TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 784, 26 December 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

{Per Press Agency .) LATEST FROM EU ROPE AND AUSTRALIA. [By Submarine Cable.J London, December 20 The deputies declared that Italy cannot abandon the treaty of Paris. Russia proposes that a force of 6000 Belgians shall occupy Bulgaria. The Earl of Beaconsfield is averse to this, thinking it unnecessary. It is doubtful if Belgium would accept such responsibility, as Switzerland had already refused. Persia is closely watching the turn of events in regard to the Eastern question. In the event of war, she will probably occupy Bagdad, Some sentinels at a fortress in Bulgrade, fired upon an Austrian monitor. The Servian Ministry have resigned, Lord Beaconsfield is unwell. AUSTRALIA. Sydney, December 23. The conference re the duplicate cable communication with Europe will be held at Sydney. The Victorian Parliament has been prorogued to the first of Feuruary.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Hokitika, December 26.

Arrived—Albion, from Sydney. Passengers for Lyttelton—Mrs Heggerty, and Mr Steel.

Dunedin, December 25,

The Orangemen of Dunedin having accepted the invitation of the fire brigade demonstration committee to join in the procession on Boxing Day, they have procured banners from Shristchurch, one of which is purple with orange border and King William in the centre, and the other the insignia of the Order, and will be carried in the procession. This is the first occasion on which Orange Lodges have walked in procession in Dunedin, The Auckland and Timaru fire brigade teams arrived in Dunedin yesterday to take part in the demonstration to-morrow. Dunedin, December 26.

Considerable excitement prevailed in High street yesterday evening shortly after eight o’clock in consequence of it having become known that a little girl named Ettie Layard, aged three years, an inmate of the house of William Walker and his wife, and daughter of .the latter, had been injured in a frightful manner, and under circumstances calculated to excite considerable suspicion. Dr Brown was called in, and on examination found that the right collar bone and right leg were both broken, the latter between the ankle and knee The left collar bone was dislocated, and there were serious injuries about the head. The child was in an apparently unconscious state. In answer to enquiries, Dr Brown was told that the child had fallen from the top of a flight of stairs, and that injuries were inflicted in that manner. A large number of people collected in the street, and at 8.30 the police arrived on the scene and the same story was repeated as to the child having fallen down the stairs; but as this explanation did not prove satisfactory a policeman was left in charge of the house which was subsequently visited by Inspector Mallard, and the truth came out. Mrs Walker told the Inspector that she had been married only six months, and that her husband had been drinking heavily. During the afternoon, after having first jassaulted her, he took the child by the heels and beat its head against the floor, and caused the injuries above described. She stated that she was afraid, in the first instance, to state the facts of the matter. Walker was then arrested, handcuffed, and escorted to the police station, whither he was followed by a large concourse of people, who, by their hooting and otherwise, evinced a decided disposition to inflict summary justice upon him. Walker is a very powerful man, and was employed as compositor in the Guardian office. He was brought before the Police Court this morning and remanded till Friday. The child has recovered consciousness, but is not out of danger.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. 1 Dunedin, December 26‘. Fully 5000 persona are present at the brigades’ demonstration, which is a great success. In the preliminary contest Dunedin vanquished Timaru easily, Auckland beating Hokitika, Ballarat, which ran alone, did the work in much less time than Dunedin, which had the effect of making them hot favorites, but in the final heat one of their men slipped at the start, which threw them out of grace. Dunedin thus won with Ballarat second, and Auckland a good third. Times—Dunedin 63isecs ; Ballarat, 72-^secs; Auckland, 82£ secs.