TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume III, Issue 276, 26 August 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

CABLE. [ueuter’s telegrams.] LONDON. August 24. The demand for New Zealand and Australian breadstuff continues. Adelaide wheat, ex Warehouse, 57s ; New Zealand, ex ship, 56s Gd. 9,200 bales were catalogued at the wool sales to day. The demand is firm and active. SYDNEY. August 25. Humors are freely current in town of gross mismanagement at the smallpox quarantine station. In the Legislative Assembly last night a motion was introduced by Mr. Forster requiring the appointment of an additional Commissioner to act with Julian Salamons, Q.C. ( in the inquiry into the Milburn Creek Copper Company affair. Government considered the motion equivalent to a want of confidence motion, and the House adjourned to Wednesday, when the motion will be debated. Two fresh cases of smallpox are reported to-day from Sussex-street, viz., the father and sister of Margaret Lindsay, whose case was reported on Tuesday last.

ADELAIDE. August 2. r >. The steamer Euro, 284 tons, struck on a rock off the coast at Beachport, and became a total wreck. She sank in twenty minutes, and forty-five passengers and the crew narrowly escaped with their lives. One lady passenger was drowned. [ITXITEU I’RESS ASSOCIATION.] CARTERTON. This Day. William Philpot, ail old and well-known settler at Carterton has been arrested on a charge of embezzling about LIOO of the funds of the Heart of Oak Lodge, 1.0.0. F., which he was Secretary and Treasurer. TDIARU. This Day. The private residence of John Haylmrst, near Temuka, was almost totally destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. The loss will be heavy, as there were no insurances. At the Magistrate s Court, this morning, Abraham Moses and Lewis Moses were charged with wilfully, feloniously and maliciously setting lire to their premises, the Cash Palace Drapery Stores. The witnesses had their evidence, which was taken at the inquest, read over to them, and the other fresh evidence adduced was that of James Mair in the employ of Messrs Whitaker, shoemakers, whose yard adjoins that of the Palace. Mair said that they had missed a case very much like the one produced (which was found by the counter in the shop and supposed by a witness at the inquest to have shielded the blaze), but would not positively swear to it, but they had missed such a box, and it was in the yard on Saturday evening at 5, and that on the Monday morning after the fire it was missing. Accused were committed for trial at next session of the Supreme Court, Timaru, on the same bail as before, amounting in all to LI2OO. John Sullivan, an old offender was sentenced to three months for stealing an overcoat belonging to the barman at the Shamrock Hotel. DUNEDIN. This Day. An inquest was held yesterday on the body of a man named Campbell, who was found dead in Ross’s right of way. A mass of conflicting evidence having been given, the jury returned a verdict of “ death from exposure.” The Jews here held a meeting ou Sunday iu the Synagogue, to raise funds for the relief of their persecuted coreligionists iu Russia. The Minister of Justice has replied to certain Wade settlers rt>. the late smuggling case that < lovernment do not intend to initiate further prosecutions out of the evidence disclosed, but settlers interested can undertake it themselves. The pilot at Kaipara heads is of opinion that the loss of the Rona on the West Coast is owing to there being no lighthouse on either of the heads. Dr Pliilson, the health officer, has written to the Board of Health declaring that the new regulations rc vessels arriving from Sydney provide no protection whatever against the introduction of small-pox.

CHRISTCHURCHThis D<*y. A cable advice lias been received of the arrival of the New Zealand Shipping Company’s ship Mataura at London. The rain has ceased, but the weather is still very threatening.