TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume V, Issue 601, 23 May 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

([Per Press Ag*ney.j LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA. ♦ [By Submarine Cable.J ADDITIONAL ENGLISH NEWS. Melbourne, May 22. Che hundred and ten thousand bales of wool have been catalogued, and three thousand withdrawn. The market at the latest dates was firmer, and superior showed a partial recovery. The Childers, with the Strathmore survivors, arrived at Rangoon on March 19th. New Zealand flax has been sold at from £lB to £24 for inferior to medium. Arrived—lnvercargill. AUSTRALIA. Melbourne, May 22. Sullivan has complained to the Government of the treatment received from the police and residents of Wedderbum, He states he has had nothing to eat for three days, and has had to barricade himself against the attacks of boys, who throw stones and explosive materials at him. Arrived—Ringar )oma. [Per Hero, via Auckland.] Melbourne (undated). The mutiny on board the immigrant ship Stravern, at Queensland, is not serious. Eighteen of the crew have been arrested. Margaret Turnbull has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for killing her infant at Collingwood. A brutal outrage has been committed on Mrs Rumbold in South Yarra. She was suddenly seized by some man and thrown down in a channel ; the ruffian dashed her head against the kerbing, gagged her. and then attempted to commit a criminal offence. Henry Peggells, a passenger by the Silver Stream, from Newcastle, while suffering from an attack of delirium tremens, jumped overboard, and was drowned. A woman named Arnold, charged with the manslaughter of a child at Inglewood, has been committed for trial.

The Glenelg railway showed a profit of over £4OOO for the half-year. A dividend of 10s per share has been declared.

The Victorian Executive have decided that Duffief, convicted of criminally assaulting his two children at Sandhurst, is to be hanged, A man named McMahon, charged with a similar offence, has had his sentence commuted to sixteen years’ imprisonment, the first three years in irons. At a meeting of the Council of the Rifle Association, held in Melbourne, it was decided to nominate Dangar as captain of the combined team for the Philadelphia rifle match. The fund has now reached £lOls. The Bench at Brisbane has dismissed the charge against the master of the ship Penrith for not taking due steps to save the life of a seaman who fell overboard during the voyage from Glasgow. A committee has been formed in Sydney to take action in reference to the proposed Italian immigration. The reward for information leading to the conviction of the Seymour Bank robber has been increased to £2OO. Dalby, convicted of rape at Balmain, has been sentenced to death.