LAST NIGHTS TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1266, 9 April 1878, Page 2

LAST NIGHTS TELEGRAMS

♦ [BY SUBMARINE CABLE.] [reuteb's special telegrams to ,THE PBESS AGENCY.] Russian Loan. The Russian Press on England's Demands. London (Undated). Fighting at the Cape has been renewed. The news is described as serious. Details are wanting. Telegrams from the Continent indicate no signs of Russia yielding. There is increasing irritation in Roumania against Russia. Singapobe, April 8. Turkish troops have reoceupied Bujukdere. Russia is trying to negotiate a loan. The Russian press say* that Russia's dignity forbids compliance with England's demands. AUSTRALIAN", Shipping Disasters in Northern Australia. Sydney, April 8. Arrived—Rotorua POBT Dati\\-;n, April 8. Tin 1 ship Matterhorn and barque Carleton have been lost on Browne Island. The captain and fifteen men of the Matterhorn were drowned; also lour men of the Flora who went to their assistance. £!elt!ol"june, April 8. Judge Follows died this emiing at six o'clock. A Cabinet Executive Council meeting was held to-day, when the speech to be delivered by The Governor at the prorogation of Parliament wa» considered and adopted, INTtfRPRO VINCI AL. [PEB PES3S AGENCY.] Ministerial Movements. Auckland, April 8. «irG Givvand Mr Slieehan proceed to Waikato to-morrow, and will be entertained at a banquet at Hamilton. Poland Whitmore goes to Wellington by the Tavanaki, and will be replaced by Mr children bolted. Iwm. tQS training

The Governor with the Commodore wont to Tauranga to-day in the Wolverine, and will visit the Lake country. Sir Sheehan hna ordered a re-hearing in the Pouton block of 50,000 acres. In consequence of n statement made by a Native prisoner named Kingi, undergoing sentence tor horse stealing, the Government, order search to be made at Tauranga for the body of Potier, supposed to be drowned there in August, 1876. Kingi told a fellow prisoner that it did not matter his having killed Potier, ns he had Buffered punishment for it. lie said he killed Potior with a heavy piece of iron in a boat, and tied it to the body. Entries and acceptances for the autumn races close on Friday night. At the half-yearly meeting of the .South British to-day the report and balance-sheet was adopted. John Henry Lamfora, emplo/ed in Crowtlier's stable, fell from a loft, a distance of 14ft., and sustained concussion of the brain. He died in a few hours, and at the inquest today a verdict of "Accidental death" was returned. New Plymouth, April 8. At the settling for the Taranaki races, £5(50 was paid over to D. Stockman, £llO to George, £llO to Powdrell, £lO4 to Ohadwick, and to Belcher £63, besides some small amounts. The Harbor Board to-day appointed the Bank of New Zealand a 9 its agent to raise a loan. Wellington, April 8. A fire broke out on the Terrace this afternoon. The house was insured for £6OO in the Standard, tho office furniture for £350 in the South British. The furniture was saved. The damage to the house was £IOO. In consequence of the protracted dry weather water is becoming very short. The Primitive Methoditt Church was broken into on S iturday or Sunday night, and the mission boxes robbed. Mrs Brewer, whose husband died a few days ago, made a statement at the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day to the effect that she believed her husband died in consequence of the inefficient treatment of the two medical men who attended him. She says her husband would have lived if he had been attended properly. It is said an order has been given to exhume the body. The insurances on the saw mill recently burned at Carterton were—National, £2OO on the building and £4OO on the machinery, £2OO of which was reinsured in the South British, £l5O with the Phoenix. Blenheim, April 8. The Census returns give Blmheim 873 males, and 817 females. In 1874 the population was 494 males, 441 females, showing an increase of 755. Picton in 1874 had males 393, females. 339, now there are 351 males, 357 females, showing a decrease of 24. The population of the province was 6146 in 1874, now it is 7552. TiMAEtr, April 8. A boy named Musker, hurt lately between two railway trucks, died yesterday. A great temperance picnic w ; U take place at Waimate on Easter Monday. A meeting is convened at Temuka on Wednesday to consider the advisability of bringing the Counties Act into full force in Geraldine. It is stated that several Timaru people intend starting for New Guinea by the first favorable opportunity. Last night a child fell into an underground tank and was drowned. [FBOJI TnE COEEESPONDENT OP THE PBES3 ] Suspected Arson at Temuka. TiMABTJ, April 8. An inquest was held this afternoon on a young child, named Alice Husband, drowned in a will on Saturday. A verdict of "Accidental death" was returned. No inquest will take place re the death of the boy Alusker, who died yesterday from injuries received on the railway last Friday. A fire occurred at Temuka on Sunday night by which the house of a man named Donald McKay was totally destroyed. Only a small portion of the furniture was saved. McKay has been arrested for arson. A drizzling r»in is n>w falling, and there is a prospect of its continuance. It is much wanted in all parts of the district.