The Globe THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 435, 4 November 1875, Page 2

The Globe THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

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[Per City of Melbourne.] London, October 10, Official despatches confirm previous advices announcing a peaceful settlement of the difficulty with China. £25,000 worth of gold has been withdrawn from the Bank for America, The hop pickers have finished, and it is believed that one-fifth of the crop has failed. The growth this year cannot supply the home market. English hops accordingly have advanced to 10s. An enthusiastic meeting was held at Glasgow to protest against Vaticanism. A letter from Mr Gladstone was read, expressing his sympathy with the object. * A special telegram from Vienna says the Porte has instructed Servia Pasha to demand the unconditional submission of the insurgents. Another telegram asserts that the insurrection in Bosnia has been totally quelled, and the Turkish army has received orders to confine itself to the defensive. Lord Derby delivered a speech in Liverpool on the 7th. He said, notwitnstanding recent assurances of the pacific settlement with China in the recent difficulty, it was still pending, and liable to break out afresh at any time. Martial law has been proclaimed at Monte Video. The Rev Alex Penrose Forb s, Bishop of Brechin, Scotland, is dead. The Stock Exchange is animated, and there is considerable excitement in foreign markets. A severe outbreak of cholera has occurred at the province of Mysore, in India. Recent rains have swollen the rivers and streams, causing disastrous inundations in Leicestershire and Warwickshire; The destruction of property is heavy. Many lives were lost. The railroads were badly damaged, and traffic generally suspended. All Her Majesty’s ships in the Japanese ports have been ordered to China. Fifteen hundred troops left Cadiz for Cuba on the 10th. *» Referring to the Turkish insurrection, the Pall Mall Gazette publishes a Berlin telegram as follows “It is now proposed that the execution of the scheme of provinces shall be entrusted to the Governor-General, he enjoying the confidence of the Christians.” A despatch says the Consuls consider that unless Turkey determines upon reformation in every department of administration of the Herzogovina province, it will be completely lost to her. Germany will’demand this year 60,000,000 marks for the military estimates. INTEK PROVINCIAL. Auckland, November 3, News from Tonga announces a meeting of King George’s recently formed Representatives of Parliament, modelled on the English pattern. The natives are rapidly adopting European customs. The citizens give a ball to the officers of the German man-of-war Gazelle. Auckland, November 4. Arrived—The City of Melbourne, with the English and American mails from San Fransisco. She made the passage in twentytwo days eighteen hours, or three days under the contract time. The Vasco de Gama, the first of the new line of steamers, left San Francisco for Auckland and Sydney two days before the City of Melbourne, which overtook her in Honolulu. Thomas Henderson, of Auckland, is a passenger by the Vasco de Gama, The City of Melbourne had fine weather till her arrival on this side of the Fijis on Ist inst, when the wind suddenly hauled round to the S.W., and blew a gale till her arrival here. Passengers for Auckland— Mrs Mullins, Messrs B. Tonks, Hornsby, Rattray, Ross, and Stevenson (mail agent), and twenty-four steerage, besides twentyone saloon and forty-five steerage for Sydney. The Vasco de Gama left Honolulu seven hours before the City of Melbourne. She has a large cargo and seventy passengers, and is expected to arrive hourly. A heavy westerly gale is blowing, and will probably prevent the Taranaki leaving with the southern portion of the mails to-day.-

Wellington, November 3. It is understood that the next elections will come oil on or about the first week in next January. His Excellency the Governor goes to Canterbury on Saturday by the Luna to attend the races. He will return by H.M. Sappho. The Ladybird this afternoon took away sixty Italians, per Herschel, for Hokitika and Jackson’s Bay. Port Chalmers, November 3. A frightful accident and death has occurred on the Port Chalmers railway. An era ployce, named Alfred Smith, while coupling some loaded trucks from the ship Zealandia, by some means caught his foot in one of the check rails on the Bowen Pier. The wheels of two trucks passed over his right leg and the lower part of the body. His cries were heartrending. He was quickly conveyed to the railway station, and attended by Drs Drysdaie and Arde, The calf of his leg was severely lacerated, and the whole of the intestines displaced. Death ensued about fifteen minutes after. Deceased was a most respectable, hardworking man, and was unmarried. Dunedin, November 4. Mr Bathgate, R.M., gave judgment in a case yesterday, which caused considerable comment. A grocer sued one of his customers for £3B. Amongst the items was £5 19s for whiskey, which the magistrate ordered to be struck off, as he ruled that a grocer could not recover for spirits sold on credit. He further stated that he thought that beer and wine should be disallowed. The decision has caused some stir among the grocers with bottle licences. The Times comments on the judgment as most improper.