The Globe. SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 318, 19 June 1875, Page 2

The Globe. SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

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LATEST FROM EUROPE

e ARRIVAL OF THE CYPHRENES AT AUCKLAND WITH THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL. Aucklakd, June 19. The Cyphrenes arrived about eleven last night, two days under her contract time. She left San Francisco on May 25th, and Honolulu on the 3rd of June. Passengers for New Zealand —Mr and Mrs Memarter, Mr and Mrs DeGlorian, Mr and Mrs Bury, Messrs Kipper, Edwarfl DeGlorian, Wheeler, Burnett, and four in the steerage, and fifty for Sydney,

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Thirty miners were killed by an explosion at a colliery at Talk of the Hill, Staffordshire. Garternis, president of the revolutionary Junta at Carthagena, has died at Geneva. The Times endorses Mr Gladstone's letter on the Centennial. The Earl of Pembroke resigns the UnderSecretaryship for War, and is succeeded by Lord Cadogan. In a mutiny aboard an American schooner en 'route to London, the two mates were killed, and several of the crew wounded. The Catholic organs condemn the election of the Prince of Wales as Grand-Master of the Freemasons. A lunatic has threatened Prince Bismarck's life. There has been a revolution at Port au Prince, and great excitement. British gun boats have been despatched to the ports. Cardinal Manning protests against Prince Bismarck's plans. The Duke of Buckingham has been appointed Governor of Madras. The Czar insists on peace between Germany and France. There was a great demonstration in Dublin at the funeral of the American Fenian Mullens.

At a meeting of the Emperors of Russia and Germany, in Berlin, it was decided that peace was to be maintained. English authors urge international copyrights, and Mr Disraeli promises to support them. The death of the sporting parson, the Rev JohnKingof Ashley de Launde, is announced. Polish Priests have been arrested for aiming at Prince Bismarck's life. The steamer Wyoming has arrived at New York with 100 Welsh converts to Mormonism Eighty-nine bodies have been recovered from the Schiller wreck. China cedes the Pagharlien Islands to Russia. The Czar expressed a wish to hold a conference with M. Thiers. Russia sends a satisfactory note to England relative to Central Asia. The Carlists have shelled Quetara. The Empress Eugenie will accept no compromise of her claims against the French Government. The Schiller has broken up; her officers are accused of drunkenness. The Italian Senate votes a donation to Garibaldi. Comte de Chambord still has hopes that Monarchy will be established in France. The Canadian Pacific Railway will be pushed ahead. Count Von Arnim is to have another trial. The London Times compliments America on the efforts made to reduce the National debt. There has been a serious fire at Launceston, in Cornwall, Small pox has appeared in the Carlist Camp. A free press and free speech have been established in Spain, Russia makes a treaty with the Pope. The Figaro creates a sensation in Paris by advocating the postponement of French revenge for one hundred years. The Alfonaists have been defeated at Dswrihill (?) and;Urio. The death of ex Queen Amelia, widow of the late King Otho of Greece, and the death of Mr Dudley Baxter have been announced. The Italian Government has ordered the removal of all bishops who have not received royal approval. Judge Keogh has decided that Mr Mitchell's election was illegal, he being a felon and an alien.

AMERICAN NEWS.

The prohibition liquor laws in Michigan have been repealed. The new balloon belonging to T. P. Barnum has made a successful trip. There has been a large fire in New York. The English swimming champion (J. B. Johnson) has accepted C. Clarke's (American champion) challenge to swim from one to twenty miles for £SOO. Eight steamers, with 679 saloon and 1180 steerage passengers, left New York to-day for Europe. Writs against Tweed have been issued for 6,000,00 t) dolbirs. French and English gunboats have been ordered to Newfoundland to prevent trouble between the fishermen.

There has been a large fire in Vermont, causing a Joss of 150,000 dollars. By the suspension of the Philadelpia iron foundry of N. G. Morris, with liabilities of 200,000d015, 600 men have been thrown out of work. General Sheridan is about to marry. The Darien Canal is being surveyed.

All the leading distilleries in Chicago have been seized by the Government for fraud. An immense swindling ring has been discovered at Chicago. It was formed for borrowing 3,000,000d01s at six percent, President Grant has been threatened with assassination.

Pensylvania coal miners have been stoned and shot by strikers. The managers of the Chicago distilleries were arrested charged with conspiracy to defraud.

Twenty-five bags of the New Zealand mails have been recovered from the wreck of the Schiller. Mrs Abraham Lincoln is declared to be insane.

The Chicago gaugers are implicated in the whiskey frauds. The Deutsche Brazil Branch bank has failed for 5,000,000d01a. There are extensive forest fires in Penysylvania and New Jersey. There is great, destruction of property, and hundreds of families are homeless. News has been received of the loss of the Osciola, valued at 2,000,000d015. There is a report of an incendiary attempt to burn the town of Shenandoah, Virginia. Mrs Lincoln has attempted to commit suicide. The Pennsylvania wood fires are still raging, whole towns being destroyed by the fire, Four trains, with one thousand people on board, rushed through the burning woods. The following are the particulars of the loss of the Schiller :—She carried a full cargo and an unusually heavy mail. She was *nanned by a.crew of 125, wilh officers. and had 140 cabin and 129 steerage passen-

gers, making a total of 385 souls. The ' course of the steamer was up the English Channel through the Straits of Dover into the German Ocean. It is evident that the captain, owing probably to a heavy fog, was considei ably out of his course. Part of the coast where the Schiller struck is notoriously dangerous, and very difficult to navigate, notwithstanding that it is abundantly sup plied with lights. Of the 385 souls aboard, only 47 are known to be saved. The Schiller took out a general cargo of merchandise, valued at 150,000d015, which was insured in New York and London offices, In addition she carried 300,000d01s of soecie. The vessel was valued at fiOO.OOOdols, and was fully insured in Hamburg and London companies. The New York Herald's special correspondent gives full incidents relative to the disaster, as follows: —The survivors and dead arrived ac Penzance yesterday as follows: — At eight o'elock there came in a boat with seven persons; then came two boats containing women and children, and a ship's boat was subsequently picked up containing the bodies of a little boy and four men. One man was found floating on a piece of wreck at a late hour of the day, and three bodies were recovered from the sea when boats finally ieached the neighbourhood of the Belarriene ledge. The last mast of the Schiller weat overboard, and scores of people who were clinging to it were drowned, after having endured the most agonising suspense during the night. The passengers had mostly gone to sleep at the time of the accident. The Belarriene ledge on which the vessel struck is oue of many dangerous shoals lying inside Bishop's Rock. There is a lighthouse on the island of Roswear, south of Bishop's Hock, and the fogbell ought to have been heard by the steamer. No such disaster as the present has happened on the Cornish coast since the wreck of the John May in 1855, when two hundred lives were lost. The Herald says the responsibility of this awful shipwreck seems to rest on the officers. There was no storm, but simply a fog, and the darkness of the night, and considering that even if none of the lights could have been seen, the Bishops Rock fog bel) could have been heard, and then there was still chance for the unlucky Schiller, the passengers are the victims of a terrible blunder. It cannot be that an event so terrible and apparently so unnecessary, shall be overlooked. The Schiller was lost on a well-known coast to experienced sailors, not on a new rock, but on a reef of immemorial danger. The following additional accounts of the disaster have been received. A heavy fog prevailed, and no observations were made aboard since Tuesday; in consequence of the fog the engines were at half speed, and sail was reduced at 9 p.m on Friday night. At 10 o'clock the same night she struck the Ledge. A great panic prevailed, and Captain Thomas is highly praised for his conduct during the terrible scene which followed. Two boats were filled with men who refused to deliver them over to the Captain, he then fired his revolver over their heads to drive them out and then fired at them, but without effect. Afterwards all who were on board these small boats perished, as the tackle at the stern was released too soon, leaving the boats suspended by the bows. Three boats then got away, but one of these boats was so badly injured that she sank, but eleven of those aboard have been rescued by other boats. The fog-lights were plainly visible. Two boats were crushed by the falling of the funnel. Guns were fired from the steamer until the power became wet. The deck house, crowded with passengers, was swept away at two o'clock in the morning. The captain gathered some of the survivors on board the barge, and all were gradually swept away by the flow of the tide. The rigging, which remained above water, was crowded with passengers and crew. The mainmast fell at 7.30 a.m., with all who had taken refuge on it. The remaining boats and wrecked stuff saved the lives of some who had drifted away. One man was rescued after being in the •water ten hours. The passengers say that Capt Thomas left the bridge at 3 a.m., when the deck was swept away by a heavy sea. He was not in bed for five nights previous to the disaster. The sea began to break over the vessel half-an-hour after she struck, and the tide rose twenty-five feet before daybreak. One woman was saved. The survivors who were landed at Treascoat (?), escaped in the Schiller's own boat. All accounts agree that the panic which followed the striking of the ship was terrible beyond description. Fishermen report that the Schiller is firmly settled on the rocks, and will not fall off into deep water, and there will be many days in the summer when salvage may be effected. There was a lifebelt in every berth when the disaster occurred. Captain Thomas issued orders that one should be fastened to every woman, but the women were drowned by the heavy seas. Boats cruising in the vicinity of the wreck continue to pick up bodies of the drowned. Seven mail bags were picked up and recovered two days after the disaster ; they contained mostly San Francisco and Auckland newspapers. At an inquest on twenty bodies from the steamer Schiller, H. Hall, first officer, testified that at the time the vessel struck Captain Thomas, and another officer were on the bridge ; men were looking out forward, and two others with the captain. Some London journals attribute the disaster to recklessness. The captain and second and third officers were drowned. Divers, who have examined the hull, found her broken up, and a confused mass of iron and timber. Her lower deck rested on the rocks, her bottom having been torn off by the rocks. None of the specie has been recovered, and no cargo is visible. One of the crew of the Schiller has informed a correspondent of the Standard that the officers were drunk when she struck, and that several passengers lay helpless until they were swept away by the waves. One hundred and thirty bodies have been recovered from the wreck, many much mutilated. In the passenger list published there does not appear the name of any New Zealand passenger.

INTERPEO VIN OIAL.

Auckland, June 18. The floods in the northern Wairoa river, caused by the recent heavy rains, were higher than for years; 900 logs were washed from I'e Kopura mill alone, and many from higher up the river. Induced by a reward of 20s for every square spar, and 2s 6d for every log, a considerable number of natives and Europeans are engaged in the work of re covering the lost property, which is worth thousands of pounds. They have been successful in securing nearly all. The floods at

Kaipara inundated a large extent of country, and drowned cattle. The lease of the Auckland market was sold by auction to-day, and realised £75 per month, being an increase of £134 on the last year's price. The market now yields 10 per cent interest on the corporation outlay. Taipari, a Hokianga chief, who has been drinking heavily lately, was sitting on a hotel counter, and fell off and injured his spine, and died shortly afterwards. Napier, June 18. Robert Vanie, pensioner, formerly of Auckland, was found dead in an unfurnished house in Tennyson street this morning. At the inquest the jury returned a verdict that deceased died from starvation ar.d neglect, accelerated by intemperance. At the Hastings election to-morrow, Mr Ormond is expected to be re-elected without opposition. Mr McKirdy, contractor, will be ready to hand over to the Government two miles of the line above Pakipaki on the 7th of July. In August the entire length of Messrs Brogden's contract to Waipawa will be nearly completed. The works thence to Takapau are in a forward state. Hokitika, June 18. The Melbourne Argus of the 11th has the following London items, June 7th :—The shareholders of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company to-day sanctioned the arrangements with Sir Julius Vogel for laying a cable between Australia and New Zealand. Sir J. Vogel's substitution of promissory notes for a free system of immigration is causing great dissatisfaction. A deputation from the Laborers K Union, headed by Mr Aich and Mr Holloway, waited on the New Zealand Premier, but in vain urged a continuance of free passages. [from our dtjnedin correspondent.] Dunediet, June 19. Mr Macandrew in proroguing the Councii to-day,* said that he cordially agreed that the proposed constitutional changes should first be defined anew, and then calmly and deliberately considered by the people. If this were done, abolition wonld find but few supporters.