The Globe. THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1876. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 579, 27 April 1876, Page 2

The Globe. THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1876. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

{Per Press Agency,') LATEST EEOM AUSTRALIA. ■* [By Submarine Cable,] Melbourne, April 26. The Government have handed over to Messrs Stevenson their detained letters unopened. The Commissioner of Customs stated that all packages imported by the firm will be opened and examined, in order 'hat the reliability of the invoices may be tested, Sydney, April 26, Wools at the Exhibition arc splendid. Victoria and Tasmania are well represented,

At the annual meeting of the Mutual Provident Society a highiy satisfactory report was presented. The business has increased in all the colonies. The s. s. Eingarooma and the s. s. Kohinoor have arrived at Melbourne. April 27. The Suez mail arrived at Adelaide yesterday evening. INTERPROYINCIAL. Auckland, April 25. The Governor and Sir Donald McLean leave for the Bay of Islands on the 3rd of May. The Cross says—“ The reported proposal to visit the Maori King is abandoned, Tawhiao manifesting no desire to meet his Excel lency.” The American schooner yacht Peerless was sold to-day for £550. Mr G. W. Owen is the purchaser. The defect in the title, she being acquired by seizure at Samoa, militated again her sale, Napier and Dunedin have entered for the chess challenge cup. Wanganui, April 27. The man arrested on suspicion of being Cunningham, the Ohau murderer, was discharged, his personal indentity being proved. Wellington, April 27. Messrs Gisborne, Knowles, and Seed, left to day, per Kennedy, for Nelson. Mr Seager, some years in charge of the Mount View Asylum, died this morning. Ti e is brother to Mr Seager, of the Sunnyside Asylum. The Nelson race meeting next week promises to be most successful. The entries for the Steeplechase and the Jockey Club Handicap, closed last night. There were eleven entries ' for the former and nine for the latter. Mr Baunatyne has received a cablegram from a New York firm to the effect that a Maori, with native costume, is wanted for the Philadelphia Exhibition. His passage there and back, and expenses in America, are assured. Hokitika, April 27. The first case of typhoid fever on the West Coast has made its appearance. It is a passenger by the Otago on her last trip. Dunedin, April 26. The Waste Lands Board has refused all the applications. Mr Reid was the only member who supported the granting, and he defended the action of the Executive on the grounds of public policy, as these sales of rugged pastoral land would obviate the necessity of the sale of good agricultural land fit for settlement.