TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 466, 11 December 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Agency.') LATEST FROM EUROPE AND t stralia. ♦ [Per Tairoa, via Bluff.] CABLE NEWS. London, November 29. The Brindisi mails have been delivered. A collision has occurred between the Somerset, bound for Sydney, and the Cutty Sark. The latter vessel was compelled to return to dock, ADDITIONAL ITEMS PER TAIROA. London, November 27. A deputation of the Anti-Slavery Association urged upon the Government the advisableness of preventing the departure of Armit’s New Guinea Expedition. The Earl of Carnarvon replied that he was legally powerless, but promised to discourage the enterprise. He warned the adventurers embarking in such a dangerous course, as in the event of annexation the Crown would not recognise holdings improperly acquired. Foreign arrivals have been so large as to cause a depression in the corn market. There are nearly two (million ?) quarters afloat. Tin is heavy and unsettled, and receding in quotation. Speculations have ceased. Australian quoted from £Bl to £B2, AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, November 30. In the Assembly, a Supply Bill for £380,000 has been introduced. The debates are very personal. The Opposition threaten to delay business until a dissolution is granted. Mr Mason, M.L.A., has brought an action of libel against the Age newspaper. Five French Communists have been found in a destitute condition on the coast of Queensland, being twelve days at sea. Adelaide, November 30. Wheat is duller, and buyers are indisposed to operate until prices are 4s 6d. 50,000 bushels new wheat were offered at 4s loc3, and declined. Brisbane, November 29. A man named Patrick Macraahon stabbed his wife and a solicitor named Boag. The former is not expected to live, Macmahon staged he intended to murder both for consorting together. Sydney, November 30. The estimates arc to be laid on the table to-morrow, and the financial statement made next week. It is rumored that the Government intend proposals in favor of railway extension . Nineteen hundred packages teas, ex Rilo, have been sold at auction, fetching from Is 9d to 2s 2d for finest congous. A quantity colonial low yellow sugars brought from £27 to £29 10s. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, December 10. Scarlet fever is very prevalent at Coromandel, and many schools are shut. Messrs J. S. Macfarlane. T. Henderson, W. G. Huist, and Dr Lee are announced for the Waitemata district. Mr Von der Heyde retires in Mr Henderson’s favor. There was a heavy rain storm last night. Floods are reported from various districts. The Brandon, schooner, from Apia, reports that a European named Reyes has be. n murdered in cold blood by a native at Apia for refu ing to give him a bottle of scented hair oil in his possession. Sir George Grey will not visit the Maori King. When the invitation was sent to him by a special messenger some time ago to act as mediator he referred them to the Native Minister, declining to go unless Tawhaio would put in writing his desire for a mediator. The Kingites expressed reluctance to place on record any account showing that they made the first overtures. They also declined to communicate with the Government. Auckland, December 11. The floods have washed away half a chain of the Mercer railway formation, near Buckland’s Station. The passengers had lo return to town. Wellington, December 11. The Cyphreues sailed at eleven for the south. Passengers—Mrs Davis and family, Messrs Seed (Customs) and Montague ; 10 in steerage. Hokitika, December 10. The weather here has been very rough lest week, and there is n > appearance of abatement. Dunedin, December 10. Sir John Richardson has given a lengthy reply to the requisitiouists, asking him to stand for Dunedin city. He reviews very fully his connection with political life since 1861. He states that unexpected constitutional changes of a fundamental character are always to be deprecated, as they deprive the people of a right which is at once their duty and privilege to exercise. He concludes by stating that if there is one consolation amid the uncertainties and complications of the present crisis, he can find it in the fact that the people themselves will have to decide the question, and through the instrumentality of the ballot box, free and uninfluenced. After thanking them for the compliment paid, he declined the proffered honor. Two more cases of scarlet fever are reported to-day, in a locality where it will be difficult to isolate the houses, six of them being divided by thin wooden petitions. This has at last roused up the Board of Health to action, and at a meeting to day, the following resolution was passed—“ That the health officers at the Bluff and Port Chalmers be directed to make an inspection of all vessels arriving from Melbourne, in terms of section 63 of the Public Health Act, and that the authorities of Westland be requested to co-operate, by giving similar instructions to the health officer at Hokitika.” Had this been done before, as suggested by

the Times, no fresh cases would have broken out, A fever hospital is also to be built, Mr Henry Driver has stated his intention to stand for Hoslyn, It is believed that Mr McGlashan has retired, and Mr J. Green, the third candidate, and a member of the Provincial Executive, will contest Waikouaiti now that Sir Dillon Bill has withdrawn. Bluff, December 10. Arrived —Barque Rosenath, from Sunderland, with two passengers, all well, 120 days out. She has a cargo of railway plant for the Western district railway. The Tairoa has been beached close to the wharf. The water is in three compartments. The actual damage is not yet known. She struck on the Old Man’s Rock, north-west of Dog Island. She called at Hobart Town to coal on the 30th of November. Captain Gilpin, the late master, died on the 3rd of November, of paralysis, oil Algoa Bay. His wife and three children are on board, well. The four packages of mails were landed safely. Bluff, Decmber 11. Captain Fraser, of the steamer Express, has put in a claim for salvage of the Tairoa, claiming a third, the value of the ship, as he was asked to tow her into port.