TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 767, 5 December 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Agency.') LATEST FEOM AUSTRALIA. [By Submarine-Cable.J Sydney, December 4. A branch of the Post money order office was broken into this morning. The manager was strangled, and money and jewellery valued at several hundred pounds taken. (Per Hero, via Auckland). The Hero arrived at 6 p.m. on Dec. 2. She left Sydney on 27th, London, November 21. The P. and O. Co.’s steamer Asia, with the mails for Australia, left Galle on the 17th inst. for Melbourne. Melbourne. For the Ballarat Handicap, Croesus was first, Volo second, and Glengarry third. Launceston. The Judges of the Supreme Court have ordered Mr Campion’s name to be struck off the rolls for misconduct as attorney. Brisbane. Advices by the Ly-e-Moon state that an attack had been made on the Chinese by the Formosans, and gunboats have been sent to avenge the insult. A serious disturbance has taken place in Japan, and the telegraph wires have been cut. A large number of rioters were killed. Chinese emigration to Port Darwin has set in. INTERPROYINCIAL. Auckland, December 4, Signalled—-Hero, from Sydney. Sailed—Lady bird. The Suwarrow case will come before the civil courts on a case by Mr Sterndale, Dr Gould for larceny as a bailee has been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment with hard labor. The inquiry re the fire in Shortland street commenced to day. Letters to the agent of the Georgia Minstrels show that owing to the excellent business doing in San Francisco they decided to remain there until the next mail. A person named Corbyn, agent of Mr John Bennett of Sydney, took advantage of this to engage ten non-professional darkies for Sydney, and ship them as Georgia Minstrels. They went up in the City of Sydney. Mr Kirby, agent here, is instructed to go to Sydney, and expose them. The San Francisco Post severely denounces the proceeding as a fraud, Letters from America re the mail service are favorable to the permanent service via Auckland. The following is an extract from a letter sent to the Auckland agents by a prominent official at head quarters. He says “We have heretofore given you our opinion at great length regarding the serious drawback to the prosperity of our line due entirely to the necessity imposed on us of running to ports where ships of such size should never be sent. We are sparing no exertion to have this corrected. As to calling at the Bay of Islands or to having connection with that point we are as strenuously opposed to it as we are to the present route. Our calling places should be Honolulu, Auckland, and Sydney, and all collateral business should be transacted separately and apart from our main line.” U ellington, December 5. The Times this morning reprobates in very strong terms the handing over of the provincial library to the Canterbury College. Inter alia, it says “We hope the * proper authorities’ will not allow a valuable library, which certainly was, and still is, public property, to be coolly handed over to the private use of an already most unjustly favored institution for rich people.” At a meeting of the Wellington Jockey Club last night a resolution was passed that nominations for the Wellington Derby for 1878 and 1879 should be received up to 8 p. m., at the Empire Hotel, on February 12th, 1877. Dunedin, December 4. The Provincial Library is to be handed over to the University. A conference in regard to railway management is being held here. Mr Charles Bright commences his second lecture season on Wednesday. Two persons have taken scarlet fever, viz, mothers of ;the children upon whom they had been in attendance.