The Globe. MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 461, 6 December 1875, Page 2

The Globe. MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Pef Press Agency .) ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL. Auckland, December 5. The s.s. Macgregorhas arrived with the mail. She left San Francisco on November 9th, and reached port at half-past five o’clock this afternoon. She brings the largest mail ever brought to New Zealand—namely, 272 bags, containing 35,000 letters and 77,000 newspapers. Passengers for New Zealand—Mr and Mrs Taylor, Mrs Fraser, and fifteen steerage, and 62 for Australia. ENGLISH AND FOREIGN SUMMARY. London, November 8, The Turkish Government offer Mr Gladstone £50,000 per annum to take charge of the Turkish finances. The Admiralty has exonerated Sir W, Tavleton and Captain Hickey from responsibility in respect to the sinking of the Vanguard. The Chinese trouble with England has been satisfactorily settled. Spain and the Pope have come to an understanding. There have been disastrous floods in India, by which 20,000 were rendered homeless. One hundred workmen were fatally injured by an overflow of molten metal at the Walsall Iron Works. Tripoli has apologised to the United States for the insult to her Consul. It is officially announced that Don Carlos has dismissed from his service Generals Dorregary, Mendiri, Velasco, and Magrango, The Pandora arrived at Portsmouth to-day from the Arctic Sea. The plot to place the ex-Qaeen Isabella on the Spanish throne has failed. The explorers on board the Pandora discovered the graves of three of Sir John Franklin’s men on Beach Island. The Russian Government has published an edict compelling all Polish proprietors in provinces of Wilua, Grodal, Koous, Minsel, and Wilepsk, to sell to the Russian tenants the farms now rented by the latter. Davis and his wife, of Toronto, the abortionists, have been sentenced to be hung. Cardinal Noble Vitelli Sehir is dead. The Emperor William and King Victor Emmanuel reviewed 200,000 troops at Milan. The Crown Prince of Germany is to visit the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. The German squadron will form an escort. At Munich, a Royal decree has introduced compulsory civil marriages. Sixty tons of small arms ammunition for China has been shipped at London as merchandise The Government is looking after the shippers. Sir Charles Wheatstone, the inventor of the electric telegraph, is dead, Turkey wants more money. M. Rouher has made another violent attack on the Government, and declares publicly for the Bonapartists. Toronto is in the hands of a gang of ruffians who are committing depredations in every direction. Montreal is again greatly excited over the Guibord affair. Von Arnim’s sentence has been confirmed. His family are asking for a pardon. The Times reports that Manchester firms are likely to import calico from the United States. The recent storms on the English coast have been terribly destructive, Seventy thousand Spanish troops are under orders for Cuba. Russia limits her exhibits at Philadelphia to specialities unknown out of Russia. Stanley has been very successful in explorations in Central Africa, Herzegovina has declared war against Turkey. The Albatross has been ordered to Panama to protect British interests there. Russia insists that steps must be taken by the Christian nations to protect the Christians in Turkey. The loss by the cattle disease in England is over one million of dollars. It is rumored that General Dorragary has been shot by order of Don Carlos. The King of Greece decorated all the Prince of Wales’ party during their visit to Greece. Mrs Black, the original of Byron’s “ Maid of Athens,” has died in Greece, aged seventysix. The King and Queen of Denmark and Princess Thyra intends visiting England shortly. The latest mail advices from England contain gloomy reports of the recent floods in the midland counties. At Nottingham thirteen persons were drowned. More than 3000 houses were inundated, and fifty factories stopped. Near Oxford the railway lines were all inundated with water, and the village of Batheny entirely flooded. At Burton-on-Treut six persons were drowned, and at Derby the water is still several feet deep in the streets. Above Gainsborough the Trent has burst its banks, and all the surrounding country is flooded, The loss of property is enormous, and the main line of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire railway has been washed away, and all traffic was stopped for a time. The British expedition to punish the Congo River pirates has been very successful, Over 200 sailors were lost during the recent gales in the North Sea. Scientific observation stations are to be established in the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans. The French ironclad Magenta has been destroyed by fire. England snubs Russia for interfering in Turkish matters.

Emile Olivier will be a candidate for the French Assembly at the next elections. The German arsenal at Redersburgh has been totally destroyed by fire. An English commission has been organised to settle the Alaska boundaries. The Congregational churches, to the disgust of the world, are about to renew the Beecher scandal by a sacerdotal enquiry. Her von Stronsberg, the great Prussian contractor, has failed. The Duke D’Andriffet Pasquier has been elected President of the Assembly, The Queen of Holland is seriously ill with fever. Robert Von Maber, statesman and political economist, is dead. Colonel Cowen, of New York, has been asked by the British Government to undertake the work of raising the Vanguard. AMERICAN SUMMARY. | November 8 th. The great Roman wrestle at the Grand Opera House, New York, was won by Miller, the Australian champion. Ohio, lowa, and Nebraska return overwhelming majorities on the Republican ticket. This is a heavy blow to inflation, the pet scheme of the Democrats. A large number of heavy failures are reported in New York, Serious charges have been preferred against Governor Tilden, of New York, in connection with the St Louis, Alton, and Tite Hate railway. Frederick Hudson, of New York, a journalist for fifteen years connected with the Herald, is dead. The Beecher scandal is at last dead. Talraadge’s church is crowded daily to hear Moody and Sankey. They have secured Gilmore’s Concert Gardens in New York. President Grant’s visit to Utah has determined him upon a strict policy with regard to the Mormons. The hog cholera is taking off thousands of pigs in Indiana. Howard Glover, the well known composer, is dead. A great Fenian demonstration is to take place in New York on the 23rd of November, in honor of the Fenian prisoners hanged at Manchester. Indictments have been sustained against a great firm, H. B. Clafin and Co, of New New York, charged with smuggling. The steamship Pacific, of Goodall, Nelson, and Perkin’s line, was lost forty miles south of Cape B’lattery, with the loss of all except one, on'the 4th November, Henry Frederick Jelley, the sole survivor, states that he took passage on board at British Columbia for San Francisco. There was about 200 on board. Between eight and nine o’clock they came into collision with a vessel, and shortly after sank. By lashing himself to a piece of the wreck ho floated for some days, when he was picked up by the ship Messenger, and landed at Port Townsend. GENERAL NEWS, An accident occurred at the Ludgate Hill terminus of the London, Chatham, and Dover railway. Thirty persons were more or less injured. Letters have been received from Henry M. Stanley. They are exceeding interesting, and are dated at Ulgalla, in Ugunda. He gives an elaborate and picturesque account of the continuation and conclusion of his examination of the shores of Lake Victoria Nyanza. He confirms Speke’s views that the great lake is one large body of water, and not a scries of small lakes, as held by Dr Livingstone. Mr Stanley’s observations and reports on this point of African geography are to be made the subject of discussion before the Royal Geographical Society. Since Mrs Moulton’s written charges against the Rev Mr Beecher have been referred to an examining commission of Plymouth Church, to be acted on as the commission see fit, there has arisen considerable speculation amongst Beecher’s congregation, and the general opinion is strengthening that the whole scandal will be revived. It will be several weeks before the commission begins the work of investigation. It is learned that they have been directed to review all the evidence in the case both that which was presented in Court and that which was excluded, This labor will certainly involve a considerable time, and it may be many months therefore before anything like a report is reached. One report says they will enquire whether Beecher’s relations to his own church are such as other members of the association bear to their churches. Another statement is that the committee will investigate the scandal matters. Leader, who was indicted for perjury in the Beecher case, has made a motion by counsel in the Court of Sessions—“ That a commission be appointed to go to New Jersey and take the testimony of Joseph Richards and his wife for use on the trial.” The judge has reserved his decision. The motion to quash the indictment was denied. It is the general impression that Jelley labors under a delusion in stating that the Pacific come into collision with a vessel. It is thought more likely that she struck on a sunken rock. The cargo was worth 25,000 dols. There is faint hopes of there being any other survivors. A steamer has been dispatched for inquiry and to search. Jelley, when picked up, was in a very low state, with his limbs terribly bruised from the buffetting on the sea while on a raft for thirty-six hours. The Pacific was built at New York in 1851, and until a year ago was owned by the Pacific Mail Company. She was 876 tons register. Captain J. Howell, the commander, was thirty-five years old, and has been several years a master. COMMERCIAL. At the New York sales, 150 bales of New Zealand woo! sold at 44c per lb. The market is active. Boston markets arc active, and prices well sustained. Crude sperm oil, 1 dol 50c; whale oil, nominal; hides half a cent lower; case petroleum, steady and active; hops, 13c to 20c, Large purchases have been made for export to England. San Francisco, November 9. Liverpool telegram advises a decline Id to 2d on wheat; local rates, 2dol. For best flour (extra), fidol to fidol 37c; barley (best), Idol 27c; oats, Idol 90c; Oregon salmon (lib), Idol 25c to Idol 30c. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, December 4. Arrived—Phoebe, from South; Augusta, from Lyttelton. Weights for Auckland Cup Handicap ; Mr Watt’s Parawhenua, 6 yrs, 8s 101 b ; Mr Redwood’s Guy Fawkes, 4 yrs, Bst 81b ; Mr Watt’s Ngaro, 4 yrs, Bst 21b ; Mr Owen’s Voltaire, 4 yrs, Bst; Mr Bobbett’s Tikiko, Tdt 121 b; Mr Crammer’s Rangi, 4 yrs,

7st 121 b; Mr Perkins’s Discord, 5 yrs, 6stl2lb ; Mr Kirkwood’s Tui, 4 yrs, 6st 101 b; Mr Walters’s Kingfisher, 5 yrs, fist 101 b ; Mr Redwood’s Cocksure, 3 yrs, fist 81b ; Mr Buckland’s Ariel, 3 yrs, fist 51b. Entries for the Handicap Steeplechase of 100 sovs :—Medora, Saunterer, Auckland, Kate, Is'eman, Stranger, The Arrow, Mount, Rarey, Moose—all aged. Auckland, December 6. The Taupo sails South, with the Macgregor’s mails, at 2.30 to-day. Gisborne, December 4. A great Maori kaekaukai commenced at Waerenga Ahika yesterday. The native presents changed hands to the value of over five thousand pounds. The gifts included about fifty tons flour, and a hundred pounds worth of tobacco, live stock, an immense quantity of preserved pigeons, clothing, ornamental calabashs, dried shark, bank notes, gold, and Maori curiosities. There was a war dance during the day. Feasting and drinking will last till all the grog is consumed. About one thousand Maoris and five hundred Europeans were present. One Gisborne storekeeper sold over two thousand pounds worth of stuff for the festival. Wellington, December 4. Parliament wili be dissolved, and the new writs issued on Monday morning. The writs run for sixty days. The Interprovincial Regatta committee met yesterday. It was stated that the subscriptions already amounted to £6OO. The regatta will occupy two days, and will take place on the Petoni course. The programme as at present proposed is as follows: —No 1, four-oared outriggers (for championship), Ist prize, £150; 2, five-oared (or more) racing whaleboats, steered with steeroar, Ist prize, £SO ; 3, four-oared inrigged gigs, Ist prize, £IOO ; 4, pair-oared outriggers, Ist prize, £2O ; 5, pair-oared inrigged, Ist prize, £2O ; 6, scullers’outriggers, prize cup and £ls; 7, first-class yachts, Ist prize, £SO and Shaw Saville’s cup; 8, maiden four-oared inrigged race, Ist prize, £lO ; 9, coasters’ race, Ist prize £SO and Shaw Saville’s cup; 10, second class yachts, Ist prize, £10; 11, minor fouroared inrigged gig race, prize, £10; 12, fiveoared whaleboat race for volunteers and firemen, prize, £lO. The Customs revenue for November, 1875, was £13,841 as against £9414 for November, 1874. The immigrants per Avalanche were landed this morning. They appear to be in excellent health, Wellington, December 6. Arrived—-Janet Ramsay, from Lyttelton, Westport, December 4. The Colliery Reserve Commission has been actively engaged during the week. Voluminous evidence has been given. The witnesses mainly agree that the sections are at present of little value, and that further prospects depend on the completion of the public works , r and the action of local mining by private companies. Dunedin, December 4. The Times this morning had two strong articles on the disgraceful way in which quarantine matters are carried on here, referring more particularly to the cases of steamers coming from Melbourne now scarlet fever is raging there; The Times also comments on Mr Macandrew’s telegrams to the Colonial Secretary, in which the Superintendent, as chairman of the Board of Health, states that is inexpedient to quarantine Melbourne steamers. It regrets that he should consider any measure inexpedient which has or its object the protection of the public health. Poet Chalmers, December 4. Arrived—Ship Waimate, from London, 347 passengers, all well, after a fine passage. Carmarthenshire, from London, with 26 passengers.