Rev Clark has been requested to lecture on behalf of the Tichborne claimant, and was promised the use of some fresh documents, but he declined.

Queensland, Brisbane, July 2. Mr M ■ ■'ister, the Premier, was seized with a tii, uf apoplexy at the beginning of the week, but is now recovering. The Legislative Council has passed the third reading of the Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill. The official reports from the Palmer goldfields are satisfactory. Adelaide. Wheat, 4s. Launceston. The country is flooded in all directions, INTBRPROVINCIAL. Auckland, July 7, The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company’s local meeting was held to-day. The chairman spoke satisfactorily of the company’s largely increased business and prospects. The Hon James Williamson was re-elected director, and Mr Browning colonial auditor. The ship Forfarshire has arrived in the Rangitata Channel, but is unable to get up the harbor. She brings three hundred Government immigrants. She left London on March 19th. James Conley, waterman, his wife, son, and a young girl, were remanded to-day on a charge of arson, with intent to defraud the New Zealand Insurance Company. A fire was discovered in their house last night, having commenced in a box of old clothes in which were rags saturated with kerosene. Another fire was lit on the top of the drawers, and other combustibles prepared for lighting were found in a back room. The fire was extinguished after burning the lining of the house. All the accused were absent when the fire was discovered, but the little girl, who made a contradictory statement as to its origin. The building was insured for £2OO. In the Supreme Court to-day Mr Thomas Redwood pleaded guilty to shooting James Tobey. He said he only intended to wound him slightly for running away with his wife. The judge said the prisoner had suffered the greatest wrong one man could inflict on another. If the prisoner had committed the act in the heat of the moment on discovering the seduction of his wife, the law would uphold him; but he was not warranted by law in doing so after a lapse of time. He was sentenced to three months. Thomas Ike, a Maori, for breaking into a settler’s house with intent on prosecutor’s wife, was sentenced to two years, Auckland, July 8. The Mikado has arrived. She left Sydney on the 3rd. She has forty-seven cabin and thirty second class passengers through to San Francisco, Napier, July 7. A thousand acres of heavily timbered bush land at Hampden was offered for sale to-day. It is a good site for a saw mill; but there was no offer. Wellington, July 8. Arrived—The Phoebe, from the North; and the Emerald, from Lyttelton, Dunedin, July 7. Walter Yause, late postmaster at Alexandra, was charged with embezzlement, and sentenced to three months without hard labor. The prisoner had previously borne a good character, [FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, July 7. At the Supreme Court to-day, Thomas Edwards was charged with having shot at with intention to do bodily harm to John Tobey at the Thames. The prisoner pleaded “ Not Guilty,” but stated that he shot the prosecutor below the knee in his own defence. He intended to wound him slightly, because he had injured him. Prisoner then withdrew the plea ot “ Wot Guilty,” and pleaded “ Guilty.” He said his wife had run away to Auckland from him. He then made a prisoner of Tobey, and went to look after his wife. When he found her, she promised to come back and live with him provided he released Tobey. He did so, and two or three days afterwards she again bolted, and he found her with a man of Tobey’s. He got her home again. He had now a business at Ohinemuri. He had been a gum packer, but had made it up with his wife to start afresh, and they were to open an eating-house. Tobey one day passed and said he would be one with him. His wife then sent him for some blankets, and he was absent for some five minutes, and when he returned she was gone without her hat. He searched for her in every direction, and after travelling five miles from Kati Kati, he met Tobey with bis (prisoner’s) wife and youngest child. He abused his wife, and also entreated her to return home for her five childrens sake; She did, so, but said, “If John Tobey comes here I will encourage him, and if you don’t like it you must.” Prisoner then went and bought a pistol, not knowing what Tobey would do. He went afterwards to his whare and called on him to come out, and said he was no man. He picked up a tomahawk when prisoner held the pistol towards him and said “ I am not going to kill you Jack, only to wound you.” He then fired and shot Tobey in the leg. John Tobey, the prosecutor, was then called, and swore that he never induced the woman to go with him, but she always followed him. He kept her with him. The Judge said— “ Prisoner, you appear to have suffered a grievous wrong at the hands of the prosecutor—the greatest wrong one man can do to another, and I am not surprised at a man taking the law into his own hands under such circumstances; but the law gives you no excuse. Had you committed the act in the heat of the moment when you found your wife with the prosecutor, you would have had the law on your side. lam bound to vindicate the law, aud, therefore, I sentence you to one month’s imprisonment.” There has been an accident to Robert Cameron, the owner of the brig Sea Spray. He was in the hold, when a large lump of stone ballast was thrown from above aud knocked him down. The men above continued pitching in ballast till the man was half buried before the accident was discovered. Cameron is recovering.