TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 852, 17 March 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Agency.)

LATEST FROM AUSTRALIA.

[By Submarine Gable.]

DEATH OP ARCHBISHOP FOLDING. Sydney, March 16. No change in commercial quotations, and business very dull. Archbishop Folding died to-day, and will be buried on Monday. The Hon Mr Parkes has been comraißEiGaed to form a new Ministry. THE CRICKET MATCH. Melbourne, March 16, The combined team, for seven wickets, have scored 232. Bannerman, who is not out, has scored 157. INTERPROVINCIAL, THAMES GOLDFIELDS STILL LOOKING UP. ACCIDENT AT OAMARU. DAVENPORT BROTHERS WIN THEIR BET. Grauamstown, March 17. Tire Moanatairi’s yield for the fortnight was 4912 ounces. The reef is still looking well. Auckland, March 16. Mr Buckland reports —Beef, 23s to 28s ; mutton, 2d to 2,\d. Bank of New Zealand, £l9 15s to £2O ; National, 65s to 67s 6d ; Colonial, 40s, paid up 33s 6d, Buyers— South British, sellers, 80s; New Zealand Insurance, sellers, 92s 6d ; Loan and Mer canlilo, buyers, 52a; sellers, 53?; New Moanitira, 97s 6J, buyers ; sellers, £5 : Union Beach, 42s 6d.

A charge against Captain Carey caused s scene in Court to-day. Captain Carey wsr not present, and Captain Lodder applied foi nu adjournment. The charge was of neg lecting to pay George Frost, lately mate of the Star of the South, £ls 4s balance of wagjs due. Mr Russell, solicitor for the plaintiff, objected to Lodder appearing for the defendant, on the ground that he was

not a professional man, and had no right to appear. The Bench considered the case should be adjourned, Carey being ac eea Russell protested, A scene ensued, but ultimately the case was adjourned. Auckland, March 17.

At ;the Police Court to-day Gouk, charged on the information of the Collector of Customs with having goods not passed by the Customs on hia premises, pleaded guilty, and was fined £25, Captain Moffat, of the barque Santiago, charged with landing an harmonium on which no entry was passed, pleaded guilty, and was fined £25. Another charge was withdrawn.

Napier, March 16. The Rev S. Robinson, late curate of St John’s, was to-night presented with a purse of 200 guineas and an address by a number of; the parishioners previous to his departure from the colony.

A set of resolutions to be passed at the native meeting, to be held in this province, have been issued in Maori from the Wananga office. One of them explains that the natives axe not to to take part in elections for County Councils lest they should be made to pay rates. Another resolution expressed approval of the action of those natives who keep possession of the Oamaauui block. Wellington, March 17.

The Hon Dr Pollen leaves per Hinemoa tins evening to attend the Native meeting at Tapuaeharuru, The ilingarooma sails for Lyttelton and Dunedin at 4 p.m. Passengers—Messrs Boarclman and Wigram, Miss Luxford, Miss Hey wood, and Miss McKellar.J Hokitika, March 17.

Govcrnmtab has concluded arrangements for the purchase of the Kumara Water Race from the company for £BOO. Oamaru, March 17.

Captain Duncan Bain, of the topsail schooner Maid of Otago, lost his footing while walking down the upper jetty, and was precipitated to the rocks below, a depth of 150 ft. He was found quite dead. Dunedin, March 17.

Captain Barry last night lost the bet of £SO, made with the Davenport Brothers, as they liberated themselves in 20i minutes. Port Chalmers, March 17. Sailed—Wellington. Passengers for Lyttelton .• Mrs and Miss Leonard, Messrs Knight, Macfarlane. CUSTOMS PROSECUTION, Auckland, March 16, There is some excitement in shipping circles. Captain Moffatt, of the barque Saratoga, was arrested on charge smuggling. The captain wax released shortly afterwards on'bail. The charges, which are two, bear at present a very strong semblance of Custom persecution. Caotain Moffatt, when he •v rivei from England, had a harmonium on board which he wished to sell. One of the first persons he spoke to about it was the Supervisor of Customs, who told him he would have to pass an entry, Gouk at the last moment bought the harmonium, and as the barque was going off into the stream the instrument was landed. Gouk had it put into a bonded store and afterwards taken home. There was no attempt to evade the duty, but Gouk undertook to seethenecessary formalities complied with, and would bave parsed the entry had he not been told by an official on the wharf, whom he took for a Custom House officer, that it did not matter. The gravamen of offence is contained in the fact that the goods were landed without an entry being passed previously ; but although this is against the letter of the law. it is notorious that, it is often done in unloading vessels without ;4he Customs authorities interfering. The charges were called on at the Police Court this morning and remanded till to morrow. One of the informations charged the captain with knowingly landing uncustomed goods, and the other with dealing and being concerned in uncustomed goods. The collector elects to sue r the full penalty, £IOO, in each case. An information has been laid against Gouk similar to the second against Captain Moffatt. Captain Moffatt, was quite r,e?.dy to proceed to sea. A Presbyterian soiree in connection with the New Hebrides mission was a great success. The Rev Messrs Jaglis and Watt delivered addressee.

A confectioner named Dampiere has made complaints to the police of numerous thefts commit ted on his premisesby boys. Dampiere, who is a Roman Catholic, goes to Mass every morning, so is in the habit of leaving a lad in charge. During his absence boys came round to commit depredations. A watch had been kept for the last, two days resulting in the arrest this morning of five boys, McCarthy, Jas Smith, John Smith, Richard George, and Thomas O’Neil, The youngsters are now in the lock-up, and will be brought before the Magistrate to-morrow.