TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 577, 25 April 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Agency.') EEOM AUSTRALIA. * | By Submarine Cable.J Brisbane, April 24. Further official reports state that the rush to Hodgkinson’s river is a total failure. The diggers are looking for Mulligan to lynch him- A threat has been made to burn down the Cooldown Herald office. A riot is expected at the Palmer. Sydney, April 24. The ship Waitangi, from Canterbury to London, was spoken on 10th March; all well. Sailed —Arawata. INTB R PRO YIN Cl AL. Napier, April 24. Sailed—The Schiehallion for London, with a cargo of wool, leather, and tallow, of the value of £50,000. It commenced to rain heavily this afternoon. If it continues for two or throe days, it will do much good to the runs where grass seed has been sown in large quantities this season, Wanganui, April 24. Inspector Atchison and Sergeant Reed arrived last night with a man arrested at Marion on suspicion of being Cunningham, the alleged Lake Ohou murderer. The police pay the marks and description correspond. He was examined this morning before the Resident Magistrate, and remanded. The Supreme Court sat this morning. There was nothing of special importance in the Judge’s charge. Dunedin, April 24. In the Supreme Court, in banco, Mr Justice Williams discharged the rule in Hughes v Shand, holding there was sufficient material evidence corrjhorating plaintiff's proof of promise of marriage to satisfy the statute. Defendant will carry the case to the Court of Appeal. A rule was granted in Bird v National Bank, calling on the plaintiff to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, or failing that, that execution be stayed on the ground of misdirection by the Judge lima de Murska is suffering from a severe attack of bronchial catarrh. The medical attendant certifies that she will be unable to appear for some days. The result of the Colima commission justifies the action of the pilot and captain not bringing in the Colima, owing to exceptional circumstances on that particular day, viz, a remarkably low tide and very heavy sea, and the ship drawing about 22 feet. THIS DAY’S TELEGRAMS. Wanganui, April 25. In the Supreme Court, Shannon, for committing a rape on his stepdaughter, a child twelve years of age, was sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment, and to receive thirty lashes. Wellington, April 25. Arrived—The Arthur Wakefield, from Lyttelton. Hokitika, April 25. Messrs Dredrich, Morgan, and Morrison, who have been missing from Upper Kokotahi since Monday last, have been found by a search party on an island in Hokitika River, twelve miles above Kanieri township. Their boat had struck on a snag, and when they got ashore they were six days almost without food.