The Globe. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 400, 23 September 1875, Page 2

The Globe. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[Per Press Agency.] LATEST FROM EUROPE. (Per Albion, via Hokitika.) London, September 3. The iron-dads Iron Duke and Vanguard came into collision off Wicklow in a dense fog. The latter sank in nineteen fathoms. All lives were saved. The Turks have violated the Servian territory, burned a village, killed some of the inhabitants, and seizec a quantity of cattle. Popular feeling in Servia is very excited against Turkey. The Pera arrived at Galle from Australia on the Ist. September 4. The wool sales are languid; there has been a further decline on medium and inferior sorts of 2d under the June rates, and better classes of wool are Id lower ; well breds shifty, but combing is eagerly bought ; 125,000 bales were catalogued, and a good quantity has been withdrawn, The sales close on October 2nd. Foreign arrivals are so large as to depress the corn market; Adelaide, 55s to 575; and New Zealand, 52s to 555. The barque St Brycedale has been wrecked in Algoa Bay. Arrived—Hudson, from Lyttelton. September (>. Server Pacha has telegraphed to the Porte that the insurrectionary agitation is greatly allayed in consequence of the pressure by the European Powers. Servia is not likely to be aggressive. The insurgents refuse to assent to a conference at Mostar, and mand that Bosnia and Herzegovina be made European states, with a prince, as a tributary of the Porte. September 8. Further fighting has taken place in Turkey, but Servia promises neutrality. A sensation has been caused in Paris by a letter of Admiral Laroucier, commanding the Mediterranean Squadron, declaring that he will only support McMahon whilst he keeps aloof from the party of the September revolution. Captain Anthony H. Hoskins succeeds Commodore Goodenough in the Australian command. Wholesale desertions have taken place from the Carlist forces, and a collapse of the cause is believed imminent. A < hinese Embassy proceeds to England in connection with the Margarey murders. September 13. At a conference respecting the colonisation of New Guinea, Lieut Armit, R.N., gave the result of his observations during a survey of the coast, and after a prolonged discussion it was resolved to form a Colonisation Society, and to organise an expedition of 200 volunteers under Government co-operation. The Australian mails via Brindisi and Queensland are delivered. There has been an improved attendance

and more animation at the wool sales, but without a recovery in prices. Stocks of tallow are unusually low. Arrived—Crusader, from Port Chalmers ; W. W. Smith, from Auckland. [Per Ringarooma, via Bluff,] London, September 16. The Servian Parliament is divided on the question of the address to the Throne. There is a strong minority favorable to the declaration of war. The Empress of Austria has been thrown from her horse, and has sustained a slight concussion, but is now recovering. THE SUEZ MAIL. Bluff, September 22, The Ringarooma, Captain McLean, left Melbourne at 5.10 p.m. on the 18th, with the English mail. She hove-to for a few hours this morning, and arrived at 7 p.m. on the 22nd. She made the run in three days twenty hours, being the quickest on record. She brings forty-two saloon and fifty-three steerage passengers, and 441 tons cargo for all ports. She sails to-morrow at 4 p.m. Passengers for Lyttelton—Mr Gayford, Mr Greenwood, Mr E. Maxey, Mr McCarthy, and ten in steerage, and 120 tons cargo, MAIL NEWS. The Queen is at Osborne. The Emperor of Morocco is expected to visit England shortly. Miss Agnes Livingstone has married Mr Alex. Bruce, of Hamilton. In Liverpool ruffianism is still rampant. A number of persons have been charged with brutal assaults with divers weapons. Mr Kindall, a tourist, has perished on Snowdon. Two ship-knackers have been fined and imprisoned, for sending rotten vessels to sea for the sake of the insurance. Mr Frank Scudamore, of the General Post Office, has accepted an appointment under the Turkish Government to organise a Turkish postal service. The Good Templars have resolved to raise the sum of a thousand pounds for propagandist purposes. Another young lady—Miss Nora Hastings, cousin to the Marquis of Bute—has joined the Romish Church. Rev Gervase Smith has been elected President of the Wesleyan Conference. From Montreal comes the tidings that Fechter, the actor, is dying. Mr Bell (Liberal) has been elected for Hartlepool by a large majority over Dr Kenealey’s son. The Queen was among the prize-takers at the Royal Agricultural Society’s meeting. The weather was cruelly unfavorable to the exhibition, diminishing the attendance. At Wimbledon, the Elcbo Challenge Shield was won by the Irish team, with 1506 points. Freeman won the Goodwood Stakes, and Aventuriere the Goodwood Cup. A general lock-out of the cotton operatives throughout Lancashire is impending owing to a further reduction of wages. Two thousand men have struck in the St Gothard tunnel. At the contractor’s request troops were sent, who, being pelted with stones, fired, killing four, and wounding eight. The town of Lefkeh, in Asiatic Turkey, has been nearly consumed. Twenty houses have been destroyed by fire at Constantinople. Grant’s six-storied cotton mills at Glasgow, and Broadwood weaving factory at Belfast, have been consumed, causing large damage. Obituary—Commander Charles Jeffries, aged eighty-six, the last surviving Copenhagen hero ; Bishop Thirlwall ; Singer, sewing machine manufacturer ; Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author. The Lord Mayor’s banquet cost a hundred and eighty thousand pounds. It was a grand idea to entertain the mayors of the world. A vote of £40,000 has been passed for the administration of affairs in Fiji. Some good purchases of first class horses have been made by the colonists; King Cole, also purchased for Victoria, is brother to King Lud. King Lud was sold for six thousand guineas. SHIPPING. Sailed from London for Canterbury on 24th July—Himalaya. Vessels loading Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Bee, Waitangi, Langstone, Soutar. Loading at Liverpool—Sumner, Heathcote, Brisbane. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. (Per Albion, via Hokitika.) Melbourne, September 17, The Chief Secretary made his financial statement in the Assembly on Tuesday night, and it was very brief, as Mr Berry took nearly all the figures of his predecessor as correct. He stretched the deficit from £200,000 to nearly £300,000, and proposed to raise new revenue to the extent of £185,000, of which £150,000 is to come from a land tax, and the remainder from a tax on bank notes and succession duties. The tariff is not to be dealt with exhaustively this session, and it is only proposed to put a duty on woolpacks and bagging to protect a certain fi rm, an d one or two other articl es which would only realise a small revenue, and to remit an equal amount of customs duties, not on any article comprised in the protective tariff, but such articles as would afford most relief to the mining interest, A loan of three millions for public works, school buildings, and railways, is also included in the statement. The land tax is to be determined by valuation, twenty-five shillings in every hundred pounds value, and such value to be determined by the grazing capabilities ; but it is unlikely that the Government will have an opportunity of carrying their shallow policy into effect, and the Berry Ministry will likely be one of the shortest on record. After the statement on Tuesday an adjournment was made to last night, and in the interim a plan of attack was organised and led off in the Assembly last night by Mr Service, the late Treasurer. Sir James McCulloch then moved the following amendment: “That while affirming the principle of a property tax, this House considers it should be general, and, therefore, disapproves of the Government proposal.’’ Thus the matter stands so far, but the Opposition can count upon a majority, and the end of next week will probably see the last of the Berry Ministry. Tbe ship Cambridgeshire, from London to Sydney, was wrecked on the 7th inst on the Night Island rocks, near Preservation Island,

in Bass’ Straits. The vessel has gone to pieces, but the captain and crew were all saved. She had no passengers. The news only arrived from Launceston yesterday. The Bank of Victoria robbery mystery has been cleared up, Glinn, the exchange clerk, from whose custody they were lost, is the thief, and £I6OO of the stolen notes have been found in his possesion. He now frankly confesses to having abstracted the notes from the counter, and pocketed them. Lawers, the receiving teller, pleaded guilty, at his trial, to embezzlement, and awaits sentence. The exhibition still continues very attractive. The daily averages of visitors reaches nearly 4000, and last Saturday it was over 8000. The Hon John Robertson, Premier of New South Wales, is on his first visit to Victoria, and is being feted. Mr IrHenry J. Smith, a well known press man. attached to the Argus, has died. A fire at Belfast on Wednesday night destroyed a large amount of property. It was insured for £9700. The ship Cambridgeshire was insured for £17,500, including in the New Zealand office £3400. Richmond won the Randwick plate of 3 miles, in smin 43secs, beating Kingsborough and Lurliue. The steamship Durham made a fine passage of 48 days. She brought later news. The Ringarooma had a successful trial trip down the bay on Wednesday. A dinner of the merchants and bankers in connection with the Chamber of Commerce, takes place to-night, and promises to be very successful. Gold has been seen in the Magdala Reef at the depth of IGBI feet. The discovery has caused great excitement’ in the district of Stawel), and great interest all over the colony. A lamp trimmer named Olsen fell overboard from the Albion on her last voyage, and notwithstanding every exertion made to save him was drowned, Madame Ristori gave a matinee yesterday to enable the profession to witness her performance. The house was crammed Mademoiselle De Murska has gone to Adelaide, The Exhibition Commissioners have passed a resolution in favor of opening the exhibition on certain hours on Sundays, and the matter now rests with the Public Library Trustees, to whom the matter has been referred . The Oyphrenes arrived at San Francisco on September 3rd, a day after the contract time. John Renton, who was rescued from the natives on Malayta Island, deserted from his ship nine years ago with four other men, and after being at sea thirty days in an open boat, suffering great privations, they reached Malayta, when the natives destroyed their boat, and his companions died. Renton alone survived, and a chief esteeming his usefulness kept him from being eaten. The man has relatives in Victoria. Very satisfactory news comes from Cooktown. Gold is coming in from the Palmer, and the reefs look well. The Chinese are doing well, and the Chinese merchants say in six months there will be 10,000 more Chinese The expedition lately sent out from Darwin to search for the murderers of Johnston on the Roper, has arrested three natives. They shot two chiefs. The party has been recalled. Cable communication was restored early this morning. The schooner Frank Guy, from Clyde to Wanganui, timber laden, lost her topmast jibboom, and has put into Sydney. SHIPPING. Melbourne. Arrived—9th, Frances Gertrude, from Westport ; 15th, Albyn’s Isle, from Dunedin. Sydney Arrived—llth, Rose, from Timaru; 16th, Moneypoka, from Hokianga. Newcastle. Arrived—9th, Glimpse, from Auckland ; 10th, Melrose, from Nelson ; Cesarewitch, from Timaru; M. A. Annison, from Lyttelton ; Stag, from Auckland ; Crusader, from Wellington ; 11th, Moa, from Timaru ; Edward Basset and Spirit of South, from Wellington; 12th, Craig Ellachie, from Lyttelton ; 15ih, Ann Melhuish, from Wellington; Vivid, from Auckland. Sailed —9 th, Especulador, for Lyttelton ; 11th, Union, for Auckland. COMMERCIAL. Melbourne, September 17. Wheat is scarce, and wanted at 5s 7d to 5s B.ld ; flour, £ll ss; oats slack, parcels offered at auction have been withdrawn, not coming up to reserves; a portion of the Albyn’s Isle’s cargo is intended for Adelaide. Sugars are firmer. Kerosene is quiet ; advices have just been received of moderate shipments favorable to the market. Business generally is very dull, owing to the weather and the uncertainty regarding the tariff. [Per Ringarooma via Bluff.] Melbourne, September 18. The Chamber of Commerce dinner last night was very successful ; Mr Jeffrey, president, in the chair. The Acting-Go-vernor and the Chief Secretary were present. The Hon C. C. A’Beckett represents the Government in the Upper House, The City Council decided, at a meeting yesterday, not to let the Town Hall for Sunday entertainments. The Mayor and some other members thereupon resigned from the Town Hall committee. In the Divorce Court yesterday, judicial separations were granted in Brown v Brown, and Bcnbow and Whidborne v Whidborne. In both cases the parties were married in New Zealand. The exchange clerk Glinn has been committed for trial, Sydney. In White’s case, for bribery, the convic Con was quashed, as the majority of the Court decided it bad no power to award hard labor in common law. A miners’ strike is about to take place at Wallsend. Adelaide. A contract has been taken by the Cable Company to lay a cable between Cape Jervis and Kangaroo Island. The Stamp Bill has passed. The International Free Trade Bill has been read a second time. SHIPPING. Newcastle, September 16. Arrived—Tasso, from Nelson ; Kohinoor, from Dunedin ; Fawn, from Lyttelton; William Ackers, from Wellington. Sailed—Glimpse, for Auckland,