TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 827, 15 February 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Agency.') LATEST FROM EUROPE AND

AUSTRALIA. ♦

[By Submarine Cable,] THE EASTERN QUESTION. London, February 12. Peace negotiations between tbe Porte and Servia have been resumed. THE EASTERN QUESTION, London, February 12. The Liberal organs, commenting upon the Eastern difficulty, as disclosed in the Blue books, approve of the attitude of the English Government, and attack the Conference for stopping short of that policy of coercion whereby the isolated action of Russia could have been prevented. The Times says that the country will go with Lord Derby. AUSTRALIA. Sydney, February 14.

Sailed—Albion. The Tararua left Melbourne for Bluff today.

[Per Wakatipu, via Wellington.] Sydney, February 6

The Sydney Morning Herald , reviewing the labors of the Conference, considers the result disappointing, as it failed to do the business which brought it together, but it has proved that we are not likely to get a second cable by any concerted action of the colonies as a whole, and that what is wanted will have to be supplied by each colony acting for itself, or by two or three colonies acting for the rest, and if there is to be a second, negotiations will have to be commenced do novo. It thinks little good will come of the correspondence with the home Government with the view of securing English operators on the Dutch lines in Java, It sees no good purpose in the resolution calling upon New Zealand to open negotiations with the United States for a line across the Pacific,

The question of connecting Sydney city and suburbs bjJ means| of noiseless steam tramways is being discussed with a view of forming a company. The Legislative Council has amended the bigamy clause in the Criminal Law Amendment Bill by excluding from the penalty any persons whose wife or husband has been continually absent from the colony for five years, and who shall have believed at the time of the second marriage the former wife or husband to be dead. Melbourne, February 6 to 9. Bruce’s hydropathic establishment at Wendomee, Ballarat, has been burnt down. The Houthern Insurance Company, owing to serious disasters, can pay no dividend. A London telegram states that the decision of the Privy Council upholds the rule made by Judge Molesworth, that the Crown is entitled to the gold on the private land granted by the Crown.

Governor Bowen accompanies Sip William Gregory to Tasmania.

The election of a committee of management for the Melbourne hospital is going on amid great excitement. The Catholics and Protestants are ranged against each other.

A block of buildings in Bourke street, above the Opera House, has been sold privately for £36,500. , The resolution by the publicans to close their bouses oa Sunday is likely to be shortly abandoned for want of unanimity. The vigilance committee is unwilling' to prosecute, and the system of esnionage is generally condemned by the trade. Brisbane.

The inspector of police has been despatched to Tam O’Shanter Point, to enquire about a boat seen oa the beach there. The, report is that some sails saturated with blood have been found. They captured two gins, who said the blacks murdered three men and threw them overboard, but nothing was found by which to recoguise who they were.

Adelaide

At Wilson’s Circus, Reid slipped from a trapeze and, being unable to catch the guy, fell thirty feet. He was much bruised and his wrist was broken. _ ■ A collision occurred between the Victoria and steam dredge Willunga. The former crushed obliquely into the Willunga, cutting through the bulwarks. The dredge heeled over and sank, but all hands were saved. It is said that it will take six months and £IOOO to raise her; her original cost was £50,000. The Victoria was only injured to the extent of £ 150.

INTERPROVINGIAL.

DEATH OF SIR DAVID MONRO,

LOSS OF THE HALCYON.

Kaipara, February 14. Arrived—Roderick and Prince Alfred from Lyttelton. Sailed—Flora, for Lyttelton.: Auckland, February 14. The Australia sailed at six.

The case of Hunt seizing the deeds of the schooner Canterbury is settled. Hunt has apologised. There is nothing now to impede the cruise.

A paragraph in the Sydney Herald says, on the outside of an envelope received by the City of New York were the words, “ Mr and Mrs H. H. Hall killed,” written just before the steamer left. The paragraph says they probably were killed at the Ashtabula Railway accident. Wellington, February 14

Arrived—Wakatipu, from Sydney. She has been detained until eleven to-morrow morning. Passengers for Lyttelton—Miss Simpson, Mr Zouch ; twenty-nine in steerage, and 270 tons cargo for all porta, Wellington, February 15.

The Hinemoa has left for Nelson with prize firers and others, about eighty in all. About twenty more will be picked up at Nelson.

Sailed Wakatipu, for Lyttelton and Dunedin. Passengers Messrs Weston, Lindsay, and Sheils. Nelson, February 14,

The damages by the floods in Motu ka district are estimated at thirty thousand pounds. Many families have lost homes, land, cattle and all they had. Nelson, February 15. Sir David Monro died this morning after a long illness. Westport, February 14.

A public meeting was held last night on the troublesome colliery reserve question. The Government, by their agent, Mr Thomas Mackay, oiler seven years’ lease, from the Ist January, 1876, The occupants indignantly refuse the acceptance of less than fourteen. Trouble is likely to arise unless concessions are made.

O AMARU, Feb. 14

The nominations for the North Otago Turf Club races take place to-morrow (Thursday). Dunedin, February 15.

Four applications have been received for the position of resident surgeon at the Dunedin Hospital, but no appointment has been made as yet. On yesterday, St Valentine’s Day, there were 2740 letters sent through the Dunedin post-office. Traffic -was resumed yesterday upon the Dunedin and Clutha railway line. At a meeting of the Waste Lands Board yesterday, the question of disposing of valuable laud in a block at Glenkenich, came under discussion. The conclusion arrived at was that the best way to secure lona fide settlement on the land was to dispose of the whole of it on deferred payments, as the result of selling only alternate sections under the deferred payment system seemed to bo, to ultimately throw the whole of the land into the hands of monopolists. At a crowded meeting of Caversham ratepayers, last evening, it was resolved that the district should separate from the Taieri county, and be declared a municipality. Post Chalmers, February 14. Sailed Arawata, for Melbourne, via

Bluff, with Suez mail. Port Chalmers, February 15.

Arrived —Barque Courser, from Boston, which she left on the 2Sth of October. She has 700 tons cargo for Dunedin. At the Head, ship Auckland, from Glasgow. Riverton, February 15.

The steamer Halcyon was wrecked at Monsey Island, near Orepuke, at eleven o’clock yesterday forenoon. The passengers and crew eaved. She had been at Orepuke, and was about to start for Centre Island with Mr Boyd, contractor, and the plant of the lighthouse to be erected there, when her engines refused to work. The vessel is expected to be a total wreck. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. [By Telegraph.] Kaiapoi, February 15. A man named Henry S. Legg, staying at the Pier Hotel, attempted suicide this morning by cutting his arm with a razor, then inhaling chloroform, and finally by jumping into the river. He was rescued by aMr S. S. Powell, who was bathing, and taken in a week state to the hotel. Dr Ovenden was called in. He is in a fair way to recover. His having been dunned for money is assigned as the cause.