The Globe. THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 251, 1 April 1875, Page 2

The Globe. THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Press Telegraph Agency.') NEWS BY TORRES STRAITS MAIL. No reliable information is obtainable concerning new teas News from Spain states that Don Carlo' is experiencing severe reverses. The ship Calabar", supposed to have been lost, is safe at Travar core. Prince Bismarck is guarded by the policr at his private residence. The German war vessels have arrived at Kantander,

There have been great festivities at Brussels, on the occasion of the marriage of Princess Louisa, eldest daughter of King Leopold II His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was present. An English frigate has been sent in support of the British Cousul at Aspinwall, who was assaulted.

The correspondent of the Daily Telegraph has again been threatened with imprisonment. Governor CI arke's mission to Burmah to stop a quarrel between the KiDg and his brother has been successful. He waa received with honors and cordially. Both Kings are reconciled. He returned to Singapore on the 13th of February. Commc rcial confidence has been restored. The survivors of the Euxine are still awaiting their trial for murder at Singapoie. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, March 31. Judge Arney this afternoon took leave of the Bench and the Bar. Mr Whitaker, on behalf of himself and colleagues, made a short farewell speech, in which he expatiated upon the patient and impartial consideration which his Honor had always bestowed upon the cases brought before him, and the courtesy he had always extended to the legal profession. They were sincerely sorry to loss him, at the same time they trusted that he would live long, and enjoy that ease in retirement which he had so merited. His Honor responded in a speech replete with feeling. He thanked them for their kind expression of good-will. He said time and failing years had rendered it impossible for him to discharge his duties satisfactorily. He spoke encouragingly to the young men, members of the Bar, and said the time would come when the Bar would be a power in the land. Wellington, March 31st. A. S. Reed, formerly assistant law officer, has been appointed Solicitor-General for the colony. A good deal of bill drafting for the next session is being done outside of the Government office. The swearing-in of the Chief Justice did not take place to-day, owing to Chief Justice Arney holding sittings in banco at Auckland. The. ceremony is to take place to-morrow, after which the Chief Justice leaves for the South per the Easby. Port Chalmers. A shocking accident happened at 10.30 a.m. by which a man named George Smith who was engaged removing the face of an embankment was crushed to death. His bowels were protruding, and legs almost severed from his body. The deceased was married and leaves seven children. Dunedin, March 31. At the Supreme Court this morning member's of the bar, numbering thirty-two, met to present an address to Judge Chapman on hi? retirement from the Bench. Mr George Cook, assessor, senior member, addressed his Honor, alluding to his long services and connection for the second time of eleven years with the Supreme Court- He stated he felt the bar and public would be deprived of an able, experienced, and courteous judge. He had their best wishes individually, and in his domestic relation hoped he would long be spared to eDJoy the rest and repose he so well deserved, tiis Honor, in replying, was deeply affected, and stated he was deeply moved with the expression of kindly feelinar which had fallen from Mr Cook. He had had a tenure of office of nineteen years in the province, and eleven years in this district. He arrived here in 1853, when there was very little work for a judge. There had been a few little disegreeablenesses no doubt between himself and the bar. but he trusted they were as hastily forgotten as they were hastily made. He thought the show oP wigs and gowns before him spoke well for the increasing growth of the province. He concluded by stating that though it would be the last time he should meet them as Judge Chapman, he hoped many times to enjoy their company as Mr Chapman. The water supply is getting alarmingly low. Captain Ross, of the City of Dunedin, charged with assaulting his steward, was fined 20s and costs. Judge Gray is very ill at Lawrence, and cannot travel. HOKITIKA RACES. {From a correspondent of the Press.) Hokitika, March 31. Westland Racing Club Handicap, of 110 sovs. Yatterina, Bst 1 Guy Fawkes, 7st 71b 2 Hurdle Handicap, 60 sovs. Tommy Dodd, lOst 71b 1 Stewards' Handicap, 50 sovs. Yatterina, Bst 1 Guy Fawkes, 7st 21b 2 Consolation Handicap: Magenta, Bst 1 Kingfisher, 6st 91b 2 The flat races were well contested. TEIS DATS TELEGRAMS. Wellington, April 1. There have been several cases of typhoid fever recently which have resulted fatally. Dunedin, April 1. At the meeting of the City Council last evening, it appeared that the cost of the proposed gasworks would be probably from £28,000 to £30,000, The crops in the Mount Benjer district turned out heavier than those of any previous year. The fields of oats have yielded as high as seventy bushels to the acre, and in some instances a little over eighty. Nearly every week cases come before the Waste Lands Board of departmental mistakes in connection with land sales, and it appears that a great deal of matter goes into the Gazette, including important proclamations, without being revised, being furnished to the printer because copy is sent in late. Groves v Somerville, a sociable London case, was tried in the District Court, before the District Judge, Mr Bathgate, yesterday, and lasted until a late hour. Judgment was reserved. There is no sign of the Jessie Nichol, the vessel sent to search for the missing schooner Euphrosyne. [FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, March 31. A fatal accident has occurred at Whitaker's bush, Wakarau. On Saturday last a bushman named John Robinson, was engaged with two others in felling a Kauri tree, when it suddenly fell in an opposite direction to that anticipated, and crushed the

deceased to death almost instantaneously. One of Robinson's mates, Isaac Currie, also had a narrow escape, as he and the deceased ran in the same direction; but Currie looking up, saw the tree falling on them, and turned and ran the opposite way, thus escaping. The deceased was formerly in the 65th Regiment. Captain Palmer has passed his examination before the Marine Board, and succeeds Captain Farquhar in command of the Star of the South. [from our dunedin correspondent.] Dunedin, March 31. All the papers condemn the Press Agency for overlooking important telegrams. The Guardian is particularly severe, and without saying that anything is unfairly done, hints that the suppression of such important news as the floating of the Dunedin loan for eleven days, shows how easily a ring could be formed for rigging the markets. It winds up by saying that unless some efficient supervision is instituted over the power now virtually enjoyed, of the monopoly of purveying news for the colonial press, the sooner the newspapers combine to dispense with the services of monopolists, the better it will be for themselves for their clients and for the people and property of the country.

. The police have taken cognizance of the fight between Prince, the bookmaker, and S. Haynes, Mr Delamain's trainer. The Customs revenue collected here for the March quarter of 1875 is. for January, £34,389; for February, £33,613; for March, £32,702; total, £100,705; ditto in 1874, for same three months, £30,213, £33,692, and £28,158; total, £92,064.

The following are additional particulars concerning the case of drowning in the Waitaki. The deceased, Philip Smith, was employed at the ferry at the main road crossing, and was seeking a new ford in the river on Sunday evening, on horseback, when the horse being swept off his feet by the current, Smith was thrown into the stream, from which he never emerged. The horse got to the bank, but the body of Smith is not yet recovered. The deceased was thirtyfour years of age. A dreadful accident has taken place in the cutting of George street, Port Chalmers. This morning a number of men in the employ of Mr Proudfoot were engaged in cutting a chamber in the face of the embankment, about eighteen feet in height, when the earth suddenly gave way, and the side of the slip completely buried a man named George Smith. When the body was exposed to view the bowels were protruding, one of the legs was torn off, and the whole body more or less mangled. Nearly every practitioner in the city attended the Banco sitting this morning. Mr Cook in his address thanked Judge Chapman for the great care and attention he had always given to the cases brought before him. Judge Chapman was much moved, and in replying said that during the nineteen years he had sat on the Bench his relations with the Bar had been of the most friendly and satisfactory character. April 1. Mr F. D. Rich, who represented Waikouaiti in 1869 on the protectionist and separation ticket, opposes Mr McLean for Waikouaiti.

Miss Christian leaves for your city per Wellington to-day.