TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 580, 28 April 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

{Per Press Agency.') LATEST FROM AUSTRALIA. ♦ [By Submarine Cable.] Sydney, April 27. The Countess of Kintore, from London to Canterbury, was spoken on the 10th of March. She had measles on board, and three deaths had occurred. Melbourne, April 27. Application has been made, and a writ of habeas corpus granted, to bring up Sullivan, the New Zealand murderer, who has been applying for his discharge from custody. The Barracouta has arrived from Auckland. Three seamen, wounded in the attack at Samoa, have since died. Adelaide, April 27. Bight of the survivors of the Strathmore are on board the mail steamer bound for New Zealand. Two went to England, and one has been employed at Ceylon. New Zealand Provincial 6 per cent loans of £IOO,COO each, have been successfully floated at about 102 and upwards. On the 28th February, the English trading vessel Amelia, while off Gibraltar, was seized by the Guardacosta and a prize crew put on board. The crew of the Amelia, however, overpowered their captors, and carried them prisoners to Gibraltar, where they were committed to trial on a charge of piracy. The Spanish Foreign Minister demands satisfaction from our Government. Several great jewel robberies have lately been committed at noblemen’s houses in the suburbs of London. The general news has been anticipated by cable. INTBRPROVINCIAL. Auckland, April 27, The Waikato 'limes denounces the Wananga newspaper as treasonable, by fomenting rebellion amongst the natives, and urges its immediate suspension by the Government. New Plymouth, April 27, Hon Mr Bowen met the Harbor Board today, and had a conference with the members relative to the province banding over the harbor endowment to the Government for the purpose of building a harbor at the site proposed by Mr Carruthers and Mr Blackett by means of prison labor. He put the Go vernmcnt proposals in writing as follows: “ First, that the harbor endowment be handed over to Government as above; second, that the central penal establishment be erected near proposed harbor works, and convict labor be employed on the work; third, that the actual value of convict labor be estimated and charged on the harbor endowments fund, and the balance of the fund be expended on the work as the money comes in; fourth, that separate accounts be kept of the endowment fund, and whenever a sufficient amount accumulates, that contracts be let for accelerating the progress of the works; fifth, that no charge incidental to the construction, maintenance, or discipline of the convict establishment be charged upon the harbor endowment fund ; sixth, that an Act be introduced during the next session to transfer to the Government the powers, functions, and endowments of the Board, except the power to raise a loan or levy a rate.” The Board agreed to the proposals with slight modifications, which are to be proposed to the Government. In section 3. instead of “ actual cost,” “ a fair proportion of the cost” was suggested; and the words “estimated and” were struck out. In clause 6, “to raise loan, See,” were struck out. The Board, with the exception of one member, were in favor of the proposals as amended. There has been heavy rain during the past week, and the roads are very bad. Wellington, April 27. Re the Sydney cable telegrams, the Countess of Kintore is bound for Canterbury. She has 183 souls on board. Re the Provincial loans floated in London, they are f or special objects (not given), such as harbors, &c., on special securities, and will not therefore be taken over by the Colonial Government on the abolition of the pro vinces. Dunedin, April 27. A strong S.W. gale set in yesterday, and continued through the night with great violence. Very heavy rain has fallen, THIS HAT’S TELEGRAMS. Wellington, April 28. Mr O’Shea reports wholesale produce E rices—Flour, £ll to £ll 15s for the best rands; milling oats, 2s 4d to 2s Gd per bushel; maize, 4s 6d to 4s 9d per bushel. JSacon and hams scarce, at Is to Is Id per lb,

The City Council has increased the salrries of all the officers proportionally, according to the salary of the town clerk, that being increased from £3OO to £4OO. Hokitika, April 28. Professor Bickerton, of Christchurch, at the request of the Superintendent, has analysed a sample of Mount liangitoto silver ore, and it gives the following result: - Lead 51 per cent, and silver 70oz to 80oz per ton, with an appreciable amount of gold. Dunedin, April 28. In the grain market there is a fair enquiry for wheat, at 4s 4d to 4s 6d per bushel for ordinary to good, up to 4s 8d per bushel for very superior. For good feed oats from Is 8d to Is 9d per bushel was offered, but holders ask Is lOd. There is a moderate request for milling oats, at 2s ; inferior barley is offering freely; prime malting would command from 4s 9d to 5s per bushel. Application has been lodged, by one person, to lease, for pastoral purposes, the whole of the 64,0C0 acres of land for which the applications to buy were refused by the Waste Land Board on Wednesday last.