LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 755, 21 November 1876, Page 2

LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA.

■ W ■■■" [By Submabinb Cable.] THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. London, November 8. The Arctic expedition have arrived at Portsmouth. They reached to 450 miles from the North Pole, being the furthest point North ever attained. Beyond this the whole region was packed with ice. THE {EASTERN JQDBSTION. London, November 8. The armistice has, been fixed for two months. It is proposed to hold a conference on the Eastern question at Stamboul, Lord Salisbury, assisted by Hon R. Bourke (?), will represent England. The other great powers are also sending delegates. THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES. London, November 8. Mr Tilden has been elected President of the United States, THE CRICKET MATCH. Sydney, November 20. The Englishmen beat the South Australians in one innings, with fifty-three runs to spare. INTEEPRO VIN Cl AL. Auckland, November 20. Share report—Bank of New Zealand, £lB 15s ; buyers, £lB 9s; National Bank, buyers, 64s ; Colonial Bank, 325; buyers, 325; New Zealand Insurance, buyers, 85s 6i; South British Insurance, buyers, 62 ; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency (old), 90s; Caledonian (double), sellers, 15s, Sailed—City of New York, with eleven saloon and eight steerage passengers, from New Zealand, A spirit is said to be haunting the house formerly occupied by a man named John Lowe, who committed suicide. Wellington, November 20. All 'the paid commanding officers of the Militia and Volunteers of the Middle Island, have got three months’ notice that Government will dispense with their services at the expiration of that period. Colonel Reader, in the North Island, has received a similar notice. Wellington, November 21. In the Divorce Court, in the case Dyson v Dyson and Forward, Mr Bell Bell appeared on behalf of the petitioner. The point was raised by the Bench that the notice was not served on the SolicitorGeneral when the petition was served. After some argument the Bench decided that the proceedings might be gone on with, and the point argued afterwards. The Court then adjourned. Dunedin, November 20. The St Andrew’s Day race privileges were sold for £548,

A mass meeting re the Bulgarian atrocities will be held to-night. Mr Dampier left for Cbristchurch to-day under engagement to Mr Hoskins.

A large and influential meeting was held ou Saturday to determine to revive the holding of regattas. A man named Jeremiah Doag laid complaint before the Commissioner of Customs this morning against the mnster of the Industrial School. He ntated that at ten o'clock last night his child, a girl ten years old, came home, having escaped from the school. She had heavy irons on her legs, and the iron had eaten in the flesh. He said too that she was in a weak emaciated condition. Ten minutes after she arrived she was followed by the officers of the school and the police, who remanded her with the irons still on to the police station, whence she had been taken to the school again, Sir Q. McLean promised a strict in. vestigation, and should the statements prove true, redress. He said it was anythiog but his duty and desire to shield anyone who had committed such an offence as that alleged. The superintendent of the industrial school's version of the girl's escape is that bhe is incorrigible, has been sentenced to fourteen years altogether for larcenies of various kinds, has several times escaped, necessitating her

being fastened to her bed with irons. On this occasion she split up the board to which her irons were fastened, and broke away through the window at ten o'clock at night, walking home with chains on her to her father's. An inquiry is to be held. A deputation of unemployed laborers waited on Mr G. McLean to-day. Work was promised on the Waikouaite Railway. The ship City of Dunedin is to be quarantined. The Harbor Board has decided to call for tenders for cutting a channel from the City Wharf to Port Chalmers, 70ft wide and 16ft deep. Hon G. McLean has sanctioned an expenditure on the Museum of £SOO. Dunedin, Nov 21. At the public meeting re the Bulgarian atrocities, held last night, there was some splendid speaking. A committee was appointed to collect subscriptions. Hokitika, November 21.

Two lodes have been struck on Hudson's 500-acre block, Mount Rangitoto, now named the Virginia Silver Mining Company; one is fifteen inches and the other five feet wide, specimens from which are estimated to yield eight hundred ounces of silver per ton. A company is being floated with a capital of £40,000, in 8000 shares of £5 each. The company is just in the market, and 4,000 shares are already taken up.