TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 423, 20 October 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

{Per Press Agency.') THIS HAT’S TELEGRAMS. LATEST FROM EUROPE AND T STRALIA. PER ALBION, VIA HOKITIKA. «. Hokitika, October 19. The Albion left on the 14th at 5.30 p.m., and experienced fine weather throughout the passage. On the 18th she passed a schooner painted white, bound to the westward. Passengers for Lyttelton—Mr Maclean, and four in the steerage. The Suez mail was not telegraphed when the Albion left. London, October 12. The Cape Ministry has summoned a special session of Parliament to consider Lord Carnarvon’s proposal for federation. The French Government has ordered the formation of a territorial army of 120,000 men. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, October 14. The Ministry having resigned, Sir James McCulloch has been sent for to form a Ministry, and the House adjourned till Tuesday, October 19th, to enable him to complete the necessary arrangements. Nothing has yet transpired, but there is no doubt that Sir James will be successful in his task. It is just possible that Mr Kerferd may be Chief Secretary, and Sir J. McCulloch Premier and Treasurer. An Opposition to the new Ministry is threatened. At the inquiry into the wreck of the Flying Squirrel on King’s Island, the master was acquitted from blame, as the rock struck upon was not shown on the Admiralty charts. Bentley, late manager of the Bank of New South Wales, at Beechworth, has been convicted on several charges of making false entries, and has been remanded for sentence. Oats are very quiet, as it is reported that considerable quantities are coming from New Zealand, by the Poilland. Sailed—l3th : StKilda, for Greymouth. Newcastle. Sailed—l2th ; Neptune, for Wellington. Sydney. Treeve has been committed for trial for forging a promissory note for £1095. The information was laid by the Phoenix Building Society, of which he was secretary. At Mudgee, John Regan was acquitted of the murder of his paramour. The drought at Cass in causing serious apprehensions for the crops. A disc-marker has been slightly wounded by a bullet, a Volunteer having fired at the wrong target. INTERPROVINCIAL. Wellington, Oct. 20. Sailed—The Forest Queen, for Lyttelton, ■with nineteen packages of locomotive machinery.