LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1375, 12 July 1878, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

[BY SUBMARINE CABLE.]

[special telegrams to THE PRESS AGENCY.] Sydney, July 11.

Arrived—Australia,

The City of Melbourne, from Noumea, brings news of a terrible revolt of the natives in the interior of New Caledonia, about ninety miles from Noumea. Up to the time of the vessel leaving, the bodies of eighty-five victims were found terribly cut and hacked. The majority of the victims are French colonists. Friendly natives are helping the gendarmes to suppress the revolt. Colonel Passebore, commanding the forces, who went against the insurgents with a detachment of troops, was wounded, and died within two hours.

AUSTRALIA.

Sydney, June 11.

News of the New Caledonian rising is confirmed. Two tribes, numbering a thousand, never acknowledged French authority. The troops and armed colonists surrounded them, and their complete extermination is expected. The cause of the rising is attributed to the harsh treatment and conduct of the whites.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[per press agency.] Auckland, July 11

The schooner Lcctitia, from the South Sea Islands, brings the captain, mate, anl part of the crew of the barque Kedar, owDed in Melbourne. The captain reports that the barque sprang a leak in a hurricane of Cook's Island. Notwithstanding the efforts of the crew at the pump, the vessel became waterlogged, and a heavy sea broke over her. The crew clung to the wreck till morning, then made a raft and floated ashore at Kaw Island, to which King George of Tonga was paying a visit. He rescued them. All the crew were saved, except Charles Gullen, a Frenchman, who was the carpenter. The cargo consisted of 400,000 feet timber for Melbourne.

Further particulars from the crew of the barque Kedar show that they were fortyeight days on the water-logged wreck before they sighted the island. During that time, their suffwrings were very great from want of water. The crew could scarcely crawl about. They subsisted on food fished up from the hold, and water from a condenser {made out of an oil can. Jamieson, the second mate, and McGewan, a seaman, landed on the island very ill, were afterwards missing and not found. The barque was 530 tons. The captain believes she was insured in a Melbourne office for £3OOO.

A warrant was issued to-day for the arrest of A. G. Howard, charged with a violent assault on Woolfield, inspector of slaughterhouses The latter alleges that Howard drove last night in a cab to the Thistle Hotel, walked in where Woolfield was standing in the bar, and struck him two violent blows with a riding whip, one of which laid his head open, and the other made a cut over his eye. He alleges that Howard then walked out.

The schooner Merlin arrived at Kaipara from Waitara. She reports that while crossing the Waitara bar a heavy sea washed two seamen, John Murphy and W. F. Dean, overboard. The bar was so heavy at the time that no attempt could be made to rescue them.

Napier, July 11

The name of the passenger who died aboard the Rotorua was Robert Allan, not Robert Evans, who is alive and well. Wellington, July 11.

Several of the crew of the barque Elizabeth complained to the Resident Magistrate to-day as to the unseaworthiness of the vessel, saying they had been ten weeks at the pumps. They wanted the captain to put in at the Cape of Good Hope when off there, into Rio, and into Hobart Town. On arriving off Wellington they declined to pump any longer, unless he put in there. It is expected that an enquiry will be held.

The following candidates have passed the Junior Civil Service Examination:—Gillies, McFarlane, Fleming, Grigg, Harley, Ashcroft, Wilson, Wither, Pratt, Marchbanks, Von Tempsky, Halliwell, March, Godwin, Watkins, 0. W. McFarlane, Richmond, Andrew, Raikes, Moorhouse, Inglis, F. Watkins, Shackleton, Sim, Corbctt, and Bridge, The following passed the Senior Examination :—Gillies, E. J. McFarland, Fleming, Wither, Ashcroft, Ladbrook, Duthie, Fairburn, Buchanan, Halliwell, Shirtcliffe, Moorhouse, and Purchass. An Order in Council, published to-night, validates the action of the Christchurch City Council on 3let May, in the matter of hearing and determining claims and objections to the burgess list. The Revs. Hill and Beck are appointed managers of the Lyttelton Cemetery vice tho Revs. McGowan and Morley, resigned. The " Gazette " to-night notifies that black swans throughout the colony, and hares within Auckland provincial district, are not to be deemed game. Punedin, July 11.

The Taieri election resulted as follows : W. H. Cutten, 149 ; Snow, 126 ; Barron, 113; majority for Cutten, 23. Timarit, July 11.

A married woman, named Mrs Mead, was found dead hy her husband, who missed her from bed. She was on the floor by the side of the bed on her knees. The Orangemen of Timaru celebrate tho anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne tomorrow evening, by a banquet and ball on a grand scale. DtTNEDIN, July 11. At a meeting of the Education Board today a circular was read from the Government, stating that it is desirous of instituting a system of insurance, whereby provision may be made for retired teachers. A street fight took place fcOrday between

Lewis, a Dunedin merchant and Mendershausen, a tobacconist. The combatants are members of the Choral Society, and the fight had its origin in an adverse criticism made upon a recent performance.

[FROM THE COBBESPONDENT OF THE PEF.SS.] Timabu, July 11.

A nominated immigration list for this month from Timaru comprises 33 adults, viz., 20 Irish, 12 English, and ono Scotch. A. night school, recently started by the Caledonian Society, proved a great success. It, lias over ninety pupils on the roll. A great row has occurred at Temuka between the Road Board and railway authorities, owing to the former attempting to cut a drain through the railway line without first giving notice. The men employed by the Board were forcibly stopped working by a gang of men got together by the Inspector of Permanent Way, under the instruction of the Resident Engineer. The police were called on to interfere, but refused. It is stated the Inspector of Ways has been sacked for not stopping the Road Board at first.