TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 344, 20 July 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Press Telegraph Agency,') LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA. ♦ [Per Otago ] London, July 10, The June trade returns are fairly satisfactory. The wool market is unaffected by recent failures. Wheat continues firm owing to the rain ; Adelaide, 47s to 495; Tasmanian, 45s to 475. The Loch Laggan, from Liverpool to Melbourne, put into Waterford in a sinking condition. Arrived— Great Britain. Sailed—Whampoa,

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Melbourne, July 14. During the one sitting of the Assembly since the departure of the last steamer, the Land Bill was again under consideration ; and the charge against Judge Dunne, of the County Court Bench, was further discussed, the Government having received various reports and statements which satisfied themselves that Dunne was suffering from the effects of chlorodyne, and not drink, as alleged by the local paper. The matter is causing a good deal of discussion, and Sir James McCulloch has given notice of a motion for an inquiry on an early date. It is expected that the financial statement will be made to-morrow. The new clauses prepared against betting are likely to put a stop to all betting transactions on the turf, but they are scarcely likely to become law. The Catholics continue strong opposition against the Education Act. The ship Crown Prince, 170 days out from London, has arrived. She has been delayed by baflfing winds and foul bottom. She put in nowhere on the way. At a meeting of the creditors of D. A. Hughes, insolvent, he was examined relative to money received from the Brunner coal mine, near Greymouth. W. B. Isaacs, jun, has failed for £9OOO.

The Carandinis left for India in the mail steamer yesterday, and the Allen Company soon follow. There is a large exodus of professionals to the East, owing to the visit of the Prince of Wales in November. Madame Ristori arrives at Sydney at the end of this month. She brings a complete Italian company with her. Several racing clubs are offering large stakes at the forthcoming Spring Meetings. Wheat is very firm at 5s fid, sugars have advanced 10a to £1 per ton, oats are unaltered. Sailed—loth, Adieu, for Greymouth. Millis, injured in the Theatre Royal explosion, died in the hospital last night. The mail steamer Ceylon in going down the Bay last night, in charge of the pilot, grounded at the eastern entrance to the South Channel, and still remains fast. Two tugs assisting will probably get her off during the day when lightened. O’Ferrall will be tried on two more charges of embezzlement at this sittings. Sydney. Governor Gordon has arrived at Fiji. He was received with the usual ceremonies. The official returns show that one-third of the inhabitants have died of measles. Three convicts have escaped from Noumea in a five-ton boat, and since have been unheard of. A shock of earthquake was felt at Bega and Eden, which lasted about five seconds, and was very distinct. The Kate Monaghan, with a cargo of hardwood for New Zealand, has been towed into Newcastle dismasted and her rudder gone. The agreement among the banks in New Zealand is likely to lead to an increased rate of discount here. Splendid news has been received from the reefs at Cooktown. Adelaide. Messrs Devitt and Moore have telegraphed from London that the first of a line of 3000 ton steamers is to sail in October. The second reading of the Education Bill has been moved, and the debate adjourned. Mr Johnston, telegraph and station master at Daly Waters, has been speared by the natives at the Roper, and has died. Two other men with him, searching for strayed cattle, wore also wounded, but are recovering. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, July 19. Mr John May, son of Mr Joseph May, M.H.R., was tossed by a bull on Saturday and severely injured. He was only saved from being gored to death by clinging to its nose until assistance came. Fiji papers contain further details of fearful mortality from measles. The natives, driven to desperation, have committed suicide and burned their villages. Bodies have been left exposed to be eaten by pigs and dogs. The number of deaths on the island Vann Sau, alone, is estimated at 18,700. The barque Martha, from Samoa, reports that an American man-of-war has been there for seven weeks engaged in settling the claims by American citizens for compensation arising out of the late war. On the advice of the United States commander, the natives have set up a king, named Malietoa, Wellington, July 19. The inward San Francisco mail consisted of thirty-six bags, containing 2321 letters. According to official information respecting the Schiller’s mails, it appears that the bags for London and Liverpool were saved, but the whole of the mails for the English country districts and for Ireland were lost. Some of the letters for Wales were put into the Liverpool bags and had been saved, but the great bulk of the whole mail is irretrievably lost. Wellington, July 20. Arrived—The Hawea, from Lyttelton, at 8.45 a.m. ; the Phoebe, at 7.30 a.m. ; the Luna, from Manukau, at 7 a.m. She could not communicate with Taranaki. The Alhambra. She sails for the South tomorrow, at two p.m. Hutt, July 19. There is an immense flood in the Hutt River. The water is over the road and the country for miles, and the river is still rising fast. The people are all preparing for it. Some houses are surrounded. It is raining and blowing hard. Bluff, July 19. The Otago left Melbourne at 2.30 p.m. on the 14th, and arrived at 2 p.m. to-day. She brings 407 tons of cargo, 26 saloon, and 44 steerage passengers for all ports. Passengers for Lyttelton—Saloon : Messrs James Redfern, Greenwood, and 108 tons cargo. She sails at 4 p.m to-morrow for Dunedin. Dunedin, July 20. The Otago Daily Times’ letter-box at the Post Office was opened by a duplicate key on Saturday night, and letters containing money abstracted from it. A number of envelopes and pieces of cheques were found in the gutter yesterday. Some of the cheques have been recovered, and the police have obtained a good clue. They suppose it to be the work of a person lately discharged, and at the time of his discharge one of the keys of the letter-box was missed. Sir George Grey has given the Acclimatisation Society here twenty brace of quail. They are expected by the Wellington tomorrow,