The Globe. MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1876. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 547, 20 March 1876, Page 2

The Globe. MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1876. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Agency .) LATEST FROM EUROPE AND A.T FSTRALIA. ♦ [By Submarine Cable,] GREAT BRITAIN. London, March 16. The Marquis of Hartingtoa will move, “ That, while Parliament is willing to consider what additional title should be given to the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, it is inexpedient to impair the ancient Royal dignity of the British Sovereign by styling Queen Victoria Empress of any portion of the British dominions.” March 18. The Marquis of Hartington’s motion has been negatived. FRANCE. London, March 16. The French Ministerial programme is one of peace, free trade, and a desire that the nation shall give an honest support to the Republic. AUSTRALIA, Sydney, March 18. The ova on board the Durham are in good condition. Rice, nominal; kerosene, 2s Id to 2s 2d ; oats, 2s lOd to 2s lid ; brandy, Hennessy’s quarters, 6s 6d ; case, 29s 9d to 31s. Frightful accounts come from the back country in Queensland inconsequence of the want of water and feed. Fifty thousand cattle are now on the frontage river at Warrego, which is dried up. The thermometer daily stands at 112 deg. in the shade. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, March 18. Arrived—Taupo, with Suez mail. The Llewellyn left Levuka on the 10th, and experienced heavy gales throughout the passage. She passed the Granada under close-reefed sail on Thursday. She brings a cargo of sugar, maize, and copra. Wellington, March 18. Mr Buckland, assistant master of Wellington College, has resigned his appointment through ill health. Arrived Terpsichore, from Hamburgh, about 119 days out. The immigrants and ship are in quarantine. There are no particulars to hand. Greymouth, March 20. The Races are postponed until to-morrow. It is raining very heavily at intervals, Dunedin, March 18. The first picnic and ball of the Yorkshire Club was a great success yesterday. There were visitors from various parts of the colony. The first number of the Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette has appeared. Two gentlemen named Cowie were upset in a boat yesterday, and rescued by two warders from the hulk. The gale increased last evening, and still continues. During the performance in Wilson’s circus great alarm was caused by the tent splitting and coming down, but nobody was hurt. FIJI NEWS. The Governor has not yet fixed upon the site for the capital. The Fiji Times characterises Sir J. Vogel’s proposition, that Fiji should subscribe £IO,OOO to the postal subsidy, as rather absurd, and says their consent or refusal cannot possibly affect the question of the steamer calling at Fiji. By the wreck of the Young Bismarck, a small vessel at Moela, one of the Windward isles, on the 24th of February, Mr Veitcb, naturalist, lost a valuable collection of Fiji plants. H.M.S, Nymph had returned from her trip round the islands. At Faroe, Captain Suttie fractured two ribs by falling out of his hammock. On the 27th Sub-Lieutenant Walker died of brain disease. Ship’s armorer Robinson also died from cancer. NEW CALEDONIA. Auckland, March 18. Arrived —Sissy, from New Caledonia. The Auckland schooner Peerless has been sold for £2075 to Messrs Henry Ginson and Morgan, of Noumea. In consequence of letters sent to officials, asserting that the captain of the Auckland steamer Southern Cross intended effecting the escape of political prisoners, an injunction was issued preventing her plying on the coast. The crew have returned in the Sissy. Letters have been sent which it is hoped will remove the embargo,