LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1584, 18 March 1879, Page 3

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

[BY SUBMARINE CABLE.] ENGLISH AND FOREIGN [rbutks’s telegrams.] London, March 15. The Oommander-m-Ohief at the Cape decided to send a relieving force to Colonel Pearson at Eokowe. Mails per steamer sent via Brindisi were delivered yesterday, London, March 16. Quarantine is ordered all over Astrachan, except one village. [special to press agency.] London, March 17. The “Saturday Review,” in referring to the Victorian embassy, says that, fearing the system of tacking Bills on to (he Appropriation Act may be renewed unless the Constitution be altered, it approves of a nominee Council, and that the Secretary for the Colonies might usefully mediate in the present crisis. Mr Berry met Earl Q-ranville, Lord Derby, Mr Gladstone, and Mr Lowe at a dinner given by the chairman of the Eastern Extension Company. Mr Berry is anxious to bo credited with moderation. He had a warm argument with Earl Granville on the protection tariff. The money market is easier. Large supplies are available for commercial requirements, which are very moderate. Consols, 96J. Australian securities are remarkably firm. New Zealand 4i per cents., February and August, are now quoted at 97. The wool market develops weakness as the sales progress. The present series close on the 27fch. The corn market is easier. Recent shipments of New Zealand wheat have been of good quality, and realised 48s. [special to olobb.] London, March 15. The result of the embassy is a satisfactory settlement of the constitutional question. At a dinner given by Sir M. Hicks Beach to the embassy, Messrs Gladstone, Low, Bright, and Earls Shaftesbury and Derby, were present. The embassy were presented to the Queen. London, March 14. The Prince of Wales accepts the Presidency of the Melbourne International Exhibition. Mr Berry was presented to the Queen today by the Hon. Mr Childers, AgentGeneral, AUSTRALIA. [BIUZEB’a TELEGRAMS TO THE PBBS9 AGENCY.] Sydney, March 17. The news from New Guinea states that six native teachers at the South-east Cape were poisoned by natives placing upas tree iu the drinking water.

NEW ZEALAND. [PBB PRESS AGENCY.] Auckland, March 17. Captain Leroy and the Naval Brigade mustered at the railway station to receive petty officer Gordon, of the Thames, Carbine Champion. The returned representatives were afterwards entertained at luncheon, when mutual congratulations were indulged in. The news from Port Charles reports the drowning of Frederick and Charlotte Otto at Stoney Bay. It is surmised that they went out in a boat to visit their friends, and were capsized. Two men, named Bond and Magfaen, working in Harris Bnsh, Whangaroa, were knocked down by a falling tree. The trank rolled on Maghen, crashing him to death. A great Hibernian fete and children’s treat was held to-day in the Domain, which was very largely attended. Sir G. Grey will turn the first sod of the Waikato and Thames Bailway when visiting Hamilton, en route to the Native meeting for the 23rd. About 100 chiefs go up from Auckland, including representatives of the North tribes. Law suits are pending on account of the damage sustained by settlers from bush fires. Taupo, March 17. Messrs Beetham and Maxwell from Wellington successfully performed the feat of ascending the highest southern peak of Buapehu. Two days were lost in abortive attempts to find a practicable point to ascend. On the thin! day they succeeded after toilsome climbing and toiling over rocks, boulders and clinkers. After arriving within a short distance of the summit, their object being to get at the highest point of the mountain, they were compelled to cross from a lower peak to the highest one by means of a snow saddle connecting the two, and which might be compared to the ridge of a house, a slip from which would mean a slide of a thousand feet sheer on either side. After crossing this they reached the highest peak. They found a crater with an inner basin, free from snow, of great depth and about a mile wide. From this point, hitherto untrodden by human foot, a splendid view of the surrounding country was obtained. The time occupied in the ascent and descent was fifteen hours. Wellington, March 17.

Despatches from the Agent-General this mail contain little that has not been anticipated by cable, but the Government have received intimation by this mail that the latest quotations for New Zealand stock were 102 for the last loan, and 104 for the consolidated, though these quotations differ slightly from those in the “ Home News,” which quotes the per cent, at 98 to 10t and 5 per cent, at 103 to 105. G Alier, who broke a blood vessel on Thursday night, is getting all right. The police have found more of the stolen property belonging to Mr Steele, draper. The formation of a salvage corps for fires is being mooted. Yesterday the Athenaeum was opened for the first time on Sunday. There was a good attend* ance. Blenheim, March 17. A fire at Ficton yesterday resulted in the loss of a shed valued at £SO, and ten tons of hay worth £IOO, belonging to Essen. The fire is presumed to have been accidental. It is believed there were no insurances. [ntOK OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Dunedin, March 17. A Mrs Wilson was fined 5s and costs for a breach of the Employment of Females Act. There was an attempt at incendiarism at the Tapanni stable, close to the scene of the last fire. The place was set light to it with paper, but was extinguished before much damage was done. [Press Special Wire.] Wellington, March 17. The forger, Henry Stebbing, was again brought up and remanded aboard the Fernglen, which is about to sail for London. Detective Hockney goes with him. McDowell, a draper, while riding down the beach yesterday had a hone killed under him by a milkman’s cart, the shaft penetrating the horse’s obest. The action to recover £SO from Councillor Greenfield for breach of the Municipal Corporation Act, in sitting as a member of the Council after receiving payment as a committee man, came on this afternoon. After hearing counsel the Magistrate decided that he had no jurisdiction, and the case was dismissed.^ The Uncle Tom’s troupe last night gave a sacred concert and a lecture on “ Slavery.” Qrktmouth, March 17. The Qreymouth races were postponed, owing to rain. A largo number of people were in town: A sailor, amusing himself on Saturday evening, walked over the river embankment, and broke his leg. A large procession of Hibernians and Hennebery abstainers took place to-day. Timabu, March 17. It is probable that the first meeting of the South Canterbury Coursing Club, advertised to

be held at the Levels Station on May 20th, will fall through, owing to the South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society taking no steps to obtain permission to have hares killed. A regular St. Patrick’s Day row occurred in Main street here to day, between two factions of Irish. One man had his head and several ribs broken. For fully a quarter of an hour the crowd blocked up the street at the junction of the Main South road, George street, and Kent’s Terrace. The police then arrested several of the ringleaders. This is the first disturbance of the kind which has ever occurred here. A conjoined meeting of the Harbor Board and Chamber of Commerce was held to day, to meet Mr Lowe, the resident engineer. Mr Lowe made a satisfactory explanation of the intended works to extend the railway station accommodation, by reclaiming land above low water mark, on receiving permission from the Harbor Board to use the foreshore, and promised that tenders should be called for the commencement of the excavation within a fortnight. The meeting, with the exception of two or three independent members, expressed full satisfaction at this, and lauded Mr Macandrow. Mr Cliff, the Mayor, violently denounced the ‘ ‘ Timaru Herald,” which had in this morning’s issue attacked Mr Macandrew for not fulfilling his promises as to the railway station sooner, and urged a new site for the passenger station, in order that more room should be obtained. Strange to say, no one seemed a whit wiser now than before the interview as to whether the station is to consist of one or two departments, i.e,, goods and passenger, where each or both are to be placed, or anything about them. Dunedin, March 17. An athletic and racing association has been formed in Dunedin. Their meeting to-night was attended by seventy or eighty people, and it was resolved to hold a monster gathering on Easter Monday. The Bible-in-Schools Association to-night wrote to the Dunedin school committee urging the desirability of the introduction of Bible reading in the public schools, and asking an expression of opinion from the committee. The consideration of the matter was postponed. The half-yearly examinations are now being held in Dunedin, as well as in other paats of the colony Seven candidates have presented themselves in Dunedin—three for the barrister’s examination, two for solicitor’s examination, and two for examination in general knowledge. To day was partly observed as a holiday in Dunedin. Lord Hams and the other English cricketers arrived in Dunedin to-day, and were waited on by the secretary of the Otago Cricketing Association, with a view of arranging for an exhibition match in aid of the Kaitangata relief fund. Lord Harris explained that the arrangements of thelEnglishmen prevented their complying with the request. In the City Police Court to-day the magistrate gave judgment in the case of the Police v Dodson, of the Empire Hotel. The accused had been proceeded against for allowing Calcutta sweeps to bo drawn in his hotel. He was fined <£s, and the magistrate said he would impose a penalty of .£2O in future. In the case of the Police v Drake and others, for holding a “ consultation,” his Worship held the case proved, and fined the defendants .£lO and costs. Notice of appeal was given in each case. Miss Caroline Freeman, of the Otago University, has been awarded the Bowea prize offered by the N. Z. University. Invercargill, March 17. St. Patrick’s Day was observed as a bank holiday, and it was celebrated this evening by the Hibernian Society holding a soiree and dance in the drill sheds. The attendance was large. Fraser’s accommodation house, twenty miles from Elbow, was totally destroyed by fire on Friday last. The cause is unknown. It was insured for .£4OO.