TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 750, 14 November 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Agency LATEST EROM AUSTRALIA. [By Submarine Cable,] Sydney, November 13. Arrived—W akafci pu Bush has challenged Trickett to row for the Championship. Melbourne, November IS, A fire has occurred at Bichmond, destroying a number of houses. [Per Arawata via Bluff, j Melbourne, November 9. The Government are pressing their measures through Parliament, and will close the session before Christmas if possible. The Harbor Trust Bill has passed the Assembly, after much opposition. The Electoral Bill has finally become law. The Council has thrown out the Mining on Private Property Bill. The Governors of New South Wales and South Australia are at present on a visit to Governor Bowen. Sightseeing is the order of the day, and this being carnival week there is plenty of amusement. The races commenced on Saturday. The attendance on the Derby day numbered about 25,0 jO, and on the Cup day over three times that number, All passed off pleasantly and well, Nine started for the Derby, which was won by Briseis easily, the favorite, Newminster, and Tocal, being nowhere ; in fact, running nearly last. Briseis won the Cup in 3min 36Jsec— very good time—beating a field of thirty, and beating all the cracks. The race was won by about a length, The b okmakers won heavily. All first three horses in the Cup are by the sire Tim Whiffler, The English cricketers have reached Adelaide all well. They play their first match there next week. Roberts, who has been playing in Melbourne, was beaten two nights running, once by nearly 500 points. The National Agricultural Show was one of the largest and finest which has ever taken place here. The show of implements was the most numerous ever seen in Melbourne. The extraordinary case at the Alfred Hospital, where a pair of bull-dog forceps and a sponge were sewn up in the body of a woman after an operation, has been enquired into by a coroner’s jury, who acquitted the operating surgeon of blame, but the matter has been much talked about and commented on. All places of amusement are well patronised—the circus, the theatres, and the new Academy of Music, which opened on Monday. It is a very elegant theatre. An Italian Opera Company has arrived by the St. Osyth, and Miss Catherine Lewis, prima donna, has arrived under engagement to Lyster. INTERPROVINCIAL. Wellington. November 14, The unusual quantity of Government telegraphic work since the close of the session (.in consequence it is said of aboli tion) together with some evening papers largely availing themselves of the five hundred words concession, have led to the wires on the main lines being clogged, and press and private messages alike being delayed to a very unusual extent, and especially during business hours.

N APIek, November 13. telegraph station at Porongahan was struck by lightning 'm Saturday, at about one o’clock, the wire bcinj- fused and a quantity of telegraph forms being set on lire in the office. Greymouth, November 13. The whole capital of the Greymouth and Kumara tramway was subscribed in two days, Operations will be commenced at once. Dunedin, November 13 At a meeting of the shareholders of the National Company to day twenty-five persons were present. The report was adopted unanimously. For the half year the rece'pts were £51,890, and the expenditure £38,461. A dividend at the rate of 20 per cent per annum was declared, and the balance, £8420, carried forward. No addition was made to the reserve funds, consequent upon heavy losses, amounting to £25,461, Mr Proudfoot asked a question respecting the refusal to pay the claim of the Czar witch. Mr Larnach replied that the relation contained in the ship’s log was such as to justify the action of the Board, and in the appeal they only acted upon the advice of their solicitors. He did not think proper caution would injure the company, and had they not taken this course they would have been liable to the accusation of parting too readily with money. Mr Proudfoot said he was satisfied with the replies. A vote of thanks was accorded to the directors unanimously. Bluff, November 13. Arrived—Arawata this afternoon. She left Hobson’s Bay at 11 a.m on the 9th, cleared the Heads at 1.10 pm. Passed Swan Island at 6.45 a.m next morning. Experienced strong westerly winds for the first two days, then light variable winds until 4 p,m on the 12th, when it shifted to the northward and increased to a terrific gale at 2 a.m 13th, with a heavy breaking sea. During the gale shipped a sea which carried away a portion of the bulwarks and stove in three racing gigs. Passengers for Lyttelton—Mrs Cox and Mrs Parker, Messrs Gould (2), Croft, Ford, Parker, Lightband, twelve steerage, 58 tone cargo; For Wellington—Messrs Bichard Reichardt, Lightband, twelve in steerage, and 48 tons cargo.