TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 574, 21 April 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

{Per Press Agencyo LATEST FEOM~AUSTKALIA. * [By Submarine Cable.] Sydney, April 20. A telegram from Melbourne says that the Kohinoor, from New Zealand to Launceston, forty-two days out, is windbound in Waterloo Bay. Supplies of provisions have been sent to her. There is little hope of any of the Salmon ova at the iceworks being hatched. GOLD CUP. A. T 1 Kingsborough 2 Neredah 3 The following is a list of the acceptors : Goldsborough, Kingsborough, Melbourne, Richmond, Robin Hood, Speculation, Valetta colt, Cleolite, Neva, Maid of All Work, New Holland, Redwood, Gladstone, Ella, Neredab, A. T. The betting was : Richmond, 4 to 1 ; Maid of All Work, 6 to 1 ; Kingsborough, 7to 1; Robin Hood, Bto 1. Melbourne, April 21. The sailing of the Alhambra is postponed owing to her having been aground. The water has damaged a portion of the cargo. INTERPROVINUIAL. Auckland, April 20. The case Macfarlane(Trußtee in Bankruptcy) v Lockhart was concluded last night. The j irj brought in a verdict for plaintiff for £250, with costs. The effect of this is that Lookhart haß to give up £250, value of property which he had seized and sold on bill of sale in Ballet's estate, who at the time of the execution of the deed was bankrupt. The money now comes iLto the estate for the benefit of the credi ore. A cutter of H.vl S. Nymph oapshed in the harbour to-da?. The nine oceupiaU were all rescued by a waterman.

The citizens will give a ball to the officers of the squadron next week. Grahamstown, April 20. Cr Davies has given notice to move at next meeting that the Borough Council give instructions to Mr Whitaker to prepare Bills on the following matters :—Handing foreshore over ; vesting township water Bupply in the local bodies ; the formation of Harbor Board, and the construction of a bridge over the Kanerauna. Wellington, April 20. The Agent-General reports the sailing of the Bebington or. February 12th with 280 immigrants for Auckland. She was in collision off Portsmouth on the 14th of February with a barque, name unknown. The captain telegraphed to Shaw Saville and Co as follows: —" Collided with a schooner or barque this morning ; lost bowsprit and all attached ; several plates on bow badly injured; no one hurt. Barque proceeded without giving name. Barque sustained severe damage to port side and quarter; fault all hers; sup posed to be foreign." The report on survey on the Bebington at Portsmouth says she received no damage below the water line. The vessel was not seriously injured. She will probably proceed on her voyage about the end of February. Several of the emigrants were frightened and wished to abandon the voyage; but they have not left the ship, and are not likely to do so. Mr J. E. Wright to-day sold the life interest in the Goathurst farm, which consists of about 1700 acres adjoining town belt, and 5000 sheep, houses, stock, &c, for £20,000. A Masonic meeting of Masters and Past Masters of the English Constitution will be held this evening, to make arrangements for the installation of Sir Donald McLean as District Grand Master for the North Island. Wellington, April 21. John Magie, a stowaway from Lyttelton on board the s.s. Albion, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment this morning for stealing wearing apparel from a passenger and the steward of the vessel. Colonel St John, Inspector of Armed Constabulary, and latterly attached to the Native Department, died yesterday afternoon. Dunedin, April 20. The Guardian, alluding to the blocks of land just gazetted for sale, says there can be no longer any doubt of the intention, or rather of the determination, of the Provincial Government to sacrifice the public estate of Otago. It then calls the intended sales a nefarious scheme, and adds, " What will the Waste Lands Board do. That they have the power to prohibit the infamous job upon which the Executive is bent, there cannot be any doubt." The article concludes thus—" It is broadly and openly stated, and we believe truly, that applications for these lauds have already been put in by interested parties, and that the deposits thereon have been tendered and received. Now, the proclamation is dated on the 19th, and the Gazette was not issued until after office hours yesterday. How then did these same interested parties acquire the information which enabled them to forestall the public by making their applications before the publication of the Gazette ?"

The commission which was appointed to enquire into the reason why the Colima returned to Lyttelton instead of entering Port Chalmers, when she arrived outside the Heads, held the first sitting to-day. The meeting will not be open to the Press, the commissioners being requested to report to the Superintendent. The following nominations have been received for the Dunedin Derbys : for 18/7, at Aackland, two; Christchurch, fifteen ; Dunedin, eleven; total, twenty-eight. For 1878, Auckland four ; Christchurch, nineteen ; Dunedin, thirteen ; total, thirty-six. Dunedin, April 21.

In the grain market, a considerable trade was done in wheat from 4s 4d; ordinary, to 4s 7d. Oats have an easier tendency, the demand for local consumption being slight, prices are Is 9d to Is lOd for good feed, and Is lid for prime milling. Port Chalmers, April 20. The Colima has been successfully docked.