TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 648, 17 July 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Per Press Agenvj.') LATEST FROM AUSTRALIA. 1 By Submarine Cable.J Adelaide, July 15 It is ascertained that the captain bad his wife on board the Qettwood, and intended to ictiro on the conclusion of the voyage. Twenty-seven persons perished in the wreck. ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL. Auckland, July 15. The City of Few York bus arrived from Kandavau. She It ft thereon the 11th, and had been waiting live days for the City of Sydney, the through boat, which ca ne on her duo date, and sailed for Sydney on the same day as the City of New York left for Auckland. The City of San Francisco with the outward mails arrived at Kandavau on the 7th. Passengers by City of New York for Napier—B. L. Meinertzhergon, For Wellington—Mr Staike and wife. For Lyttelton—Messrs Davis, Gilbert and Beddocs, The following is the mail agent’s report; The Colima left Auckland on the '.)th May; reached Kandavau on the lllh, and waited there for the Australia till the 15th ; left Honolulu on the 27th May. On the Ith of July the Colima’s engines broke down and were not repaired till the Sunday following ; reached Sydney following Wednesday. The City of New York left Sin Francisco on tiu 21st, and srrived at Honolulu on the 29 b; arrived at Kandavau on the llthof July Transhipped on board the City of Sydney and sailed, accompanied with the City of Sydney, for Aus raiia. The City of New York reached Auckland at 7.30 p.ra. The time from San Francisco to Auckland was 23 days 7£ hours. GENERAL ENGLISH AND FOREIGN SUMMARY, All the liberals of the Basque provinc's. in Spain, wbo=jsupported Alfonso, will b< exempt from conscription, the remainder o? the population will he .liable to raiiilia duly the same ai the other Spaniards. Mr Schofield, member of the House of Commons for Pembrokeshire, is dead.

A Vienna correspondent reports that one of the last decrees signed by the late Sultan was a secret order for the invasion of Servia, and the Austrian ambassador at Constantinople succeeded in having the orders withdrawn. Prince Hassan, son of the Khedive of Egypt, resigns his commission in the Prussian army. He goes to Egypt, where he will be made Minister of War. The Porte has promulgated full amnesty to all insurgents, who lay down their arms, and renew allegiance to the Turkish government during the next six weeks of the armistice. The Russian ambassador has complained to the government of Austria of the unmeasured attacks upon Russia, published in certain newspapers, principally those of Hungary. The Mexican government has leased the mines of Ban Louis Potosi, Guanaxinato and ilacatecas, to an English company for one hundred thousand per annum. Trade is prostrated, and government is unable to pay their employees. The Servian army consists of about 125.000 men, and the militia consists of 100.000 more. The Servians are convinced that war is a moral necessity. A vote for the Duke of Connaught’s establishment on his marriage with Princess Frederica, daughter of the ex King of Hanover, will be submitted to Parliament this session. The Berlin memorandum has been withdrawn. England and the other Powers agree upon certain points, among which is one not to exercise undue pressure on the Porte. Russia, France, and England have made successful representations to Servia for the maintenance of peace. The Porte has courteously asked Servia to explain the meaning of her armament. This request was not made in a threatening manner, nor as an ultimatum. The Czar has prevailed upon Servia to adopt a peaceful policy. Turkey has spontaneously offered the insurgents two conditions, included in the memorandum —namely, three months’ armistice, and direct negotiation. The Spanish police have discovered two depots of cartridges at San Sebastian. A Paris letter says George Sand died in great pain. Correspondents agree that all danger of an immediate outbreak on the Servian and Montenegrin frontier is removed. Eighty Spanish senators were in favor of the amendment for totally suppressing the privileges hitherto enjoyed by the provinces of Biscay and Navarre. A torchlight procession took place in Dublin in celebration of the escape of the Fenian convicts from Australia, and Mr Disraeli was burned in effigy. A Berlin despatch says the insurgent leaders have accepted the armistice and appointed Wesailitzke to arrange a guarantee with the northern powers. A Vienna special reports that the Turkish Governor of Herzegovina has offered 2000 florins reward for the capture of the Russian organiser of the insurgent forces, and the Khedive has consented to visit Constantinople, as requested by the Sultan. The Grand Vizier has notified to the Imperial Commissioner in Bosnia and Herzegovina that the reforms already granted for those provinces will be maintained in their integrity. The King of Dahomey will pay the fine imposed upon him by Commander Hewitt, for maltreating a British subject. The Princes of Roumania and Servia have sent telegraphic despatches to the. Porte announcing that they will be represented at the investiture of the Sultan. Winslow Borton, the forger, has been discharged. An exploring expedition to north-western Africa has left England, The main object is to ascertain the feasibility of admitting the water of the Atlantic to a portion of the desert of Sahara. A pleasure boat capsizei at Baslborn, by which twelve people wore drowned. A letter from Madrid gives details of the rgoout p'osocution against the press. It. says ; —“ Within last month three leading liberal journals have been suppressed ; the latter for sixty-five days. Of the six liberal papers published in Madrid, five have been c,v'"r 1 -.r a-" o-i trial wi ! h>n forty dips u-i-d g Jiai l r,. The tub ration c ans - in the Const! * mien may possibly pass the Senate, but by a very small majority if at mU Ruiz Gera z. supported by Velloa and Duke Ferrtu Neum z, intends to propose a measure for establishing liberty of conscience and public worship, making native Protea’ants eligible to professorships and State employment. Great riots have occurred in Belgium through the success of the Catholics in the elections at Antwerp. The mob attacked and wrecked the Gatholic Institute, and the gendarmes charged upon the rioters and several were wounded and a number of arrests made. The cereal crops in the provinces of B iditjos and Ciudad-Real have been entirely destroyed by locusts. Over 601) tons of locusts have been burnt with petroleum in ! ivncb-’-s, and 15,000 soldiers been occupied in d stmying (hem, Serious inundations have occurred in Western Mwiizcrland, caused by heavy rains and the melting of snow in the mountains. The railways are much damaged, and the wl ole Canton of Thurgau is submerged ; many bridges and houses have been carried away and several persons drowned, At Fraueufeld, the capital of the Canton, four inmates of houses were killed by falling walls. There have been heavy failures in the United Kingdom. The liabilities of the firm of Messrs Malcolmson and Co, Belfast and W'.Verford, Ireland, linen manufacturers, arc estimat’d at £1,500 000; Messis Johnston, Furio, and Co, yarn merchants, Glas ■row, Scotland, have failed, liabili’ics, £SOO, 00 Gurbutt, colliery owner, Darling ■on. has failed ; liabilities, £170,000. 'I be Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs announced in the Housr of Commons that a peremptory demand had been made on the Peruvian government for the release of the ■ new of the Talisman. Peaceful relations ifttwcon the countries wore at an eud if the Icmnnd were not complied with. A fire broke out during the day in tin ’.arpet raanufactu r ing an.d woollen works at vyr, belonging to Mr James Templeton, caused y the friction of the machinery,. It spread ‘o all parts of the building. The operatives at work at (he time believed that all the men -scaped- A number of women rushed out s vying there were others inside unable to escape Soon afterwards the roof fell in. Twenty four women were binned in the ruins and perished. One woman who leaped from an

upper window was so badly injured that sh e died soon after being taken to the hospital. It is reported that the overseer, named Barr, locked the door of the room in which the female operatives were working. Barr himself perished in the flames, and it is impossible to learn the truth of the report, but as the women had time to escape, it is otherwise inexplicable. The works were entirely destroyed. A despatch from Calcutta reports an alarming outbreak of cholera in a village on the Bombay and Baroda railway. Of the 200 inhabitants 100 died in three days. The Spanish Senate has adopted the clause of the constitution establishing religious toleration, by a vote of forty-three to forty. Some dynamite stored in ,a joiner’s shop on Elmbank road, Glasgow, exploded, killing six workmen and wrecking several houses. The latest Atlantic cable telegram to June 21st, states Turkish insurgents have refused an armistice. Austria resolved to withhold relief, and the money “of Herzegovina is exhausted. An insurgent leader defeated the Sultan’s troops at Peterovo, and killed 200 Turks, captured 200 head sheep and cattle. Niksic has been provisioned, and the Turkish army has received six months’ arrears of pay. The correspondent of the Moscow Gazette telegraphs to that paper from Oettinge that the Turks in Bosnia have unfurled the green flag for a holy war against the Christians. A Berlin special reports that Austria has ordered the concentration of 158,000 of the Landwehr in the eastern and south-eastern provinces for autumn drill; A despatch from Belgrade says the Servian Government’s decision in favor of peace is opposed to the wishes of the people. The position of affairs is becoming dangerous for Prince Milan. Reports have been received from Sclavonic sources that Prince Karageorgevitz has destroyed the town of Allapusa, and killed 200 Turks. The Prussian Cross Gazette publishes a private letter from Jerusalem, which says great excitement and anxiety prevail there, in consequence of the excesses of the Turkish authorities, and threatened rising of the populace. On 2nd of June the Christians, fearing an attack, barricaded their houses, and the foreign residents kept armed watches throughout the night. The Germans met at the Consulate, and made an organisation for mutual defence, and sent to the Government a formal application for military assistance. Turkish soldiers have since been permanently encamped in the public square. A Berlin despatch states that accounts received from all sources are full of apprehensions of further violence, and perhaps of a general uprising in Constantinople. The Turkish fleet, consisting of eight first class vessels, will sail for Crete within a week on an important mission. A Circassian named Hassan, incited it is believe 1 by the mother of the late Sultan, attempted the assasination of the Ministry who deposed him. He called upon the War Minister, who was attending a council at the Prime Minister’s residence. He proceeded, and the guards believing him to be an aide-de-camp, permitted him to enter. Hassan fired point blank at the Minister of War with a revolver. While the other persons present were pressing forward to se’zo the assassin, Raschid Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, a servant of Midhat Pasha named Ahmed Ghahar, and a roldier, were killed and Kaiser Tipasba, Minister of Marine, and another soldier, were wounded. Hassan has since been executed. AMERICA N NEWS. A fire at St John’s, Canada, destroyed the entire business part of the town : a mile long and 600 yards wide. 2?0 families are homeless ; many barely escaping with their lives. The Indians in Nebraska have made a descent on the settlers, killing 100 within one week; A Protestant church in Mexico has been burned by fanatics. Thirty thousand people daily attend the Centennial Exhibition. The foot-and-mouth disease amongst hogs in some parts of Canada is slaying hundreds. COMMERCIAL. I.ONDDN. The Mark Lane Express reports an unproved prospect in the grain crops, aud no probability of a change in prices. New York, June 17. The barque Julia Matthews lias been chartered from Boston for Auckland, ana the Josephine from New York for Dunedin. Sperm oil quiet here, and at New Bedford Idol 35c ; petroleum, itfc to 20c, for rxpo-t. Wool dull. Sales—2soo bales Australian at 40c. Liverpool wheat quotations, 10s to 10s 6d per cental. San Francisco, June 21 New wheat, Idol 60c ; oats, 2dols to 2 lols 4.0 c ; hops, 12£c to 15c. INTESPROYINCIAL. Auckland, July 15. The returning officer has appointed Saturday next for the nomination of the « ily West, and Tuesday for the polling. The central committee has announced Mr Goldie. The only other candidate is Mr Farnall, and it is thought probab'e I hat the latter will withdraw, and leave the election ut.contested. The Bebington has arrived from London 160 days out. She has be n placid in quarantine. S'nce leaving London sixty ca=ts of scarlatina and rheumatic fever and sixUen deaths have occurred. There is only one case of scarlet fever and one of rheumatic fever on board now. The voyage was protracted by having to put iuto Algoa Bay, the ship being short of water. New Plymouth, July 15. There was a successful running of Para Para ore from the furnace last night and it will be charged with iron sand composition to-dny. Hon Mr Scotland’s letter to the Colonial Secretary appears in the papers this morning, lie does not apologise but makes an explanation. He says he does not endorse all Mr Grant’s statements. Hi KtTXKA, July 15. Luke Moore, schoolmaster at Callaghan’s, has been committed for trial for an indecent assault on three little girls, pupils. Stewart Hill was released from the tunnel yesterday, not much injured. Dunedin, July 17. Marshall, a milkman, well-to-do, and with a large family, has been arrested for a criminal assault on a child eleven years old. The Dunedin cricketers have agreed to

Bennett’s terms, and will raise the sum among themselves, The Lingards were an immense success in “ Our Boys.” The theatre was crowded densely, and hundreds turned away. (From a corespondent of the Press.) Timaru, July 16. Dr E. Turner, the hydropathic professor and public lecturer, was arrested yesterday for the larceny of a coat missed from the steamer Wellington some time ago. He had sold the coat in Timaru to one of the local medical practitioners. He will be brought up before theßesident;Magistrate to-morrow, and will then probably be remanded to Christchurch. He says that he bought the coat in Auckland. The affair has created a little stir here, as several people have reposed confidence in him by suffering themselves to be treated hydropathically. Dunedin, July 15. The only witness called for the defence in Mr Bell’s case to day, was Mr F. Whetham, acting sub-editor, who stated that Mr Bell was not consulted as to the insertion of the paragraph in question. The paragraph was copied from the luapeha Times. Mr Bell made a statement to the effect that he first saw the p aragraph when reading the Star at his residence. Since its publication he had not acquiesced in it, nor been asked to publish a contradiction or refutation. He never knew till the proceedings commenced that the matter alleged was false. The columns of the Star had always been open to Dr Moran and the members of his church, and whenever the Bishop favored him with with letter or communication, it had invariably received prompt attention. He denied that Bishop Moran had just reason for statingrhe had serious doubts that he (Mr Boll) would have published a refutation if requested so to do, Mr Bathgate, 8.M., did not comment upon the evidence, but explained that, taking into consideration the fact that the matter had been deemed of sufficient importance to justify the assistance of counsel on both sides, he did not feel justified in giving a verdict, but felt it his duty to remit it to the Supreme Court for enquiry. The defendant was committed for trial at the next session of the Supreme Court, and admitted to bail, himself in £IOO, and two sureties of £SO each. [from our own correspondent.] Dunedin, July 17. Five defaulting special jurors in the Supreme Court to-day were fined 5s each. The case of Fraser v Allison, Tokomairiro, for abduction, occupied the whole of today’s sitting. The town is full of theatricals. Mr Talbot has been doing a good business at the Queen’s, and Baker’s Hibernicon at the Temperance Hall. The Lingards at the Princess’s opened on Saturday, It is estimated that nearly 1500 persons witnessed the Lingards’ performance. “ Our Boys” was produced, and was a genuine success, the entertainment being the most amusing ever witnessed in Dunedin.