TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 843, 7 March 1877, Page 2

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■ © 1 By Submarine Cable.] PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. London, March 4. The United States Presidential contest is decided in favor cf Hayes. THE BRITISH FLEET. The Biitiak fleet has been removed from Besik a Bay, and has left for Port Piraeus and Malta. PR IV ATE ERINS. The House of Commons has negatived ho resolution which proposed withdrawal from thar part of the declaration of the Hetty of Paris which abolished privateers. THE EASTERN QUESTION. London, March 5. General Ignatieff is now at Berlin on a special mission. He will visit Vienna and then Paris, where he will meet Count Shouvaloff. THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. Hayes, in an address to the people of the United States,jurgedjthe union of parties, the restoration of order in the South, and a speedy return to specie payments. AUSTRALIA, Sydney, March 7. The Government were defeated on a want of confidence motion last night. The Ringarooma left Melbourne yesterday with the mails.

INTE RPK 0 VINCIA L. Auckland, March 6 During February seventeen deaths were regist rod against twenty-nine for the corresponding month of 1876. The volunteer repr santafives will be publicly received. McLean, carbine champion, will bo borne in triumph ou a gun carriage, The new fore-and-aft schooner, the Mazeppa. 11l tons, was launched to day. The Goverument have decided only to ex tend the railway fo Avamutu for the present Tenders will be invited immediately for the extension of the line from Ngaruawahia. Sailed—Wellington. Passengers for Lyt telton—Messrs Fenton and Harvey (2). Napier, March 7. Considerable sales of station properties have taken place here lately. Me Hardy’s, Pakowhai estate, the lot including the homestead and 856 acres, sold for £15,970; Northern lot, 013 acres, for £O7O -, total £22,170, being an average of £ls 10s per acre, being an average of JBIS per acre. There was also sold 400 acres of James Todd’s homestead laud at £7 per acre. Mr Balfour’s, Mohohea run, 376 acres freehold, 9740 acres leasehold, with 800 sheep, for £1750, to Mr Win Smith ; John McKinnon's, Arawapawanui, leasehold on the coast, 500 acres, with 2000 mixed sheep, for £2500. Wellington, March 6. An inquest was held this .afternoon into the loss of two lives caused by the collision of the Taupo with the hulk Sli Whitney. The evidence of the captain, chief mate, and carnenter, also of the diver who examined the hu : k, was taken, but no new light was thrown on the accident beyond what had been already telegraphed. The jury returned a verdict that Amy Davy and child came by their death by drowning, through sinking of the hulk, in consequence of a collision with the Taupo, but that no blame is attached to the captain or officers of the Taupo. They attached a rider to the effect that the hulk was moored in an unsafe position for vessels leaving the wharf, and that all such vessels should carry a bright light from sunset to sunrise. Hailed—Ocean Mail, for London, with 49' '4 bales wool and sundry cargo, value £77,299 7a. W hllington, March 7. Mr Edward Pearce, M.H. b, will place his resignation in the hands of the Speaker this morning. The only candidates for the vacant seat as yet, or likely to be, are Messrs Hutcheson (Mayor) and Travers. A writ, claiming damages ,£4OO, has been served upon Mr Perrier, editor of the Times, as being the presumed author of a paragraph in the Times which Mr Travers alleges he considers applied to him. Mr Perrier has instructed his solicitor. The prospectus of the Te Aro Theatre Company is published, capital is £ 10/ 00, in one thousand shares. Arrived —Julius Vogel, from Lyttelton, this morning. Dunedin, March 6. At a meeting of the Licensing Bench held to-day, the Court decided that they would not attach any importance to memorials in favor of applicants. Italsotranspired that there are at present 103 hotels in Dunedin, Dunedin, March?. The requisition to Mr Pyke, demanding the resignation of his seat in the has received 316 signatures, and one asking the resignation of his seat in County Council 156. The young man, Jeremiah Mahoney, who was received into the hospital on Monday, suffering from injuries received at the Deborah Pay Tunnel, died at 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon. The number of nominations made through the Dunedin Immigration Office between February Ist and 27th for free passages to ths colony was 31, equal to 27 statute adults.

Invercargill, March (5. An important decision as regards the lability of shipowners, was given by the g.aident Magistrate today, as follows:

It appears from the evidence that on the 12th June last a truss of goods was shipped by Unas and Qlendiniog, at Dunedin, on board the Comerang, to be forwarded to Invercar gill, and consigned to plaintiff l The

'oraei’fuig arrived at the Bluff next ■lay Plaintiff not receiving the goods, ad finding they were lost or ra;s--■in<r, made a claim on defendant ■n 20th August for their value, which was Hated, and hence? the present action. I think defendants were bsund under their contract as expressed in receipt produced at 'marina: to forw.ud the goods right through from Dunedin to Invercargill, and are responsible for their safe transit, whether by

rail nr boat, alt the way through. The goods are lost, and when and how there is no vidonceto toil us, I think the loss i spriina facie evidence of negligence, and that defendanis ore liable. I am further of opinion i hat a receipt or shipping note does not form a sufficient special contract to limit liability on defendants, inasmuch as it does not appear to be signed cither by plaintiff or the party shipping tho goods.” Judgment was given for plaintiffs with ersts. The defendants are Houghton and Co, owners of the Comerang,