TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 779, 19 December 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Per Press Agency.') LATEST PROM AUSTRALIA. [By Submarine-Cable,J Sydney, December 18lh. The weather during the last three days has been intensely hot, In some parts of the country the thermometer ranged from 130 deg to 140 deg in the shade. Intercolonial telegrams report similar temperature and a number of deaths from sunstroke. The Government have [requested the colonies and New Zealand to consent to the cable conference being held in Sydney instead of in Melbourne or Launceston. An Adelaide telegram states that the schooner Postboy capsized in a squall off Glenelg. Six passengers and the crew were drowned. The mate was rescued after being seven hours in the water. INTEEPRO VIN 01AL. Auckland, December 19. Further particulars of the Ararimu murder show that three years ago Curtain brought an action against the murdered man and got worsted, and his grass seed had to be seized. This caused a grudge, and about a week ago he told Mrs Shanaghan, “You will not have him long.” Curtain’s statement to the police is that he met Shanaghan, who said “ Come and see me burn your house down that they then fought, he getting the better of Shanaghan, who said “You’ve done enough, Curtain, let me up now.” Curtain refused, and tied Shanaghan to a stump with a half-inch rope with his hands behind him, and then rode into Papakura to get a warrant, which was refused. Upon returning on Sunday morning he went by candlelight and cut away the cords binding the body. Drops of candle grease were found on the trousers of the murdered man, and a piece of sperm candle in Curtain’s pocket when arrested. When Shanaghan’s wife was looking for her husband she asked Curtain where he was; he said, “He is lying down where he got his deserts.” Shanaghan appears to have struggled desperately to free himself, the rope having cut into the wrist and the stump he was tied to. One of the marks on the skull was made by a sharp instrument, and an axe was found in the ashes of the fire in Curtain’s house, with the handle burned off, Wellington, December 18. Bythe last Suez mail we understand Captain Maling, private secretary, has received a complimentary notification of his promotion to an unattached company, thereby obviating the necessity of his joining his old [regiment, the 35th, in case of war. He will therefore remain on the staff of big Excellency. Wellington, December 19: Tenders will shortly be called for making the following additions to the wharf :—To widen the main wharf to the extent of 22ft along its whole length; to widen the middle T by lift on the east side, and lengthen it 60ft at the north end, and 260 ft at the south end. The acceptances for the Wellington Cup and Derby will close at the Empire Hotel on Friday, the 22nd instant, at 8 p.m. Hokitika, December 18. Arrived—Wakatipu, from Sydney. Pas sengefs for Lyttelton, Mr, Mrs, and Miss Parkerson, Mr Walker, thirty-three in steerage, and 226 tons cargo for all ports, The news brought by her is anticipated by the Eingarooma. Dunedin, December 16. The question of whether preliminary and ex $ arte proceedings’in bankruptcy should be opened to the Press, was incidentally raised to-day as a question of practice in the Supreme Court, upon the contention of Mr 'Stewart that the case on which he was engaged should not have been taken in open Court, but in Chambers, No decision was arrived at, but his Honor remarked that even if the case were taken in Chambers, he was not aware there is any power of the Judge to prevent proceedings in Chambers from being reported. They were only taken in Chambers because more convenient, and the public excluded because there was no for them. He could not see why proroo“ • ,-H kinds should not be pubceedmf?9 of u*. desirable they should hshed. It was rather v. be so. He admitted there wa& ' °9 l^era^e difference of opinion on the subject. Flour is unchanged, quotations £l6 per ton ; wheat is almost out of the market and commands any price up to 6s 6d ; oats continue firm, readily sold at 2s 2d to 2s 3d for ordinary to good feed, and up to 2s 4d for milling. Barley is in better inquiry, sales having been made at 2s to 2s 6a for feed, and 2b 9d for milling,