The Globe. FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 347, 23 July 1875, Page 2

The Globe. FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

"■■■» (Press Telegraph Agency .) LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA. [Pee, Llewellyn.] London, July 14. The French National Assembly, by 335 votes against 310, annulled the election of M, Bourgoing, a Bonapartist representative of the department of the Nievre. Madeid, July 14. The Carlists are being closely pursued by the Alphonso troops. The official statement of the Turkish budget shows a deficiency of £4,000,000. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Sydney, July 16. The Sydney Morning Horald understands that since the mail contract was signed some difficulty has arisen from the fact that the solicitors of the American company have expressed doubts as to the power of the directors under their quarters to enter into a joint contract with other parties. The English solicitors do not appear to see any difficulty in the matter, but a plan has been proposed for getting over the difficulty, which is not considered very formidable.

The New South Wales Legislative Assembly has agreed to the Legislative Council’s amendments in the Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill, so that the measure now only awaits the Governor’s assent to become law.

The price paid to Joshua Brothers for their sugar works, including twenty cargoes of sugar, was £500,000. A committee of the Victorian Chamber of Commerce has acquiesced in the proposals of the Brisbane Chamber for a conference on intercolonial reciprocity, and suggests that Melbourne or Sydney if more convenient, should be the place for meeting. An entertainment is to be given in Sydney for the benefit of the sufferers by the recent floods in the south of France. A German Glee Club offered, among the first, to aid.

New tariff proposals have been made in the Victorian Parliament. The proposals of the Government are to levy a land tax, so that the wealthy might contribute a fair share. They fix the tax as follows:—All owners of land from 321 acres to 2000 acres to pay 4d per acre per annum; of 2000 acres and upwards, 6d acre. The holders of land under 320 acres to be exempt. This tax would produce £150,000. It is also proposed to tax house property. That under value of £75 will be exempt; of the value of £l5O, 6d in the pound; over £l5O, 9i in the pound, will be levied on owners not tenants. This tax will produce £SOOO. It is also proposed to levy a duty on banks equal to 2 per cent on the notes in circulation. The stamp duties will be increased, and a tax levied on absentee holders of property to the amount of 2£ per cent, and they will place a tax of 5 per cent oa ali[incomes from business not otherwise taxed. The Government propose to remit the Cu itoms dulL-s to the extent of £230,000, The treasurer proposes that £200,000 should be set apart from the land revenues for three years, for the construction of railways, and tobeusedfjr building schools. He intends to ask Parliament to borrow £2,330,000 from the London market, for the construction of railways and other public works. The total amount of the new tax proposed, will be £517,000, The New South Wales Government intend to recommend the validation of the contract made by Sir D. Cooper and Mr Russell, for the San Francisco Fork Service via Fiji, INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, July 22. A steamer, believed to be the Llewellyn from Sydney, passed the Bay of Islands to-day. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce this afternoon, it was stated that representations had been made to the General Government on the subject of the nondelivery of the San Francisco mail on Sunday, and on the delay in the delivery of tbe Suez mail through its being sent via the Bluff, and that Mr Vender Hyde had been requested to bring before the Assembly the question of lowering the railway freights. Auckland, July 23. ■The Llewellyn has arrived from Sydney. She left on the 16th. Dunedin, July 22. By a small fire in George street last night, a furniture dealer named Russell was burnt out. He was insured for £250 in the New Zealand. Had not the brigade been smart, and the water piessure good, half the block would have been destroyed. Captain McLean, of the steamer Otago, states that Messrs McMeckan and Blackwood’s new steamer Ringarooma sailed for Melbourne on June 23rd. Dunedin, July 22, The following appears in the Star , in re the Schiller’s mails: —“Sir, —By the late mail I learn from London that my letters, posted in March last via San Francisco,

were all recovered and delivered twelve days after due date, marked “ Saved from wreck of Schiller.” My friends also inform me there was lying on the table of the General Post Office a mass of letters whose addresses were illegible waiting to be claimed by their rightful owners.” [FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, July 22. Three boys from the training ship were brought up at the police court to-day, and ordered to be whipped. The boys are continually escaping, and take to the bush, and undergo the most extraordinary hardships, and yet manifest the utmost reluctance to return. Susan Conley was committed for trial on the charge of arson. The evidence shewed that the house had been completely cleared out of every article of any value. How the house was saved is remarkable, with a quantity of rags and turpentine burning against the wall. The insurance was £2OO, and the value of the school £IOO.