TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 430, 29 October 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

{Per Press Agency.') LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AirSTRALIA. * [Per Mikado, at Auckland.] London, October 19. The British Arctic Expedition arrived at Carey’s Islands on the 27th of July, and left immediately for Smith’s Sound. The season is described as very open. There is every prospect of a high latitude being reached. The members of the expedition are stated to be all well. A French note has been sent to Turkey to protest against the latter’s default in the payment of coupons, A cable telegram from Sir Daniel Cooper announces the death of Sir Charles Cowper, Agent-General of New South Wales, AUSTRALIAN NEWS. [Per Mikado.] Sydney, Oct 23. A great fire occurred at the Home Rule diggings. One side of a street was entirely destroyed. The Customs authorities have seized a thousand cigars and other dutiable goods aboard the Normanby, from Houg Kong. The ship Samuel Plimsoll has arrived from London with immigrants. She encountered a field of icebergs a k hundred miles in extent. Melbourne. A boat capsized at Sandridge, containing five one was drowned. Connaught is scratched for the Derby. Thousand to eighty is taken against SterHng, Adelaide, Wheat, 5s lid, INTERPROYINCIAL, Auckland, October 28. The Mikado sails with the English mail to morrow at noon. The Vision, schooner, has arrived from Samoa. She reports having seen a slaver floating bottom upwards. The Kaipara railway was opened to-day. Passengers were conveyed free. The German war vessel Gazelle, from Sydney for Auckland, has been sighted off the coast. The passengers per the Hero presented Captain Logan with an address and purse of sovereigns in recognition of his cool behavior during the fearful gale on the passage from Sydney. A special telegram to the Star from Teawamutu (Waikato) states that a jealous husband tomahawked another native, who has since died. There is great excitement in the settlement. The crops are abandoned, The murderer and his wife were educated and married by Arct deacon Maunsell, Arrived —Mikado, from Sydney, to take the outward San Francisco mails. Auckland, October 29, A woman named Heath, an immigrant by the British Empire, tied her child to her back and jumped from the wharf into the harbour. She was rescued. It is believed that the cause of the act was unhappiness with a man she is living with nominally as her husband. Napier, October 28. A sale has been made of Mr D. McDouglas station, Dunolly, of 4750 acres freehold, and 25,000 acres leasehold, with 5000 sheep, delivery after shearing, to Mr Hugh McLellan, of Otago. Wellington, October 28, The Luna has returned this afternoon from her surveying expedition, having been absent just two days, A line for the new cable across Cook Straits has been surveyed and thoroughly sounded, a little to the south-

ward of the present one, the shore end being about four miles south of Sinclair Head. The nature of the bottom, which varies greatly, has been carefully ascertained, and the variations in the different parts of the line has been thoroughly marked out, so that the cable may be constructed accordingly. Wellington, October 29. McDonald, who was sentenced some eighteen months ago to three years’ imprisonment for obstructing the crossing of a bridge near Palmerston, by shooting one of the horses of Young’s stage coach, has received the Governor’s pardon, and was released this morning. . Hokitika, October 29. Arrived—The Otago, from Melbourne. The sea is too rough for tendering, and she has gone on to Nelson. Dunedin, October 28. A meeting was held last night at the Temperance Hall to consider the desirability of starting a working man’s paper, and hfter much talking a working committee was formed to further the object. When the toast of “ The press” was proposed at the banquet last night, it was received with hisses and groans. Only a few persons rose. It was hurried over before any one could rise to respond. At last, after another toast had been given, a person named Fleming replied, and declared he was a provincialist, and got applauded. The committee throughout has treated the press very discourteously. At first it refused them tickets, and then on the press declaring they would take no notice of the proceedings, tickets were sent. It was at one time decided to refuse all papers tickets except the Tablet (Catholic organ). That journal was to get £SO to report the speeches, if the Hibernian Society joined in the procession, but this was refused.

Dunedin, October 29. At a meeting of the Mosgiel Woollen Factory Company, the profit and loss account shows a balance of £3922, which added to £1326, the reserve fund from last year, gives a total sum for disposal, in the shape of profit of £5248. A dividend of six per cent was declared,