TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 780, 20 December 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Per Press Agency.") LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA. ♦ [By Submarine-Cable. J THE EASTERN QUESTION. London, December 18. A full conference of European powers is to be held at Stamboul next week. Th<=! English Government has received a despatch from Villayet, on the Danube, stating that Russian agents are enticing the Bulgarians to send a deputation to Stamboul to solicit Russian occupation of their province, AUSTRALIA. Melbourne, December 19. Barb and Melbourne are scratched for the Melbourne Champion race. The new steamer Kent, from London, has arrived, fifty-three days out. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, December 19. Arrived —Jessie Osborne, from London, with 200 adult immigrants, after a passage of 94 days ; all well. Napier, December 19. In the Supreme Court yesterday John Langham, convicted on Saturday night of manslaughter of his wife, was sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude. The jury had returned a verdict of manslaughter in its most serious aspect. The prisoner deserves the highest punishment the law allows. He had kicked her about the head until all the muscles became a pulp. She died four days afterwards. In the case Colonial Bank against Witty : action for £2OO on promissory note, the verdict was for the plaintiffs. There is considerable excitement in the country districts about the county elections. There appears to have been a bungle between the Government and the returning officers as to the number of seats for ridings. In one case the returning officer has declared two candidates who were nominated to bt elected because the Gazette gave the riding 6wo seats, w&on a telegram from the Go vemmeat said there was only one seat, th<: returning officer declined to act upon tele*

gram as against a Gazette proclamation' j Another case of this kind has occurred, but the returning officer has not declared the persons nominated to. be elected. There is also a bungle as to the plurality of votes j Some of the returning officers will only allow \ one vote, and others say up to seven, .in accordance with Provincial Highways Act. Wellington, December 20. Sailed—Lillie Hawkins, for Lyttelton. Dunbdin, December 19. A steamer passed the Bluff this morning under steam and sail. She is supposed to be the Rotorua from Glasgow, for the Union Steam Company, The City Council has got over the difficulty of being represented in the Harbor Board by two of the members resigning, and being elected by the Council to the Harbor Board. They will not stand for re-election for their seats in the Council. The railway earnings for November are £12,533. The verdict in the case of the Milton fire was that it was accidental, through Hewson leaving a lighted candle in a bedroom. At the fat stock exhibition this afternoon there was a poor attendance. The weather was bad. The show of sheep, cattle, and dogs was very good in quality. There was also good competition in dairy produce. Messrs Henderson and Mcßeth of Christchusch took the chief prizes for fat cattle ; Mr McLeish took the champion prize for a fat ox ; T. Green of Christchurch took first prize for hams and bacon. Two of the fat oxen at the sale brought £llO. Professor Coughtrey has tendered his resignation as Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the Otago University. Mr Charles Connor, son of the Rev Mr Connor, has secured first place in the examination for admission to the Hall of the United Presbyterian Church. Port Chalmers, December 20. Sailed—lnvercargill, for London, with twenty-two passengers and 4083 bales wool, 113 casks, 3 packages; valued at £103,380. Arrived —Union Company's steamer Rotorua, from Glasgow, sixty days out. [FROM a correspondent.] Dunedin, December 19. There was a splendid show of fat cattle and sheep. The Canterbury cattle, sheep, and bacon, took nearly all the prizes in the classes in which they were exhibited. Mr McLeish took two first, two second, and the champion prize in cattle ; Mr Mann, one first, two second, in sheep ; Messrs Henderson and Mcßeath, two first and two second in sheep ; Mr Green, three first, one second, and three highly commended in bacon and hams The Canterbury cattle sold at from £l7 to £47 10a ; the sheep at from 20s to 425; the lambs at from 203 to 255. The day was very wet, but it cleared up towards the evening. The ground was very wet and sloppy, and few people attended.