TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 683, 28 August 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Per Press Agency .)

LATEST EEOM AUSTRALIA.

♦ [By Submarine Cable.J Melbourne, August 26. The prospectus has been issued of the Australian and New Zealand Steam Shipping Company with a capital of £250,000. Two men were arrested aboard the Somersetshire. They are Polish Jews, charged with being concerned in a diamond robbery in South Africa, A telegram dated the 12th of August reports that Devoe’s kerosene has risen to 24 cents, and on the 16th, that all sugars show a further advance of one pound. INTERPEO VINCI AL. Grahamstown, August 26. The first return from the Welcome Company, Waitekauri, Ohiuemuri, was brought down to-day. It was 15L oz. The quantity of stuff crushed was fifty-eight tons. The result is eminently satisfactory, being regarded as an assurance of a great future for the district. Napier, August 27. The Rev Mr Robinson has resigned the curacy of St John’s. The parishioners held an indignation meeting, and passed a resolution practically censuring the Kev Mr Townsend, the incumbent, who has resigned, and gone to Christchurch, to bring the matter before the Metropolitan Bishop. Notice has been given that the church is shut up, and no service held next Sunday. Bluff, August 26. Arrived—Balnaguith, from London, with a general cargo, 120 days out, No passengers.

Dunedin, August 28. The prospectus of the projected Australian and New Zealand Shipping Company is published this morning. In the football match—Oamaru v Dunedin —the latter won. The Daily Times to-day says —Mr Fitzherbert becomes Premier, Mr Rolleston Speaker, and Sir J, Vogel goes home. FIRE AT GRAHAMSTOWN. Grahamstown, August 28. A fire broke out in the Beach road, Grahamstown, which destroyed the Kuranui Hotel and store belonging to Mr Paterson, a grocer’s and blacksmith’s shop and a number of other tenements. The scene of the fire was very thickly built upon. Large crushing mills and powerful mining machinery (including the United Pumping Association’s plant) being in close proximity. The fire brigades were promptly on the spot, and the exertions made by the employees of the Pumping Association and others were effectual inbeating the fire down in about an hour, and so preventing its spreading. Besides the number of buildings in the neighborhood of the fire there is a net work of wooden tramways erected over the road close to where the fire occurred, and fears were entertained they would go as well as the Pumping Association’s property, but this disaster was averted, the hydraulic engine of the association being valuable help in putting out the fire. It is believed that the fire originated in the Kuranui Hotel at present unoccupied. Paterson and others will be serious losers.

WRECK OF THE PLYING CLOUD. Charleston, August 28.

Yesterday forenoon portions of a wreck were found in Constant and Second Bays. Shortly afterwards the shattered hull of a small vessel was obseived to wash in the roadstead, drifting northward. Part of the combings of the hatchways, deck beams of a vessel of about forty tons, planks, and two pieces of head-rails were picked up, with the letters “ Fly ” painted in white. No doubt the wreckage is a portion of the Flying Cloud, of Lyttelton, which came here early on Saturday in ballast. With a strong breeze from the N.E, and the wind unsteady, probably the vessel capsized in a squall and drifted on the rocks, near Fourmile river. A boat was picked up near Brighton, As the surf was breaking furiously, no hopes are entertained of the safety of Andrews, the master, and three men.