TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 525, 23 February 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Agency.') LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AirSTRALIA. ♦ [Per Australian Cable.] THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL. London, February 19, The City of Melbourne sailed from San Francisco with the English mails on the 6th instant. AUSTRALIA, Sydney, February 21. The several Australian Governments have agreed to request the Bank of England to inscribe their stocks in the same manner as is arranged for New Zealand, [Per Otago, via Hokitika.] Melbourne, February 16, The new standing order has been assented to by the Governor. The Government intend to proceed with their financial proposals before proroguing. While adhering to the principals of the scheme they will not insist on every detail. A Supply Bill for £540,000 has passed through all its stages in both houses. The Assembly then proceeded to deal with Mr Lalor’s case as a matter of privilege. Mr Lalor was requested to attend in his place and offer an apology, and on that understanding, the motion that he be committed to the custody of the Ser-geant-at-Arms was withdrawn. The question gave rise to some debate, Mr Lalor himself asserting that the words complained of were not used in the course of his speech, and therefore did not constitute an offence. Mr Lalor having apologised, the motion was withdrawn. Some very excited language was used. Messrs McKean and Purves nearly fought in the corridor because the latter said that the statement made by an Opposition member was a deliberate lie. It was only by great exertion on the part of their friends that they were kept from striking one another. The Mining Department Board have sat, and takeh the evidence of several officers, who detailed the conduct of Mr Brough Smyth towards his subordinates. Six small houses in Earl street, Carlton, have been destroyed by fire. Two others are damaged. Watson’s Junction Hotel, at Sunbury, was also destroyed by fire. The Somersetshire sailed for London with a large number of passengers. Information has been received at Adelaide that the Imperial Government have assented to a request having reference to inscribed stock, and will make the Bill apply to the colonies generally. A shocking accident occurred at Bathurst, through the explosion of a kerosene lamp. A family was seated round the table when it burst, setting fire to Mrs Nagle, Mrs Reardon, and Thomas Nagle, five years old. The first two were shockingly injured, and it is feared will not recover. INTEKPBOVIN CIAL. . Auckland, February 22. The Governor held a levee to-day, which was well attended. Napier, February 22. Mr Richard Sherrin, late editor of the Wananga, was charged at the police court to-day by Mr Edgar Whitaker, solicitor, with embezzling £3 ss, monies of HenareTomona, proprietor of the paper. Mr Sheehan appeared for the prosecution, and Mr Lee for the defence. This case lasted all day, and was dismissed. At auction of 178 head of cattle, two to three year old heifers, fetched £4 to £6; three-year-old steers, £8 to £lO 10s; eighteen month old steers, £5 ss. There is a demand in favor of stores; good merinos, nominal prices. Wellington, February 22. Yesterday fifty-four messages were received per the Australian cable, and thirty-nine forwarded. The process of receiving and transmitting messages by cable is much slower than by the land lines. The words are indicated by flashes of light. Two operators, therefore, are required when receiving messages—one to watch the flashes, the other to write from dictation. The Mayor of Wellington has sent a congratulatory message to the Mayor of London, re the opening of the cable. Congratulatory messages were yesterday exchanged by his Excellency the Marquis of Normanby and the Governor of New South Wales upon the completion of the submarine cable connecting the colony with Australia. The Australian cable is still in the hands of the manufacturers, and will be for thirty days, but the company have allowed the use of it for the despatch of messages when not required for testing purposes ; hence the delay in the receipt and transmission of mes' sages. Three sections on the reclaimed land, sub. ject to conditions of lease from the City Council for a period of forty-two years, brought a bonus of £SOO. Three other sections held on the same terms brought a bonus of £605. The perpetrators of the witchcraft murder at Tairua are with the Uriweras, who will, it is believed, give them up. This will strengthen the hands of the Government in securing the Epsom murderer, who is supposed to have left the Piako. Arrived—Ship Warwick, from London, ninety-mile (toys out, and eighty-oue from

land to land. She had a fair weather passage. She brings forty seven passengers, and thirty prize'Lincoln sheep for Mr Walker, of Waikato, All well. Wellington, February 23, John Mitchell Williams, formerly second mate of the ship Waikato, was brought down from Foxton yesterday on a charge of larceny and obtaining money under false pretences, He was remanded for a week for the purpose of being sent to Canterbury, where the offence was committed. Riverton, Feb 22. A half-caste named Wm. Fortune was charged at the police court yesterday with having committed rape upon Catherine McKenzie at Eastern Bush. The prosecutrix lived in a cottage half a mile distant from any other house, and her husband, who is a laborer, was working at a farm about 20 miles distant. The offence was committed on the night of the 12th, when no one was in the house but complainant and three young children. Accused was remanded for eight days to enable the police to bring more conclusive evidence. Hokitika, February 23. The Otago left Sydney on the 17th at 2.30 p.m., and experienced south-westerly weather and heavy sea during her trip. Passengers—For Lyttelton : Miss Cowlishaw, Miss Woolnough, Miss Biche, Mrs Pearce, Mrs Biddy ; 14 in the steerage; and five tons of cargo.