TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 873, 12 April 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA. {Per Press Agency.') Russia and Turkey. London, April 11. Russia desires Turkey to reply to the protocol before the 13th instant. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. [Per Zealandia, via Auckland.] Melbourne, April 7. Hipe won the 100 yards race against Selby, the cricketer, easily. New York telegrams says the decline on oil is only temporary. Prices here have advanced. New Zealand oats have sold at a decline of 2d; New Zealand wheat, 5s 7d. Pig iron lias sold at an advance. At a dinner to Mr Frazer, M.P., the Minister of Lands warmly defended the Chairman of Committees against the charge of corruption. The Linguist, from Liverpool, reports one death from small pox. Burs BANK. The Customs' revenue collected at Brisbane for the quarter amounted to £75,000, or £IO,OOO increase. Thirty-six cases of fever admitted to the Hospital during the month proved fatal. The National Association lias resolved to spend £2OOO on the Exhibition buildings. A company, with a capital of £SOOO, lias been formed to endeavour to float the steamer Singapore. Adelaide. The population has increased 15,000 during the past year. It is now 225,677. The revenue for the past quarter was £369,893. Melbourne, April 12. Sailed —Tararua. The Wreck of the Aboyn. Sydney, April 12. Further particulars about the wreck on the Lacepede Islands state that when the Aboyn struck, the captain's wife, Mrs Swan, and two children, were in the cabin, and were drowned ; also the ship's carpenter and two boys. Twenty minutes after striking nothing of her was to be seen. The bodies of the drowned were washed ashore frightfully mutilated by the sharks. INTERPROVINCIAL. The Mails. Wellington, April 12. The Australia, with London mails of March 10th, left San Francisco on March 29th ; the City of New York, with the March New Zealand mails, arrived at San Francisco on April 6th. Dunedin, April 12. The Jockey Club last night resolved " That the secretary be requested to write to the secretary of the North Otago Turf Club, and state that the committee of the Dunedin Jockey Club have taken the decision of the stewards into consideration, but before arriving at a decision as to endorsing the resolution, the committee would feel obliged if they could be furnished with a copy of the evidence taken, and also the reason why Derritt, the rider of Fishhook, was not disqualified, and they would also like to be informed if any action was taken in the matter of inquiring if any other parties were implicated in the conspiracy." Auckland, April 12. Arrived Zealandia, with the outward Australian mails for San Francisco. GREYMOUTH, April 12. The first truck of coal from the coal-pit of the Heath Company was brought to town yesterday. Two trucks crossed the Brunner 'bridge safely, but the third truck came to grief, the curve on the bridge being too sharp. This will be repaired, when the bridge will be officially tested and declared open. The coal is of splendid quality. Port Chalmers, April 12. Arrived —Taupo, from Akaroa. YESTERDAYS TELEGRAMS. [per press agency.] INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, April 11. Moanatairi shares suffered a further fall to-day to £lO. Closing price : buyers, £ll ; sellers, £ll 10s. Cordon, at the Supreme Court, for indecent assault on a girl aged twelve, was sentenced to three years. The prisoner is a married man, and previously bore a respectable character. Arrived: Ship Electra, from Londonf 118 days out. GrAHAMSTOWN, April 11. A dissolution of partnership between Hopcraft and McCollough, proprietors of the Evening Star, is announced. Hoperaft, who has had editorial control for nearly eight years, is retiring from the firm, Wellington, April 11. A telegram has been received here from Greymouth, stating that George Jackson is prepared to scull Hearn, or find a man in the Grey Valley to do so, for a sum from £SO to £250, and asking if a match can be made. A reply has been telegraphed that Hearn is prepared to row Jackson for £250, allowing him £25 for expenses to come to Wellington to row the match. The supplementary outward San Francisco mail, despatched by the Hinemoa, consisted of 1680 letters, U book packets, and 1120 newspapers, which, added to the first instalment forwarded by the Rotorua on Saturday, makes a total outward mail for this month of 4810 letters, 132 book packets, and 3180 newspapers. One of the fire brigades is endeavoring to induce the Government to connect the new Government buildings with their enginehouse by telegraph wires. It is expected that the Tliorndon reclamation is now far enough advanced to be completed within the twelve months, or by the end of the present year. Dunedin, April 11. Tlie Otago railway receipts for the year ending 31st March are £135,315 ; showing an increase of £30,000 over the previous year. The Waste Lands Board to-day decided not to re-lease a number of runs the leases of which have fallen in. {From a correspondent of the Press.) Dunedin, April 11. The return of the receipts of the Otago railways compares earnings during 1876-7 with

the previous year, but, does not give the mileage of the new lines opened during the year. The extensions are principally in North Otago and Southland, but they have been so recently opened that it is a question whether they have had any great effect upon the returns. The return is :—Northern division

—period nine months, to March 31st, 1876, £41865 March 31st. 1877, £10,729. Central - Twelve months, £63,519 Southern—Twelve months, £31,513—£11,320 —£104,219—£135,315.

The Lake County has struck a shilling rate.

At Palmerston a lad named Hopkinson was in the act of ramming home a charge when the gun went off, blowing three lingers and thumb off his right hand. Two petitions in favor of cutting up the Waikouaiti runs into 500 to 5000 acres allotments have been presented to the Lands Board, and a deputation strongly urged same. One settler said his 140 acres returned him over £6OO yearly, and he was willing to take up 1000 acres at an average of a shilling per acre. Others said they would give as high as eighteenpence for 500 acre blocks. The action of Board on Waikouati runs is regarded as indicative of its disposition to cut up all runs with available land into small farms. Dr. Grillies writes to the Star that he has already secured recognition as lecturer on medicine by his University.