TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 850, 15 March 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Agency .)

LATEST EEOM AUSTRALIA.

[By Submarine Cable.]

Sydney, March 13.

Holders of breadatuffa continue firm. There is no business doing. Prices are unchanged. There are several inquiries for New Zealand oats. Holders are firm at 3e 6d. , , The s.s, Albion left Melbourne to-day for the Bluff.

INTERPRO VINCI AL.

Grahamstown. March 14,

George Hallewell, ex-lineman in the Telegraph department, who has been missing otfer"ft fortnight, is reported by a Maori as •a anderiug in the bush demented. A search p -.rly has gone out. James Gordon was committed for trial ;o day on a charge of rape on a child eleven years of age, Auckland, March 14. The Auckland Acclimatisation Society have resolved to import a quarter of a million more salmon ova.

la Banco to-day, Judge Gillies sustained the Registrar’s decision, releasing Sterndale from gaol. lu s bankruptcy case, it transpired! that ♦ v '-rustopt had duricc an tt-w-p oc ft- •

proxies, no creditors being personally present. Judge Gillies considered such proceedings an abominable farce. He refused to certify to bankrupt’s discharge, Melbourne news of March 9th states that the Executive have decided to allow the law to take its course in the case of Hastings for the Frankston murder. Jem Mace has made an engagement with P. Siscocks to appear in statuesque illustrations. Arrived —City of New York, from Sydney. Auckland, March 15. Sailed —Taranaki. Passengers for Lyttelton—Mr and Mrs Keely, Mr and Mrs Sinythe, Mrs Green, Rose. Wellington, March 15. The Wakatipu arrived last night. She sails South this afternoon, about three, Hokitika, March 15. Scarlatina is so prevalent in the town that the public schools have been closed until further notice. Two more deaths are reported, and one death has occurred daily for several days past. Chiefly young people arc attacked, but the disease, in the last two or three cases, has been of a more malignant type. The Board of Health are now using every precaution to stay the spread of the disease. Blenheim, March 15. The Marlborough County Council have passed a resolution not to adopt the full powers of the act. Port Chalmers, March 15. Arrived - Schooner Cleopatra, from Lyttelton. Dunedin, March 14. At the inquest to-day as to the death of the Chinaman Ah Yong, the jury returned a verdict of felo de se The railway returns for amount to £10,097; FATAL FIBE IN DUNEDIN. (From a corvesvondent of the Press.') Dunedin, March 14. There is to be an inquiry into the fire at the Waverley boarding bouse. Williamson, its owner, estimates hia loss at £6OO, of which £4OO was insured in the New Zealand office. Mrs McOlusky, the occupier, estimates her loss at £250. £SO of which is actual money lost, and is uninsured. Dodd’s loss by removal, &c, is over £3OO, of which little over half is insured in New Zealand. The origin of the fire is said to be from thekitchen fireplace s<andirg too close to a boarded wall, which divided the kitchen from the parlor. Daniel Barrett, who was burnt to death, was a native of Cork, aged twenty, and three years in the colony. He only went to Waverley House on Saturday. Hia bedroom was right over the room in which the fire broke out. Ann Ryan, one of the boarders, seriously injured herself in jumping out of the window.