TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 699, 15 September 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Per Press Agency.) LATEST EEOM AUSTEALIA. [By Submarine Cable.] Sydney, September 14. There is no trace of the steamer Dandenong or the rest of the passengers and crew, although numbers of steamers have gone in search. It is supposed that she foundered after the late gale with about forty people on board. All hopes of her safety are almost abandoned. She is insured for £14,000. Another gale is coming on. There is no sign of the San Francisco mail boat. INTERPROVINCIAL. Wellington, September 15. At ten this morning the House resumed, and Mr Rees continued, admittedly speaking against time. There were just a sufficient number of members to form a quorum, Mr Rees, or his party, will probably speak till 2,30, when another day’s sitting is supposed to commence. The Speaker will then formally open the House by prayers, and after the usual preliminary business, it is understood Ministers will ask the House to dispose of the disqualification resolution, when it will again be competent for the Opposition to continue the discussion, and stave off the division, which it is said will result in a considerable majority for the Government. Geeymouth, September 14.

Great indignation was felt here yesterday at the Otago going on to Hokitika without waiting, although the tug was in readiness and the bar good. She discharged part of her cargo at Hokitika and all Qreymonth passengers. She then came back here this morning, where she shipped SOOOozs of gold and a large number of passengers. She is now at Hokitika trying to get the balance of the cargo out. There are 37680zs of gold waiting for the Alhambra, neatly all Reefton gold. Dunedin, September U, At a meeting of the fire brigade last night, the secretary was instructed to telegraph to the Wellington brigade at once to the following effect -.—Value cup twenty guineas ; time for competing, 26th December, at the Caledonian Society’s new ground; eight best men of each brigade to form the competing teams. It was also resolved that there should be a grand demonstration, to which brigades of Sydney, Victoria, Tasmania, and New Zealand should be invited. The question of union between the Presbyterian Church of the North and that of Otago and Southland occupied a special meeting of the Synod at the First Church during the whole of yesterday, and up to one this morning. The question occasioned a hot discussion. Beyond affirming the desira bility of the proposed union, the meeting proved resultless, the resolutions carried being to the effect that the Synod approves of the union of the churches, but considers that in the face of existing opposition, it is not expedient to proceed ia the matter a + present. Roberts beat Weston last night by fiftyfour points. An extraordinary occurrence took place yesterday at the funeral of a Good Templar named Hayes, a member of tho Hearts of Oak Lodge, who died in the tiospital on Monday, and was buried at the expense of the lodge with the approval of his widow. The funeral left the Hospital about 2.30 for the Northern Cemetery, where a piece of ground had been purchased by the lodge, the widow accompanying the hearse in a carriage as chief mourner. When in King street, near Union street, a party of about ten or twelve men overtook the funeral procession, one of the men seized the horses’ heads, and some of the others said—“ You have gone far enough, we will take it our way now.” In order to avoid a scene the Good Templars, numbering seventy or eighty, did not offer any resistance, and withdrew from the procession. The men who had taken possession of the hearse and body then asked the undertaker to drive to the Roman Catholic cemetery, Upon arrival there it was found that no preparation had been made for the burial, and between five and six o’clock last night the body still remained unburied. It is understood that the Lodge had been allowing the man’s wife 10s per week while her husband was in the hospital. One of the members in the Lodge, who had taken a principal part in the funeral arrangements, says there had been no intimation whatever conveyed to the Lodge that objection had been taken to their proceedings until the funeral was interrupted in King street.