The Globe. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1877.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 828, 16 February 1877, Page 2

The Globe. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1877.

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

{Per Press Agency.) LATEST FKOm" ATJSTKALIA. ♦ LBy Submarine Cable.J Melbourne, February 15. Thirty-eight trucks were destroyed by a railway accident on the Sandhurst line. The loss was about £4OOO. A r rived—Alhambra. Brisbane. The remains of two brothers named Macquarie has been found on the Palmer road, murdered by blacks. Portions had been roasted. Human skin and hair were found. In the case McLauchlan v the Standard Insurance Company of New Zealand, for nonpayment of policy, the verdict waß for the plaintiff for £333. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, February 15. The schooner Canterbury cleared to-day for Botumahah with Messrs Sterndale, Mair, W. J. Hunt, J. Neal, and Mrs Sterndale. The Belle Brandon, of Messrs Henderson and McFarlane, will sail on Saturday. It is expected both schooners will race for Suwarrow.

The Englishman who was imprisoned seventy days in Wallis Island for striking a French priest is Mr or Captain James Laweon, brother of a draper of Dunedin. Mr Passmore has arrived to attend the railway inquiry. Napieb, February 15.

Mr Sutton is returned unless there is an error in the numbers stated. The totals are Mr Sutton, 319 ; Mr Buchanan, 296 ; Mr Tiffen, 123 ; Mr Colenso, 13. Last evening Mr Rhodes announced that he retired in favor of Mr Tiffen. Consequently he only polled seven votes. Wellington, February 15.

His Excellency and suite with the Premier leave in the Hinemoa for Hokitika on Monday evening next. They will be present at the representative firing on one or two days, leaving on Thursday night or Friday morning. They will visit Greymoutfa on Friday, and Westport on Saturday, leaving for Wellington that night. The race horses, Guy Fawkes, Templeton, Danebury, Fallacy, and Middleton went South by the Taupo this afternoon, en route .for the Dunedin Baces. The Fanny Fisher oolt is also onboard, having come down from AiK&land. The 1 Government have completed, with the Bank <& New Zealand, arrangements for advances to* £he extent of one million, which with the recently borrowed in Australia will, it i.e understood, enable the Government to avoCa resort to the London market for two years. The balance sheet to be «ab£3itted at the annual -meeting of the New Ze&fajiA Times Company 'Utis month shows a pro&l QJi the year of £iOdift, besides wiping off a lo»t£ pi £2OOO on the previous year. The directors' report states this to be the result of six months' working under the new arrangements. Welling ion, February 16. About two this morning a fire was discovered in the holdjof the ship Himalaya, alongside the wharf. The smoke and heat were so great that it was impossible to go down the hatchs to work, and an entrance was effected to the after hold, where the fire was by breaking through the cabin. For several hours there were four streams of water kept play ing into tb ehold before the fin al extinguishment of the fire. The ship's watchman was picked up di ,d below. It is sup-

posed that he fell down the hatch, and then got smothered. Two men of the Central Brigade were also picked up senseless in the hold from suffocation, but they recovered. \ great portion of the cargo has been landed, but it is impossible at present to estimate tha damage, which must be considerable. Dunedin, February 15.

There are at present nine prisoners for trial at the eusuing sessions of the Supreme Court, to be held on the first Monday in April, and one female for infanticide for trial at the Supreme Court, Tuapeka, on the 20th March.

With the change from Provincial .administration the monthly escorts appear to have disappeared, for no instructions a 3 to their continuance have been received by the Treasury department. The probability is that the Banks will forward their returns at their own responsibility in future. In the City Police Court to-day Mr Watt, R.M., decided that playing a game of billiards to determine who should pay for the hire of the table, was gambling, and inflicted a nominal penalty in a case of this kind brought before him. Dukedin, February 16.

Colonial Bank, 365; Bank of New Zealand, £l9 5s ; National insurance, 295; South British £3 3s ; Otago and Southland Invstment, £1 6s ; Moggiel Woollen Company, £2 2s; Otago Daily Times shares, £55. Wheat 4s 6d to 4s 8d for prime samples ; flour, £l4, with a downward tendency ; oats, 2s 2d to 2s 3d ; barley, 2s 9d to 4s ; bran, £5 ; pollard, £6 10s ; oatmeal, £l3 to £l3 10a.

The City Council held an inquiry last night into certain charges made against the fever hospital, and they were not substantiated, and a resolution to that effect was come to.

Pokt Chalmers, February 15

Arrived —Albion Company's ship Auckland, with 1600 tons cargo, 45 passengers. She left Glasgow on November 27th, crossed the line on December 23rd, made the Snares on February 9th, had baffling winds up the coast to arrival.

Riverton, February 16,

The steamer Halcyon has completely broken up, not a vestige of her is to be seen, except some portions of timber and cargo, which have been washed ashore. None of the cargo was insured. The vessel is insured in the National Insurance Compuny for £4.00, and in the South British for £2OO.