The Globe. MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1876. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 778, 18 December 1876, Page 2

The Globe. MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1876. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

{Per Press Agency?) LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA. [By Submarine-Oablb.J THE EASTERN QUESTION. London, December 14. At the first conference of the representatives of the European Powers, held on the 12th inst.fat Constantinople, General Istnateff, Russian envoy, was elected president. A conciliatory disposition was manifested on all aides. The proceedings are conducted with closed doors. FRANCE. The French Ministry has been remodelled, with the M. Simmon as Premier and Minister of the interior, and M. Martha as Minister of Justice ; the other members of the Ministry remain the same. There is a serious disagreement between President McMahon and the representatives on the Left. AUSTRALIA, Sydney, December 16. The City of Sydney sailed yesternight. [News per Ringarooma.] Melbourne, December 13. The Government having withdrawn their Railway Bill, the session will close before Christmas. Government, in conjunction with New South Wales, will ask the services of an eminent engineer to report on defence. Some Ballarat "firemen are aboard the Ringarooma to attend the competition in New Zealand. A terrible murder has occurred at Mornington. Ann Hastings, a married woman, was found dead with her skull battered in. Her husband has been arrested. _ An axe covered with blood and human hair has been found close to the house. The first match with the English Eleven takes place here on Boxing Day. The local team is not yet chosen. The markets are quiet, but prices are fully sustained. Company's sugars, brandies, and other articles are largely operated on lately. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, December 16. The entries for the races are thirty-two. The acceptances for the Steeplechase include all entered. Mr Walters accepted in the Derby with Fanny Fisher Colt, and entered the Bame in the Maiden Plate, Publicans' Purse, and Auckland Plate. The other acceptances for the Derby are Aerolite, Danebury, and Middleton. There were a considerable number of nominations for the County Council in the suburbs. , Auckland, December IS. A settler named Catlin, living in the Ararenui district, beyond Papakura, has been arrested on a charge of murdering a neighbor named Denis Shanaghan. Bad blood is known to have subsisted between them for some time. On Saturday night Catlin came into Papakura, looking for the clerk of the Court, with the object, he said, of laying an information against Shanaghan for breach of the peace. Shanaghan did not returnhome on Saturday night. His wife we/>t in search for him, and on Sunday found him lying dead in Catlins paddock, with several wounds about tliq head- Catlin is arrested His version is that they had a quarrel pboat

cattle. Shanaghan attacked him with a stick.' An affray ensued ; Shanaghan was knocked down. No one witnessed the quarrel. The murdered man leaves a young wife and child. Patea, December 18. A fire occurred last night at 9.30 in the stable at the back of the Albion Hotel, a part of which was occupied by Cobb and Co. All the horses were got out with difficulty, one having a very narrow escape. The fire started in Cobb's stables; the origin is not known. No bame is attached to the groom. The building was insured in the New Zealand for £250. Napier, December 16. In the Bupreme Court George Goddard, for stealing a gold watch, the property of his master, named Sturrock, was acquitted. It was a curious case, Sturrock had made money at the Cape Diamond Fields, and is visiting with his wife all ports in New Zealand. He is a man of excitable temperament and addicted to hard drinking. As the Occidental Hotel, Wellington, he picked up the prisoner Goddard, and engaged him to go to the Cape with him. He was to receive no wages in New Zealand, but the prosecutor gave him money when he wanted it. The jury adopted the view suggested by the counsel, that the prisoner took the watch without felonious intent, but merely to produce a salutary effect on prosecutor's mind, and keep him from drink. The scene in Court during the cross-examination of the prosecutor, was the most outrageous ever witnessed. The prosecutor got terribly excited and refused to answer questions, and repeatedly called the defending counsel a liar, turned his back upon him, snapped his fingers at him, and finally demanded a chair. The Chief Jastice allowed him to sit in a chair at the the counsel's table, and to give hie answers from there. Wellington", December 16. The Gazette publishes an Order in Council prohibiting absolutely the importation to New Zealand from the 15th of April next and for the following two years, of any cattle, sheep, or swine from Great Britain, Ireland, or the Continent of Europe. Wellington, December 18. The ship Waikato sails to-day for London. She takes 6 4148 bales wool, and sundries; total cargo valued at £68,300; also about twenty-five passengers. Hokitika, December 16. The Union Company's steamer Maori went ashore on the North Spit this morning. She is expected to get off by to-night's tide. Hokitika, December 18. The Maori got off the Spit on Sunday night's tide. The body of Hugh Campbell, blacksmith, was found in the Hokitika river yesterday. Port Chalmers, December 16. Arrived —Oamaru, ship, eighty-two days' from Glasgow, with 373 passengers. She is ordered into quarantine. During the voyage there were twenty-one cases of measles ; the last case occurred on the Bth inst. There have been four deaths, two from measles, one from diarrhoea, and one infant from exhaustion. There is one case now on board of enteric fever, one of diarrhoea, one of mania, and five [of measles. The apartments and clothing have beed thoroughly disinfected. Dunedin, December 16. The Chamber of Commerce has received a communication from the Victorian Humane Society, requesting the co-operation of the Chamber in order to secure, if possible, uniform legislation in the matter of providing the most efficient and approved lifesaving apparatus on board all vessels registered in the Australian Colonies and New Zealand, and requesting the Chamber of Commerce to urge upon the New Zealand Government to bring the subject before a conference of representatives from the various colonies, who will shortly meet in Melbourne. The Harbour Board is going to float the remainder of the loan of £IOO,OOO. Bluff, December 18. Arrived —The Bingarooma at 2 this morning. She left Melbourne at 4 p.m. on the 13th, and had fine weather. She brings forty one saloon and thirty-six steerage passengers, and 252 tons of cargo for all ports. She sales at 4 p.m. for Dunedin. Passengers for Lyttelton—Mr Cowlishaw, and thirteen in steerage; and thirty-five tons cargo. FIJI NEWS. Auckland, December 18. Arrived—Jessie Henderson, from Levuka. She brings news to the 29th of November. Governor Gordon delivered an important speech at Vuna on the '23rd, in which he reviewed the conditions and prospects of the colony. After observing he had been right in warning them not to expect immediate improvement after the establishment of the new form of government, he added that he fully expected, during next year, the tide would turn and happier days would commence. In spite of all drawbacks, the estimates of revenue and expenditure would be nearly realised. The amount received under the Native Taxes Ordinance had been much larger than ever, and had been less expensively collected. In reference to the lands titles enquiry, complaints had been made of the slowness with which the work was performed. He thought the complaints exaggerated, for the commissioners had worked zealously, and had decided over three hundred cases in as many days. A great deal of unmeaning language had been used respecting the Ordinance, which provided that all sums advanced by the Crown for labourers' wages and passage money, should be made a first charge on the lands on account of which it had been incurred. He called attention to the unreasonableness of dissatisfaction at the Government imposing its own terms in regard to the loans which it was under no obligation to advance, and besides Sir H. Robinson had publicly notified S'ich an intention soon after the islands became a Crown colony. A large portion of the address was devoted to the difficulties attending getting labor,*both coolies and Polynesians, although suitable, were too expensive, and Fijian labor, while in any case insufficient in amount, was further restricted by social and political considerations which forbade depopulating the country districts. He proposed to ask the sanction of the Imperial Government to raiae a loan, to be applied partly to the introduction of immigrant labor, and partly to advances to facilitate agricultural operators and to establish sugar manufacture on a sound principal and on a large scale. As to the question of the seat of government, four localilits had been submitted to the Imperial Goveniuipnt, Levuka, Suva Sivu, acd N,-.di. He. believed the choice would reel between the first throe. 1« conciusio: l , he i sai'i bis policy was one which regarded she oolony and its inhabitftnis aa a whole, aad i s

such wai likely to seem tame and cold to those whose thoughts, hopes and passions were engaged in oae particular object. He hoped that planio'rs and settlers would take every opportunity of personally conferring with him on matters of importance to the colony.