TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 606, 29 May 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

{Per Press Ageney.'j LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AirSTRALIA, ♦ 1 By Submarinb Cable.J ( Via Brisbane.) (Undated,) A resolution has been tabled in the Houses of Parliament praying the Queen not to use the title of Empress. President Grant is ill, and refuses to receive visitors. The Pritice of Wales visited Malta, Gibraltar, Ca’iz, and Seville on his way home. Notice has been posted at Lloyd’s that the Loch Laggan is missing. The Turkish Commissioners have agreed to a cessation of hostilities in Heizegoviua to April 10th, They have refused to grant a formal armistice. Spain is insisting on religious liberty, and has suspended parleying with the Vatican. Galle. The P. and 0. Company’s steamer Sumatra, with the March mail, arrived at Galle on April 12th, two days before due, AUSTRALIA. Sydney, May 27. Thee schooner Mary Ann Christina was totally wrecked at the Clarence Heads. The crew were saved. Brandy (Hennessoy’s) Quarters, 7a 6d ; case, 30a 6d. Kerosene, 2s Id, and very firm. New Zealand wheat, 5s Id; other quotations unaltered. The insurances on the three fires in Melbourne are ascertained to amount to about £82,000. Mr Parkes, the leader of the Opposition, has carried his resolutions for the expenditure of the surplus revenue in a comprehensive system of immigration and public works. Melbourne, May 27. The Prosperity’s cargo of New Zealand barley has been sold at an extreme figure. The National and New Zealand Insurance Companies are in for £ISOO in the recent flu s. A fire occurred at Sandhurst yesterday. The damage was considerable. Melbourne, May 29. Dr Kerr has been appointed medical officer to the Reef ton Hospital, New Zea land. Dr Perry has resigned the Melbourne See Brisbane, May 29, A letter from Mulligan states his thorough belief that Hodgkinson will prove the largest and probably the richest reefing district in the North. (Per Arawata, via Bluff. Melbourne, May 22. Stevenson’s case still absorbs much public attention. Presentments against five of the defendants, including Messrs Stevenson, Brind, and Wilkinson, have been filed, and will come on at the Criminal Court next mon<h. A second trial in the celebrated Learmonth and Bailley case is now proceeding at the Supreme Court. The contract for furnishing thirteen rooms in the new Government House amounts to nearly £12,000 John B,oherts, jun, will play bis first game of billiards in Melbourne. A man has been arrested for the horrible outrage perpetrated on Mrs Reece. She has identified him. A project is on foot for the establishment of sea water baths, with a capital of J twentyfive thousand pounds. The Philadelphia rifle team left for Wimbledon by the mail steamer. The amount required, £IOOO, was raised by private subscriptions, in addition to a similar sum from the Government. Mr Talbot, the tragedian, has returned in the Northumberland. Nothing has been heard up to March of 17th, of the barque Skerryvore, which took the Victorian exhibits to New York. The convict Duffers, for criminal assault on his own daughter, has been hanged this morning at Castlemaine. The weather generally is very favorable, hut there has been heavy rain, with partial floods. In Sydney mining generally is satisfactory. INTBRPROVINCIAL. Alexandra, May 27. Sir Donald McLean and Tawhaio are still in conference at Kaipeha, and lots of interviews are continually taking place, apparently of the most friendly nature, Tawheio aimsclf speaks highly of the Native Minister, but, as usual, be has opposition to fight against. Wellington, May 29. Arrived—Hannah Barrett from Lyttelton. Taupo, May 29. There was a sharp shock of earthquake about two this morning. Dunedin, May 29. The Superintendent will issue an address to the members! of the Provincial Council, containing the usual references to the progress of this p> ovince and its prospects, and the annual returns will be published. Six thousand people visited the Benevolent Carnival on Saturday.