TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 654, 24 July 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

{Per Press Agency.') LATEST FROM" AUSTRALIA. —♦ | By Submarine Cable,] Sydney, July 22. Two schooners and a ketch were wrecked off the coast during a gale. One man was drowned. A heavy sea washed 500 sheep overboard from the steamer Boomerang, coming from Brisbane. At Warinlda a frightful flood is reported, during which 300 cattle were washed down the Mclntyre river. INTERPEOYINOIAL. Auckland, July 22. At the nomination for the City West, Mr Tonks and Mr Farnall were proposed. The meeting was entirely in favor of Mr Tonks, but the other declared his determination to go to the poll. Capfaiu Daldy considered it an insult to the City West for Mr Farnall to come forward while he owed the City £7OO He moved—“ That the meeting request Mr Tonics to proceed to Wellington as early as possible,pledging itself to secure his return.” The motion was carried. Mr Tonks, at the request of the electors, leaves for Wellington on Monday, trusting to his supporters to secure his return. Wellington, July 22. To-day there were more meetings of members as to the course to be taken on Government policy, and the propositions of Messrs Whitaker and Wakefield. The Nelson and Westland members met and are understood to have agreed to support the Government on their abolition policy. The other meetings had for their end a conference of provincial representatives. Dunedin, July 22. Wheat, prime quality, commands up to 4s 9d,.but very little of this description is offering ; good ordinary, 4s 6d to 4s 7d ; inferior and medium, 4s to 4s 2d. Barley is inquired for, but few sales are effected, only very low prices are offering. Oats are in better request, but quotations are without improvement. Sales have been made of good feed at 1s 9d. Holders now asked Is lid. Mr Walters retires from the second contest for the mayoralty. Dunedin, July 24. In the case M. O. Bridge v Brogden, for Injuries sustained by plaintiff from a casualty on the railway line, near Oamaru, damages laid at fifteen hundred pounds. A verdict for four hundred was returned. The Guardian says that the gentleman appointed by tbe Government as Lunacy Commissioner is a Dr Scrae, late of the district asylum in Stirling, Scotland, Bluff, July 22. Tbe trial of Captain Thomas Thompson’s boat lowering and detaching apparatus was made here to day. A boat secured for sea was put in the water ten feet clear of the side by men who had never seen it before in eight seconds, and with oars out in fifteen seconds. Nautical men of standing who witnessed it pronounced it much superior to anything known. {From a corespondent of the Press.) TIMARU, July 22. Christchurch won by one goal and twentynine points to nothing. Christchurch played splendidly throughout, A goal was obtained by a fine drop kick by McCardell, July 23. A servant girl, named Margaret Fitzgerald, has been arrested by the detective, charged with being the mother of the infant found near Timaru early last week. It is supposed that the evidence is sufficiently clear to unmistakably show that she was the mother. She will be brought up before the Resident Magistrate to-morrow.