The Globe. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 436, 5 November 1875, Page 2

The Globe. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

{Per Press Agency.) LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AIISTKALIA.

[Per Alhambra, via Bluff.] CABLE MESSAGES. London, October 21. The Canadian loan of one million and a half was announced in the money market. The death of Sir Charles Cowper is announced. The Brodrick Castle, with emigrants ►bound to Auckland, has been towed into Falmouth dismasted. Arrived —Somersetshire, s.s. October 22. _ England and Russia have declined to join in a representation of the European Powers to Turkey, protesting against the default in payment of coupons. Obituary.—Sir Charles Wheatstone, electrician, and Dr Hook, Dean of Chichester. October 23. The tenders for the South Australian loan amounted to nearly £2,000,000, and £400,000 was allotted- at an average of £93 9s 2d. Germany is legislating against the abuses of the Polynesian labor traffic. The value of nearly all cereal produce is enhanced by continued rains. Adelaide wheat 548 to 555. Arrived.—H.M.S. Blanche. October 26. The Prince of Wales has left Cairo, where he was spendidly received. Gallb, October 26. The China, R.M.S., left for Australia on the 23rd. October 28. The Canadian 4 per cent loan of one million and a half was subscribed for to over two millions and a half. The average allotment has taken place at £99. Arrived—Ocean Beauty. CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.

Sutton 1 Lord Gowrnn 2 Grey Palmer ... ... ... 3 The serious and destructive floods in England are but partially subsiding. ADDITIONAL NEWS BY THE MAIL. [Per City of Melbourne.] Alderman Cotton has been elected Lord Mayor of London. He is the city member of Parliament. The fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of railways was celebrated by a procession and banquet at Darlington, on the unveiling of the statue of Joseph Pearce. The American ship Ellen Shohard was lost on the Lancashire coast, between Farnley and Crosby, not more than twenty miles from Liverpool. One lifeboat which went to the assistance of the ship, afterwards capsized. Nine of the crew of the Ellen Shohard were drowned. Destructive floods have occurred during a gale in the Valley of the Lee. The river rose several feet, and inundated a portion of the city of Cork, and the country for miles around, and occasioned immense damage to property. Similar accounts have been received from other parts of Ireland, and in Scotland the damage done to the crops by the floods is reported to be enormous. In Longford, Kerry, and Tipperary, and at Cork, the floods have subsided. It is believed that several persons were drowned. The Court-Martial in the matter of the sinking of the ironclad Vanguard reprimanded Captain Dawkins of that vessel, and dismissed him from the service.

The Globe says a formal complaint of aggressions by the Spaniards in the waters of Gibraltar have been made to that Government by the British Naval Commander of Gibraltar.

The steward of the American barque, Forest Queen, with wood and spars from Port Ludow, for Havre, reports that the Forest Queen foundered off the River Plate, and that the captain was killed by the rolling of the spars. A boat containing the first mate and six men put off from the wreck, and another with the second mate and five men followed. The latter was soon lost sight of by the steward. On the fourth day one of the men died from exposure. On the ninth they were sighted by a Norwegian barque, and taken aboard, and landed at Ramsgate. Two letters from Mr Stanley, the explorer, have been received in London. Both are dated from the district of Victoria NyaD.za. Two of Stanley's white companions, Edward Peacock and Fredk. Barker, have died of fever.

The Mary Richards has been wrecked at Carnarvon. The crew, numbering six, were drowned. The steamer Adler came into collision with the Swedish steamer King Oscar, near Grimsby. The latter sank, and fourteen persons were drowned. At St Vincent a boat capsized, and seven men were drowned. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

A telegram from Copenhagen says sanguinary liots have occurred at Stockholm, between the militia and the police and the mob. The lafcter ttoned the police station, wounding a number of policemen. Some militia a!go were wounded, The Life Guards

and Horsn Guards were summoned from the castle before order was restored. 1500 Ural Cossacks have been banished to the penal settlement in Turkistan, for having resisted the new military laws. Many more are likely to go, as the law meets much opposition.

A despatch from the Swedish Arctic expedition reports its arrival at Hammerfest, Norway. All the officers and men were well. Important maps and scientific collections have been made. A recent rain in the canton of Glarus, Switzerland, raised the river Linth and affluents, and caused an inundation in the town of Glarus and surrounding country.

A Paris journal states that Italy has ordered a frigate from Yokohama to Launion Bay, San Salvador, to enforce the Italian subjects' claims for damages from disturbances at San Miguel.

A railway train has been stopped by brigands between Saragossa and Barcelona. All the passengers were robbed. Among them were seventeen officers and seamen of the American man-of-war.

A despatch says a definite arrangement has been agreed to between the Porte and Austria relative to the junction of the Turkish and Austrian railway system.

King Alphonso opened the Madrid University with a speech, in the course of which he said, " I recognise this fact that existing circumstances are perplexing. Education and enlightenment can alone regenerate Spain and restore peace. It is painful to me to see civil war still continue notwithstanding my efforts." The Journal de St Petersburgh, with reference to the reforms proffered to the insurgents by the Sublime Porte, regards the concession of provincial representation as the best that could be made to settle the present difficulty. It is certain to meet with general approval. The Journal adds that not only ought the insurgents to accept it, but the great powers ought to see that it is carried out.

A difficulty has arisen between Holland and Venezuela, which has asked to be indemnified for the expense incurred in the suppression of the recent revolt in her dominion, which she alleged was aided by the inhabitants of the Island of Curaco. Holland refused to enter into negotiations until Venezuela should return the Dutch ship Midao, which she seized, and agree to open her ports to Dutch commerce. Venezuela eventually agreed to restore the Midao, but desired the withdrawing by Holland of the second condition. Holland not having accedpd to these terms within thirty days, diplomatic relations between the two countries were ruptured. The Bishop of Breslau has informed the ecclesiastical courts that he will not obey their summons to attend for trial, on the ground that the court is not competent to try him. A Breslau paper says that twentythree priests in the diocese announced their submission to the ecclesiastical laws.

A Times special from Rangoon says China and Burmah have formed an alliance offensive and defensive.

The Swedish steamer L. J. Abagen, running between Lubeck and Copenhagen, was burned in the Baltic. Twenty-four passengers and eleven of the crew perished. The steamer was a small one, and was built in 1858 at Gothenburgh. AMERICAN NEWS. A terrible cyclone swept over Texas, destroying life and property. In Indiana, out of three hundred houses, only five were left standing. During Thursday night, when the storm was at its height, the water in the river rose 6ft in two hours. The wind was blowing a gale, and driving the water and breakers through the city at the' rate of fifteen miles per hour, sweeping everything in its way, scouring the plain in the rear of the city for ten miles to a depth of seven feet. Several small settlements, numbering a total population of 150, were also swept out of existence, making, with 250 lost in Indiana, a total of 40»> lives lost. The stench in the city from the putrifying of the dead, with the stench from animals, was most intolerable. A party of Mexicans on Sunday began to rob the dead bodies washed on to a plain four to six miles to the back of the city. The scoundrels chopped the fingers and hands and ears off the men and women to obtain the jewellery. As soon as this was heard of, a party of citizens went out and killed five Mexicans whom they caught. The lowest barometer occurred on the afternoon of September 16th, when it stoo \ at 29-88, with a maximum velocity of the wind of eighty-six miles per hour. A thousand have been drowned. The cattle are strewn over the prairie south of the town, and several light coasting steamers are lying from six to eleven miles inland. Galveston and other places were submerged, but the most serious losses was at Indiansla, a town of 1500 inhabitants, and at Mategoda Bay. Subscriptions for the relief of the sufferers are being raised.

A passenger train on the Richmond, Drummond, and Arthabasca railway ran off the line. Ten persons were killed and thirteen' badly wounded. It is said that a rail .was placed across the track by some malicious person. A railroad accident occurred on the Erie and lowa line by the spreading of the track. The cars rolled down the embankment, and fifty persons were injured. Only one was killed. . The Mexican Government forces have attacked the revolutionists at Sonora and routed them, terminating the incipient revolution.

The captain of a tug boat at New York attempted to shoot Father Gailey during service, on account of the priest having put the captain's daughter in a convent. He was arrested. COMMERCIAL. San Francisco, October 11. The Liverpool wheat market is a little weaker ; wheat is quoted for shipping, 1 dol 90c to 2 dol; barley, 1 dol 40c ; oats, 1 dol 65c to 2 dol. New York. The petroleum market has closed strong. There is an improvement in the wool market. Sales, 150 bales, Australian, 47c. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. I Per Alhambra,] Melrourne, October 30. The week generally has been barren of events of interests. The political excitement is growing stronger as the day of the battle draws near. Sir James McUulloch unfolds the Government policy at Warnamb )ol to-night. It is generally believed that it will embrace a land tax, as: well as the taxation of other descriptions of property,

Variom anomalies in our customs duties will be removed without interfering with the protection system. One Benjamin Dorylass. a working man's candidate and general agitator, has come forward to oppose the Premier, but it is thought he will have no chance. The seat of the Commissioner of Railways at Ballarat looks anything but secure, and there are grounds for apprehension in West Bourke, where the Minister of Justice seeks re-election. The Minister of Education has also an opponent in the field in the person of one Mirams, a prominent member of the Protection League. When the polling arrives there will be some severe work in some of the electorates.

The popu'ation of Australasia, including New Zealand, is 2,233,100. There are thirty-one horses left in the Melbourne Cup, but reports of two or three of those remaining in are not very favourable. The weather has been altogether against training. Sir Hercules Robinson will be present, and will arrive in Melbourno next Thursday night. A filthy publication called the Police News and Weekly Budget, on Saturday last, overstepped the bounds of decency by presenting a nasty picture, accompanied by a still nastier letter in the press matter. The proprietor, Richard Egan Lee, was immediately summoned, and has been committed for trial. The Acting-Governor has been actively performing public duties during the past few days. On Thursday he laid the foundation stone of new almsbemsesforthe Licensed Victuallers' Association, yesterday he was present at the National Agricultural show, at Talbo* - , and to-day he is opening a horticultural exhibition, at Brighton. The statements of Captain Logan of the steamer Hero, respecting the Marquis of Normanby, have been a good deal commented on, but a letter from a passenger by the Hero on that occasion tells a plain unvarnished tale. It is published in yesterday's Argus, and as an act of simple justice to the Marquis, should be republished in New Zealand.

The convict "William Page, who murdered Mary Buchanan at Mount Gambier, was executed last Wednesday. He left a confession stating that the crime was unpremeditated, and that he never made any attempt against the girl's chastity. Mauritius advices state that the Garron was loading for Lyttelton. The Lochiel, Mayflower, and John Iverdrup, for New Zealand. Shipments of the new crop were smaller than the year previous. Thtf scarlet fever epidemic still continues. Several deaths of children are reported. Mr Berry delivered a lecture on Protection, at Baglehawk, last night. He stated that the Opposition would not allow business to proceed until there was a dissolution. The exhibits for Philadelphia from Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania, will leave direct for New York on the 30fch of November. No steamer leaves for New Zealand from here till the Albion on 11th November for Hokitika.

Sydney.

One of the Banks has received information of the circulation of forged credits on the Bank of British North America in New York.

A shepherd, named Blackhouse was found in a hut near Gennedah with his skull smashed in. An axe was found close by.

The Bank of New South Wales has declared a dividend of 15 per cent, with a bonus of 2\ per cent, and £6OOO has been carried to the reserve fund, which amounts to £400,000.

• The Marquis of Normanby has given £IOO to the National Agricultural Association of Queensland. The blacks are very troublesome on the road to the Palmer. Several murders have been reported. Bricoufaging accounts continue to be received from the goldfields.

Adelaide

Several meetings have been held, and they have supported the Government policy. Arrangements have been made for the shipment of German immigrants, from Hamburg, early next year. The export of breadstuffs for the year up to date amounts to 150,000 tons.

Tasmania.

The' second session of Parliament has opened. The Governor's speech was confined to a recommendation to pass the public works scheme. The address in reply was carried in both Houses. SHIPPING. Melbourne. Arrived—97th, Fleur de Maurice, from Dunedin ; 29th, Eliza Firth, from Greymouth. Sailed—26th, Nil Desperandum, for Auckland Newcastle, Arrived—2sth, Ansdell, from Dunedin ; Especulador and Queensland, from Lyttelton; Melrose, from Nelson; Byron,from Lyttelton; 27th, Signal, from Dunedin ; Maggie, from Napier ; Edwin Bassett, from Wellington ; Mary Webster, from New Zealand. Sailed—2sth, Robin Hood, for Wellington ; Bobyc'.to, for Dunedin ; Thames, for Auckland ; Czarowitch, foi Timaru. COMMERCIAL. Breadstuffs are very firm. Wheat is scarce. None offering, up to 6s 8d paid. New Zealand oats, 3s lOd. Large sales of kerosene. Devoe's, Is 3d ; Diamond, Is 2d. Candles in request, at B£d to 10^d. Evans and Company, millers, of Wangaratta, have failed, with liabilities amounting to £IB,OOO. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, Nov 4. During the heavy storm last night the lightning struck a house at Onehunga. The uprights, four panes of glass, and the water butt were shattered. No one was injured. Mr Hall, the Sydney agent of the San Francisco line, is a passenger by the Vasco de Garaa. Onehunga, Nov 4. The Taranaki left at 12.30 with the English mail. Passengers—Mr and Mrs Whitaker and family, Mrs Edmundson, Messrs Murphy, Comiskey, and Reeves. Wellington, Nov 4. A Commission has been appointed by the Governor to enquire into the nature of certain claims on the colliery reserve at Westport. The claim consists of certain buildings erected and improvements made in the said reserve, valued by the claimants at fifty thousand. The Government allege that no authority was ever given to these parties to squat on the reserve, and Judge Weston and Warden Beetham, of Queenstown, Otago, have been appointed a Commission to investigate the case. They sit on the twentyfifth instant at Westport. j

Major Atkinson has gone to Taranaki, and Mr Reynolds leaves on Saturday for Dunedin.

The immigration authorities are taking active steps to recover the amounts due on promissory notes given by immigrants. Thirteen were summoned this morning for sums ranging from £6 to £SO. In most cases judgment was given for the Crown. The remainder were adjourned. Palmbkston, November 4.

A man named McDonagh, of a surveying party, reported in town last night that gold had been discovered about five miles hence, on the south side of the Manawatu river. The metal is in quartz. Hokitika, November 5.

A specimen of silver ore has been discovered near Mount Rangitotara, south of Hokitika, by a party of prospectors. Several hundredweight of the ore has been brought into town, and will be forwarded to Melbourne for analysis by the next steamer. Dunedin, November 4.

His Honor delivered judgment to-day in the case of Proudfoot v Minister of Works. He accorded the plaintiff £SBOO. His claim was shown in the affidavit as £98,134. Sir G. Grey, Messrs Sheehan, and Bunny returned North by the Hawea this afternoon.

Duuediit, November 5,

A most destructive fire occurred at Tokomairiro, in Legges mill at Helensbrook, which was totally destroyed. Nothing was saved but a little flour and grain. There were thirty tons of flour and several tons of oatmeal and wheat in the mill at the time. A large water-wheel and all the machinery were destroyed. The insurances are—£lsoo in the Standard office on the stock; £2300 in the Norwich Union on the building and plant. Legges estimates his loss at £SOOO. The origin of the fire is unknown. The Standard had reinsured £750 with the South British. In vercargil l, November 4. Sir Dillon Bell having withdrawn from Mataura, a requisition is being signed, asking Mr W. H. Calder stand for the district. Bluff, November 5. The Alhambra arrived at 7 a.m. this morning. She left Melbourne at 2.30 p.m. on the 30th, and experienced rough weather on the passage. She brings 38 saloon and 87 steerage passengers, and 258 tons of cargo for all ports. Passengers for Lyttelton— Miss Biddell, Miss Lea, Miss Buck, Mrs Mclntyre, Mr Gilchrist, 15 in the steerage, and 76 tons of cargo.