TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1409, 21 August 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. [FEB PBBBB AGKNOT.] Supposed Loss of a Steamer. New Plymouth, August 21. The s.s. Hawea showed up at half-past seven this morning morning, but owing to a heavy surf she could not be communicated with. She therefore left at eight o'clock. Considerable anxiety is being felt here respecting the Kahuna, which left Waitara for Manubiu last Wednesday, with cattle and sheep, and has not since been heard of. Some dead sheep have been washed ashore near Raglan, from which it is surmised she is lost. A person, styling himself Judge Thomas, has been distributing printed papers in Maori amongst the Natives. Rewi has refused to see him. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. [Per Wakatipu, via Wellington.] The news per the s.s. Wakatipu is mostly anticipated. The s.s. Lusitania arrived at Adelaide, and the ss. Somersetshire at Melbourne, on the 14th. The latter brought 260pussengers, amongst whom is Dr. Ryan, who distinguished himself in the Ruaeo-Turkish war, and received a numbjr of testimonials from the Sultan.

The s.s. Somersetshire returns to England via the Suez Canal.

Mr Henty, the oldest colonist in Victoria, is dead. He had resided in the colony forty, six yearp. The new dock is opened on the Yarra, and a ship of over a thousand tons taken in. At the Cable Conference, held in Melbourne on the afternoon of the 14th, the rights of press proprietors, to combine for

receiving press me?sigrs al reduced rates was discussed. It was plainly shown that the St. Petersburg conference contained no articles against a combination. It is understood that the objections to the combination were roisesi by the Indian Government, and especiully against the reduction in Government rates without the consent of the convent ion. The threat of the English Government to retain 41 instead of Id per letter out of its receipts for mails to Australta was discussed. It was stated that Victoria would lose £IO,OOO annually, and Sydney and New Zealand £7OOO if this new arrangement is insisted upon. A joint message has been sent to the Victorian Agent-General, askiDg if the Imperial Government had replied to the protests of the Agents-General on the subject.