TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 243, 14 October 1870, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(from our otto correspondent.) Dunedin, Oct. 14, 12.10 p.m. The Alhambra arrived at the Bluff this morning, having left Melbourne on the Sth instant. Supple ha 3 beeu reprieved. Several horses have arrived from Sydney for the Melbourne Cup Race. ! The local horses are very backward. Croydon and Tim Whiffler are first favorites. Warrior has receded iv the betting. The revenue for the quarter shows a decrease of £86,500. and for the year £187,000. The Report of the Royal Commissioners on Federal union has been published, and is uuanimously in favor of union. The floods are subsiding. There have been no sales of wool. Breadstuff's are very firm. Little is doing beyond trade sales. Flour, £13 to £13 ss. Wheat, ss. lOd. to 6s. Little doing. Considerable transactions in oats have taken place during the week; 12,000 bushels of Tasmauian fetched 3s. 7d, and 3s. Bd. Other sales are reported. Sugars in fair request at from £32 to £36 for good browns aud good yellows. News from Mauritius to 13th August is unfavorable, and holders are firm. Seven cargoes of new season's teas have arrived, and the market is heavy. Sydney Exhibition was closed in the presence of the Duke of Edinburgh, and 12.000 persons.

A letter from Rome says thafc Melbourne has been appointed an archiepiscopal see, with six suffragans.

Martin's motion of want of confidence was lost by 27 to 25. Oue member spoke eight hours.

The first poles of the Port Darwin telegraph have been erected at both ends, and the work is being pushed on vigorously.

Mr. Birch addressed his constituents at Dunedin last night. The meeting, as usual, was led by Grant, and tho following resolution was carried: — "That in the judgment of the electors of Dunediu, the policy of the Fox Ministry aud its supporters has inflicted a deadly blow on this province in particular, sapping the foundations of commercial prosperity, agricultural settlement, and mining development, and must be reversed next session by an entirely new Parliament, so far as Dunedin is concerned."

We learn from the Lyttelton Times thafc Mr. Redwood's team of horses arrived at Christchurch in fine condition.

The Unemployed of Christchurch. — A meeting of the unemployed was held at Christchurch last week for the purpose of obtaining signatures to a petition to the Council, which, after setting forth thafc the petitioners had been induced by Government agents in England to come to the province on the assurance of constant work, afc wages which would nofc only provide them with greater comfort for their families, but would enable them in time to. become landholders, and thus have the leisure to atteud to mental culture, proceeded to state that the petitioners had been out of work in many instances for a considerable time, yet that another ship with upwards of 200 immigrants had recently arrived, and that a portion ouly had been able to obtain em-

ployment, chiefly through the influence of the Government, which took work away from those who had been so much longer in the province, and who, therefore, had the greatest claims to be considered. Some other matters of a similar bearing were alluded to in the document, which ultimately concluded by earnestly, yet respectfully, soliciting the Council to devise some means for providing the petitioners with remunerative employment. Over 100 signatures were appended to the petition ou the ground.

The ship Couufcess of Kin tore, Captain Petherbridge, has lately arrived at Auckland after a fine passage of 98 days, and au absence of eifjit months from that; port. She has been successful iv landing iv capital coudition 48 out of 50 rooks shipped afc London.

The schooner Peri which has recently been trading between the Fijis and Auckland, has been seized by the Customs authorities at the latter port, on a charge of smuggling.

The following telegram from Dunodin is published in last week's issue of the Tuape/ta Times: — The dinner to Mr. Macaudrew was a failure. It was intended to be select. A city councillor, however, found himself seated between a bailiff and undertaker, and not caring 10 be taken by oue, or undertaken by the other, he suddenly left. Mr. Macaudrew seemed quite overcome and very uuhappy.

" Touchstone," a comic periodical published in Melbourne, published a spirited lyric ou " National Ddfence.'' Here is a specimen : —

If the French or the Prussians should land We're ready t'-> fight with the best o' them, And then with shillaly in hand, We'll lather away at the rest o' tliem.

They'd better not come in their haste, Unless its m peace and in harmony, Or may be we'd give them a taste Ot twigs that they haven't in Garminr,

They say that they come from the Rhine, Shure Paddy would baat any one o' them, And faith there's a brother o' mine Would break every bone in the skin o' them, We couldn't be spakin', its thrue ; Their langwidge they say is so fireish ; But may-be a weltin or two Might get them to understand Irish. You'd better mind what yez are at, In sendin' your troops to Victorie ; For as long as there's ever a Pat, Be gorrahs, we'd lather a score o' ye. Bad luck to them all do I say, For kickin' up all this bobbery ; Why don't they go out of the Bay, And leave off their murthers and robbery. For remainder of Neivs see Fourth page.

R. O. Stewart, late Resident Magis- ' trate at the Waikato, has been fined for sly grop; selling. At a sale held at Greytown on tho 29tb, by order of the Sheriff, some horses of a very mediocre description were sold at prices varying from 12s. 6d. to £3. The Lyttelton Times says that a gentleman in Canterbury lias sent to England for oue of Thomson's Road Steamers, with which to bring the coal from the Malvern Hills to Christchutch. The Institution cf Civil Engineers have awarded a Telford Medal aufi a Telford Premium in hooks to Mr. Edward Dobson, Assoc. Inst. C.E., for his paper on "The Public Works of the Province of Canterbury, New Zealand." There are eleven weekly papers, a biweekly, and two dailies published iv Otago, besides the Evangelist, and Inst, but not least, Mr. J. S. Grant's I elpldc Craele. Mi?. Eyes, M.H.R. met his constituents last week at a crowded meeting. He spoke regarding the business of the session, and iv favor of tho Government views, and was enthusiastically applauded. Mr. Ward opposed the resolution of confidence, past aud future, which, however, was carried with one dissentient. A Twenty-five ounce Nugget, together with about fourteen ounces of gold, was unearthed tbe other day by some miners at the One-mile Creek, just outside the Municipal Boundary of Queenstown, Otago. They, the said miners, have since been enjoying themselves amazingly, and every day a half-hogshead of beer finds its way from the brewery to the one-mile. This, says the West Coast Times, is <; sweating it out" with a vengeance, andis something new in the shape of imbibing. If the lucky finders must spend their money in drink, they might at least give the publicans a turn. Thirty-six ounces of gold, turned into barrels of beer at wholesale prices, will kill the poor meu before they can drink it all up. The Family of Jacob Snider. — In the army estimates an item of £1700 is entered to be paid to the representatives of Jacob Snider, whose invention for the conversion of muzzle-loaders has been adopted to the exter.t of 500,000 arms. In June 1866, poor Snider, worried by creditors besought a grant of £2700 for "services" aud drawings. Before any conclusion was arrived at, the mortgagees of Snider's patent compromised his claim with Governmeut for £1000. Snider was at that time on hia deathbed, uoable to remonstrate against a wrong. Not one shilling of that thousand pounds ever reached him or his children. At last, four years after his death, considering the very distressing circumstances in which the members of his family are placed, the Government have granted £1700 to his widow and children, to be secured for their benefit. It is very little good after all. The whole sum of £2700, including the £1000 swallowed up by the mortgagees, gives nearly one penny farthing for each rifle converted on the Snider principle. It would have been more profitable to his heirs if M. Snider had devoted his scieuce and his life to the improvement of bootjacks. German Military Discipline. — A correspondent at Cobientz writes : — A painful impression has been created here by the following incident. Three soldiers of the line were undergoing a long period of imprisonment in the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein for desertiou. They had origiually deserted at Saarlouis, and crossed the frontier iuto France, but on the persuasion of their families had surrendered themselves to their regiment. Their term of punishment was seven years, of which only six mouths had expired. Finding their lives, as is asserted, insupportable, they determined to drown themselves on the first favorable opportunity as a preferable fate. A few days ngo they were employed on the Carthause, the line plateau which separates the Rhine from the Moselle, and it seemed a fitting moment to attempt their rash enterprise. One sentry alone was iv charge of them, and he witnessed their flight. He immediately fired and brought one victim down dead, the bullet having passed through his head. With extraordinary sang froid and determination he loaded a second time and again fired with fatal decision; the deserter fell dead, pierced through the heart. Once more loading he filed at the third fugitive, aud the bullet passed completely through his body, inflicting frightful injuries to his intestines. The unfortunate man ... was brought to the military lazaretto in Cobientz, where lie

lies in a hopeless condition. In military circles, this sad capastrophe is regarded as a fitting retribution for a grave breach of discipline, a view of the case not altogether shared in by the civil portion of the community. Oue thing is certain, the needle gun, in the hands of a good marksman, is a sure and terrible weapon.