YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 955, 17 July 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

[by sttbmaeine cable, pee press agency.] AUSTRALIAN. Sydney, July 10. Arrived —Whampoa, forty-two days from London The Ringarooma arrived on Saturday. A bushranger stuck up a hotel at Bendemerc on Saturday, but a policeman shot him dead. Eighteen persons were lost by the foundering of the Yarra Yarra. The gale has subsided. Sailed —Arawata. INTERPROVINCIAL. [pee beess agency.] Auckland, July 10. The schooner Mera, 237 tons, left llokianga for Dunedin with a full cargo of timber. After crossing the bar the wind fell. The captain let both anchors go, but heavy rollers set in, and the masts had to be cut away to save the ship. The anchors parted in the night, and the ship went ashore. She is commanded by Captain Loverock, who took charge after Captain Pollint's accident. She belongs to John Lemon and Tlios. Meek, of Oamaru, and Keith Ramsey and Jas. Anderson, of Dunedin. She was Clyde-built, and cost upwards of £3OOO only two years ago. Her cargo of timber is insured in the Batavia office for £OOO, and the hull in the New Zealand National and South British for £SOO each. It is expected that there are other insurances on the hull, but they are not known at present. Captain Worsp, marine surveyor, left by the Rivershead boat for the scene of the wreck. On arrival he will hold a survey on behalf of all concerned. Mr Sheehan addressed his constituents at Mahaurangi. In the course of his speech he reviewed the proceedings of last session, and the probable course of events in the approaching Parliamentary campaign. He advised them to, stick to local highway Boards in preference to counties over which they could exercise no control. The subsidies would probably be discontinued next year, and they would have to rely on taxation for improvements. At the close of his address the following resolution was carried unanimously —"That this meeting expresses full confidence in Mr Sheehan, and approves of his action in the last session, and of his contemplated action in the ensuing session of Parliament.

Mr Eowe addressed the Coromandel electors, and received a vote of confidence. Eenato, a Maori chief at Coromandel, has died. His friends placed him on the banks of a river in the cold and wet during his illness to prevent his house becoming Tapu. The Taranaki sailed yesterday, with the San Francisco mails for the South

Wellington, July 16. The first annual general meeting of the Wellington Coal Company was held to-day. The directors anticipate that the company's mine and branch railway will be so far completed that coal will be delivered in Westport about the end of July. Mr James Swinburne has been appointed mine manager. The Board is satisfied with the manner in which he has performed his duties. The directors recommend that the balance sheet be made up to the 31st December, 1877, by which time it is expected that the company will be in working order. The balance sheet shows the capital paid up £4780, and the value of the Company's property £7564 ; contingent liability and assets, £770 and £2260 respectively. The chairman stated that the schooner Julius Vogel is now loading with coal, and would arrive here shortly with the first shipment from the Company's mine. The branch railway to the mine has been completed. Coke ovens are in course of erection. The sample of coal already received has been reported on favorably. The price of coal delivered on board at Westport is fixed at 12s per ton. Several leading shareholders are in treaty for the purchase of a suitable steamer to convey it to Wellington. It is intended to balance the accounts at the end of the current year, and hold a meeting in February, 1878. Nelson, July 16. Sharp and Pickering report the sale of the brig Albion, which put in here a month ago in a disabled condition, to Martin Kennedy for £6lO.

Blenheim, July 16. The Marlborough Teachers' Association today resolved, re economics and Bible reading in the schools, that the energies of the public school teachers are sufficiently taxed by the recpiirements of secular instruction, and that the introduction of other subjects into the school work will give excuse to the parents and others for neglecting their peculiar and important functions. Dunedin, July 16.

McLaren was fined 40s in the Police Court to-day, for haying on Saturday evening in the course of a harangue in Princes street, commented in strong language on the jury who acquitted Mrs Beid.

[froji the correspondents of the press.] Wellington, July 16.

Sir G. Grey has arrived. He is looking very old and out of health. The Auckland members will arrive on Thursday morning, and work commences immediately. Ministers will introduce their important Bills at once, and the financial statement is expected next week. The session is expected to be short. TIMABXT, July 16. The Grand National Steeplechase Meeting, which is fixed for August 22nd, promises to be a great success. Several horses arc expected from the North Island.

J. L. Hall opens this evening in the new Theatre Royal, which, considering its size, is said to be unequalled in the colonies. Messrs Wakefield, Teschemaker, and Stewart, M.H.R.'s, left for Wellington today,

is running very high re the action 'hers of the Timaru Harbor Board, of the mem. -uuty members are working Several of the Co. _ seilt sc h eme . their utmost agamstthe£. Two more steamers are to do *— tween Dunedin and Wellington, calling at Lyttelton and Timaru. ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, J uly 16.

A long distance match by sea, says an English paper, has just been decided. On the 10th of March two iron clipper ships left Lyttelton harbor, Canterbury, bound tor Lon.

1 don —the Crusader, Captain Davies, and the Rangitikei, Captain Scotland. Both vessels being about the same tonnage, and both I having the reputation of fast sailing, heavy i bets were laid on their respective performjj ances on the passage home. The two ships as far as they were sighted on the 12th of March off Bank's Peninsula, were well together. Betting was about even on them, each ship having its own enthusiastic partisans. The race terminated in one of the most remarkable runs ever made by a sailing vessel from the Antipodes. The Crusader reached the English Channel within sixty-live days after leaving Lyttelton Harbor, the passage being unprecedented. The train due at Jersey city, on the Pennsylvania Railway, was boarded by a band of thieves, who robbed and nearly beat to death Thomas Lowing, of New York. The conductor and brakesman, who attempted to rescue Lowing, were driven away with revolvers, but they succeeded in locking the ruffians in a car, and telegraphed to the police at Jersey City to be ready at the depot. While the train was running 30 miles per hour, three of the desperadoes escaped by jumping out of the windows. The fourth man was arrested.

Among the papers submitted to the Attorney-G-eneral by the District-Attorney of Utah, are the unpublished portions of Lee's confession. They are said to implicate Brigham Young and other high members of the Mormon Church as having been in direct complicity with the Mountain Meadow massacre. The chief difficulty in effecting a conviction upon Lee's statement arises from the difficulty of procuring witnesses, now widely scattered.

A special from Mount Carmel, Illinois, says a terrible storm has struck this city, by which sixteen men lost their lives, and half a million dollars' worth of property has been destroyed, and a large number wounded. Several will undoubtedly die. The bodies of four of those killed were burned in a house that took fire. At least 300 are still missing. Mount Carmel was a thriving town of about 3000 inhabitants, on the Cairo and Fincennes Eailway. The duration of the wind did not exceed two minutes. The velocity was estimated at 150 miles per hour. During its prevalence the air was filled with flying roofs, windows, doors, lumber, clothing, &c. Men, women and children were blown helplessly about, some a distance of four hundred feet as if they were feathers. The best part of the town was destroyed. About seventy families are homeless.

A delegation of representatives of Mormon citizens waited on General Crook in regard to the concentration of troops in the territory, and with reference to the story that Brigham Young is arming his people to fight in case he is prosecuted for complicity in the Mountain Meadow massacre. The delegation told General Crook that they apprehend no danger of a general uprising of the Mormons against the constituted authority, but said they did fear an outbreak in case Young was brought to trial for murder.