TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4209, 16 September 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[Press Telegraph Agency.] Auckland, Tuesday. There was a large Masonic assemblage from the Thames and Auckland at the funeral of Mr. Beveridge, the Provincial Solicitor. New Plymouth, Tuesday. A slight shock of earthquake was felt yesterday at 7.20 a.m. Wanganui, Tuesday. The Borough Council last night, by eight to two, decided to dismiss Millar, F.S.A., the Borough Engineer. Dunedin, TuesdayA special Queenstown telegram says that splendid specimens of gold-bearing quartz have been brought into Arrowtown from Bush Creek and Maoetown, apparently os rich as the Cromwell Company’s stone at Bendigo. The Harbor Board appoints a secretary today. The choice is between Messrs. J. L. Gillies and Jago. The Star’s telegram gives the following account of an attempted suicide of Colling Shaw, Messrs. Sargood’s traveller, who left Dunedin on Tuesday, and arrived at Naseby on Saturday. He was delayed on his journey by a bad horse, and made a determined attempt at suicide yesterday morning, at eight o’clock, in the Victoria Hotel stables. A boy in the adjoining stables, hearing a noise, went in and took the knife from him while on the ground bleeding. A doctor immediately attended, and sewed up the wounds. Both incline upwards, shaving each side of the carotid artery. His situation is critical. Port Chalmers, Tuesday. T. A. Mansford, Esq., R.M., sat on the bench for the first time to-day. ARRIVAL OP THE SAN FRANCISCO MAID. Auckland, Tuesday. The s.s. Macgregor left San Erancisco on August 18th. Her detention was caused by the mails being sent via Boston, instead of by New York. She left Honolulu on the 2Sth. and anchored at Kandavau on the 10th, leaving on the same day. R. B. Pringle, purser; Matthews, mail agent. The mail contains 25,000 letters and 80,000 papers for New Zealand, and 132 bags for Australia. Passengers —For Auckland ; Dr. and Mrs. Buller, Miss Kerns. For Lyttelton : Mr. C. A. Post. For Port Chalmers ; Mr. and Mrs, Herman and family, Mr. Bass, Mrs. Becker, Mr. and Mrs. Shera. ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NEWS. Due de Caglie, French Minister for Foreign Affairs, has complained to the British Government that Germany is seeking to quarrel noth France re the Carlists, and denies that France is conniving with the Carlists. The inquiry into the assassination of Marshal Prim has resulted in the indictment of fifty more persons. Advices from Ireland state that the reception.of John Mitchell, the exile, on his return to Cork, was most enthusiastic. The streets ■were alive with people. There were bands of music, bonfires, and a torchlight procession in which five thousand persons participated. A riot occurred at Armagh during a parade of Orangemen. The military cleared the streets at the point of the bayonet, and many were wounded. An immense Home Rule demonstration has been held in Glasgow. The procession was a mile long. Twenty thousand persons attended a mass meeting. A similar demonstration was held at Dungannon. The Republican General in Spain has captured Vittoria. The Carlists have suffered several reverses. The President of Spain has thanked Germany for being the first to recognise the Government. The accounts of the famine in Asia Minor are of a very thrilling character. In one district five thousand persons perished. Numbers subsisted on grass for many weeks. Bodies lay unburied for many days. Numbers of villages were deserted. Fifty thousand miners have been addressed by Bradlaugh and others. Eight Hundred persons formerly connected with the Commune have been arrested at Marseilles. Respecting the wav between China and Russia, advices state that China has pushed forward 190,000 picked troops to the Kashgar frontier, and has also garrisoned the frontier towns, intending to attack Kashgar, in which event Russia will assist that country. The Archbishop of Paris has published a pastoral offensive to Italy and Victor Emanuel. McMahon made an apology to the Italian Government for its appearance. Letters from Italy state that the country is completely bankrupt. The people ar*e deeply attached to the King,' and desire to leave the Church alone, but floods, malaria, and bandits harass the Government. Three Carlist officers concerned in the execu-

tion of a German named Schmidt have bean arrested in Paris. Following Bismarck’s attempted assassination, the German Government have instituted more rigorous measures against the Catholics, and seized a large number of documents. Don Carlos, who has been interviewed by newspaper correspondents, jrrofessed great confidence in his ultimate success, and his intention to'build up Spain to its former national grandeur. AMERICAN NEWS. Political riots with firearms have occurred in South Carolina among the negro factious struggling for the control of the State. The negroes in Mississippi were repulsed by the white residents with several killed. Military assistance , was sent. Two railway accidents, with loss of life, have occurred. Extensive fires are reported in various parts of the States. The Beecher scandal fills many columns of the papers. Beecher published a statement denying the charge of adultery with Mrs.. Fitton, and says the accusation arose out of Fitton’s want of success and insatiable desire for notoriety. The New York Tribune, commenting on the statement, says it shows Beecher has been the victim of a conspiracy. Some sections of the Press regard the statement as unsatisfactory—others support it. By a fire on the Cincinnati steamer, thirtyfive lives were lost. There is a great official scandal in Montreal, owing to the discovery of the exchange by three members of the Cabinet of a piece of Government land, worth 230,000 dollars, for a piece of private property worth only 10,000 dollars. The Cubans attacked and destroyed plautationa, and are arming for the emancipation of negroes. The Pacific mail steamer Guatemala is wrecked ; no lives lost. ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS. The Union Bank has declared a dividend of II per cent. The New Zealand Trust and Loan Company have divided ss. per share. During a thunderstorm in London, the streets were flooded, and several persons were killed by lightning. The Emperor of Russia has presented £IOOO for distribution among the metropolitan charities. Great distress prevails in Florence. There have been arrests of persons connected with bread riots. Advices indicate that the Bengal famine is still very serious. It will be five months before the rice will be harvested. The deathrate is fearful in some districts, and the suffering distressing. The House of Lords have struck out of the Public Worship Regulations Bill the clause authorising parishioners to appeal to the Archbishop in the event of any Bishop refusing to suppress ritualistic practices in his diocese. After Marshal Bazaine’s escape was known, a rope from the top of the precipice to the sea was found stained with blood, as if from Bazaine’s hands. Madame Bazaine has published a letter, stating that she alone, with her cousin, planned the escape. Bazaine is in Brussels. Extradition will, probably, be demanded. Some assert that the rope was put over the rocks, with the view of misleading the authorities from the guards, through whose concurrence, it is believed, the escape was accomplished. SHIPPING. London. Arrived : July 11, Pleiades and Salisbury, from Canterbury ; July 19, Soukar, from Canterbury; July 12, W. B. Gladstone, from Canterbury. Sailed ; For Canterbury, July 18, Duke of Edinburgh ; landed pilot at Torbay July 22; Elizabeth Graham, July 16. For Nelson, Chile, July 22 ; left Downs July 24. For Otago, from Glasgow, July 14, Invercargill; left Greenock July 17 ; Jessie Readnian, July 25 ; left Downs 27th ; Lennox Castle, July 20 ; left Downs July 22. For Wellington—■ Helen Denny ; at Deal July 24 ; at Plymouth July 26. Cleared : For Napier, Bebington, July 25. Loading : For Canterbury; - 35/ I*. Bouverie, Pleiades, Waitara. For Nelson, Langstone, Ocean Mail, W. E. Gladstone. For Otago, Calypso, May Queen, Mataura. For Wellington, F. P. Bouverie, Hourah, Soukar, Star of India. COMMERCIAL. Helmuth, Schwartz, and Co., report as follows: Wool. —A firm tone has prevailed in the market since the close of the last sales, and that a fair amount of transactions has taken place at rates showing generally an advance of id. to Id. on the June closing prices. The demand proceeds principally from the Home trade, which, it will be remembered, bought comparatively sparingly at the last sales; but French buyers, too, have been in the market, and have taken some parcels of greasy wool at full rates. An improved tone prevails in the English manufacturing districts, and, under influence of good harvest prospects, greater confidence seems to be felt by trade generally. The next sales will, therefore, be held under favorable circumstances. Their results will, probably, confirm advances now paid in private transactions. Flax.— Rather more doing in this staple, caused principally by a few Colonial orders, and willingness on the part of holders to accept current rates. The Home trade shows no improvement, and until Manilla evinces more life and better figures, little advance may bo expected in this fibre. Present quotations are about as follows :—Common, £ls ; fair, £lB to £l9 ; good, £2l ; fine, £26 ; tow, £9 10s. The following are some of the marks sold;—Ex Halcione, sound, D 6, £l7 10s. ; ex Himalaya, 31 bales, sound, RL, £ls 10s. ; tow, E, £3 10s. ; ex Pleiades, tow, £lO ; ex Columbus, sound, JR, £lB 10s. ; R, iron-hooped, £l9 15s. Hides. —New Zealand heavy, 6s. Tallow. —Australian sheep, good to fine, 43s to 43s 6d. ; beef, 41a 3d. to 41s. 6d. New York, August 15. Wool. —Ohio, 52J cents to 57 cents ; combing lots, 57 cents to 60 cents. Petroleum has fallen back to the lowest point in commercial history, owing to the large production and overstocked market. San Francisco. Flour, 5 dols. 25 cents to 5 dols. 50 cents ; wheat, 1 dol. 60 cents ; oats, 1 del. 40 cents to 1 dol. 60 cents, per one hundred pounds.