The Hawke's Bay Times. Extra.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 692, 17 June 1869, Page 1 (Supplement)

The Hawke's Bay Times. Extra.

Printed and Published by Thomas Bennick Habdiks, Proprietor, at the. Ha wee's Bay Times. General Printing Office, Port Ahuriri, Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.

THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1869.

Extensive frauds on the part of Benjamin Haggs, book-keeper to the Great Central Gas Company, have been discovered. It is thought .£150,000 will hardly cover his defalcations. On J£4oo a year he lived in a style indicating the receipt of as many thousands. A colliery catastrophe, causing the deatji of 36 persons, has occured at Arley mine, South Lancashire. OBITUARY. Lord Cloncarry, Earl of Fingal, Countess of Mornington, Admiral Manser, the Rev. Digby Walsh, Archdeacon Mant, Mr Bruce, Q.C., Prince Menschikoff, Sir Arthur Buller, Mr Charle Hoare, the brewer, and the the senior members of three eminent publishing firms, viz., Thomas Brown (of Longman and Co.), Mr Bradbury (of Bradbury and Evans), and James Harper (of Harper Brothers, New York). CONTINENTAL. SPAIN. The Spanish Cortes proposes a hereditary monarchy, with a Legislature consisting of a senate and congress, with ministerial responsibility and with religious freedom. Don Ferdinand has refused the crown.

ITALY. In Italy the celebration of the 50th year of the Pope's entry into the priesthood took place on the 11th April. A Mazzinian conspiracy has been discovered at Milan. Six arrests have been made. The Italian ministry has resigned. General Menabra is engaged in forming a new cabinet. PORTUGAL. In Portugal the electoral law of the Kingdom has been modified. The new Chamber is to be composed of 107 instead of 179 members, only one being returned for each district. There has been a military rising at Lisbon, and another at Oporto is threatened. AMERICA. The House of Representatives has passed General Butler's Bill, authorising the President to submit to the voters in Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas, the Constitutions framed by those states when duly ratified. Extensive fires have taken place in the shafts of three silver mines in Nevada, whereby 36 miners have lost their lives.

The republican party in Rhode Island have elected Paddeford for governor, and have succeeded in returning a majority to the Legislature. Eight steamers, carrying an armament of 77 guns, have been ordered for the reinforcement of the West India squadron. The Senate has rejected the Alabama claims treaty, and President Grant's nomination of Mr Motley, as Minister to England ; ratified the naturalisation treaty with Great Britain; and rejected the Darien Canal treaty. LATEST TELEGRAMS. London, May 12. Galle, May 18.

The Irish Church Bill has passed through committee without material alteration. Several hostile amendments were proposed, but the majority in favor of the Bill increased on every division.