TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 657, 28 July 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Per Press Agency,') LATEST EEOM AUSTRALIA. v | By Submarine Cable.J Melbourne, July 27. A Payment of Members Bill has been introduced, and has received much opposition. New Zealand wheat has been sold at os 6d. Oats have advanced. (Per Ringarooma via Bluff) Melbourne, July 22. The Education Amendment Bill to bring into operation compulsory clauses is being considered by the Assembly, The financial debate comes on next week. No special interest attaches to the statement, as no fresh taxation proposals will be announced. A letter from England announces that the present is the best time for the colonies to obtain money. Australian securities are in demand, while for some money only 1J to 2 per cent is obtained. The cold season is very disastrous to the squatters, two million sheep have died in the Riverina from want of grass. This has been a poor lambing season; only a small per centage has been saved, This, with the immense fall in the price of wool, will be severely felt in the colonies. The Altcar, which last year was in New Zealand, made over 145 days’ passage homo, caused, no doubt, by her foul bottom. Fifty guineas premium on her was asked and paid. Tobaccos are in good demand ; timber is advancing ; wheat, 6s Id; currants are also much higher, 5-£d is paid. INTER PROVINCIAL. Qeahamstown, July 27. Mr M‘Masters has extracted 43ozs of pure silver from lewt of regulus or molten ore from the Richmond Hills Silver Mining Company's Mine. It is stated that the yield is equal to HOozs of silver to the ton of ore, Grahamstown, July 28. The Thames Advertiser was sold by auction at noon to-day. The bidding commenced at £IOOO, and was rapidly run up to £2500, and was ultimately knocked down to Mr Wilkinson for £2600. Mr Wilkinson was one of the original proprietors, Napier, July 27. Simonsen’s Opera Company played Masanullolast night to a crowded bouse. Wellington, July 27. Captain Thomson, the harbor master at Port Chalmers, reports at the request of the Postmaster General, that the detention of the City of New York is owing to the heavy sea on the bar set up by the recent S.B. gale in the offing, The steamer draws 21 ft 3io. and the exact depth of the water on the bar at low water on the 20th was 17£ft. The rise of the tide yesterday bare’y sft ; to-day, sft 4in ; the allowance for wave ou the bar 3ft, thus leaving no margin for the ship to get out without striking the bar, To day it is still dangerous, but notwithstanding the present 8.8. gale, the sea is going down, and hopes are entertained that the steamer will get out to-morrow. She has made three attempts to get out, as she ought to have left yesterday morning. The De Murska Company are having a most successful season here. On last night and Monday the Oddfellows’ Hall was crowded. It is understood that more than £2OO was taken last night. Wellington, July 28. The fancy dress ball at Sir J. Vogel’s last night was a great success. About 250 were present. Arrived—S.s. Clyde, from Lyttelton via Wairau. Grevmouth, July 28. At four o’clock this morning the Brunner Gorge railway suspension bridge, which was expected to be open for traffic next month, fell with an awful crash into the river. The anchor plates on the south side had been'' snapped, through too much strain on them, causing the whole bridge to collapse, no lives were lost. The anchor plates were generally considered too weak, but are according to designs sent from Wellington.