TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 628, 23 June 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Per Press Agency,') LATEST EEOM AUSTRALIA. # [By Submarine Cable."] Sydney, June 22, A French barque, which Ims arrived at Newcastle, from Noumea, reports that the escape of political prisoners is almost a daily occurrence. Eight escaped in a boat and have not been heard of. Subsequently five others escaped, but they were re-captured after three days exposure at sea. The captains of the Australia and Zealandia are advocating the Bay of Islands route. During the passage of the immigrant ship, Windsor Castle, to Brisbane, a portion of the crew mutinied by rescuing a comrade from irons. The mutiny was quelled with the assistance of the immigrants. Extensive floods in the Huron district, Tasmania, have caused great damage and loss of stock. A telegram from Townsville reports the safe arrival of the Edinburgh, and all is going well. The Government is communicating with the other Governments of Australia and New Zealand with reference to sharing the expense of a steamer running bi-monthly from Java to Port Darwin during the break in the cable. The Suez mail has just arrived at Adelaide. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, June 22. An explosion of gas at the Army and Navy Hotel, to-day, shook the building to the foundation. The whole side of the wall, fourteen inches thick, is bulged out quite six inches. The landlady narrowly escaped with her life. She was seriously injured. The directors of the Steampacket Company have resolved to take the Llewellyn off the Fiji trade, owing to the unremunerative character of the service. Margaret Cole, a respectable middle-aged woman, has been found drowned in the harbor. It is supposed that she was blown over the wharf. There has been a heavy gale all day. Wellington, June 23. An Order in Council published in last night’s Gazette allows 500 words per day to evening papers during the present session of Parliament, commencing on the 15th inst. Geeymouth, June 22. An influential meeting of the committee of the Hokitika district of Oddfellows was held here, to consider the new Friendly Societies Bill. A number of resolutions were proposed, which will be submitted to the joint committee of the several branches of the friendly societies on Friday next, The proposed amendments will afterwards be forwarded to the Government; Part of the New River district has been declared infected under the Diseased Cattle Act, two cows having died from pleuropneumonia. This will not interfere with cattle being driven from the Hokitika market. Sailed—Albion, at noon, for Sydney. Dunedin, June 22. The Crown land sales for the year ending March last, exclusive of Southland, amounted to £150,719, The area held under pastoral leases is six and a half million acres, There were taken up, under the deferred payment system during the year twenty thousand acres. The total land revenue collected at Invercargill during the same period was £75,000. Sales—Bank of New Zealand, £l7 16s to £l7 18s : Colonial Bank, £1 11s to £1 12s ; National Bank, £8 14s ; National Insurance, £1 3s 9d to £1 4s; Standard, 12s; South British, £2 14s; Mosgiel Factory, £1 15s; Otago and Southland Investment, £1 ss, Buyers—Bank of New Zealand, £l7 15s ; Colonial Bank, £1 11s; Nation!!! Bank. £3 14s. [FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] Hokitika, June 22. Sailed—Tui, for Wellington, via Grey and Westport; Albion, for Sydney direct, at 9 a.m. Arrived—S, Murray, from Nelson, with twenty-five Italian immigrants, for the special settlement at Okura, Jackson’s Bay. A large piece of ship timber was found on the South Spit Head yesterday. The chief harbormaster reports that it appears to be the deck plank of a large ship. Must have been recently cast on the beach. The timber was comparatively new, and in a good state of preservation, though covered With barnacles. It measures 40ft in length, and is Gin wide by 3in thick. There is no paint or name to indicate the ship to which it may have belonged, though evidently a portion of a large vessel, with iron beams.