TELEGRAPHIC

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2590, 26 July 1882, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC

CABLE NEWSAUSTRALIAN. [beutbr’s telegrams.! SYDNEY, July 25. The Hon. John Eales’ stables, at Maitland, were destroyed by fire to-day. The racehorses Roberto and Sunshine, and another, perished in the flames. JSTEW ZEALAND. [PBX PBBfIS ASSOCIATION.! AUCKLAND, July 25. The captain of the schooner Telegraph, which arrived from Noumea to-day, reports an outbreak amongst the convicts, who attempted to escape, with a view of seizing one of the vessels ia harbor. Several were shot down by the military, and the outbreak was quelled. The authorities succeeded in keeping the matter out of the Now Caledonian newspapers. Bishop Selwyn, in his address to-day, spoke hopefully of the Melanesian Mission. The Government are taking a number of the Constabulary stationed in the Waikato to Wellington, for training in an artillery corps for the defence of the harbors.

At the inquest on Edward Walker, who died suddenly at Onehungo, a verdict of 11 Died from serous apoplexy ” was returned. The deceased was somewhat intemperate, and had had several attacks of fits.

Sarah Johnson, a servant at the Masonic Hotel, Cambridge, has been arrested on a charge of infanticide. At the Marine Harbor Board meeting, a letter was read from E Knox, on behalf of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, applying for permission to reclaim the foreshore in front of their property at Duck Creek, North Shore. They said unless the reclamation were permitted and the right granted, they would have to abandon the laud, and seek a site for refining near Auckland or in some other cities of the colony. After an animated discussion, the moti >n to lease for fifty years was withdrawn, and the application was referred to the works committee.

H.M.S. Nelson haa finished coaling at Bussell, taking 1000 tons. Amongst the applications which came before Justice Gillies in Chambers this morning was one by Mr Coleman, who moved, re Seymour v Hutchison, for an order committing the defendant to gaol under the Imprisonment for Debt Abolition Act. Mr Hutchison was present and examined, and swore he had no moans during the past year wherewith to discharge hia liability. His Honor, therefore, refused the application, and in doing so commented censoriously upon the ease. He did not approve of such orders being granted unless fraud could be shown on the part of the debtor, either in concealing or making away with his property, or in obstinately refusing to pay while he had means. Mr Coleman asked if it was not true that his Honor had drafted the very Bill that allowed all this. Hia Honor said that it was not true. The Bill whioh he drafted contained only three clauses, and it sought to abolish imprisonment for debt altogether ; but it had to give way to the present measure, whioh was the work of the Attorney-General. WELLINGTON, July 25. Mr W. Seed will shortly retire from the Government service on hia pension. It is understood that Mr Seed hes been appointed manager of the Wellington Trust, Loan, and Investment Society.

At the Supreme Court to day, in the divorce case, Levoi v Levoi, a rule nisi was granted against the wife. The question of costs and the custody of children will be decided in Chambers.

A slight shook of earthquake was felt hero early this morning, and was accompanied by a heavy rumbling noise. Mr Thomas Buchanan, formerly manager of the Bank of Australasia, and the National Bank, and latterly holding the position of manager of the Wellington Trust and Loan Company, has been appointed inspector of the London Chartered Bank at Melbourne, and he proceeds thither shortly, John Hall’s Comedy Company opened here in “ The Guvnor” last night, and mob with an enthusiastic reception. GBKYMOUIH, July 25.

Samplfß of stons from Lingdon’a claim, Paparoa Kange, were brought to town fco-dav ana crashed, and yielded at the rate of a(f least 3oz. per ton. The stone was taken promiscuously and not picked, but the quantity was small. When the directors of the' compa-ay sent home nine tons of antimony ore for treatment, they requested that the net result might be cabled. They have now received information through the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company as follows:—"Net result: Antimony, 11,” This is somewhat indefinite, but the directors are not very sanguine over the result of the shipment. It is supposed to mean cloven pounds sterling after paying all expenses. A letter containing full particulars will be received hero in August, which will be published. A telegram from Eeefton this evening states that good stone was struck in the Keep it Dark mine, and shares advanced five shillings within an hour. Good atone was also struck in the Imperial. The materials for the telephonic service between Greymouth and Brunner have arrived, and the two places will be in telephonic communication in a couple of weeks. Some of the requisites for the extension of the telegraphic system between Boatman’s and Roefton also arrived here.

DUNEDIN, July 25. Constable Hilliard, of Victoria, ha* arrived to ascertain the probability of Charles Forbes supposed to have been murdered at Stawell, being alive. Forbes at one time worked on the Tuapoka goldfields. The report of Messrs Whitefoord and Giles on the Benevolent Institution is published. Except in unimportant particulars, the Commissioners consider the charges all disproved. They make one or two suggestions as to improvements, and conclude as follows : We oannot conclude this report without expressing our high sense of the present excellent management and tho state of efficiency of the asylum. The interior management reflects the highest credit on Mrs Quin, and the excellence of tho general arrangement is abundantly attested by the general comfort and contentment of the inmates, and the almost unanimous chorus of negations with which our invitation to make complaints wag mot,” A serious accident took place this afternoon ot a building in course of erection in King street. The parapet fell, and a mass of bricks buried a youth named Gow and a man named Wells. Both have their skulls fractured, and are at the hospital in a very low state. It is stated tho building was being run up in bad style, but probably an inquiry will be held.

The tender of W. Oarlton has been accepted for the School buildings hero in the sum of £14819.