TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 667, 9 August 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

{Per Press Agency.) LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AIFSTRALIA. * [By Submarine Cable.] INTERNATIONAL RIFLE MATCH. London, July 27. At the International Ride Match at Wim-ble-ion, England was first, Scotland second, Victoria third, and Canada last. AUSTRALIA. Melbourne, August 8. The Southern Insurance Company report a succession of heavy losses during the year. The drought has completely broken up over the colony. (Per Ringarooma, via the Bluff.) Melbourne. August 3. The financial statement and budget speech, with the expulsion of Mr McKean, occupied the principal time of the Assembly during last week. The Treasurer in his statement was enabled to show a surplus at the end of last year of £52.000, instead of the anticipated deficit of £IBO,OOO. This is brought about by the excess of revenue received over the estimate and savings from unexpended vote 3. Messrs Berry and Service have found fault with the Treasurer's figures ; accused him of cooking the accounts, and presenting frdse statements to Parliament. The McKean episode occupied the greater part of two evenings, and. his expulsion was resolved upon unanimously, although in a previous division twenty members voted in favor of some milder form of punishment, but any middle course was considered uuadvisable by the majority. The Java cable is said to be so much worm eaten as to be impossible to be again used. Bir Gavan Duff y is likely to be elected to fill the vacancy in the Assembly. The new Electoral Bdl increases the members from seventy-eight to eighty.four ;

alters the hours of polling from 9 a.m. to eight, and provides that the Legislature shall not close on the demise of the Crown. It also alters several electoral districts, taking members from some, and adding to others. The new teas just arrived are selling fairly at Is to 2s £d ; New Zealand wheat, 5s 6d; for Bank of New Zealand shares, £lB 12a 6d obtainable, Mrs Scott Siddonn is a great success at the Royal, and is drawing a large attendance in the Shakesperian pieces. Miss Melville is still at the Opera House. She shortly proceeds to the country. Roberts has left for Sydney. He then goes to Now Zealand. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, August 8; The barque Crown Hope has arrived from London, atter a voyage of 109 days. The crew during the voyage broached cargo, and became very mutinous. The captain, with the aid of the few passengers, suppressed the threatened outbreak, and put the whole crew on bread and water for two days. Dunedin, August 8 The Darrels open at the Queen's on Friday, and Little Nell comes through direct from Auckland to the same theatre. The Tailors' Association propose an amalgamated society for the colony. A chess match is on the tajris between six members of the House of Representatives aud six city players. A correspondent to the Times points out thit the total depreciation in value of the New Zealand Shipping Company's boats is £25,000 ou thirteen vessels, Dunedin, August 9. Several serious burglaries have been committed by Edward Sutler, alias Donnelly, who has been arrested. The Mayor's salary is fixed at £4OO. The Dunedin Fire Brigade will challenge the Wellington men to contest for the Ballarat cup. A public meeting re co-operative society in course of formation was held last night. The shares are going off briskly. Bluff, August 8. Sailed—Ringarooma. Arrived Albion. Passengers for Lyttellon—Mrs McFarlane, Messrs Young, Gatehouse, Gilly, Love, Townsend, twelve steerage, 134 tons cargo. She sails to-night for Dunedin.