The Globe. MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1876. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 570, 17 April 1876, Page 2

The Globe. MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1876. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

{Per Press Agency.) LATEST FROM EUROPE (and AUSTRALIA. * UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. London, April 14. Cambridge has beat Oxford by four lengths. SUEZ MAIL NEWS, [Per Albion, via Bluff.] Tidings have been received from Central Africa of the welfare of Colonel Gordon, The medical attendant was dead, and there was no white man in his parly. Mr Joliffe, of the Isle of Wight, the famous steeplechase rider, was killed in the Huntingdon Railway accident. A remarkable walking match has taken place at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, between Edward Weston, an American, and William Perkins, the fastest walker in England. They w ire to walk for twenty-four consecutive hours, the one covering the greatest distance in that time to be declared the winner, Perkins retired at 06 miles, while Weston completed 10d miles He was not exhausted. The I Zingari and Gentlemen of England eleven have projected a visit to America lo play a series of matches for the world’s championship, with the St George and Manhattan Clubs of New York and the Philadelphia Clubs. Nearly 130 persons in a Lancashire village near Boston, are suffering from blood poisoning, traced from milk from diseased cows or adulteialed with water polluted by sewage. In the Clifton appeal case, involving the question of the personality of Satan and the eternity of punishment, the Lord Chancellor’s decision is against the clergyman, who is admonished to admit Mr Jenkins to the Sacrament and pay costs. Mr Hoismau has commenced a | rosecution against the World, in connection with a book entitled “Edward the by the author of “ The Coming K,’’ which has coated some sensation, The World/ calls it

a blackguard work, full of blasphemy, indecency, disloyalty, and personal abuse. The respectable papers refuse to advertise it. The Daily Telegraph has been compelled to apologise to three Hastings magistrates lor a sensational article reflecting oi their justice in sentencing an incorrigible offender to six weeks’ imprisonment with hard labor tor stealing cabbages. The labors of the International committee for the construction of a submarine tunnel have resulted in the establishment of perfect agreement on all essential points. The story of Lord Ripon’s gift of £IO,OOO to the Pope is declared untrue. Of seven new baronets created, four are Conservative members of Parliament. Large supplies of dead meat arc brought over from America, and find a ready sale in the London and Liverpool markets The steamers have been fitted up with largo compartments for the conveyance of the meat. The captain of the Strathern has been fined £2O at Queenstown for neglecting to find immigrants with the proper quantity of food and water Some citizens of Dublin have resolved to forward to the Queen a request that, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, she visit the Irish capital this year. A fire has occurred at a cotton mill at Bolton, throwing 150 persons out of employment, and doing damage to the extent of £30,000. The woollen mill of Mr Sheard, of Batley, which afforded employment for nearly a thousand people, has been damaged to the extent of £20,000. The Black Rock mill, near Staley Bridge, has sustained damage to the extent of £20.000, and several persons wore seriously injured. It is slated that £600,000 have been paid by the Insurance Companies last year to owners of cotton mills burned down. Obituary— W. Calendar,Conservative member for Manchester ; Sir William Jackson, a large coal owner; John Henry Barker, formerly Police Magistrate at Clerkenwell ; Fred. Lemantine, French actor ; Dr Dykes, musician and composer, and a large contributor to Hymns Ancient and Modern ; Mr Ponlett Scrope, thirty-four years member for Stroud ; Sir John Coleridge, aged eightyfive ; Justice Keating ; Sir Baldwin Walter ; Dr Richard Ming, Physician. Small-pox of a very virulent type is prevailing at Bombay, and many Europeans have been attacked. Two temporary hospitals are to be erected immediately for the accommodation of patients. The English pas sergers declined to proceed in the Bangalore from Galle, as several cases had occurred on board, and there was no alternative but to send back the China, but she brings no cargo. The steamer Orestes has been lost outside Galle Harbor, but all aboard were saved. The steamer Powad, which left Jeddah with 400 pilgrims, was wrecked the same night. She struck on a reef, and only thirteen were saved out of 450 aboard. The Prince of Wales visited Nepaul, and was magnificently received by Sir Jung Bahadoor. He had some splendid sport at. tiger shooting, and afterwards visited Allahabad and Lahore, and finally embarked from Bombay on March 15th, under a general salute from the ships and shore batteries. Previous to his departure, the Prince, in replying to an address from the Bombay Corporation, spoke in high terms of his reception in India. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. [Per Albion via Bluff ] Melbourne, April 10. Parliament is prorogued to 9th May. The Governor’s speech promised that measures would be taken for retrenchment during the brief recess. The revenue returns have shown, beyond the eslima'e, being an increase of £116,000 on the corresponding quarter, and £375,000 on the whole year. Over a million was derived from the lands iu rental and soles. A Loan Rill for three millions has been passed, including a sum of £1,300,030 for railway construction, and over half a million for school buildings. The Assembly has negatived a proposal to expend £3OO on a picture of Judge Wilson Gray, the Premier thinking that others had been quite as much disinterested as Judge Wilson Gray, and obtained no recognition of their services. The first of the salmon ova at Ecildovvn has been hatched and is doing well. A discharged employee of L. Stevenson and Sons has informed the Customs that the firm had been in the habit of pursuing systematic frauds In connection with the Customs entries, A strict search was insti tuted by the department, and all seemed to be going on well until Friday last, when the firm declined to allow the Customs access to certain private documents Upon this refusal the Customs officers were placed in charge of the store. Stevenson’s people secured a gang of men, and forcibly ejected the officers from the building. Later in the afternoon the Customs’ officers again took possession, but not without much trouble and some bloodshed. The large store in Flinder’s lane was literally besieged by the officers, led by the collector, who received a nasty wound on the head. The at-' tacking party got in at the rear, and now remain in possession. The affair has caused great excitement, and will lead to further proceedings. The Melbourne Cup this year wiil be a splendid prize to the winner. The Club have brought the added money up to 500 sovs, and in addition Mr James Blackwood, the chairman of the V.R.C.,gives a gold cup valued at 200 guineas. The arrangement made by the Adelaide Government with Bishop Berguiou of the Greek Church, for the introduction of a number of statute adults into the Northern Territory is considered a good s! rol e of [ obey The immigrants, who are also to be cf Hu Greek faith, are to have grunts of laud at a small rental with the fee sirapleat the eid ol ien years. The Bishop himself is to receive 600 acres cf land, and £IOOO.

INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, April 15. Arrived —Pella Mary, from Hobart Town She spoke the barque Queensland, bound t > Lyttelton. Pate A, April 16 A fire occurred at about five this morning in M‘Guire’s store. The building was entirely destroyed. It was insured in the South British for fitCO, and the stock for £3OO. There was a very heavy stock valued at £3500. The contents of Price’s iron safeare all right, No other buildings were injured,

Wellington. \ j>i n '5 The plasterers at the uew Goveruruiut Buildings have been refused the additional shilling per day, and will be on strike after to-day, Hokitika, April IP, The schooner J. G. Colesou, from Wes - port, has arrived here. The captain was drowned on Tuesday last at sea. Dunedin, Apiil 15. The Times says the Provincial Executive is in a financial dilemma, and there is no little fear that they will extricate themselves by selling a large quantity of land in big blocks. The Supreme Court sat until half-past eleven last night in Bird's case against the National Bank, and adjourned to Wednesday. E. G. Bickerton was arrested here last night, charged with emb>zzling from his employer, Mr John Milne, of Oamaru. The holidays have interfered with business in the grain market Wheat, 4s 7d for choice ; 4s 4d to 4s 6d for good milling. Oats,ls lid for prime; Is 9d to Is lOd for good feed. Bluff, April 15. Arrived—l4th, ship Pomona, from Glasgow, eighty-five days out, with IGO immigrants, all well. The immigrants were landed to-day, and the ship sriled for Dunedin this afternoon. Bailed—lsabella Ridley, for Lyttelton and Edward Barrow, for Callao. The Albion arrived at Gam. She left Melbourne at 11 am. on the 11th; she cleared the Heads at 2.10 p.m; spoke the Arawata at 11 a.ra. on the 14th; passed the Bolanders atll4oam. on the loth. She brings the English mail, ex China, thirty saloon, ten steerage passengers, and 176 tons cargo for all ports. She sails for Dunedin this after noon. lima de Murska is a passenger for Dunedin. Passengers for Lyttelton—Saloon: Messrs Cairuthers, Joseph, Mrs Garruthers, Miss Osborne; three in steerage. Ten tons cargo. FIRE IN TIMARU. {Per Press Agency ) Timaru. April 16. At one this morning a fire broke out in a cottage under suspicious circumstances, in a house occupied by a man known as Sydney Jones and a woman named Nellie Duncan. On the neighbourhood being alarmed, rnd assistance arriving, Sydney and another man named Butler, were seen lying outside near a live fence, the former raving mad drunk, and the latter in a sound drunken sleep. The police took charge of them. The former had to be held down by two poPco men. After the fire had nearly exhausted itself, the charred remains of a woman near a bed, supposed to be Nellie Duncan, were found. The doctor was sent for, who examined them by the light of a candle, and the remains were taken to the neighbouring hotel, and the men to the lock-up. A drunken row was heaid in the house a little while previous to the fire. The Timaru fire brigade did not arrive till the house was burnt. The night fortunately was cdm. (From a correspondent of the Press') Atone this morning a fire broke out in a two-roomed cottage at the back of the Timaru public school under suspicious circumstances. The house was occupied by a man named Sydney Jones and a woman known as Nellie Duncan. On the neighborhood being ala r med, and assistance arriving, Sydney Joues and another man, Butler, were seen lying outside near a live fence ; the former was raving mad drunk, and the latter iu a sound drunken sleep. The police took charge of them, and the former had lo be held down by two policemen. After the fire had nearly exhausted itself the charred remains of a woman, near a bed in the bedroom, supposed to be Nellie Duncan, were observed, Dr Maclntyre was sent for, who examined them as well as they could by the light of a candle. Shortly after daylight ?he men were taken to the lock-up, and the remains of the woman to Lynwood Hotel A drunken row was heard in the bouse a little while previous to the fire occurring. The house belonged to Mr Frederick Clarkson, was newly built, and was in the Timaru Building Society, from which he had only a few days previously obtained the final payment. The Timaru fire brigade did not arrive on the spot till the house was burned to the ground. The night was very calm, and the flames shot up a considerable height. THIS DAY’S TELEGRAMS. Auckland, Aprii 17. Arrived—The DilkussuuJ, barque, from London. It is blowing hard from the north-east, otherwise a fine day for the races. The Governor an officers of the Pearl and Sappho attend the races. The water excursions are knocked on the head. Wellington, April 17 Sailed —Hawea, for Lyttelton and the South, at 1 p.m. Passengers—Miss Holmeden ; Messrs A. Johnston, J. Pebble, and H. White.