TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 245, 6 February 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH NEWS FROM LONDON TO POVERTY BAY IN EIGHT DAYS. Bluff, February 1. The s.s. Otago left Melbourne on the 27th ult., and arrived at the Bluff at 4.30 p.m., on the Ist. She brings 53 saloon aud 40 steerage passengers; 300 tons cargo for all ports. London. January 17. Messrs Rothschild have issued, a Braziliian loan of five millions. January 21. There is a threatened rupture between Turkey and Monte Negri, through the former refusing to execute some Mahomedans implicated, in the Podogritza affair. January 23. The European powers are intervening to avert a conflict between the Turks and Monte Negrins, but a collison is apprehended. The serious illness of Prince Leopold is causing uneasiness. He is suffering from hemorrhage, followed by an attack of typhoid fever. The Coahrastcrs in South Wales have agreed to a general lock-out. January 25. Prince Leopold is now better. The deaths are announced of the Rev. Charles Kingsley and’Countess Carnarvon. wife- of the Secretary of State for the Colonics. Berlin, January 19. Germany has accepted a promise of reparation by Spain. Rome, January 25. Garibaldi has arrived atliome, and met with a most enthusiastic reception. Melbourne, January 27.

The principal topic of the week has been the weather ; for five consecutive days there was most intense heat, the thermometer during that period ranged between 106 and 110 in the shade, with burning and scorching wind; the water supply partially gave out, and some privations were endured, numerous deaths have occurred from the effects of the heat; including two or three cases of sunstroke. Bush fires in the country have created great devastation amongst the selectors holdings, and all the trees in the reserve present an autumnal appearance. The weather is now quite cool.

The Avenal railway station on the Government line, has been destroyed by fire, and at North Sandridge several wooden houses have been burned down. Kelson’s the drapers, at Sandhurst, is also burned. It was insured for £1590 in several offices. Geo. Stewart, who was arrested in New Zealand, and escaped on the arrival of the steamer at Sandridge, is still at large. A conference of members of the various transit of Venus parties will be held in Melbourne next month. A fire at Emerald Hill early this morning destroyed Justin Bros, coach-build-ing manufactory and adjoining premises. The Japanese troops have been withdrawn from Formosa. The New South Wales Parliament opens in Sydney to-day after general election. The Opposition will submit as test motion : Question —The Governor’s minute relative to Gardiner’s release : both sides anticipate a victory. LATER TELEGRAMS. Auckland, February 3. The Mikado arrived at midnight on Saturday, having left San Francisco at noon on the Ctli, San Francisco time, or the 7th according to New Zealand time. She arrived at Honolulu on the 14th, leaving next morning. Saloon passengers : Hugh Craig, Charles Overton, James Osgood (for Wellington), and eleven in the steerage. She has a cargo of flour, sugar, preserved salmon, &c„ chiefly for Auckland. The news of the burning of the Cospatriek was received inLondouon December 28, by a telegram from Madeira, stating that three of the crew of the unfortunate vessel had arrived at St. Helena. The Cospatrick was burned on November 17, in latitude 37 S., longitude 12 E. When the vessel was discovered to be on fire, eighty persons, mostly women, rushed into one boat, which capsized, aud all were drowned. Soon afterwards the masts fell, killing many passengers who had crowded together on the deck, An explosion subsequently occurred, and the vessel sank. The second mate and two seamen were picked up by the ship British Sceptre, after subsisting on the bodies of their companions. A. conflagration in the city of Tokio, in Japan, destroyed 1,180 houses.