LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1283, 30 April 1878, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

[BY SUBMARINE CABLE.] [BET/TEE'S SPECIAL TELEGBAMS TO THE f BBSS AGENOY.] London, April 27. As a protection against threatened Russian privateers, the British Government are prepared to employ a hundred fast armed vessels, and will treat privateers as pirates. The " Standard " reports that a party of Russian officers and engineers have chartered four American steamers to proceed to Egypt on a surveying expedition. The money market is rather more firm.|The money market for Colonial Government debentures is quiet. The corn market is easier. AUSTRALIA. Accident to Tricket. Sydney, April 29. Two New Zealand short-horn bulls have taken first prize at the exhibition. A third was not entered. [SPECIAL TO " GLOBE."J Trickett, the champion sculler, lost two fingers of his left hand by an accident. His rowing will be stopped. INTERPROTINCIAL. [FEB FBEBS AGENCY.] Auckland, April 29. Sir Robert Douglas is in Auckland urging Ministers to extend the telegraph to Kaipara. Cooper and Bailey's Circuß sails for Callao on Wednesday. They have drawn large audiences overy night. The Acclimatisation Society have resolved to offer a reward for the conviction of persons shooting game without a license. The Governor has returned in the Wolverine from the North. He will be entertained at a ball by the Northern Club on Thursday. Alexandba, April 29. Seven canoes, four being large war canoes, fully manned, have just arrived here to take Sir G. Grey and Mr Sheehan to the Hikurangi meeting. No Europeans but the Government party will bo allowed at the meeting. Rimukuta and Ngatihiwa are in charge of the ridge leading to the settlement. Wellington, April 29. The Colonial Insurance Company has appointed tho Bank of New Zealand as its bankers for the colony. Rivebton, April 29. The excitement here regarding the Longwood quartz reef continues, but nothing is definitely known by outsiders concerning the Hay claim prospect. Specimens from their claim are generally believed to be very rich. A number of capitalists from Invercargill and the Lakes, including several experienced reefers, are now visiting the grounds, and appear satisfied with tho prospects. From the number of men who have gone the whole of Longwood's ranges ought to be thoroughly prospected by this time. Six applications for mining lease are already registered, and several other applications will be made during the week. A large portion of the ground is held under miners' rights. There is great want of pack tracks for the transit of provisions. Those existing are nothing but very narrow and roughly cut bush tracks, along which men can only carry light swags. The distance of the field from Riverton is fifteen miles, seven by boat up the river, and the rest by track. Hokitika, April 29. • The second trial of Ryan for the murder of Daniels commenced to-day, before Judge Richmond. The evidence of the surveyors, medical evidence, and that of Caldwell and two sons, was taken. Nothing new has been elicited as yet. Pfbom the cobbespondents of the pbess.] L Timaku, April 29. James Urquhart, a farmer of good position at Mount Horrible, was arrested to-day for cattle stealing at Waimate. Great difficulty is experienced in getting vessels to take grain away, and it is rapidly accumulating in consequence. It is probable that a vessel will be laid on direct from hero to Loodoa.