The Globe. TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 291, 18 May 1875, Page 2

The Globe. TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Press Telegraph Agency.~) Auckland, May 17,

The barque Shooting Star, from London, 145 days out, is anchored at the Heads. She shows no signs of damage. It is supposed that the protracted voyage is owing to contrary winds and her slow sailing qualities. Fiji maize was sold at auction to-day at 5s 6d per bushel. DUNEDIN, May 17.

Complaints are numerous as to the manner in which the postal delivery is carried on here.

It has been raining haavily since three this morning. The town in places is flooded.

THIS DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Wellington, May 18. Arrived—The Elibank Castle, from Lyt> telton.

Auckland, May 18.

The voyage of the Shooting Star was uneventful. It was protracted by long continued adverse weather. She encountered a hurricane off the North Cape on the 15th inst. She was ninety-six days making the meridian of the Cape. She brings no passengers; Dunedin, May 18.

The following motion by Mr Bastings in the Council is expected to lead to a trial of strength:—" That the financial proposals brought down by the Government are (not?) satisfactory; that the present distribution of the Executive officers has not been found to be conducive to the proper administration of the affairs of the province, and the Council therefore requests the Government to reconsider their present position with a view to a better financial and administrative arrangement being arrived at." The debate was adjourned.

(FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.) Auckland, May 17.

Further disclosures have been made regarding the Government Engineer Corps on the Waikato. Staff-Sergeant Barlow writes: —"I will now relate the manner in which officers mustered their tools for the inspection of the officers sent for that purpose. Previous to, and on the last visit of Colonel Gorton, old, worn out, and previously condemned tools were raked up, some fished up out of the lake at Rangiriri, where they had laid for months before ; the mens private mess pails and utensils were borrowed pro tern, to make up the requisite number, but this not being enough for more than one detachment, the inspector was cajoled into an hotel for refreshments, and meanwhile a party of men were despatched by a near cut to the next detachment with the before-men-tioned fishing and dredging tools, to be again counted by the inspector. How long these affairs are to continue of course depends on the action taken by the Government in the matter. For my part I intend to assist to the utmost, like the sergeant-major and Colour-sergeant Craig, in exposing these frauds. "

The police are vigorously prosecuting the parents of children in the Neglected Children's Home, for failing to contribute to wards their support. One parent was sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment, and another to a month's imprisonment. To-day chorister boys were introduced into the' Anglican church for the first time at St Paul's.

Yesterday the Good Templars determined on the erection of a large hall at Newton, by the formation of a company.

[from our dunedin correspondent.] Dunedin, May 17. The Mikado left San Francisco on the Ist of May, five days late. The Mount Ida Pastoral Association have carried forward over £4OOO on the year's transactions, equal to 40 per cent on the capital. Ulrich's report on the Cromwell reefs has induced the visit of some Victorian speculators, who last week inspected the reefs. The Try Again's crushing from some loose stuff was 261 ounces, or nearly equal to one ounce to the ton.

The press here are paying more attention to pulpit deliverances. In a forcible sermon Mr Roseby said a scrutiny of society showed that idolatry was as prevalent, as foolish, and as cruel here as in ancient times or in heathen lands. The worship of money and pleasure was more faithfully and generally observed than the worship of the Creator. Bishop Nevill, commenting on the great importance of the religious aspect of the education question, said he was brought into contact about a week ago with an atheist, who contended in angry terms that there was no difference between a human being and a bullock. Biblical instructions were necessary in week and day schools, as well as in Sunday schools. Information was received at Cromwell on Friday that a man named Bynon was lying dead in his hut in Potter's Gully, at Carrick, death being the result of a drunken debauch, kept up for some days in company with his mate, Mathew O'Rorke, and a storekeeper named Birnie. The following particulars were elicited at the inquiry into his death. While Birnie was indulging with Bynon, the latter's wife came into Cromwell to look for him, leaving her family of small children in Potter's Gully, an out of the way place, where the population is composed principally of Chinese. The woman seemed unsettled in her mind, and talked vaguely. The mystery is how she managed to get through the snow, which in places is very deep. On Tuesday the police received a message that the woman had come to Kawarau station (about six miles from her own residence) the night previous, with a dying child in her arms. The child was taken from her and restoratives applied, and the wanderers accommodated for the night. When morning came the mother had left the place, and no trace of her is to be found. No doubt the woman is out of her mind, and fears of the worst are entertained, as the snow is very heavy on jthe ranges. The jury returned a verdict censuring the storekeeper. Mr Mills has received a cablegram which announced that the s.s Taupo sailed from Clasgow for Port Chalmers direct on the Ist inst. The Taupo is commanded by Captain Macfarlane, and is the second steamer built for the Union Company, aad is expected to

make the passage in sixty days. She is 720 tons gross, and 461 tons net register. The following are the particulars of Mc Gregor's case:—Although the alleged assault took place about three weeks since, the girl's guardians, her uncle, a married man named Samuel Ayers, living at railway cutting, Kaka Creek, and his wife, could not be prevailed upon, although persistently asked to do so, to communicate the facts to either the police or Dr Smith, who subsequently attended the girl, they stating their wish not to expose the latter. The doctor, however, became acquainted with the facts, and from a statement furnished by him to the police, it appears that the girl was in the habit of taking meat from the butcher's cart to the workmen's tents on the camp close by. On the day in question she took meat to McGregor, and there being no one else in the tent, he attempted to commit the offence, until the child's screams compelled him to desist. The opinion of medical men is that McGregor accomplished his purpose. The worst part of the affair is that the girl suffers from disease which he communicated to her. On Saturday, Bth, a number of men employed on the works got wind of what had occurred and pulled down McGregor's tent and hooted him off the works. On Monday he left for Oamaru, and proceeded to Dunedin en route for the Palmer diggings.