LATEST TELEGRAMS

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 181, 3 January 1877, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS

[Per Press Agency.] AUCKLAND. December 30. Arrived City of Sydney, with the San Francisco, mail, a day before due date. The Australia also arrived this morning. The Australia was quarantined, a passenger having died of small pox yesteiday. The Cross and Herald announce that in future they will be published as one journal. The former states that the company lost £B,OOO, and that there was no possibility of making the papers pay while working in opposition. Messrs Wilson, of the Herald , and Mr Horton, of the Cross , have entered into partnership. DUNEDIN. December 80. Mr Donald Reid goes North to-day, to join the Ministry as Minister of Lands and Immigration. TIMARU. December 30. A shocking affray occurred at a shanty on the Government Reserve, occupied by a woman of ill-fame named Greaves. Davis, who lives with her, turned a man named Callaghan out, but Callaghan beat Davis almost to death with a log of wood. Davis lies at the hospital in a precarious state. Callaghan was brought up before the R.M., and remanded for a week, NAPIER. • January 2. About fiye,o’clock on Sunday afternoon, the house of s Mr -W;-Woodsy manager of the Bank of New Zealand, was struck by lightning. • The electric fluid entered the building, making an opening in the roof and the side of the wall, and entered a room where two children were at tea, and struck the little girl, Woods’ daughter, on

the foot, and the boy, his stepson, on the chest, killing him instantly. The girl was only slightly injured. Mr Woods was in the conservatory, and was knocked against the wall by the shock, but was not injured} though the paper on the wall was scorched. FORT CHALMERS. January 2. * The ship May encountered a fearful cyclone in the Bav of Biscay, on the 28th September last. The bnl warks and crochet yards were carried away, and the sea filled the deck and washed a Way live stock. Oh 7th December, she met with a fierce westerly gale, and the mats, Francis Godolphin Boise, was washed overboard. Next day, Captain Brown was washed out of his bunk while asleep, arid broke his collar hone. They passed a body in oilskin clothing on the 9tli. Detective Dalton, of the London' police 1 arrested a cabin passenger named Jackson, charged with embezzling £9OO, the property of Carey, Hatch & Co. A bank draft for £450 was found on him. NEW PLYMOUTH. January 2. The sports yesterday went off well, and all business was suspended. A man was accidentally killed at Waitara yesterday. Sergeant Cox was the top score for representative firing, making 170 points in all ;— — second, with 159. [The agency did not give,us the second scorer’s name.] The report that the Mokau natives threaten to burn the steamer if it returned to Mokau, is said by a Mokau native to be entirely false. He says he was present the whole time, and not a word was said about the matter. He Says such false reports are likely to cause mischief. A European, also present, confirms the above.

ARRIVAL OP THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, December 30. The, City of Sydney and Australia arrived together. The Australia reached Kandavu on the 16th, and was quarantined. The commander not-deeming it advisable to transfer the mails, both vessels came on to New Zealand together, and reached Auckland this morning, the Australia anchoring at the quarantine ground. She brings 139 mail bags, 28 cabin and 48 steerage passengers, names not yet known. Lady Gordon and family are passengers from Fiji, also Kerby, the agent for the Georgia Minstrels. Both vessels are awaiting instructions. The Australia left Frisco on the Bth, Auckland time, having had to put back for a day through a collision with with a ferry boat. GENERAL SUMMARY. The Turkish commander of the Black Sea fleet, addressing his men, said, *• This year you are destined to fight against enemies of our religion. Remember that the sailors of the Black Sea gained glory at Sebastapol.” There has been an inundation at Adrianople, and thousands of houses washed away. L'Opinion, a Roman journal, says that the Marquis of Salisbury’s declaration excludes the idea of England and Russia groin g to wa-, hut regards war between Russia and Turkey inevitable. Sir Julius VogM, interviewed by a Frisco reporter, said that if the Colonial Government had negotiated for an American subsidy it would probably have been secured, but the con.nctors insisted on receiving it. He thought the colonies had not been fairly treated by America, The extravagant promises of a subsidy made at the outset were never fulfilled. If the Australian line was worth having America should assist. If the present contract broke down he did not think the colonies would take any further action whatever. The floor of Moore’s opera house at Sacramento fell into a livery stable below. Seven hundred people were precipitated, of whom seven were killed and a hundred wounded. The ship Manchester I ai lost off Akyab. All hands, except he captain and steward, were drowned. She was bound from Liverpool to Calcutta. Thirtytwo of the crew were lost.

Twenty-one battalions of infantry, and seven regiments of cavalry, with 80 guns, have been told off by the British Government for service in the East if necessary, for the protection of British interests. Bismarck visited London. In a speech delivered on the 4th December, at Berlin, be srd that, thanks to Germany, England would probably allow the inevitab’o Turkish war to bo localised. Austria was placed in a most difficult position by recent events. The Roumanian Government have notified to the prefect of the early arrival, on their way to the Danube, of a hundred ai d fifty, thousand Russian troops. A Times despatch says that Turkey has withdrawn her troops from Bosnia and Hereegovi’ a with the intention of not resisting Austrian occupation of those provinces. Russia has placed torpedoes at the entrances to ports of trade. Russia is in a perfect state of collapse and bankruptcy. Three large islands, one 500 miles square and with a population of 240,000, and a large extent of coast at the mouth of the Megna, India, have been completely submerged by a storm wave. The people were in their beds, but many escaped by ascending trees. It is believed that not one-third of the population survived. The stench from the bodies is insufferable, and cholera is feared.

AUSTR ALIAN. MELBOURNE. December 30. The Englishmen scorer] 135. Selby is the top scorer with 23. In the second innings of the Victorian team, the five best wickets are down for 3 runs . Latkk. When the stumps were drawn last night, the Victorian wickets were down for 27 runs. The bowling and fielding of the Englishmen were-magnificent.