TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 536, 7 March 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Agency.) LATEST FROM EUROPE AND .AX FBTRALIA. ♦ [By Submarine Cable,] AMERICA. London, March 4. Bellknap, Secretary for War for the United States, has resigned his position on account of the disclosure of the sale of a public post by him. The Congress intends to impeach him. GREAT BRITAIN, London, March 4. A loan required by the Municipal Council of Dublin for the improvement of the city has been subscribed to the extent of seven times the required amount. , The wheat market is unchanged. AUSTRALIA. Sydney, March 6; New Caledonian advices report a severe hurricane on the 23rd. Considerable damage was done to the houses and the shipping. The next day myriads of grasshoppers passed over, leaving no vestige of herbage, INTBRPROYINCIAL^ Napibb, March 6. The schooner Opotiki, stranded on the beach and abandoned, has been got off and towed to the spit. It is not much damaged. The sale has been withdrawn. She is in the hands of the New Zealand Insurance Company. Owing to the very fine weather and the smartness of the local agent (Mr Dobson), the company has escaped a heavy loss. Great numbers of Maoris have assembled at Clive, for the great gathering to take place this week, on the occasion of the exhibition of the bones of the Chief Te Maonui, buried there twelve years ago. Natives from all parts o‘f the colony are to he present. There will be a large consumption of eatables and drinkables, and a probable expenditure of some thousand pounds. There were sold privately to-day seven rams for £3OO.

Qreymouth, March 6.

The Energetic Company, Reefton, have declared a dividend to-day of four shillings per share. The Bank of New Zealand escort brought down yesterday from Reefton 19020 z Sdwts. Dunedin, March 6.

At a meeting of the Standard Insurance, the report was adopted. Messrs John Reid and ffm, Royse were elected directors, Mr A, C. Begg was elected auditor. The salvage case Houghton and Co, owners of the steamer Express, against James Galbraith and Co, Glasgow, owners of the steamer Taiaroa, to recover £9OO, was commenced in the Admiralty Sourt to-day, and will be continued to-morrow. The claim is made for services rendered after the Taiaroa ran ashore at Dog Island on December 10th. Port Chalmers, March 7. A case of typhoid fever has broken out on Quarantine Island. The sufferer is a girl, aged sixteen, the daughter of the keeper. She caught the infection while assisting her father to cleanse the hospital, which had been vacated five days by the Corona’s immigrants, and fumigated by Dr Hoadly.