The Globe. SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 253, 3 April 1875, Page 2

The Globe. SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

LATEST FROM EUROPE * [FROM OUR DUNEDIN CORRESPONDENT,] [Cablegrams.] London, March 24. Count Jarnac, the French Ambassador at London, is dead. In the House of Commons the second reading of the Bill for the partial repeal of the coercion laws relating to Ireland was carried. During the debate Mr Disraeli emphatically denied any disavowal of the meaning attributed to his Guildhall speech being in consequence of the remostrances of Prince Bismarck. INTERPROVINCIAL. (Press Telegraph Agency.') Auckland, April 2. The Albion, whaler, was sold to-day for £IOOO. She was purchased by Capt Daldy on behalf of the Steam Packet Company. Napier, April 2. 11,000 acres of the Wairoa confiscated block has been granted to military settlers under the regulations of March, 1874. The balance is to be put up to auction. A lifeboat for this port was landed from the Southern Cross to-day. Wellington, April 2. The Tribune says, we have reason to believe that the report by Major Palmer on the subject of the surveys of the colony, which will be laid on the table of the House of Representatives next session, will be such as to astonish the public, as an expose of official and professional blundering, and this, not in one province only, but in all alike. Major Palmer is busily engaged in getting his information into shape, as he haa to return to England by the next San Francisco mail steamer, to give his account of the Transit of Venus to the home authorities. The next criminal calendar is unusually heavy. There are thirteen indictments against ten prisoners. The directors of the New Zealand Steam Company have decided not to lay up the steamer Wellington to put compound engines in her. The delay would be too long. They will put new boilers in her and give her a thorough overhaul. Nelson, April 2. Further news from the Sandspit says that a fiddle figure-head has been found, painted black, with the raised carving painted yellow, also windlass chock, painted the first coat green, and the second yellow; also several blue gum stanchions. Measles are very prevalent here, several cases having occurred in the last three days. Wanganui, April 3, Fat beef, 25s per lOOlbs; cows, £5 10s to £7 15s; steers, £6 ss; fat cows, £6 10s; heifers, £3 10s to £5; fat sheep, half-breds, 10s 3d; ewes, 4s to ss. Horses sell very dull. Thomas Anslow was brought up on remand charged with arson. A good deal of strong evidence was produced, but the case was again remanded for further evidence. Bail would have been allowed but Anslow cou'd find no sureties. Dunedin, April 2. A fire broke out this morning at one o’clock in a stable on the grounds of the Dunedin Club. The blaze, while it lasted, was terrific. The brigades were on the spot promptly, but could do nothing, owing to the inflammable nature of the building. A valuable horse, the property of a member of the club, and another, belonging to the occupier of the buildings, were burnt to death. It is ascertained that the building was uninsured. A private telegram has been received in town yesterday from Lawrence, intimating tnat his Honor Wilson Gray is so dangerously ill that faint hopes are entertained of his recovery, He gave judgment in some intricate cases last Monday, attended by two medical men, and then was carried back to his hotel. Dunedin, April 3, The papers this morning contain two columns of correspondence between the Provincial and General Governments re the Ocean Beach railway. The Superintendent’s letters all support the scheme, especially on sanitary grounds. The wind up of the matter is, that the Colonial Government will not allow the company to proceed with the line till the Bill is passed. Judge Gray is rapidly sinking. [FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, April 2; It is reported that Sir George Grey has but little hope of effecting much in the Assembly as it is at present constituted. He trusts to a general election to alter the constitution of the House. . Seven hundred shares in the Masonic Hall Company are already taken, and it is expected that the project will be readily floated. . . During the measles epidemic the Fiji native churches were used as hospitals. The chiefs were inattentive to the sufferers, which caused a great mortality amongst them. The epidemic was abating when the steamer left. [FROM OUR DUNEDIN CORRESPONDENT.] Dunedin, April 2. Discussing bankruptcy, the Otago Daily Times says it would like to see the experiment tried of taking away from the creditor the power of recovering small debts say £SO, leading untouched larger transactions. The Times also congratulates the community on its retention in their midst as a citizen of one so well known and able a gentleman as Judge Chapman, and one so able and willing to forward matters of public interest. There is much dissatisfaction at the appointment of the Rev Mr Grainger to the curacy of Waikouaiti. _ The parishioners were all but unanimous in their choice for Jftr William*, and memorialised the oomi-

nators accordingly. The latter considered the memorial an attempt to influence them, and refused to consider it. In order to close the work of a late sitting at a District Court at Tuapeka, Mr Wilson Gray was carried on to the Bench, where with vigorous and unclouded faculties he gave judgment in some intricate cases. He was attended during the whole time by two medical men, and then carried back again to his buggy and was slowly driven to the hotel, it is feared, only to die. At the Taieri races, Kildare won the Hurdle Race, Maid of Arrow refusing the jumps. The Farmers’ Purse fell to Verbena, and the Taieri Handicap to Wee Lad, beating Snip, Miss Alfred, and Verbena. Dunedin, April 3. The revenue of the province exceeds that of last year by £IOO,OOO.