TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 661, 2 August 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Per Press Agency,') LATEST PROM AUSTRALIA. * [BY SUBMARINE CABLB.J Sydney, August I. At a public meeting yesternight the Premier and the Attorney-General spoke in favor of a testimonial to Trickct. A shock of earthquake ia said to have occurred in the Forbes district. . Sydney, August 2. The report from Otago that Messrs Gilchrist, Watt and Oo made a formal offer to change the Pacific route to the Bay of Islands, instead of Fiji, is officially denied. The Government only received a suggestion from the agents that the alteration might be acceptable to the contractors if they proposed it, which the Government declined to do. Melbourne, August 1. At a meeting of the creditors of Messrs Websxr and Co it was resolved to purchase the edate for £3B 000. Th > steamers Queen and Jane Eliza came into collision on the Murray jriver. The

former sank, but the crew and passengers were saved. Mr Audley Coote has had an interview with the Government with reference to a second cable from the Noith-west Cape to the Straits of Sunda, INTERPROVINCIAL. Wellington, August 2. Arrived—Kaikora, from Lyttelton. The Ringarooma proceeds to Lyttelton at 3 p.m. Nelson, August 1. The following telegram has been received from the manager of the Richmond Hill silver mine :—“ Struck ore in the drive ten inches thick ten feet from the shaft. The vein is rapidly thickening. Port Chalmers, August 1. Sailed—Wellington. Passengers for Lyttelton —Messrs Munyard, Rout, Roberts, Godfrey. Ship Wellington, for London, with 25 passengers, 1576 bales wool, 124 cases, 566 casks tallow, 6025 cases meats, 20 bags bones, 5661 bags wheat, 35 boxes sundries, 4 boxes gold ; total value, £75,261.