TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 369, 1 July 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(From tJie Dunedin Dailies. ) Auckland June, 17. The Immigration Commission to-day held an inquiry into the complaints of the passengers by the Loch Awe,, immigrant ship, against Dr. Wylie, surgeon-superintendenfc in charge. The accusations were of a most abominable character Charlotte Beaumont, a single girl alleges that the doctor spread about that she was an immoral character, well known in London ; and aleo that he said her sistsf r had had a child. He had used language too indecent to repeat. Harriet Rout, a single girl of 18, says that, while going up the ladder from the compartment, the doctor came behind her and put his hand up her petticoats ou to her leg. The matron and Miss MatildaGo wan witnessed and corroborated the statement. Captain Weir deposed that the matron made a complaint of the doctor's conduct. Matilda Gowan also complained of the doctor's slanders and offensive language. Alice Spanwick, a married woman, alleged wilful neglect on the part of the doctor, whereby her only child, eight months old died on the passage. The night before the child died the doctor said it did not matter ;it was only a litUe bastard. The inquiry occupied four hours. The doctor denies all the charges, and makes very light of his situation. The inquiry was adjourned till Tuesday, to enable him to bring rebutting testimony. Great indignation is felt here. Wellington, June The Challenger made a long passage, having had to put back to Sydney after being two days out. She also had rough weather 011 reacluug this coast, and took shelter iv Port Hardy from Wednesday till Saturday morning. The deepest sounding taken across was 2600 fathoms. Foun 1 a bottom of sand and mud till almost within sight of New Zealand, when the bottom became rocky and shallow, suddenly. When about ten miles from port, one of the crew, named Edward Wilton, while standing on the chains, was washed away by a sea. He was not missed for a few minutes, when the vossel rounded to, but there was no sigu of him. The date of her departure is not decided yet. After leaving Wellington, the Challenger is to go to Auckland, unless the Otago people induce the scientific staff to pay them a visit, as they will make every endeavor to do. After a week's stay in Auckland, she goes to Tongataboo and the Fiji Islands. After cruising some time in Polynesia generally, the Challenger goes to Hong Kong, which she will make her main station for coaling and refitting. Her rough passage prevented soundings being taken as satisfactorily as could be wished. Lytiblton, June 29th. Tho ship Storehouse has arrived from London, S3 days out, with 446 souls, all well.

The cheapest material 01 wmuh to make brandy, whisky and alcoh ol is at present sawdust. We mentioned before that sugar is now made of it, and a direct consequence of this is that this sugar, by proper fermentation and distillation, can be made into alcohol, and this again by rectification and flavoring, into any of the mixtures known as gin, whisky, arrack, rum, cognac, brandy, &c. This manufacture of alcohol from sawdust is now" carried on in Sweden very economically and on an extensivescale. We rejoice, because if the great staples such as corn, wheat, rye, barley, &c., are used for this purpose, there is a destruction of material valuable for food ; a breaking down of more complex valuable organic compound* into simpler ones, and if these same simpler compounds can as well be obtained from sawdust, which neither animal nor man can eat, there is a great saving in valuable material. The only objection, thus far is that in this operation a portion of the product is not the ordinary efchylic alcohol, but methylic alcohol, or wood spirits, which is less palatable and more unwholesome than ordinary alcohol ; but that there*is no doubt that improvements' in this respect will soon be made, if this is not already tho case, and that, as people must, have alcohol, it will in the future not be produced at the cost of the destruction of a great portion of the staples of food otherwise adapted for the nourishment of millions, and which are now continually being destroyed by the distillers ovor all the world. — " Manufacturer and Builder." General Von Moltke was badly defeated ia running on the ticket of the new Conservatives in Berlin. In his strongast district he got. only 715 votes out of 4,182. Bismark himself went to east in his vote for him, to the great admiration of the judges of the election, who had a bottle of champagne iced for the occasion, of which the Chancellor drank two glasses to the health of the Emperor. Aeronautics are again before the public. Thiß time on the Pacific Coast. A Captain Barbier, of Paris, is beginning a series of experiments at San Francisco, California, with a silk balloon with a capacity of 90,000 feet of ga6. Its carrying power is sufficient for a dozen passengers. In the correspondence column of the " Melbourne Leader," to hand by last mail, the following formula 19 given : — " The indications of diptheria are excessive depression of the sufferer, and the appearance on the tonsils, or at the back of the throat, of .peculiar ash-colored specks, which gradually enlarge till they form patches of exupation, that look like wet dirty wash-leather. The results which have hitherto attended the sulphuric aid treatment recommend its adoption. Mr. Greathcad's method of ad* ministering the acid is to mix four drops of of it in three-fourths of half-a-pint of water, securing a thorough mixture by pouring front one vessel to another several times. To a. child under eight years, one-fourth of the quantity may be given ; to a child of eight or ten years, two-thirds ; and \o a full-grown person, the whole quantity. Care should be taken to have the acid pure aud ftdl of strength, and it should not be mixed wftU, $# wafer till $M reouired. fgr me,"