LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume 1, Issue 21, 23 June 1875, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[ri’ESS AGENCY.] WALLOA. " The names chosen for J.F.s arc Messrs and Kinah and Nicholson, tire latter canvassed personally in hotels. BLENHEIM. -June 21. For the Wairau election, Ward polled—> At Blenheim, 116 ; Marlborough (town). 26 ; Rcnwick. 36. Moor-house polled—At Blenheim. 125 ; Marlborough (town), 41 ; Kenwick’ 7. Majority for Ward at these tliree places, 5. The Wairau Valley and Flaxbourne re "urns have still to come in. 1 Tire contest has been most keenly contested. There was excitement towards the close, and heavy odds were laid on Ward, The returns for the Wairau- election are now all in. They give Ward a majority of 25. NAPIER, Ormond re-elected for Hastings unopposed. Heavy rains on Saturday flooded Meancc flats and low-lying part of town. ’ Many sheep drowned. A serious stabbing case occurred on Saturday evening. James Cable, a bricklayer, was stabbed with a knife by John Thomas, a cabdriver, inflicting a dangerous wound 5 inches long in the stomach. Thomas was brought up before the li.M. to-day, and remanded. Thomas was employed as overseer on a road, and was discharged by Cable, under whom he was working, and the latter resented it. Letters from Dr Spencer on cause of late epidemic here, points out that immigrants per Clargpcc were landed in every stage of diseases (typhoid), Z>atest English News. AUCKLAND. June ,19. Arrived—Cyphrenes last night at 11 o’clock, two days under contract time. She left San Francisco on May 25, and Honolulu on 3rd June. LONDON. June 7. The Earl of Pembroke resigns the UnderSccrctarysliip, and is succeeded by Lord Cadogan. The Catholic organs condemn the election of the. Prince of Wales as Grand Master. A lunatic threatens Bismarck’s life. The revolution at Port-au-Prince causes great excitement. Cardinal Manning protests against Bismarek’s plans. 'i'li,. Duke of Bucking-barn has been appointed Governor of Madras. The Czar insists on peace with Germany and France. Great demonstration in Dublin at tho funeral of the American Fenian Mullins. Meeting of the Emperors of Russia and Germany. Peace is to be maintained. English authors urge international copyright. Disraeli p-omises to support them.

-89 bodies recovered from the wreck of the Schiller. Her officers are accused of drunkenness. Small-pox in the Carlist camp. Free press and free speech have been established in Spain. The Italian Government ordered the removal of all Bishops who have not received Royal approval. The prohibitory liquor laws of Michigan have been repealed. The Darien canal is being surveyed. All the leading distilleries at Chicago were seized by the Government for fraud. Twenty-five bags of New Zealand mails were recovered from the wreck of the Schiller. Mrs Abrahsm Lincoln is declared insane. Great forest fires in Ponsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. Hundreds of families houseless. Whole towns destroyed. One account of the Schiller disaster says that a heavy fog prevailed, and that no observations were taken on board since Tuesday in consequence. Engines halfspeed, and reduced sail. Groat panic prevailed when the ledge was struck, and a terrible scene ensued. Two boats, filled with men, refused to deliver them up to the Cuptaiu, He fired his revolver over their heads, and then fired amongs them, but without effect. All on board these email boats perished ; tackle at stern released too soon, leaving the boats suspended by the bows ; one, being badly injured, sank. Two other boats were crushed bj r the falling of the funnel. Fog lightsyvero visable, and guns were fired from the steamer till the powder became wet. The passengers clung to the masts deck-houses, and rigging, but most of them were gradually swept away one after another by the flowing tide and heavy seas. The Captain had not been in bed for five days previous to the All accounts agree that the panic which followed the striking of the vessel was beyond description. There was a life-belt in every berth, and when the disaster occurred Captain Thomas issued orders for one to be fastened to every woman. One of the crew of the Schiller informed the correspondent of the Standard that the officers were drunk when the ship struck. In the passenger list appears no names of New Zealand passengers. The following arc the particulars of the loss of the Schiller She carried a full cargo of unusually heavy mails, and was maimed by a crew of 125 officers and men. She had 140 cabin and 129 steerage passengers ; total, 394 souls. The course of the steamer was up the English Channel, through the Straits of Dover, ink) the German Ocean. It is evident the captain, owing to a. heavy fog, was considerably out of bis course. Part of the coast where the Schiller struckis notoriously dangerous and difficult of navigation, but abundantly supplied will! lights. Of all who were on board, only 47 arc known to have been

saved. The cargo was valued at 1130,000 dollars, and was insured in New York and London offices. She carried 300,000 specie. The vessel was valued at 600,000 dollars, and was fully insured in Hamburg and London offices. "• The N,ew York Herald's “special” gives full incidents of the disaster. The and dead arrived at Penzance as follows : —First, a boat with several persons ; then two boats with women and children ; and a ship’s boat subsequently picked up the bodies of a little boy and four men. One man was found floating on a piece of wreck, and at p late hour three more bodies were re-

from the sea. When the boats nnally reached Rolarrionc Lodge, the last • mast of the Schiller went overboard ; scores of people clinging to it were drowned, after enduring agonising susf tense during the night. The passengers lad gone to sleep at the time of the accident. Relaricnnc Ledge, on which the vessel struck, is one of the many dangerous shoals, being inside Bishop’s Rock. The fog boll ought to have been ■ heard by the . steamer. No such disaster lias happened on the Cornish Coast since the loss of the John May in 1855, when •'2OO lives were lost. The Herald says the responsibility of this awful shipwreck seems to rest on the officers. There was no storm, simply a fog and darkness of night, and even if none of the lights could . be seen, Bishop’s Rock boll could have been heard. The shareholders in the Eastern Telegraph Company to-day sanctioned arrangements with Sir Julius Vogel for the submarine cable between New Zealand and Australia, Sir J. Vogel’s substitution of promissory notes for a free system of emigration is causing great dissatisfaction. A deputation from the Labourers’ Unioni headed by Messrs Arch and Holloway, in vain urged a continuance of free passages. Thirty miners killed by the explosion of a colliery at Talk-of Hill, Staffordshire.. A mutiny occurred on board an American schooner eu route to London. Two of the mates were killed, and several of the crew were wounded. De Launde, a Polish priest, has been orrested for aiming at Bismarck’s life. The steamer Wyoming arrived at New York with one hundred Wclsh converts to Monnonism. The Italian Senate has voted a donation to Garibaldi. The English champion (Johnston) has accepted the American champion's (Clarke) challenge to swim a match from one to twenty miles for £SOO. Eight steamships, with 679 saloon and 1,180 steerage passengers, left New York in one day for Europe. A number of French and English gunboats have been ordered to Newfoundland to prevent trouble between the fishermen. BLUFF. June 22. The Otago left Melbourne on the 17th, arriving this afternoon. LONDON. June 12. Carnarvan, in replying to Shaftesbury in the House of Lords, respecting Fiji, stated that the Government had telegraphed to the local authorities to spare neither exertion nor expense. He expressed the greatest confidence in their ability and zeal, and remarked that tne Horne Government was almost powerless in the event of any sudden emergency. latest Australian Sfewis. MELBOURNE. June 17. Michael Cainson’s property has been sworn at £337,000, at Vaughan, near Caetlemaine. London, Justice of Peace, committed for trial on second charge of forgery. The Sydney Government have sent a cablegram to England closing contract for New Zealand cable. Rev Clarke continues to draw immense McEwan, wholesale grocer, suspended payment; supposed to be about £38,t.0J. Handicaps for Melbourne Cup have been published. Top weight is 9st 81b ; Lurline next with 9st 71b; Calumny, Bst 121b ; Castaway, 7st 131b. In the Metropolitan Lurliue also carries second weight, 9st 61b ; Calumny, Bst 81b. Sydney weavers liabilities arc £75,000. C. J. Hoyt has failed fer £16,000; Keemach, merchant, for £17,000 ; Church and Hills, wine and spirit merchants, for £20,000. Failures have paralysed the market. Pompie, of the Opera Company, has filed his schedule. Liabilities £6OO.

The Commissioner of Lauds at Fiji has invited landholders and others, having Interest in land, to forward particulars in order te test the validity or otherwise of titles. Adelaide New Government re-enunciated a vigorous policy, which includes the borrowing of two millions for railway and harbour works, and the expenditure of a hundred thousand on immigration. A motion for payment of members has been negatived. The ministerial policy is generally approved of.