TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 690, 5 September 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

{Per Press Agency.) LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA. [By Submarine Cable J THIS ESCAPED FENIANS. London, August 2fi. Tbe Catalpa, with the six escaped Fenians from West Australia, arrived in New York on the 10th of August. The event caused a great sensation amongst the Irish residents, but no formal reception was given. WESLEYAN CONFERENCE. The Wesleyan Conference in England has agreed to make the conferences of Australia independent. THE CHAMPIONSHIP. The friends of Lumsden refused to forfeit tbe bet of £2OO. Higgins has proceeded to America to row in the Centennial Regatta. His friends are urged to deposit the stakes for a match between him and Trickett. ' COMMERCIAL. Wheat dull. Australian is quoted at 4b"s to 48b ; New Zealaud, 43s to 465. SHIPPING. Ariived—Wild Deer, Pleiades, Soukar, and Otaki; AUSTRALIA. Sydney, September 4. Wrangler is heavily backed for the Metropolitan at 4 to 1, Nemesis 5 and Irish Stew 6 to L Over 1000 immigrants arrived at Adelaide on Saturday. INTER PRO VINCIAL. Auckland, Sept. 5. The Auckland Steam Packet Company have placed the Llewelyn on the line as a regular trader between Sydney and Auckland. Mr Watts' Ngaro, Ariel, and Ladybird colt, left in the Hawea for the Canterbury races. Wellington, Sept. 5. The Hawea has arrived. The Football team play to-morrow at the Hutt. The Easby sailed direct for Port Chalmers at noon. Blenheim, Sept. 5. Mr Firby, his wife, and Mrs Bassett, were drowned last night crosaing in a trap at

Vickery's ford, Wairau river. Two of the bodies have been found. Hokitika, September 4. There was a terrific gde laßt night. Several shop fronts were blown in, and windows, roofs, and fences destroyed in all directions. The Albion, from Sydney, was ordered to proceed to Nelson. Dunedin - , September 4. A proposal is on foot to start a Public Abbatoir Company. 0. E. Haughton was arrc?ted this morning at PoTt Chalmers, on a warrant charging him with being about to leave the colony with the view of evading justice. It was supposed he was attempting to leave in one of the sailing vessels. Bail was refused. He has been remanded to Wellington in custody. 11 or an, the Post Office clerk, charged with stealing papers from the Post Office, was acquitted,there being noevidenceof felonious intention. The Standard Insurance Company's annual meeting was held to-day, when the report and balance-sheet were received and adopted. The recommendation in the report was that a dividend of 6d per share for the half-year be declared and carried to the credit of the capital account, which would make shares then stand at 12s 6d paid up ; 40 per cent of the surplus to be carried to the credit of the reserve fund ; 30 per cent to be paid to the policy holders in the company whose accounts show a credit balance for the preceding twelve months ; the remaining 30 per cent to be also carried to the reserve fund. The paid up capital would then stand at £31,250, and the reserve fund at £SBIO. (From a correspondent of the Press.) Dunedin, September 4. A public meeting, at Naseby, has condemned the Counties Bill as entirely unsuited to thinly populated and widely scattered districts of the interior of Otago, and that the proposed counties would be almost penniless and prove unworkable. Mr Adams, assistant to the SurveyorGeneral, leaves for Ghristchurch. At Alexandra a portion of Mr Pyke's constituency carried a resolution —" That, by voting against separation, he violated his hustings pledges, and forfeited the confidence of the electors, and is in honor bound to resign, in order to give the constituency an opportunity of showing whether they concur in his Budden conversion." Haughton was arrested on his way to port. It was believed he intended endeavoring to get away in the Ringarooma to day. In Court to-day, Mr Scanlan, his principal surety, said on Saturday he was misinformed as to Hanghton's intentions, otherwise he would not have withdrawn his bond. From facts since come to his knowledge he did not believe he intended to abscond. Messrs Brogden's representatives say there is no difficulty in opening the Northern line as far as H mpden, if trains meet at the Kakaka Bridge, and the passengers walk across. They are willing to allow the Government to work the line without prejudice, and undertake to execute what details are required to be finished within the term of the maintenance. Mr Darrell will organise a company to travel through the provinces.