ENGLISH & AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 320, 30 October 1875, Page 2

ENGLISH & AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

London, October 2. Samuel Wil son, of Victoria, and Captain McMahon, Speaker of the Assembly, nave been knighted. The silk season has been a failure in Japan. Increased planting in Australia is recommended. October 4. At the Municipal banquet given at Liverpool, Lord Derby deprecated unwise intermeddling as much as excessive indifference in Continental affairs. England’s great interest was the maintenance of peace. He said the importance of the Herzegovina insurrection has been exaggerated, and the autonomy of the provinces would be impracticable owing to difference of religion. Concerning China, no decisive intelligence has been received, but Mr. Wade was hopeful of a satisfactory settlement as the demands of Great Britain were both moderate and just, and he intended adhering to them. October 5. Mr. Wade British Minister at China, has notified to the Foreign Legations at Pekin, that negotiations have been entered into which will avert immediate war.

The Carlists are bombarding Pampeluns and San Sebastian. The New Zealand Cable has been shipped on board the Edinburgh awl Hibernia, leaving London ah >ut the end of October. Melbourne. The Pearl has brought Mrs. Gobicnough from Sydney. She leaves for England bv the Durham. . Scarlet fever has appeared in a malignant form in some of the suburbs, and several deaths of children occurred. Page pleaded guilty to the murder ot Mary Buchlyon at Mount Gambier; and was sentenced to death. A. H. Smith was elected Mayor of Melbourne without opposition. A private London telegram states Lord Dunmore’s herd of shorthorns, consisting of 40 head, sold at an average of 670 guineas, and the Messrs. Torres’ herd averaged 500 guineas. William Enderson, jockey, has been remanded to New- Zealand on a charge of robbery. The Ministry having resigned. Sir James McCulloch has been sent for to form a Ministry. The House adjourned till Tuesday to enable him to complete the necessary arrangements, Nothing has vet transpired, but there is no doubt that’the task will be successful. It is jnst possible that Mr. Kerford will be Chief Secretary, and Sir James McCulloch Premier and Treasurer. Opposition to the new Ministers is threatened.

The enquiry into the wreck of the Flying Sqnirrel on king’s Island resulted in the master being acquitted from blame, as the rock struck on was not shewn on the Admiralty charts. At the final meeting of the Cospatrick Relief Fund Committee, a balance of £512 was distributed amongst several applicants. There is a chism between Mr. Whalley and Dr. Kenenly, the former refuses to accept the political leadership of the latter. Governor Musgrave, of South Australia, is created Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George. Mr. Weld, Governor of Tasmania, and Dr. Hector, of New Zealand, are made companions. Complaints areraisedon Colonelßaker’s son fence. The question of his military status was settled by the Queen signing his dismissal. The Queen sent a letter of sympathy to Miss Dickenson. Kenealy’s son sent a challenge to Major Dickenson on account of his speech in the House of Commons on Colonel Baker’s case. At the suggestion of the Speaker, Mr. Disraeli and the Duke of Cambridge, to whom the matter was referred, it was treated with contemptuous silence. Lotta, the inimitable character actress, has presented San Fanciseo city with a magnificent fountain costing £2,000. Buffer and Sons, of Liverpool, have failed for £lOO,OOO. There has been a heavy typhoon in the China seas, and numbers of vessels were wrecked. Disastrous floods in Central China have destroyed 4,000,000 dollars worth of property. Moody and Sankey’s balance-sheet for London shows that the receipts were £28,238, and the expenditure was £l5B more. An emigration of pauper children has been carried on to Canada, under Miss Bye. Two men were re-captured in London, who, by means of a bottomless portmanteau, with an arrangement of springs, had contrived to carry off packages of luggage from the railway station. Queen Isabella of Spain is to visit London. The Pope’s health has greatly improved. The anniversary of the surrender of Sedan has been ordered throughout Germany as a holiday and day of general rejoicing.