TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 596, 17 May 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Agency .) LATEST FROM EUROPE AND A.irSTRA,LI^.

[By Submarine Cable] LATE ENGLISH NEWS. The Northumberland brings dates to March 24th. Oatley, manager of the Co-operative Bank, has been committed to trial. Heavy falls of enow in Bosnia and Herzegovina impede the operations of the insurgents, It is expected that the insurrection will break out again with renewed violence, as a considerable number of volunteers, with supplies, are arriving from Servia. Servia counts on having 309,000 men at.her disposal in case of war with Turkey. The Emperor of Germany intends visiting Queen Victoria at Baden. Heavy storms are reported throughout the United States. Many shipwrecks have occurred on the Atlantic coast.

It is stated that the Government troops have suffered a severe defeat from a body of Mexican insurgents in the State of Oaxaca. AUSTRALIA. Melbourne, May 16. Messrs Stevenson and Son’s letters by the Northumberland were seized by the Customs authorities, but were given up unopened. An indictment against the firm and employees has been filed. Sailed—-Alhambra. INTERPROYINCIAL. New Plymouth, May 16. Mr Luscombe Searell's second concert last was a tremendous success, the hall be ng oowded, His piano solos caused quite a furore. Napier, May 16. At the inquest on the body of Bichard Wright, infant child of Walter Wright, plumber and glazier, the verdict returned was that deceased was killed by his mother whilst she was suffering from a fit of temporary insanity. Much sympathy is felt for her, she being a woman of culture much superior to the generality of her class, as shown by letters produced at the inquest, Wellington, May 16.

The Court of Appeal was occupied all day hearing theargument in the case of Sir C .-acrof t Wilson against the decision of the Car tcrbury Waste Lands Board. Messrs Harper and Bell appeared for the appellant, and Dr Footer and Mr Garrick for respondents. Arrived—St Andrews Castle, from London, one hundred days out from Gravesend. She had a fine weather passage. She sighted the Tullocbgon.m off the Snares, bound from the Mauritius to Lyttelton with sugar. No passengers. Mr Bates has leased the Wellington theatre for one year fiora the 3rd of Julj r -xt. Wellington, May 17.

The Court of Appeal has reservad its decision in the case of Wilson v the Canterbury Waste Lands Board. The Court then adjourned till to-morrow,

Owing to some objection raised by the Minister of Public Works, the proposed street tramway cannot be proceeded with at present. Nelson, May 16.

At the inquest this morning on the body of Mr Simmons the jury returned a verdict “ That, death was caused by an overdose of chloral.” Hokitika, May 16. Mr Marten, who has returned from inspecting the Mount Rangitoto silver mine, states there is a well defined lode of argentiferous galena and pyrites, about three feet in width,widening as it goes into both sides of the hill country in the vicinity of the lode. Dunedin, May 16, A tender to take a deep channel to Port Chalmers capable of accommodating the largest ships, and to maintain it for ten years has been made to the Harbour Board by Ta Ket, a Chinaman, who undertakes to employ his own countrymen, and use Chinese patents. The price asked is £250,000. The shareholders of the Titanic Steel Company, at a meeting held last night vigorously denounced the past management. General resolutions were carried. One was —“ That in the event of the directors finding it true that Macdonald has become the purchaser of E. M, Smith’s interest in the company, he be dismissed from the service,” and another—“ That the Dunedin shareholders consider they are in no way responsible for the directors passing at a committee meeting 500 paid-up shares to B. M. Smith, the same not being passed at a general meeting of shareholders, and being in direct contravention of the prospectus of the Company.'’ The following is a copy of a letter from the Superintendent to the Colonial Secretary; —“ Province ot Otago, New Zealand, Superintendent’s office, Dunedin, 4th May, 1876. Sir,— Referring to your telegram in reply to mine, requesting you officially to contradict the rumor current here that the Colonial Government had intimated its desire that the Waste Lands Board should refuse to grant certain applications for land recently proclaimed by the Provincial Government under the delegated powers open for sale at 20s an acre, I much regret that while you neither deny nor admit the rumor alluded to, you express your approval of the action of the Waste Lands Board in declining to grant the application, and as a necessary inference, your approval of the serious consequences which that action involves. Those consequences are concisely set forth in a memorandum addressed by me to the Waste Lands Board, a copy of which is forwarded herewith, as also the Chief Surveyor’s report as to the quality of the land referred to. I need scarcely say that the result of the Board’s action will have a most injurious effect upon the labor market during the ensuing winter, if indeed it does not throw thousands of men out of employment. The Provincial Executive. charged as it is with the peace, order, and good government of this portion of the colony, has a right to expect the support _ of the Colonial Government. As it is it cannot but feel that it is not only receiving scant aid from them, but that it is being thwarted by the Colonial Executive. You say that the plan by which the application was confined to the leaseholders, was one which must be disapproved by any person who believes that the law should be administered in accordance with its spirit and intention as well as with its letter. As to this I can only say that the plan was precisely the same verbatim et literatim as has been adopted in similar cases for years past. Indeed if I mistake not, it was first adopted when the present Premier was at the head of the Provincial Executive, I refer you to no less than eighteen proclamations in proof of this assertion, from which it will be perceived that the power of applications is not confined to the leaseholders. I may furr-her say that there is good reason to believe that the applicants in question would have preferred that the land should have been put up by auction, under section 150 of the Otago Waste Lands Act, in which case there can be little doubt but they would have become the purchasers at ten shillings an acre.—l am, <kc, J. Macandrew, Superintendent of Otago.”