LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1284, 1 May 1878, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

AUSTRALIA. [Per Arawata, via Bluff.] Melbourne, April 25. The week has been principally devoted to holiday making, and very little of consequence has transpired politically, socially, or commercially. The Governor visited Sandhurst on Monday, and at the opening of the Easter fair was banquetted in the evening, and as usual made a speech. He congratulated himself on the impartiality he had displayed duiing the crisis, and quoted largely from the speech of Lord Dufi'erin, with a view of showing that he ha i followed a similar line of action. The Pacific Co.'s steamer Garonne has arrived after a fifty-seven days' passage- She Wo«» 6 ii.i< urcr wU passengers. The captain and chief officer of the brig Alexandra were committed for trial for endeavoring to scuttle the vessel. Parliament will nob meet till the middle of June. Business is dull owing to holidays. Sydney, April 25. The racing at the Autumn Meeting has been very good. The Cup and Leger time were both very fast. Fifteen horses started in the Cup. The Exhibition so far has not been successful, either in exhibits or attendance, but preparations are not yet completed.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Auckland, April 30. John Jenkins, of Newmarket, announces himself as a candidate for Franklyn. McLeans, of Waikato, are the successful prize winners with bulls at the Sydney show. A great earthquake occurred at Tanna, New Hebrides. The sea washed away the land along the shoi'e of the harbor for 20ft., threw up many fish, and destroyed canoes. Geaeamstown, April 30.

The complete census returns of the Thames electoral district, just to hand, gives the total population as 12,516. In 1874 it was 12,289 j in 1871, 11,950. Mr Sheehau given the Thameß County Council permission to enter on all Native lands within the Ohinemuri district for the purpose of making Biirveys and carrying on road works where required, thus placing the Council in a legal position to deal with Native objections. This is in consequence of Native threats and stoppages of road works by them. Wanganpi, April 30.

Maxwell's Hotel, on the Patea road, was burned to the ground. The cause is unknown. Nothj'ii? was saved, The building wae in-

eurcd in the Union for £4OO, and the stock in the Imperial for £4OO. Wellington, April 30. William Light, landlord of Barrett's Hotel, has laid an information against William O'Connor, formerly |sergeant of police in Canterbury, for attempting to poison him by putting poison in a glass of liquor. Light was drinking with him on Sunday night before going to bed. Light says the poison was put in his glass while his back was turned attending on a customer. The case came before the magistrate yesterday, and was remanded. The circumstance seemed so incredible that io was thought there was some great misapprehension. The sediment in the glass was examined by a chemist, who pronounced it morphia. It was then sent to Dr. Hector for analysis, and it was understood it would not be tested until Mr. Skey returned to town. It is now stated that Dr. Hector has analysed it and pronounced it strychnine, and that there is enough in the glass to kill over twenty men. The case will come on again on Thursday. The Customs revenue collected in Wellington for this month amounts to £13,661, or about £ISOO more than the corresponding month last year. Blenheim, April 30. An assay was made this afternoon of copper ore from D'Urville's Island, just leased to Charles Redwood from a Native for twenty-one years. A thousand tons lie exposed on the surface. The oulcrop is traced for about a mile, averaging sft. in thickness. The first sample tested gave per cent, pure metal. Picked specimens gave as high as 70 per cent. Bed wood intending forming a company at once, which will be floated in a few days. Dunbdin, April 30. In the case of Perry Davis and others against Wilckens and sub-agents, Judges Johnston and Williams ruled that the plaintiffs are entitled to an injunction to restrain defendants from selling or parting with the substance known as " Painkiller " in bottles bearing the labels defendants at present use, or from making use of a label in any way resembling that of plaintiffs'.

[fbom thb oobbespondents of the PBBSS.J Timabtj, April 30. The iron barque Mendoza lias been chartered by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company to load grain here for London, and is expected from Auckland at the end of the week. A full cargo is already engaged. It is probable another ship will follow her. The first ordinary meeting of the South Canterbury Board of Education waß held to-day, when Mr Belfield was elected chairman. It was resolved to request the North Canterbury Board to allow their inspectors to continue inspecting in South Canterbury till the end of June. The other business was of a formal nature. The Mechanics' Institute is densely crowded to-night to hear Doctor Somerville. Rain has been falling in torrents all day, and the streets are half flooded. The Levels Road Board to-day decided to bring the Regulation of Local Elections Act into force in the district. Nominations and entries for the Waimate steeplechase meeting closo on Saturday next.