The Globe. TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1577. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 807, 23 January 1877, Page 2

The Globe. TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1577. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Agency?) LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA. © | By Submarine Cable.J London, January 20. The wheat market is quiet. New Zealand is quoted at from 46i to 625. The stocks are small. Three hundred and forty bales of New Zealand hemp have been sold at prices varying from £25 for good, to £2l and 22 for common. Sailed —In vercargill, AUSTRALIA. Sydney, January 22. Arrived —Rotorua. The Premier, Treasurer, and PostmasterGeneral represent us at the Conference. There are no further cases of small pox. INTE RPRO VINCI AL. Auckland, January 22. Tawhaia positively denies having caused the stoppage of the eurvey on the frontier Ee atui.ues it to Te Ngakau, the former Icing's secretary, who was dismissed from hu post in disgrace some time ago. This nativt hasgoneto Maungatautari to Btir up the opposition against the Laud Court. A baker'n cart capsized, fracturing the skull of the driver, Thos. Shapley, and breaking his leg, the bone protruding through the flesh. He is not expected to live. Arrived —The Hawea, from the South. Wellington, January 22.

A fine day for the regatta, particularly for the sailing races, but a little too rough fo rowing. The principal events were—First (Jlass Yacht race, 20 miles ; first prize, £26 and a Cup. Won by tne Secret (Auckland) easily. The Minnehaha (Wellington) wa« second, and the others nowhere. The Ooatterb' race, 20 miles ; first prze £25 and a Cup, was won by the Transit (Auckland) ; cue Olio (Wellington) second ; the Ovnthin (Wellington) third. The Whaleboat race, ol 3 miles, was a very exciting race. There were ti.ree entiies. The batting was 3 and 4 agaimt the field on the Danger (rowed by the Timaru crew, the Bradleys). The Danger took the lead, and kept it nearly the whole way, bui on rounding the last turn the Black Diamond, rowed by coalheavers, made a rush up, and apparently there was a foul. The Black Diamond was then seen taking the lead, and the Danger rowing one oar short. A protest was entered, but the matter id not settled yet. All three came in within a length ol each other. For the four-oar inrigged raci anly two came to the scratch, the Timaru crew in a local boat, the Maud, and Dolly Vardeu crew in the Transit. The Dolly's crew being heavier than the other were at a disadvantage, tht water being rough, and after going the firsmile had to give in, being near swampeo. and only one man in the boat could bwim A number of races were postponed, whicb will be rowed to-morrow. In the seconc class yacht race a boat belonging to thi Telegraph steamer Agnes capsized just oil .ioames Island. A pleasure boat, with ladiet aboard, picked up three of the men. Tin tlinemoa saw the accident, turned rounc immediately, and got the boat in tow. Out of the three men died on board the steamei five minutes after the crew were on board, Just after this another boat went down, aud full steam was put on at once and a boat lowered, amid corks, oars, &c. Three men were saved and two drowned. The last one capsized was the boat of the ship Avalanche Both boats went down like a stone. Wellington, January 23.

Mr West, of Dunedin, has just erected an organ, ordered from England, for St Paul's Church. It is said to be the second largest in New Zealand. It cost £9OO. Mr West speaks very highly of it. Professor Towsey. also of Dunedin, opens it on Thursday next, and plays at three services on the following Sunday. Both he and Mr West have, it jis understood, given their services gratuitously, the vestry only paying thenactual outlay. Dunedin, January 22.

The Tokomairiro and Lawrence railway was opened to-day as far as Waitahuuu. There was no demonstration, it being post poned till the line is completed to LawA newspaper runner has been summoned this afternoon for seliiug copies of the Daily Times and Star withiu the precincts of tut Dunedin railway station. The case isbroughi for the purpose of testing Messrs Reed ana Fenwick's right to exclude all but their own papers by virtue of their contract recent)) entered into with the Government, giving them the privilege among other things, to sell literature on the platform of the DunediL railway station. Poet Chalmers, January 23,

Shaw, Savill, and Go's ship Pleiades arrived last night, 87 days from London, with 34 passengers, 1(J00 tons cargo, and 30 tons of powder. A passenger named Wright was lost overboard from the top gallant forecastle. She passed the ship Waipa, from London, for Lyttelton, on Sunday. The Waipa wished to be reported all well. iaVEKTON, January 22.

A man named Roland McDonald, a settler at the Limestone Plains, was killed on Saturday night through his dray having passed over him while coming off it at his own gate. The deceased has only been a few months married, and leaver a young widow,

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH ELEVEN, HoKITIKA, January 23.

The Tararua arrived from Sydney yesterday, bringing the English cricketers, but no fresh Australian news.