TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 250, 31 March 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Press Telegraph Agency.') LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTEALIA. ♦ [Per Easby.] London", March 16. In the Mount and Morris case the colonial judgment has been reversed. An appeal has been allowed in the Bank of South Australia v Falister. At a sacred consistory held yesterday, six cardinals were created, including Dr Manning, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster. Ten new bishops were also appointed. March 20.

Obituary—John Mitchell, lately elected for Tipperary; and Field-Marshal Gomm, G.C.B.

His Eoyal Highness the Prince of Wales contemplates a visit to India in the cool season.

The strike at Dewsbury among the woollen operatives has been settled. The University Boat Race for 1875 was won by Oxford by four lengths. Pathfinder won the Grand National Steeplechase. The Bishop of Munster has been imprisoned, and the Prussian Chamber has disendowed the Roman Catholic Bishops for not subscribing to the civil code. Rimmell's perfumery establishment in the Strand has been destroyed by fire. The New Zealand loan has been admitted on the Stock Exchange. Two more failures have occurred in houses connected with the South American trade, the aggregate liabilities amounting to £600,000. In the wool market genei'al prices are firm.

Sydney superior fleece wool is weaker. The next series of saleg commences in May, the probable arrivals for which will amount to 400,000 bales. The wheat market is firmer. Adelaide is nominal at 48s to 595, Hemp has been sold at 16s to 19s. The P. and O. steamer China left Galle for Melbourne on the 15th March. The mail by way of Brindisi was delivered in London on the 18th March. Pakis, March 20. The National Assembly adjourned on Monday with a probable dissolution which is however as yet unsettled. M. Nardreffret has been elected President of the Assembly. AUSTKALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, March 23. Tasmania won the return match at Ballarat in one innings with 84 runs to spare. George Bailey scored 75 runs. A Volunteer Commission has been appointed. It includes Sir John O'Shannessy, Sir George Verdon, and Colonel Ward as members. Wheat and flour are in better demand. The ship Isabella, from London, reports passing the ship Manilla, of Glasgow, in a sinking condition and abandoned. She had evidently been in collision. J. B. Ware, Consul for Sweden, has been made a Knight of the Order of Vasa. Ballarat races—ln the grand National Steeplechase ten started, and Hans Breitman won easily from Sheet Anchor, who was second, and All Fours third. The Selling race was won by Aaron easily. The Grand Stand Stakes by Break O'Lay, with Dane second. Brisbane, March 23. The barque St Magnus, which arrived from Adelaide with a' cargo of flour from Cape Morton, was compelled through boisterous weather to go to sea again, and was lost, having turned turtle in a gale. The Boomerang passed a vessel bottom up, corresponding to the description of the St Magnus. The Government steamer, which went in search for survivors, failed to find any trace of the wreck or boats.

News from Cooktown to the 20th has been received. The Singapore and Adria landed 800 Chinese from Hong Kong. A rush to Bloomfield River proved a hoax. The miners on Normanby River are not doing anything. The reefs on the Palmer are making a good show with dollies. Some are giving 15oz to the hundredweight of stone. The blacks are still troublesome on the Upper Palmer. Sydney, March 23. Parliament opens to-day.

Adelaide. The River Darling has risen 15ft at Bourke, and 18ft at Buwaruna. The Gothenburg Fund has reached four thousand pounds. Half a million bushels of wheat are lying at Port Piri for shipment. There have been sales of Wheat at 4s.

INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, March 30. A fire at Woodside to-day destroyed Mr Collins' six-roomed house. It was insured in the Norwich Union for £125. The fire is supposed to have communicated from a clump of burning titree near. It was purely accidental. The criminal calendar comprises|thirteen cases. None are very serious. Grahamstown, March 30.

At the inquest on the body of Wm Booker, drowned at Ohinemuri, the jury returned a verdict " Found drowned." The body was brought down last night for burial. Napier, March 30.

There is much sickness here, and several cases of typhoid fever are reported. Dr Gibbes has published a letter in to-day's Herald on the subject, and on the want of hospital accommodation. Urgent cases are refused on the ground of there beiug no room. Alterations are much wanted. The local Board of Health is going to take the matter up. Wellington, March 30.

The Post states that Mr Prendergast will, to-morrow, be sworn in as Chief Justice of the colony. The oaths will be administered by Mr Justice Johnston, and the new Chief Justice will immediately leave for Otago to preside at the approaching sittings of the Supreme Court there. Wellington, March 31st. Arrived—The Easby, from Newcastle and Sydney. Mr W. C. Devenport, of the Bank of Australasia, died this morning at 8.30. He was unconscious at the time. Dunedin, March 30.

Judge Chapman sits on the Bench for the last time to-morrow, when he will make a farewell address to the bar.

[FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, March 30.

Mrs Darrell has reappeared at the Prince of Wales Theatre with her husband, since the termination of Mr and Mrs Hoskins' engagement. Last night there was a crowded house, the largest of the season, to witness Mr Darrell's drama, "The Struggle for Freedom." Mr Darrell's drama has been very successful, and possesses considerable merit.

The carp placed by the Acclimatisation Society in Lake Taupo have multiplied remarkably. The natives are netting and drying them, and some are five pounds in weight. At an auction of fruit from the northern part of the Auckland Province, and also from Nelson, the former realised much the highest prices, from which the Southern Cross argues the superiority of the Auckland province for growing fruit. The man Booker, one of Barrow's party, who came up from Christchurch to the Thames shortly after the opening of the Ohinemuri, and was lost in the bush, was at work on a claim about five miles back, where it is believed the men had a good show ; and he was missed from the claim soon after. Little notice was taken then of his absence as it was thought he had remained to rest in the tent. At the next meal he was still absent, and his mates began to wonder what had become of him. He was last seen going in the direction some prospectors had taken, who had called at the tent. The search was continued for three days by Booker's mates and the police, and also by the natives, and ultimately the body was found in the Ohinemuri river, about two miles above Mackay Town. It is believed he fell over a cliff while prospecting up the river. The body was found in a large water hole, and had a nasty cut over one eye. Booker was a resident of Riccarton, Canterbury where his parents reside. Messrs Reed and Brett, the proprietorsof the Auckland Star, have instructed their solicitors to issue a writ for libel against the Lyttelton Times unless an apology is immediately made for the publishing of telegrams in its issue of the 22nd, stating that Messrs Keed and Brett had personally superintended bill stickers while pasting over the Hon Mr Fox's bills announcing his farewell temperance lectures. Both the proprietors were absent from town when the bill-sticker pasted over a few of Mr Fox's placards which had been surreptitiously placed on some Star boards.

Confidence in the Ohinemuri is increasing. It is believed that the reefs will be more patchy. A correspondent writing from the field states that "Long Tom," who wrote to the New Zealand Times, is a miner named Sutherland, who was at the Thames a few years ago, but never went beyond Ropata's settlement, and consequently coidd Jhave no knowledge of the district. He also adds that the writer in the Otago Daily Times, who followed in the wake of Long Tom, is shrewdly supposed to be an ex-low comedian or circus clown.

A number of minor accidents fill to-night's paper, A child was pitched out of a cart. Mr Hesketh, the barrister, was thrown from his horse; a naval volunteer's nose was smashed off by a huge scoria boulder during a game of " duckstones;" and a bricklayer wading on the beach with his family on Easter Monday cut his foot so severely on an oyster shell, as to faint through loss of blood. None of the accidents are very serious. [from our dunedin correspondent.] Dunkdin, March 31. Mr Cook, as the oldest member of the bar, to-day presented Judge Chapman with an address on his retiring, to which Judge Chapman made a very feeling reply. The floating £65,000 worth debentures at 6 per cent, for city waterworks loan at £99 is considered highly satisfactory. The last cylinder of the Waitaki bridge has been successfully sunk. The contractors expect to hand over the works to Government at the end of August or beginning of September. The New Zealand Company yesterday paid £SOO, being the amount of their policy on the missing schooner Euphrosyne. Mr Conyers proceeded to Omaru to make arangements for opening at the end of the month the main line from Oamaru to Avamoko, seventeen miles in length. HOKITIKA RACES. {From a correspondent of the Press.) Hokitika, March 30. WESTLAND CUP, OF £2OO. Guy Fawkes, 6st 21b 1 Yatterina, Bst 41b 2 Tommy Dodd, 6st 101 b 3 BOROUGH HANDICAP, OP £4O. Guy Fawkes, 7st 7lb 1 Kingfisher, 6st 41b 2 Tambourini was scratched for all engagemeats.