TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 105, 23 March 1880, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[rhutkk’s .egramk.] LONT IN. , • March 17. The following vessels have arrived from New Zealand : r --Mataura, from Port Chalmers, 20cK December; Merope, from Lyttelton, 21st December; Waitangi, fron Lyttelton, 3rd December. March 18. Three per cent.. Consols, 97f. New Zealand securities unchanged. The total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England is LI 7,71 a, 250. The wheat and tallow markets are unchanged. The Nihilist Hartmann, who was deported by the French Government to England, when his extradition was demanded, has publicly confessed tha« he was the principal author of the attempt made last year at Moscow on the life of the Czar. .= Hartmann is going shortly to Amer ca. The Russian Government hai. noiified that it will cease to hold diplomatic relations with Turkey, unless the assassin who recently killed Commeroff, a se*-v:a -t of. the Russian Embassy in Consta" inoplo, receivesa sente ice to death. ■

The 5 per cent. New Zealand 10-40 Loan is quoted at and the new 5 per cen' loan at 108.

PARIS. March 18. The French Ministry are sending complete educational exhibitis to the Melbourne Exhibition, and also a delegate to study the Victorian school system.

CONSTANTINOPLE. March 18. A popular rising of a somewhat serious character having taken place at Smyrna, the Foreign Consuls have summoned war vessels of their respective countries as a precautionary mo;,sure. BOMBAY. March 18. The P. and O. Company’s steamship Fydaspes, which had left this por fo Galle, en route for Australia, has put back here disabled. The mails have been transferred to the Assam, and she sails to-morrow for Galle and Sydney.

|*FROM OUR WELLINGTON CORRESPONDENT. WELLINGTON. Tuesday. A man named Robert Harris, employed at Barrett’s Hotel, was found dead in the stables yesterday. He had been drinking heavy. Yesterday morning was found floating in the water near the break-water, a body, which was subsequently identified as Tom Brown, a carpenter of the Scottish Prince, now loading for London. F. Mackintosh, aged 9. son of J. Mackintosh, a well known publican, was drowned at the Hutt river on Saturday. He was standing on the bank of the river when the ground fell, carrying him with it. All attempts to save him prov ed ineffectual, and the body is probably washed out to sea.

Mr Johnson, Relie . ing Officer, received information that the umgitikei Co ’.nty Council are willing to give employment to a certain number of men on the works in their district at 21s per week. A Cabinet meeting of Ministers will be held t -morrow. The Prt nier and the Native Ministry have come 1 town to attend it. The telegraph wires are dov. t in all directions, and communication with the North and Upper Hutt is interrupted. Only one wire is working for the South Island.

To-night the Germans of Wellington! commemorate the 83rd anniversary ot the birth of their Emperor, by a grand ball and banquet. It is understood that owing to the depres sion in the steam coastal trade, the steamers Wanganui and Oreti, owned by a south ern firm, will be taken out of un iing on the New Zealand coast. The former vessel, being sold to a Sydney firm, leaves for that port via Wanganui, Westport, and Greyn: mth. The Oreti xvill be laid up. It is understood that the railway to Grey town will bo opened on the Ist May, and to Masterton in July or August. NELSON. Tuesday. Tom Stuart, photographer, who recently has been living atMotueka was missed since F.’iday last. A search was made, and continued till this morning, when the body was discovered near the cemetery. It appears that he wrote to his mother on Friday last, intimating that he intended destroying himself. An inquest will be held lyHAWERA. Tuesday. The Premier and Native Minister left for Wellington yesterday morning. The latter met the former at Opunake on Saturday. The Premier expressed himseF much pleased with the magnificent country, and promised to have the railway pushed on. The Commissioners have gone on the Plains to-day with Honi Pinama Muku, Titikowaru’s brother, to see Titikowaru, at the latter’s invitation. It is believed that the old chief would willingly settle the matter, but for this Pauhaka’s influence. He has been very pouri lately, and it is believed many of the Maoris would be glad P they could get out of the position taken by Te Whiti, but at present cautious in severing the connection. The road party is still working well, and the camp is expected to shift during the week urt'ier on.

It is ra' ling here at present and the country is 100 ing gloomy.

KUMARA. Tuesday. A man named Richard Wood, while crossing the Teremakau, near the Gorge, was drowned on. Saturday. He was engaged v th his mate searching for cattle. The body has not yet been recovered. NAPIER. Tuesday. The Hawke’s Bay Racing Club and the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club have respectively paid over sums amonnting to £577 and £9Ol for lato meetings. CHRISTCHURCH. Tuesday. 90,682 bags of grain were carried on the Christchurch railway during the week ending 19th March. The prize taken at the Sydney Exhibition for long wool was by Chas. Reed, Ashburton.

PALMERSTON NORTH. Tuesday. Most disaeterous floods have occurred between Saturday night and midday yesterday, the damage done amounting to thousands of pounds. The flood could not be the resultof rain in the Manawatu, as it had not bem falling more than in showers. It is supposed, to have bee: raining in the ranges for days. t The Manawatu river at Palmerston rose 7 feet in 4 hours, overflowed its banks, and spread over the country. The Maories at Hokowhi had to take to the canoes. Shenstone’s farm is completely surJOunded, and the water rose 6in on the verandah the inmates, fonr men and a woman, being imprisoned until last evening, when a boat launched, and after some difficulty they were rescued and conveyed to FitzherberL’s. There is six feet of water on the Gorge road, and inmates of the houses are being taken out in boats. On the Foxton road all the settlers are flooded out, the rails washed away, and five feet of water over the line between Jackeytown and the Orua bridge. On Saturday night a settler named Charman attempted to escape with his wife and children in a trap, and in going along,the road a log struck the wheel and turned the trap over. His wife was swept away, and with the greatest difficulty the man saved her, but a little girl two yean old was drowned, the body being discovered by the side of a drain. The destruction of property is something

enormous. The Maoris say there has been nothing like it for years. The flood has gone down considerably since morning, but it is now raining hard, and fears of a renewal are entertained.