TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1498, 4 December 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

GAEL E_ NEWS.

SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE. London, December 3, Suliman Pasha has been degraded and imprisoned for his misconduct during the war. AUSTRALIAN. [special to globe.] Sydney, December 4. The A. S. N. Co. are disinclined to accept the proposals of the strikers, who have compromised owing to the number of Europeans offering to take up their work. [PBB PEESS AGENCY.] [Per Tararua at the Bluff.] Bluff, December 4. The Tararua has arrived at the Bluff from Melbourne. The embassy question has been the absorbing topic of the week. Efforts have been made in various directions to frustrate the embassy ; but the Chief Secretary appears to have set his mind upon it. At Geelong on Monday night Graham Berry was unable to obtain a hearing, and a most noisy meeting took place, the chairman giving as the result a slight majority in favor of the embassy. But at a meeting held at the Town Hall yesterday afternoon, at which 3000 persons were present, a resolution by a majority of four to one was carried against the embassy. Ehe AttorneyGeneral was present and attempted to speak, but the meeting would not allow him to do so. The meeting was very noisy, and much party feeling was shown over the question. In the Legislative Council yesterday, Mr Cuthhert s resolutions in favor of reform, and that the Appropriation Bill shall not contain any disputed matter, or that in the event of anydisputed matter being included in it, it shall be placed in a separate Bill and both Houses be dissolved on the question, were carried by 18 to 7 without any discussion. The resolutions were then forwarded to the Assembly. Mr Munro, the member for Carlton, held a meeting last night, when a resolution was passed that no embassy should proceed to England until the country had been consulted. The business in the Assembly during the last few days has been character.sed by great disorder, and very 1 ttle business has been done since the intended prorogation has been announced and the Appropriation Bill passed. _ The Reform Club, started under the auspices of the Berry Ministry, has collapsed. The proprietors have been sued in the County Court lor money expended on account of the club. Nothing fresh has transpired regarding the bushrangers. A number of police are still out in pursuit, but with the exception that ..he horses of the murdered constables have been recovered near the scene of the murder, nothing more has been discovered. . The seamen’s strike in Sydney affects this port, inasmuch as the boats of the A. S. N. Co. are unable to make their usual trips to Melbourne. .... .. The net profits of the last spring race meeting amounted to Al7llO, which is larger than in any previous year. _ , Lystor has engaged an Opera Company at home for the colonies. They are to leave homo in January.

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[pee pebss agency.] New Plymouth, December 4. The Hannah Makau struck her propeller on a sna°- in Waitara River yesterday, and carried away the blades. Dr. Hector was on board as a passenger for Mokau. , • An enquiry into the wreck of the Hauraki was held yesterday, when Captain Dale had his certificate returned, the assessors stating that no blame whatever was to be attached to the officers of the ship. It appears that the rudder which was very defective was carried awav by the first sea that struck her whilst crossing the bar, and although every exertion was made to get the steamer into the river, the captain eventually was compelled to beach her for the safety of his crew and cargo. Auckland, December 4. Mr McFarlane, M.H.K., addressed his Waitemata constituents last night. He attacked the financial and Native land policy of Government, and called their proposals miserable. He said they were a wretched Ministry, and that if the last Government were land jobbers, the present were doubly land jobbers. He defended the Piako Swamp purchase, and said that Macandrew was getting all the money, while Grey was talking about rights of the human race. Mr McFarlane received a vote of thanks. Wellington, December 4. The Government have determined that New Zealand shall be properly represented at the forthcoming Exhibition at Sydney, and an Exhibition Commissioner will be sent to Sydney to represent this colony. The New Zealand public will be asked to send exhibits. With respect to the statement that the Hon. J. Sheehan was going to resign his portfolio as Minister of Justice, the matter has not yet come before the Cabinet, but he is anxious to be relieved of the office in order to be free to give greater attention to the affairs of the Native department. . Hokitika, December 4. It has been raining so continuously for a long time that trade in nearly all its branches is completely destroyed. The rivers are all flooded, and no communication is had with either south 01 The Claud Hamilton is expected hourly, but cannot be tendered before to-morrow at the earliest. [kkom ouk own coeeespondent.] _ Fatal Boat Accident near Wanganui. Wellington, December 4. A boat putting off from the ketch Forest Queen to the wreck of the Hyderabad yesterday, with Captain Watchlin, Pilot Gibb, and two men on board, was capsized by a heavy roller, and Peter Petersen, one of the sailors, was drowned. The other sailor was rescued in an exhausted state by the Hyderabad’s boat. Captain Watchlin swam ashore, and Mr Gibb was saved by clinging to the capsized boat.