The Globe. THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1876. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 556, 30 March 1876, Page 2

The Globe. THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1876. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

{Per Press Agency.) LATEST FAiOM AUSTRALIA. [By Submarine Cable.] Sydney, March 29, Arrived—Mikado. The drought in the back country of Queensland has broken up. Mr M'Kean has brought a charge of drunkenuess against the Chairman of Committees, but his language was so violently outrageous that no notice could be taken •fit. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. [Per Albambra, via Hokitika.] The Age has accused the Chairman of Committees of being drunk and incapable in the House, and has repeated the charge Currency has been given to the most disgraceful scandal, in which the names of well nigh the highest personages in the colony are freely mentioned. There are all sorts of disreputable scandals about, and persona are so pointedly alluded to that they might as well be photographed. Walter Sheridan, the well known tenor, has been accused of smuggling cigars, Only about a third of the whole of the shipment of salmon ova remains sound. Scarlet fever is prevalent, and many deaths continue to happen. lima de Murska has concluded her performances here, and will probably leave for New Zealand next week. The Assembly has passed a Bill to establish the postal card system, and two of the new taxation Bills, There is fearful drought in Queensland. In the Warrego district the thermometer stood at 112 for three weeks. All the :ivera are fast drying up, and cattle are dying in all directions. In Bourke there has been no heavy rain for two years. The Suez mail will be a week late this mouth, INTERPROVINCIAL. Wellington, March 29, A joint deputation of the City Council and Chamber of Commerce waited on the Premier with the view to obtaining increased wharf accommodation. The Mayor, who was spokesman, said they wanted about £IO,OOO or £12,C00. Had" they power to borrow they could obtain th<> mor.ey immediately. Sir J. Vogel said Government had no money to spend on &uch an undertaking at present. If they gave away in one case they would be expected to do so in every other, and just now there were enormous demands for harbor works iu many parts of the colony. He suggested that the management of the harbor be taken from the corporation, and placed in the hands of a harbor trust. Napier, March 30. The (Governor is expected here at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The addresses will be presented by the Corporation and Foresters. The undress levee will be held on Friday morniug, and the ball in the evening. The Club give a dinner to the Governor, probably on Saturday. REEFTON, March 29. The Rev Edward Samuel Cross, Church of England minister, has refused to read the burial service over the remains of Mr H. Gr. Hughes, chemist, a member of the Pacific Lodge of Freemasons. Much indignation is expressed. Dunedin, March 29. Judge Williams to-day, in Regina v Jenkins, discharged the rule with costs, This upholds the coroner's inquisition held in the matter of the George street fire, and Jenkins will take his trial at the Suprsme Court sittings next week. In the Taiaroa salvage case, judgment was given for £l2O. The judge considered that the Taiaroa could have reached the Bluff harbor without assistance, though it would have taken perhaps four and a half hours longer. The cost, with the judgment amount claimed, was £9OCO. Arrived—Ship Penshaw, from Glasgow, with a cargo of merchandise, only eighty days out. Dunedin, March 30. A fire at Caversham last night destroyed Blair's store and bakery ; also a dwelling and outhouses belonging to Mr Cochrane, the brewer. Water was so scarce that beer had to be used to extinguish the flames. The insurance is as follows : —On Blair's stock, £2OO in the .Norwich Union; £4OO in the Victoria. Mr Cochrane £SOO in the "Victoria. The losers estimate their loss to be in excess of the insurance. Mr Blair kept the post office. The letters were burnt.