TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 422, 19 October 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

{Per Press Agency.} THIS DAY'S TELEGRAMS. LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AirSTBALIA. o Bluff, October 19. The Omeo arrived at 7.30 a.m. this morning. She left on the 13th at 2.30 p.m., and brings four saloon (passengers, 52 steerage passengers, 290 tons of cargo, GOO sheep, and 39 horses for all ports. She sails at 4 p.m. for Dunedin. CABLE TELEGRAMS. London, October 5. Mr Wade, British Minister at China, has notified to the foreign legations at Pekin that negotiations have been entered into which have averted an immediate v, ar. The Servian Ministry has resigned. The foreign consuls have been instructed to rem tin at Mostar. In • the Fmeanwhile the Sultan has suppressed the fourth part of the tithes and promises fiscal reform. The Carlists are bombarding Pampeluna and San Sebastian. October 6. Mr Samuel Wilson, of Victoria, and Captain McMahon, Speaker of the Assembly, have been knighted. The silk season has been a failure in Japan, and increasing planting in Australia is recommended. The wool sales have closed, good wools maintaining the advance and inferior being unchanged. 125,000 bales were taken for the Continent. The next sales are fixed for November 23rd, and the probable arrivals are 90,000 bales. Australian tallow sold 49s to 50s. Arrived—H.M.S. Rosario. October 8. At a municipal banquet given at Liverpool, Lord Derby deprecated as unwise intermeddling as much as excessive indifference in continental affairs. England's great interest was the maintenance of peace. The importance of the Herzegovina insurrection has been exaggerated, and the autonomy of the provinces would be impracticable, owing to difference of religion. Concerning China, no decisive intelligence has yet been received, but Mr Wade was hopeful of a satisfactory settlement, as the demands of great Britain were both moderate and just, and he intended adhering to China. October 9. Money is tightening, and there are large withdrawals of gold for Germany. The Bank Reserve is weaker. The Bank rate of discount is I\. The default in paying interest on the Turkish loan produced great excitement on the Stock Exchange. There has been a heavy fall in Turkish, Egyptian, and Peruvian bonds. The corn nuuket has advanced Is to Is fid a quar'er. Adelaide is quoted at 53s to 555. The Queensland mail is delivered.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS,

Melbourne, October 13. After a long and dreary debate, extending over four weeks, the division on the want of confidence motion was taken at an early hour on Thursday morning. There was a full muster of members, and an anxious public filled the galleries. Mr Casey's amendment having reference to the land tax was put first and negatived by 38 to 35. The Government seeing this wanted to go no further, but the Opposition demanded that Sir J. M'Uulloch's amendment condemning the finance proposals should likewise be put, and Government were forced to give way, although with very bad grace, and Sir James' amendment was carried by 39 to 34, showing a majority of 5 against the Government. An adjournment then took place to the following Tuesday to give time to the Ministry to consider their position—in reality to advise a dissolution, and in the meantime the country was stirred up by Ministerial agents, and meetings held in support of the Government and urging a dissolution. Yesterday deputations from all parts of the country came to town with petitions, which they presented to the Acting Governor, and when the House met in the afternoon his reply to the Ministers was read, refusing the dissolution. This was n©t altogether unexpected, inasmuch as his Excellency had previously refused the Kerferd Ministry a dissolution, and, as he stated in his reply, the circumstances are similar, and no reason has been given to justify a change of opinion since then. Ministers havingonly just received the document asked for a further adjournment until to-day. Rumour has it that they intend to retain their seats at all hazards, but it is more likely that they will find discretion the better part of valour and resign. The Pearl has brought Mrs Goodenough from Sydney ; she leaves to-day for England by the Durham. Scarlet fever has appeared in a malignant form in some of the suburbs, and several deaths of children have occurred. A telegram has been received stating that the Bank of California has resumed payment. The steamer St Osyth reached St cent's on September 29th. Page pleaded guilty to the murder of Mary Buchan at Mount Gambier, and was sentenced to death. On the second day out of the Ringarooma from New Zealand a cabin passenger named Watkins died from natural causes. The quarter's revenue amounted to £994,818, being a decrease of £11,027 on the quarter, and an increase of £51,651 on the year. A. K, Smith was elected Mayor of Melbourne without opposition. A private London telegram stales that Lord Dunmore's herd of shorthorns, consisting of forty head, sold at an average of 670 guineas, and the Hon William Torres' herd averaged 509 guineas. Morton, of Mount Derrimut, has determined to remain in England, and his celebrated shorthorn herd is to be sold at the end of February. The Exhibition continues to attract, and the daily average of visitors is well kept up. Captain Forster, of the steamer Dandenong, was killed while superintending the hoisting of the screw during the docking of the steamer. The convict Howard, the perpetrator of the Frankston murders, was executed on the 4th. He died firmly, admitting the justice of the sentence. Madame Eistori, having concluded her season, is now playing in Sydney. The refusal to license the Town Hall for her dramatic performances caused some discussion. lima de Murska is again with us, and as charming as ever. A testimonial of 350 guineas was presented to Captain Saunders, one of the oldest intercolonial ship-masters. He is proceeding to England. Great preparations are making for Hospital Saturday and Sunday, the 16th and 17 th of this month. The New Zealand cable has been shipped aboard the Edinburgh and Hibernia steamers, leaving London about the end of the month. William Enderson, the jockey, has been remanded to New Zealand, pn a charge of robbery. The Chief Secretary has reconsidered his decision, and agreed to license the Town Hall for Madame llistori. SHIPPING. Melbourne. Arrived—9th : Amateur, from Timaru; Alma, from Greymouth; Derwent, from Monagnui. 12th : Adieu, from Grey River. Sailed—2nd: Ceres, for Napier. sth : Besolute, for Dunedin. Bth: Britain's Pride, for Wellington. Sydney. Arrived—4th : Waterwitch, from Wanganui. Sailed—sth : Eose, for Lyttelton. Newcastle. Arrived —2nd : Elliot, from Nelson. 3rd : Neptune, from Wellington; Helen, from Auckland. 4th : Woodville, from Dunedin. 6th: Witch of the Wave, from Auckland. 7th: Easby, from Dunedin. 9th: Adelphoi, from Lyttelton. Sailed—2nd : Caberfiedh, for Auckland. 7th : Australind, for Wellington. Bth : Craig Ellachie, for Oamaru. 9th : Woodville, for Dunedin. 11th : Helen, for Napier, and Sea Spray, for Lyttelton. COMMEECIAL. Business continues very dull. Flour sells freely at £l2; wheat is very scarce at 5s candles have again advanced ; oats are dull, milling 4s ; but sales are difficult. Dundee goods are declining. Timber is a shade firmer. Sydney. Parliament meets for the despatch of business on 16th November. Sir Charles Cowper, Agent-General, is not likely to resume his duties. The quarter's revenue shows a decrease of £125,000, a fourth of which is owing to the expiration of the Stamp Act. A public meeting passed resolutions in favour of the local manufacture of rolling stock for railways, and iron work for bridges. The Eev Mr Selwyn, of the Melanesian Mission, arrived in the mission schooner, with a number of converts. The dispute between the lightermen, , merchants, and stevedores continues. News from Cooktown is very encouraging. Plenty of gold is coming in, and the reefs are looking well, and business is brisker. Adelaide. The Government has decided to prorogue on th» 19th for a short recess, and then rej introduce the Stamp Bill; in the meantime

they will take the expression of public opinion. The Land Bill and Real Property Bill have been abandoned. The revenue returns are very satisfactory, showing the largest receipts ever taken. During the week interesting information has been received from Sydney by telegraph in reference to the exploration of New Guinea. The missionary steamer Ellangowan and the Chevert proceeded to different portions of the island; a splendid river was ascended by the missionary party on the south-west coast. The mouth of the river was a mile and a half wide, and they proceeded up a distance of ninety miles, but only saw one native in a canoe, and he went off alarmed. The country is described as most most magnificent as far as they proceeded, but the land is mostly low and swampy, and covered with mangroves. They found plantations of palms, cocoanuts, and tobacco. The found a reptile fifteen feet long, and inside it a large male kangaroo. They also killed a large bird, measuring sixteen feet from wing to wing. The Chevert party went to Katon Eiver and Mohatta Village, and made a short exploration into the interior, but, having no permission from the chiefs to pass through their territory, they turned back to avoid a conflict. Mr Mcleay discourages any settlement of New Guinea on account of the climate, the hostility of the natives, and the want of labour which would be felt. He thinks the exploration could only be properly undertaken by the Imperial Government. Gbahamstown, October 19. An inquest was held to-day, on view of the body of Patrick Henry Wall, one of the children mnrdered on Saturday. Mrs Wall was in attendance. She was very excited, and was removed after her identification by witnesses. Her husband's evidence was to the effect that his married life had been happy, and his wife had not till lately been addicted to excessive drinking, and she was a very kind mother. The evidence was conclusive as to the woman having killed her children, but it showed that she was labouring under insanity. The inquiry lasted over five hours, and the jury deliberated for half an hour, returning a verdict —" That Patrick Henry Wall was killed by Margaret Wall, but that the latter was in a state of mind rendering her not responsible for her actions." [Per Press Agency.] Auckland. October 18. Mr Archibald Clark, formerly member for the City East, an old settler, died to-day, aged seventy. The whaling barque Bartholomew Gosnold has arrived at Russell from the Antarctic whaling grounds with 2150 barrels of oil, all told. She is forty months out. She had put into Aboukir Bay, Solomon Group, the ship leaking badly. Landed part of her cargo on the reef, and lightened the ship, which stopped the leak, and proceeded to Russell for supplies. Will sail in a few days for New Bedford, Captain Wills states he found Solomon Island in a state of warfare and cannibalism.