TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 585, 4 May 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Agency.) LATEST EEOM~ AUSTRALIA. [By Submarine Cable.] Melbourne, May 3. Lots of salmon-ova are being daily hatched out. An unsuccessful attempt was made yesterday to throw the train off the H jbson’s Bay line. The action of the Customs’ authorities in opening Messrs Stevenson and Son’s goods is generally condemned. Sydney, May 3. A deputation waited on the PostmasterGeneral from the Chamber of Commerce, and urged the advisableness of having a second telegraph line to Europe. They pointed out the loss and inconvenience of the stoppages in the present line by the absence of information affecting the colonies. The PostmasterGeneral admitted the importance of a second line, and promised to consult his colleagues with a view to early negotiations with the other Australian colonies and New Zealand. .During a heavy fog the steamer You Yangs struck on a rock outside Newcastle, and knocked a hole under the engine room. The water put out the fires, aud she was towed ,nto harbour. Arrived—Easby. Sydney, May 4. The postmaster denies the statement that any hitch occurred in the Pacific Mail Ser vice, owing to the non payment of the sub. sidy. __ INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, May 3. The Thames steamer Durham took fire this morning at four o’clock. It was supposed to have been put out, but it broke out again at a quarter to ten, doing great damage, The boat had to be scuttled. The saloon was badly damag-d, and the captain’s aud engineer’s cabins were gutted, aud deck plankii g injured seriously. The vessel ifexpected to be floated this afternoon. Shi .is insured for £IOOO in the New Zealand 'Company, mL

Napier, May 3. At a meeting of the municipal council last evening a letter was read from the Mayor of Wellington asking the co operation of the Mayor of Napier re the Municipal Loans Bill, and suggesting a conference of the mayors of the colony at some central place. The mayor promised to co operate. The consumers of gas complain of the price charged here, 18s 9d per 10J0 (cash), and threaten to revert to kerosene unless a reduction is made. Wellington, May 4. The ship Waipa sails to-day for Lyttelton, in ballast. Nelson, May 3. It has been a beautiful day for the races. There was a fair attendance. The temporary telegraph office on the ground was a great convenience to the public. Maiden Plate, one and a quarter miles—Mr Rive’s Morning Star, 1; Mr Stevenson’s Sir Walter, 2; Mr Jackson’s Gainsborough, 3. Bandsman and Jffoose also started. It was a well contested race throughout, and was won by a length. Time 2rain 27sec. Handicap Steeplechase, of 60 sovs, added to a sweep of 4 sovs. There were eleven acceptances. Butcher Boy, 1; Dick Turpin, 2; Tapanuaka, 3, Nicholson rode Butcher Boy splendidly. Don Juan’s rider fell at the fourth leap, and his horse bolted. Sultan took the lead and kept it till the water j imp, when he fell. Nero, Whalebone, and May Morn were scratched. Railway Plate, of 60 sovs, weight for age, two miles, Gny Fawkes, 1; Treason, 2; Folly, 3. Time—l min Bsec. It was a gift to Guy Fawkes. Dunedin, May 3. At the meeting of Waste Lands Board a long memorandum was received from the Superintendent expressing his extieme regret at the hasty action of the Board on Wednesday last in refining the sales of land The action was fraught with consequences most detrimental to the public interest, and for which the Board must be held wholly re sponsible. He thought the Board had not exhibited that coimesy to the Superintendent and the Provincial Council which was due to their position. The Waste Lands Board to-day refused three applications, one thousand acres each, for the purchase of portions of the canc lied runs, holding that the lin I is not open for sale A proclamation will be issued to day, placing the former holders of the cancelled runs in the position they were in before cancellation Invercargill, May 4. Two slight shocks of earthquake was felt here at 6.4 yesterday evening. The direcwas from west to east. They were accompanied by a rumbling noise.