TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 582, 1 May 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

{Per Press Agency .) LATEST FROM AUSTRALIA. ❖ [By Submarine Cable.] Sydney, April 29. Tobacco (black swan brand) .is better in the market. Single packages about Is 6d. Case brandy (rTennessy’s) 30s 3d to 80s 6d; New Zealand malt is offering at 4s to Cs ; kerosene, 2s Id to 2s 3-Jd ; sugar is advancing. Arrived —Albion. The schooner Swansea Packet, from Hobart Town to Sydney. w r as abandoned at cea on the 24th, The crew were rescued wish difficulty The barque Mary Mildred has arrived at Newcastle with three survivors left on the Bruntoa reef from the ship Isabella wrecked

there. Many were lost, and three others died on thereof from exposure and privation. Arr ved—Hero. Melbourne, Aprl 29, Mr Sraythe has been adjudged guilt/ of excessive severity, of using unwarrantable language, of being impeiious and irritable and of displaying want or control. The Commission considers his co-operation with his officers impracticable. The Bank of Victoria at Seymour has been robbed of over £SOO. The clerk was bound and gagged. INTEBPROVINUIAL. Auckland, April 29. The following is relative to the unexplained detention of the City of San Francisco, and appears in a San Francisco paper of April Ist:—“The steamer City of San Francisco is still lying in bay ; steam up, She-was to sail for Australia at 6 o’clock, and that too after several postponements. It was reported that the steamer was detained in accordance with instructions from New York. The agent professed to know nothing as to the cause, though it is very well understood outside that the Australian colonies have failed to pay the subsidy in consequence of some violation of contract. The rumor that a sheriff's officer was aboard with an attachment is denied.” The City of San Francisco sailed for Sydney at noon. Port Chalmers, April 29. The s.s. Colima was undocked last night. She is taking in coals, and sails North on Wednesday. Fort Chalmers, May 1. Arrived—Caitloch, ship, from London, with 51 passengers. On February 21st picked up the captain, mate, and three seamen of the brig Caroline, of Liverpool, which foundered on the 14th February. Sent the men home by the steamer Argentine.