TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 703, 20 September 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Per Press Agency .) LATEST FROM AUSTRALIA. o[By Submarine Cable.] Melbourne, Sept. 19. The men charged with the Cape diamond robbery were discharged in the absence of documents by the mail. The steam yacht Hinemoa for the New Zealand Government arrived at Adelaide. She is described as a beautiful model. The plate and dinner service cost sixteen hundred pounds. INTEEPHOVINCIAL. AUCKLAND, Sept. 19. The llawea left for the South, but was unable to cross the bar. An extraordinary accident occurred at the Union Beach Mine, Coromandel, which is flooded out through defects in the pumping gear, throwing sixty men out of employment. A man named Ecc’eston, not a professional diver, volunteered to go down the shaft and remove the obstruction which prevented the pump working. He had seventy feet of water to pass through in utter darkness. A professional diver had charge of the air pump, and instructed Ec cleston as to signals. Eccleston signalled for more air, again he did this, and again for a third time, when the air pipes burst with the report of a pistol shot, Eccleston was hauled up and found to be swollen to three times his natural size, the features of his face not being distinguishable. In bis ignorance of diving be thought be wanted more air, when in fact he was overcharged with it. He was blown out like a bladder. Dr Hovel! was sent for. Eccleston was insensible ; blood flowed from his mouth. After several hours’ medical treatment pulsation returned to his heart, but he is still in a precarious state.

Auckland, September 20.

In consequence of tiic high price of labor at Auckland, and the heavy railway charges on the line of railway from to Auckland, the contractor for the Auckland docks has found it more profitable to obtain the necessary stone from Melbourne, where he has entered into a contract for obtaining about £30,000 worth of stone of the same quality as that which could be quarried at Newmarket or Kangitoto. ISAPIER, September 19.

At the meeting of the Harbor Board today the engineer stated that the work was commenced on the 7th instant, and was steadily progressing since. Niue piles had been set up to dace, The question of the appointment of an assistant harbor master was postponed. A letter was read complaining of the high charges for wharfage on small parcels, and it was agreed that rent should not be charged for the first twentyfour hours.

The Union Bank inform the Municipality that they decline to advance money required for reclamation of the swamp, and roads. The terms offered, are --that the Bank take the Corporation debentures at par for seven years at 7 per cent io the amount of £5590. Tenders are called for from persons willing advance the money.

Wellington, September 19. The steamer Wellington, after twenty-two hours’ detention at the Heads, consequent on a southerly gale, returned to port this afternoon, She leaves again for the South at ten to-morrmv.

Wellington, September 20. Arrived —The Arawata and Onward, from Lyttelton. Sailed Alhambra, for Lyttelton and Otago, at 1.15 p.m. The only passenger for the Coast is Miss Murphy. Dunedin, September 19.

At a meeting of the committee of the Dunedin Political Association hold yesternight, it was resolved that the following challenge be presented to Messrs Cargill. Fish, Kattray, and others—“ Gentlemen—D having been ascertained that signatures to the letter to our city representatives have been obtained by misrepresentation, you are challenged to call a public meeting of the citizens to pronounce upon the public affairs therein referred to.” The committee undertakes that at euch meeting they will be prepared to submit and maintain the following resolutions in opposition ;—“That our representatives are nobly defending our constitutional rights against tyranny, injustice, and aggression, and that it is most desirable that they continue to do so until they obtain the victory." Xt was

also resolved—“ That inasmuch as already a large public meeting of the electors has heartily accorded its approval of the conduct of our representatives, if the promoters of the letter do not at once accept the foregoing challenge the public will be justified in opining that they dare not.” The memovial, addressed to Messrs Stout, Larnach, and Macaodrew, has about 400 signatures, and goes North to-day. Dunedin, September 20. The billiard match, Nebit v Manson, for £IOO, was won by Nesbit. Time, six and a half hours; 1000 up.