TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 593, 13 May 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

„ (Per Press Agency,') LATEST FROM AUSTRALIA. - o | By Submarine Oablb.J Sydney, May 12, The Strathmore survivors sailed for New Zealand on Wednesday. Messrs Meyer and Co, merchants, have suspended payment. Their liabilities are £27,000. A Queensland telegram reports that the first case of lynch law has occurred at the Hodgkinson rush, A miner was flogged and his property confiscated for horse stealing. The police are waiting at Brisbane to arrest the diggers who refused to leave the steamer at Townsville. Melbourne, May 12. Public feeling is strong against the arbitrary and high handed manner of the Customs towards Messrs Stevenson and Son. The Government will probably take the matter into serious consideration. INTERPBOVINCIAL. Auckland, May 12. Fat cattle have advanced 10s per head, quoted at 27s 6d to 32s 6d per 1001 b ; sheep lower, 2Jd to 2|d per lb ; store sheep very dull; flour—Dunedin, £l2 10s ; Christchurch, £l2 ; Oamaru, none in the market ; oatmeal, £ls ; bran, £5 ; wheat, 5s 3d ; oats, 2s 8d ; maize, 4s 6d; barley, malting, 5s ; the market is stocked with feed, for which there is no sale ; hams and bacon, Is ; cheese, lOd. National Bank, 76s ; Colonial, 3ls ; Bank of New Zealand, £l7 12s ; South British, 54s ; National Insurance, 24s ; New Zealand Insurance, 75s ; Shipping, 775. The Governor returned from the North to-day. Tauranga, May 13. There was a severe shock of earthquake, lasting several seconds, at two o’clock this morning. The weather is like summer. Wellington, May 12. Wholesale produce prices—Flour, £ll 10s fe« £l2 ; oats in full supply, at 2s 3d to 2s fid ;■ maize, 4s 6d to 4s 9d ; wheat scarce : potatoes, £4 ; pollard, Is lOd; cheese, lOd to Is ; hams, Is Id ; bacon, lid to Is, Dunedin, May 12. Fortunator Lockie, recently discharged from the lunatic asylum, attempted to cut his wife’s throat at Oaversham, but was prevented. They were living at the immigration barracks. Lockie was arrested with great difficulty by three constables, he being armed with a large knife, with which he attempted to stab his captors. At the last sittings of the Supreme Court he was admitted to bail on a charge of rape, and it is believed the accusation affected his mind. He has been taken to the asylum again.