TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 715, 4 October 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Agency .)

LATEST FROM AUSTRALIA.

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Sydney, October 3; The steamer Bowen arrived at Cooktown yesterday, bringing 330 Chinese and other passengers. On the voyage, between Penang and Malaca, the passengers and officers of the ship saw a sea serpent, which was 250 ft long and 50ft broad, with a square head and yellow stripes. The Bowen brings London dates to August 18th. Sir O. Dilke, addressing his constituents at Notting-hill, read an important letter from an official, which stated that the accounts of the Bulgarian outrages are not exaggerated. Sydney, October 4. At Murundi yesterday a supposed burglar, named O’Brien, was chased by a young man named Cohen, whom he stabbed. Cohtn choked O’Brien, who died. Melbourne, October 4. The cutter Loelia is starting for New Guinea and the Islands of the Pacific to open up trade under the auspices of an English company. f. (Per Otago via Hokitika.) Melbourne, September 26. The Government have concluded negotiations for a Cape service, subject to ratification by Parliament. Sentence of death, passed on Ellen Francis for the Emerald Hill murder, has been commuted to twenty-one years’ imprisonment. The barque Elmgrove, Oaptaiu Leddra, and. ten men, from Newcastle to Adelaide, was totally wrecked on Rabbit Island, Captain Leddra states that when the Elmgrove went ashore the crew took to the rigging, and were washed off or crushed to death. Captain Leddra and Mr Hoyle got on a plank and were ..washed ashore, They lived on limpets and crabs, and were reduced to the last extremity when they were rescued. The ' beach was strewed with wreckage. Only two bodies were found. It is supposed that the others have been sanded up. The vessel is insured for £2200 in the Mercantile Marine Company. During the gale the schooner Oartman lost two men and the deck house. The enquiry into the loss of the Dandenong was concluded on the 27th. The Board has reserved its decision. The steamer St Osyth left London on the 19th. Brisbane, September 26. The Wentworth shipped 12,000 ounces of gold at Cooktown, and 11,000 at Townesvi’le. The Chinese at Cooktown have petitioned the Governor to refuse his consent to the Goldfields Amendment Bill. They also petition the Emperor of China, calling attention to a breach of the treaty by the English. Newcastle, September 26. Captain Harless, of the barque King Oscar, reports passing the body of a female off Jervis Bay, dressed in dark clothes. The seagulls had settled on it, and had eaten the face away. The weather was bad, and he did not pick up the body. [Per Albion, via the Bluff ] Melbourne, September 27.

The Government are making good progress with the Electoral Bill. All their proposals have been carried, although several amendments were moved.

The Council passed the second reading of the Education Act Amendment Bill. The late heavy rains will have a good effect on the crops. The report on the areas in South Australia is not so unsatisfactory as at first represented. . An Opera Company, of sixteen artistes, engaged in Italy for Mr Lazar, of Sydney, is coming to the colonies. It also includes four ballet dancers. In the Divorce Court, in the cases of Fisher- v Fisher, and Winter v Winter, the juries found against the respondents, who were guilty of adultery. In the last named case, the respondent is stated to be residing in Wellington with the co-respondent Robert Winter. INTERPROV IN OIAL. Auckland, October 3. The schooner Strathnaver, owned in Lyttelton, was wrecked while entering the Kaipara harbor. She capsized suddenly and drove ashore. She is a total wreck. The ma*e was drowned. The vessel was insured in the New Zealand office for £7OO. Auckland, October 4. The brig Vision has arrived from a South Sea.cruise. She has extended the Auckland trade to the Marshall’s Groupe, ten degrees north of the equator, establishing agencies at different islands. Arrived—H.M.S, Sapphire, from Melbourne. The Prince of Wales Theatre has been converted into a produce warehouse. The Theatre Royal has been leased by DeLias. Napier, October 3. A telegram from Archdeacon Harper was read at the Synod to day, declining the Bishopric of Waiapu. A resolution was ojssed appointing a committee to draw up a memorial praying him to reconsider his decision. The business of the Synod will be concluded this evening. Wellington, October 4. The Waimea, from London, ninety-four days out, with 240 immigrants is signalled at the Heads, Mr Macandrew telegraph? to the Governor OS behalf ofrbe people of Otago, asking him to withhold the Queen’s assent in regard to the Abolition BiU so far w l 8 ® on ’

earned, the great bulk of the people being determined to maintain those privileges of local self-government conferred upon them by the Imperial Parliament, and saying that if the action of the Government is persisted in, ft must result in the dismemberment of the colony. From all quarters the Provincial Government is urgently appealed to, to obtain a plebisoitum of the people, with the view to appeal to the Imperial Parliament, which it is confidently hoped would not turn a deaf ear to the wishes of an overwhelming majority of the people. He gays the gravity of the occasion is his excuse for addressing the Governor, The Premier’s reply says Mr Macandrew appears to forget that abolition is now law. If he thinks the action of the Assembly ultra vires , the Courts of Law are open to him, Ministers are aware and deprecate the strong feeling against abolition, apparently by a portion of the inhabitants of Otago, fermented as it has been by mispresentation and agitation, for which the Superintendent is in a great measure responsible. They are also aware of a strong feeling in favor of abolition by another section of the people, but neither party can judge of the effects of legislation not yet in force. The temporary effect of local agitation should not outweigh the deliberate decision of two Parliaments. He points out that a plebiscitum is unknown to any constitution based upon representative institutions, that even if a vote of the province wore obtained against any act of the Legislature,|such a vote could not weigh against the decision of the representatives of the whole colony. The Government have also received urgent appeals from the Otago outlying districts in a direction contrary to the representations of the Superintendent. In conclusion, he says the measure now under consideration will leave the question of local government in the hands of the people, and there is no reason to believe that the Otago people are less desirous than .the other parts of the colony to localise the administration of local affairs. Blenheim, October 3. The 1200 young trout imported from Canterbury were all dead on arrival, owing to overcrowding in packing. Hokitika, October 3. The Otago arrived from Sydney yesterday. She was tendered last night; she left on the 27th; she brings forty diggers for the Kumara. Passengers for Christchurch Misses Skillicorn and Mnllion, Mr Barber. 160 tons of cargo for all ports, Grafts were towed to the wharf for the first time yesterday for three months. Four were towed out; The Lioness is still towing in. It is expected that all the crafts will be towed in to-day. Dunedin, October 3. At the entire show to-day there was a splendid display of horses. The City Council are greatly enraged at the loss of the wharves and quays reserves, and intend making a strong effort to prevent the Act being given effect to. A vote of thanks to Hon Mr Reynolds was passed by the Council for his action in the matter. At the Supreme Court to-day Butler, the burglar, on six charges, received four years. He addresed a letter to the Judge, asking him to shorten his sentence by increasing its severity, so that he might not lose the best years of his life. Bluff, October 3. The Albion has arrived from Hobart Town. She left Melbourne on the 27th, reached Hobart Town on the morning of the 29th, left on the evening of the same day for the Bluff, Experienced fine weather. She brings 324 tons cargo, fifty-six saloon, and twenty-three steerage passengers for all ports. She leaves for Port Chalmers at 4 p.m. Passengers for Canterbury—Mesdames Withers, Knight, Mr and Mrs Hopkbridge, Maskell, Messrs Macfarlane, Guild, Baker, Mills, four in steerage, and 107 tons cargo.