The Globe. THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1876. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 639, 6 July 1876, Page 2

The Globe. THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1876. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

\Per Press Agency.) LATEST FROM: AUSTRALIA. [By Submarine Cable."] Sydney, July 5. During the passage of the Western Star from Fiji a seaman fell overboard. The second officer followed to rescue him, but both were drowned. The Edinburgh spoke Port Darwin yesterday, but cannot get Banjaewangi, It is feared that another break exists. A body, supposed to be that of a shepherd, has been found in the bush in the Yass district with the face eaten away by native dogs. The Hareloclr, steamer, about the safety of which great anxiety existed, arrived to-day, She broke down a few days after leaving Noumea. Sailed —Albion; Melbourne, July 5. Messrs Stevenson complain that the Customs authorities open all their packages and injure the sale of their goods. It is reported that the firm has issued a writ against the Postmaster-General for £20,000 damages, for detaining their letters. Sailed —Otago. Brisbane, July 5, Dr Schoafenberg, Messrs Pearce, Johnston, and Bowman, left Bowen on Wednesday in a boat for the Gregory River. The doctor’s swag was found yesterday near the Pilot Station. Subsequently another swag and two oars were discovered floating off Stowe Island. It is supposed that the boat capsized, and that all were drowned. INTERPROYINCIAL. Auckland, July 5. The Robina Dunlop has arrived from London. She encountered a very heavy hurricane, which carried away every sail. The vessel lay-to without a stitch of canvas except what was laid to the nuzen rigging. The Phoebe left for South, but was unable to cross the bar. Auckland, J uly 6. Mr W. 0. Wilson, proprietor of the New Zealand Herald, died last night, aged sixtyGrahamstown, July 5. At the borough election to day, for one councillor, Dr Eilgour and Mr Charles Curtis (Pacific Hotel) were candidates. There was great excitement. The Thames Advertiser came out with two editors this morning. First, one part proprietor and editor had a paragraph favoring Dr Kilgour’s candidature inserted. Some of Mr Curtis’s friends watched him go from the office, and then went and awoke the other co-partner and co-editor, who came down and stopped the machine, removed the paragraph favorable to Dr Kilgour, and inserted one in Mr Curtis’s interest. This new phase of journalism is causing considerable comment to-day. New Plymouth, July 5, The Herald publishes another of Grant’s letters, in which he says the Gevernment and its agents are trying to damage his fair fame and credit. Dunedin, July 6. Arthur R. Moule, charged with forging a deed in connection with some Victorian property, and with aiding and abetting a lad eleven years of age in the forgery, was sentenced to two years to-day. Messrs Hugh M'Neil, Morris, and Allen Rennie are candidates for election for the office of director of the Colonial Bank of New Zealand. A proposition in the City Council altering the female franchise in the Municipal Bill, so that only women, aged thirty, and possessing rateable property valued at £SO annually can vote, was lost on the casting vote of the Mayor. The charge against Coleman, the bookmaker, of vagrancy, was dismissed, though the Bench thought there was strong presumptive evidence he did not earn his livelihood honestly. Dunedin, July 6.

A resolution condemnatory of Mr Stout’s Licensing Bill, and of his conduct in introducing it unasked and unconsulted, was passed at a meeting of the licensed victuallers last night. The Guardian concurs in McLean’s appointment as Commissioner of Customs. The Dunedin Peninsula and Ocean Beach Railway has been commenced. Professor McGregor has been appointed medical officer to the lunatic asylum. Bluff, July 5, The Arawata arrived at eight this morning and sailed for Melbourne at ten o’clock.