TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 589, 9 May 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Agency.)

LATEST EEOM AUSTRALIA.

[By Submarine Cable J Sydney, May 8, Heavy rains have fallen all over the colony during the past two days. Another seizure has been made in Melbourne of Messrs Stevenson’s goods, containing hosiery not mentioned in the entries. The miners near Taragalla are petitioning to prevent the further spread of Chinese on the goldfields, Sydney, May 9. Arrived—The Australian Sovereign, from Lyttelton.

INTER PROVINCIAL.

AUCKLAND, May 8. The three Commissioners arrived by ihe Havvea and waited on the Superintendent this morning. He gave them a letter, in which he set'forth reasons for not recognising their right to make the application. He also addressed a letter to the Provincial Auditor pointing out his legal powers and instructing him not to give any information other than that which the law compelled. The ship La Escovesa has arrived from London, ninety-eight days out. Auckland, May 9. Arrived—The Flirt, from Lyttelton. Nelson, May 9. Mr Lucas, senior, the proprietor of the Nelson Ecening Mail died this morning, after a lingering illness. At a meeting of the Regatta Committee last night, it was resolved to hold the Interprovincial Regatta in January, and of which his Excellency the Marquis of Normanby is to be asked to be the patrou. Mr Cross, the harbor master, offered a Silver Cup of the value of £2P, for four-oared gigs. Hokitika, May 9.

A specimen of quartz from .Jackson’s Bay was submitted by the Superintendent to Mr Lewis, the analyst, and having been tested shows l-l ounces of gold per ton. The prospectors state the reef to be 4ft thick.