TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
(Per Press Agency.) THIS DAY'S TEZEGItJLXS.
LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA.
ARRIVAL OF THE RINGAROOMA, WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL. CABLE TELEGRAMS. London, October 13. THE CESAREWITCH STAKES. Duke of Jfarma ... ... ... 1 Pageant ... ... ... ... 2 Perplexe ... ... ... ... 3 A Republican Governor has been elected in Ohio, signally defeating the Democrats. This is important, as indicating the future financial policy. October 14. Mr Wade, British Minister, telegraphs from Pekin that he has obtained the necessaiy guarantees. Mr Grosvenor goes to Yunau. The Prince of Wales has arrived at Turin en route to Alexandria. Bismarck is unwell, and will not accompany the Emperor of Italy. MAIL NEWS. At a final meeting of the Cospatrick relief fund a balance of £542 was distributed amongst several applicants. There is a schism between Mr Whalley and Dr Kenealy, as the former refuses to accept the political leadership of the latter. There is a marked decrease in the past year of emigration from the Clyde to Canada, and the United States. Governor Musgrave, of South Australia, has been created a Knight Commander of St Michael and St George; and Mr Weld, Governor of Tasmania, and Dr Hector, of New Zealand, Companions of the same Order. The P. and 0. Company have purchased two new steamers of 3000 tons each, and one is building of 3400 tons. By a terrible railway accident on the Midland line, near Skipton, seven lives were lost.
The Alexandra grain warehouse, at Gloucester docks, was destroyed by fire. In a fire at Rijieff, in Russia, 300 houses were burnt.
The complaints raised on Colonel Baker's sentence, and the question of his military status, have been settled by the Queen signing his dismissal. The Queen sent a letter of sympathy to Miss Dickenson.
Seventeen lives were lost, and twenty persons were injured, by an explosion aboard a Spanish steamboat. Dr Kenealy's son sent a challenge to Major Dickson on account of his speech in the House of Commons on Colonel Baker's case. At the suggestion of the Speaker, Mr Disraeli, and the Duke of Cambridge, to whom the matter was referred, the letter was treated with contemptuous silence. The foot-and-mouth disease is rapidly spreading in England and Ireland ; meanwhile the stringent regulations threaten to stop importations, and the price of meat is already advancing, and the public is growing anxious.
Birmingham is manufacturing war material for Germany, France, and Japan. Alexander Collie is supposed to have fled to Buenos Ayres. The cost of Moody and Sankey's London mission was over £28,000, being slightly more than the receipts. Lily Agnes won the Ebor Handicap. The autumn manoeuvres in Germany were so severe as nearly to equal a small campaign. Several cases of sickness and death occurred, and the press calls for a modification of the programme. Thiers declines to enter the Senate, as he prefers to remain in the Lower House. Very heavy rains in India have caused floods and loss of life on the Delhi and Punjaub line, and great damage to property. Obituary—Captain McLure ; Bayle Bernard, dramatic writer; Sir Edward Ryan; Prince Charles of Bavaria; Professor Smith, of Dublin ; Lord Grantley, a Waterloo hero; and William Bennett, a veteran actor.
The exports to New Zealand amount to £283,750. The Indian financial statement was made by Lord George Hamilton on the 9th of August. An amendment proposed by Mr Smollett, condemning the policy of borrowing large sums each year, without regard to the income, was negatived by sixty-six votes to twenty-one.
A motion by F. Aurett, censuring the Government for deferring the Indian Budget to the close of the session, was also negatived,
A scheme for army organisation will engage Mr Gathorne Hardy's attention during the recess. The Prince of Wales' visit to Sheffield was a distinguished success. The Prince and family afterwards left for Scotland.
The Duke of Edinburgh has been handsomely entertained in Russia by his father-in-law.
The Duke of Connaught has arrived at Berlin, after visiting the Grand Duke of Baden. The Duke has been promoted from the rank of captain to major in the 7th Hussars.
The King of Italy has presented to the Queen six Italian ponies. A statue of the late Lord Mayo has been unveiled at Cockermouth.
Subscriptions have been started by working men to erect a statue to Mr Plimsoll near the East-end docks. Cardinal Manning, receiving a deputation of Maltese residents in London, delivered an address touching on the warlike tendency of _ Europe, and the probability of a sanguinary war, from which the Papacy would emerge with renewed vigour. The statement that Cardinal Manning was admitted to the Royal circle and introduced to the Queen at a garden party was denied. There are dissentions among the Magna Charta associations throughout the country. The Leicester branch being unable to obtain a satisfactory statement of the appropriation of its contributions, has repudiated Dr Kenealy, and denounced him as violent, dictatorial, tyrannical, and avaricious, and the Englishman as the most infamous paper ever published. The committee also threaten to prosecute Dr Kenealy for slander. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. The Ministry is not yet absolutely formed, but by Tuesday next the complete list will be announced to the House. The names will include several members of the late Kerferd Government, with Mr Kerferd as AttorneyGeneral, Mr McPherson as Chief Secretary, Sir J. McCulloch as Treasurer and Premier, Mr Gillies as Minister of Lands, and one or two new men, perhaps Dr Madden and Jones, with W. Wilson in the Upper House.
A vessel, which was burned at sea, was seen in lat 22, 33 S, long 35,31 W. She was about 900 tons burden. A portion of some fishplates and some bricks were seen in the hold. Some of the iron work was red hot. The letters M O E, and underneath Liverpool was seen on the stern. The figure head was a Woman at full length carrying a child. The vessel was seen on August 17th last. The Church Assembly is now sitting, and dealing with matters of some importance, the election of bishops and providing for the pecuniary wants of the church. Two nightmen named Raigather and Son were suffocated by foul air when emptying a cesspool in East Melbourne. The Greer wich pensioners are dissatisfied because the increase in pensions after a certain age does not extend to those in the colonies, and they have resolved to petition the Admiralty. Bentley, late manager of the Bank of New South Wales at Beechworth, was sentenced to nearly eight years, for making false entries, and the accountant, Hughes, to three and a half years. The City of Melbourne left San Francisco on the 11th instant.
The South Australian Parliament is prorogued to Jhe 10th November. The Governor, in his speech, referred glowingly to the future prospects of the colony. Mr Lang;ton delivered a free trade lecture at Eaglehawk, a mining township, last night, and was very warmly received. The Cyphrenes reached Sydney yesterday. SHIPPING. Melbourne, October 15. Sailed—Mary Bannatyne, for Hokitika. October 16. Gleaner, for Greymouth. Newcastle, October 14. Arrived—Emily McLaren, from Wellington. Sydney, October 15. Sailed—Moneynick, for Auckland. COMMERCIAL. There have been large sales of kerosene at Is 3d ; Is 2d is now asked for Devoe's, and Is 3d for diamond. At the sugar sales yesterday prices were 18s in advance of late sales ; flour is very firm, £l2 being refused ; wheat, none offering ; oats, nothing doing. INTERPROVINCIAL. Bluff, October 21. The Ringarooma, with the mail, left Melbourne at 7.40 p.m. on the 17th ; on the 19th she experienced a terrific nor'-wester, with heavy sea and thick weather which compelled her to heave-to for nineteen hours. She arrived at the Bluff at 10.30 a.m. on 21st, and brings 40 saloon and 35 steerage passengers, and 350 tons cargo, and 200 sheep, for all ports. She sails for Dunedin at 4 p.m. Passengers for Lyttelfcon— Sergeant Burtenshaw, Mr and Mrs Payten, Mr Foster, Mrs Hoskins, and ten in the steerage, and 100 tons of cargo. Wellington, October 21. The Easby arrived at six this morning from Sydney. She left at 9.30 p.m. on the 14th. Passengers for Christchurch, Mrs Cocroft, Miss Watson, Mr Jones. She had a fair weather passage. Cargo—2oo tons Sydney sugar, 1,300 tons coal, and a miscellaneous cargo of fruit and timber. Auckland, October 20. The telegraph line to Kaipara was opened to-day. The first station is at Helensville. Wellington, October 20. Sir George Grey, Messrs Fitzherbert, Sheehan, and Bunny do not proceed South until Sunday, when they will go by the Albion along with Mr Macandrew. Mr George Hunter will act as Deputy-Super-intendent in Mr Fitzherbert's absence. Nelson, October 20. A discovery was made to-day that a valuable case of drapery and jewellery, consigned to Mr Miller, draper, per ship Chile, had been opened, and some of the contents, to the value of £l7O, abstracted. The ship was searched, and a quantity of jewellery found behind the bulkhead. The chief officer having been selling jewellery of that description
was arrested, and remanded till tomorrow morning. Dunedin, October 20. The Macandrevv banquet has been postponed till Wednesday next, to enable Sir 0, Grey and others to be present. A child belonging to Sergeant Deane, of the North Dunediu police, was burned to death last evening. The child was standing at the fire, when its clothes caught, and was so severely burned that it died before any assistance could be rendered. She was six years old.
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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 424, 21 October 1875, Page 2
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