TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 625, 20 June 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS .

{Per Press Agency,') LATEST' EEGM AUSTRALIA, : By St/muiunk Oa.j.*i.is.] SyuiTEY, June 19. Over sin 'hundred immigrants arrived m Queensland on Saturday. Bailed —Easby. Bywrarr. dimehO. Hie /ealandia arrived yesterday, lire Arawata also sailed on the same day. Mbleouens. Jens I£. I£-r Aadley Ccove has hud. au interview riß lie Government with reference to cable a > : ‘‘marts. His p: oposal is considered (> .unit feasible trie. It is to lay a cable from Berth to Coy urn- via Heeling Island, The distance is about 1500 miles.

Melbourne, June 20. Another English defaulter, named Henry Biggs, collector for the Stavel Coal and Iron Mines, has been arrested on the arrival of the ship Troubridge, from London. Some fear is entertained for the safety of the steamer Yarra Yarra. She has not been heard of since the 11th. [’Per Hero via Auckland.] Melbourne [Undated ,J The National Bo form. League has adjourned the consideration of the petition, asking for the recall of the Governor, Mr Lilly whited cricket team will be here before Christmas, Roberts played a billiard match with Alberta, giving him four hundred in a thousand. Roberts scored out when Alberts had only made 68G, Roberts’ longest break was one hundred and sixty-nine, including fifty from one spot. The Adelaide press ia crying out that unless the public works are pushed on the immigrants brought out will be in want. Mr Boyce, partner in Fairlie’s Engine Company, is corning to Brisbane with his engine to prove to the Government the merit of his patent, Elizabeth Housfield, charged with the murder of her husband by po-soninr. °■ d Thus. Bourry, with being accessory. It.sce both been committed to trial at Msytowa, A w(-rn ,, n, Mrs Hm-h-v. no’'’ah!lb 1 "- with n Acoyn,..;,.;:n :.v.a ; bet.. . c epps:’. o;lx. 1 Hell, evorsnn? of It- A ' ' ticn, "daydie I cep frog, fell eud A **•:« kb uccr.. and died Astr.nf .maor.oly. The smelting furnaces id i.::i . Yiihi an " ■Jacmaniau Charcoal Gompany’s n wkc, Tv vi Tamar Tasmania, °re new in full perat’an. The cast yielded 1G tone of ve*/ :>« metal, INTERPROVIHOIAL, Auckland, June i‘J. The schooner Marion Benny hag been wrecked at the Honth Rnu Islands. The cargo, valued at one thousand pounds, has been I st. Auckland, June 20. The Hero has arrived from Sydney. Hamilton, June 20. Large meetings are being held in every township in the Waitako in favour of the Government retaining office for the settlement of the abolition question. At Hamilton a most influential meeting carried a resolution to tire effect that the Opposition had broken its pledge in bringing forward a sidewind motion in place of a motion for the repeal of the Abolition Bill : also, that the o ocupation of the Piako Swamp by a company was an uumixed benefit to the district, as it could not be occupied by small settlers. Meetings at Cambridge Te A wannita and Alexandra passed similar resolutions. Wellington, June 19.

A meeting of the Opposition members was held this afternoon to discuss the present position of affairs. The parly was not fully represented, only comparatively few having been requested to attend. It was decided that none of the land transactions or similar once would be made party questions. The s teamer Matau reports from Foxton the wreck of the schooner Kaiuma at Kapati, ■Wellingtok, June 20.

Fifty Chinamen arrived to-day from Otago to be employed by Mr Oakes, railway con ! tractor. Another batch are to arrive shortly. These are the first Chinamen employed in the province. Tire City of San Francisco arrived here last night at 8.30. She left at 11.45 p.m. The schooner Julius Vogel arrived from Waitara, under jury masts. She will be offered at auction this week. Nelson, .June 20. lima De Murska gave her first concert last night to a large audience. She met with an enthusiastic reception, and was deluged with bouquets, Dunedin, June 20. The Fire Brigade give a hall next week in honor of the representatives at the late Ballarat demonstration. The Otago Slate Company are turning out large quantities of excellent slates. Port Chalmers, Juno 19. The Oberon, 1193 tons, from London, brings 2000 tons general cargo, consigned to (he New Zealand Shipping Company. She has no passengers. Sim made the passage from London in 7G cloys. At the Heads— Barque Nardoo, from Newcastle. {From a correspondent of the Press.) Hokitika, June 19. The two little girls, named Griffin, aged eleven and eight years respectively, lost in the bush near Taipo on Wednesday last, have not been found. Detective Browne, who went by the coach to Taipo on Friday, reports having joined the search party that day. The search was' continued till night, but no trace of the children could be got beyond the place where they bad cut down some broad leaf.and eaten some bread and butter, which they took with them wrapped in a newspaper. The newspaper was found with some of the butter attached. On Wednesday the children were in the bush looking after some cows, and came home about noon, thinking their dinner would be ready. As it was not prepared they took some bread and butter and returned. No f trace of the girls has bean found. The elder I girl knew well the bush where they are loot, and on several occasions has piloted her rather out of it when he was going astray. The children were well wrapped with warm ( clothing when they left. Every man within I a distance of many miles from the spot has | left work and joined the scarab party, among | them Mr White of (he telegraph department I and his men, and all the cattle drovers on the j road. On Saturday tbs river beds were 1 searched by horsemen, the remainder cf the I party slicking to the bush. ; News from tbs Tersmakau rush continues favorable. Browne and ps.rty who were sinking on the crown of a terrace, have bottomed at a depth of 102 ft, and obtained a prospect of from two to three grains to the dish, with 7ft feet washdirt. Joyce and party, whose claim adjoins MacNamara and party, bottomed at a depth of ?Gft, with a prospect cf one grain to the dish. The population is increasing, and among the arrivals ire a good number of men from Canterbury, i The Alhambra has just signalled her j arrival from Melbourne. [from our own correspondent.] Dunedin, June 20. V The Engli .h eleven ask all expenses and • j £ 'OOO for playing live matches in New Zea{land, The Otago cricketers decline the offer.