YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 884, 25 April 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

( Per Press Agency AUSTRALIAN.

Min.iioritNE, April 21. Parliament is to be dissolved on Wednesday. The dry weather has broken up. it is now cold and wet. The rainfall up to Saturday night was over an inch. Arrived —Ringarooma. Sailed—Arowat a. [Per Rotokua, at Attcklanp.] The English Cricketers at Adelaide. Extensive Fire in Melbourne. Sydnkv. The prisoner [Newman has been sentenced to death for the violation and murder of the girl MacGrcgor. He confessed his crimes. A farewell soiree has been given lo the Rev. James Niven on his leaving for Otugo. John George, Alderman in Bathurst, committed suicide by taking strychnine. Mei/bourne. An extensive lire has caused trade embarrassment. C. Moliney, draper, was insured for £3200 ; Ross, bootmaker, for £(150 ; Smith, painter, for £2OO. Ross's place was gutted only, the vest were destroyed,

The City Council have received a communication from hundreds of men unemployed in the United States, principally good mechanics of all trades. It is proposed that the ironfounders of Melbourne should send a vessel to bring some >f these people conditionally on their paying their passages after arrival. The Council cannot take action on the publicans' petition for Sunday hours. The iron ship City of Foo Choo, stranded on Flinders Island, was sold for £SOO. The Colonial Bank have declared a dividend of 8 per cent. The Customs authorities have sold Stevensons' goods, seized twelve months ago. The Stcvcnsons protested, but the sale went on. The City of Melbourne Bank has declared a dividend of 6 per cent. Adelaide. In the cricket match, in the first innings, the English made seventy-five—Ulyett, 17; Jupp, 10; Greenwood, 0;' Charhvood, 9 ; Hill, 6 ; Shaw, 2; Einmetf, 14; Lilly white, 4; Southerton, 2; Armitage, 8. The Adelaide twenty-two, in the first innings, scored 71, the highest scores being —Good, 28; King, 9; Jervis, 8. Nine made "duck's eggs." The English, in the second innings, had nine wickets for 138. Jupp, 18 ; Charhvood, 7 ; Ulyett, 58 ; Selby, 7 ; Greenwood, 0; Emmet t, 25; Hill, 2; Lilly white, 8; Shaw, 9 ; Southerton, not out, 0. The Adelaide Cricketing Association have authorised Lillywhitc to secure a trainer for the Adelaide cricketers. Brisbane. The Government have notified that no application for Kanaka labor will hereafter be granted, except for employment on tropical agriculture. The Chinese on the Palmer number 11,000. [from a correspondent 01' the press.] Melbourne. George Lewis, aged 58, threw himself from the Murray bridge at Corona. His body has not. been recovered. A disastrous fire occurred in George street, between Hunter street and the Post office, in Mount and Castle's, hatters. The inmates barely escaped with their lives, and one woman was severely injured -Mrs Merritt from New Zealand. She was in the house where the fire broke out in a room over the shop, and the flames spread with great rapidity, extending to the bedrooms before the inmates were aroused. When alarmed they rushed out in their nightdresses. Mrs Merritt, being hard pressed by the fire, threw herself out of the top back window, 40ft from the ground. She was severely burnt, and it is feared she has sustained fatal injuries. The others escaped with great; difficulty. Two men were removed to the Infirmary. The stock and interior woodwork was consumed. The further spread of the fire w;is prevented by the brigade. At the date of last advices Mrs Merritt was recovering. The Warden of May town goldfields telegraphs urging the Government, to fake immediate steps to check the increasing immigration of Chinese. A spell of dry weather, lie states, would thrust hundreds out of employment. The Galley Lome brings 950 Chinese Adelaide. A man, named Cook, has stabbed his wife, seriously injuring her. The Italian Opera Company is drawing well. Launceston. At the enquiry re the loss of the Foo Choo the wreck was "attributed to a strong current not mentioned in the directories. INTEEPEOVINCIAL. Auckland, April 24. The Georgia Minstrels opened last night to a crowded house. The company is weak in good solos, but strong in genuine new eccentricities. Walker, the spiritualistic trance medium, will give seances here. At the annual meet ing of Justices, a resolution was passed that each Justice shoidd attend at least four times a year, and that daily rota should be formed for the attendance of two Justices on days when the Resident Magistrate is engaged elsewhere. [t'RON A CORRESPONDENT OF THE PRESS.] Welli no-ton, April 24. Some lime ago the public, being very dissatisfied with the high charges of the existing gas company, started a new company. Soon afterwards 'prices were lowered, and at a meeting of the new company held last night to consider whether they should go on or not, after a lengthy discussion it was resolved that the new company should be wound up, the shareholders paying sixpence per .share to meet expenses. A few months ago a man named Turner was killed, and a subscription was started for the benefit of his wife and family. A large sum of money -was raised, which was handed over to the Benevolent Society for the benefit of the widow and family. Mrs Turner now writes to the Evening Past asking why she she cannot have the money, in order that she mav go home to England. The Benevolent Society says she is better off here than she would* be in England, and will not give her the money. A meeting of the persons who subscribed the money has been held, and has decided that she cannot have it, as she has no prospects in England. There is likely to be some trouble about the matter. A week ago a man named Halkett was showing another man named Taylor a revolver when the weapon exploded and shot Taylor in the leg. The affair was purely accidental but the police arrested Halkett, who was charged with unlawfully wounding Taylor and remanded for a 'week. This morning he was brought up again when the police declined to prosecute, and Taylor said lie was sure Halkett did not intend to injure him. He was discharged without a stain on his character. The action of the police in arresting him is ; strongly condemned.