TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 100, 25 September 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(JBcr Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph Agency. ) SPECIAL CABLE TELEGRAM. DON CASTER RACES. Melbourne, September 17. The St Lcgcr, run at 3 p.m. yesterday, was telegraphed specially to the Argus through in seven hours. According to astronomical time the hour of running would correspond to 1 a.m. here. Mr Lautide's ch f Apology ... 1 Sir R. Bulkley's ch c Leoliuus... 2 Mr Marshall's br c Trent ... 3 Thirteen horses ran. [We cannot understand what horses the names are intended to represent, but we try the above solution, which we think maybe found to be the correct result. It seems absolutely impossible to get a sporting telegram accurately remitted.— Ed. Globe.] AUSTRALIAN NEWS. (Per the Tauarua.) Nelson, September 21, The Tararua arrived at the outer anchorage at 4.30 p.m. She sails for Wellington at 7 a.m. to-morrow. The Hokitika and Grey bars were both rough and impracticable. She met the Otago near the sandspit, and transhipped the West Coast mails and passengers. She brings 150 tons cargo for Nelson, 200 for Wellington. 10 for Lytteltou, and 10 for Dunedin. The English telegrams are the same as received per the Victoria. Melbourne, September 17. The Albion, with the English mails, will leave for the Bluff in the course of a day or two, the Glenora being hourly expected at Adelaide. Melbourne, September IG. The Government, have so far carried their budget intact, the increases to twenty per cent being agreed to by a fairly large majority. The Treasurer was a good deal badgered for deserting his principles and following the protectionists. Mr Langton, the ex-Treasurer, stated in the course of the discussion that had he remained in office, he would have remitted duties on imports amounting to a million and a half, and make up the loss by imposing a stamp duty and a tax on bank notes. The Royal Commission appointed in connection with the Philadelphia Exhibition intended to ascertain if concerted action can be obtained in the Australian colonies. A statistical paper has been published showing the relative positions of the several colonies. In New Zealand it shows that the rate of taxation per head of population is £3 18s lfjd, and the rate of indebtedness per head of population £4O 5s lid, which is considerably higher than any other colony. The value of imports per head is within £l2. Victoria is the highest on the list of exports, New Zealand being only above Western Australia and Tasmania. A severe gas explosion occurred on Tuesday night at the house of the Rev James Ballantyne, and caused great damage to the premises, and severely injured his wife and son. Bishop Berry is not likely to return to the colony. Madame Goddard and Jenny Claus are appearing in conjunction under Mr Lyster's management. The Californian mail steamer left San Francisco on Sunday, the 13th. The Payment of Members' Bill was read a second time last night by a majority of ten. A clerk in the Union Bank, named Shaw, has suddenly disappeared. His accounts have been found correct. Sydney, September 24. Sailed : Annie Leslie, for Christchurch. Launckston, September 24. The failures cause a depression in the markets. The creditors of Peters, Barnard, and Co have resolved to accept no composition, but have a thorough investigation. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, Sept 24. The damage to the whaif alone by yesterday's gale is estimated at £IOO. Vessels from the Coast all report very severe weather. The Taranaki has arrived from tin; South and reports encountering a terrific gale yesterday which swept the decks of everything moveable carrying away one of tinboats and a portion of the rail. They saw two water spouts. Grahamstown, Kept 24 The Advertiser publishes another letlei from the Piako natives, in which they all eg' that the reason they close, the Pinko s, that the proprietor of th<> steam launch h:is refused to carry them as passengers Prom the Advertiser's explanation it would rippear that the one particular trip when tinMaoris weie refused a passage the steamer was chartered,

THIS DA Y'S TELEGRAMS. Kaiapoi, September 25. North Hue repairs will be finished at four o'clock, 4.30 train can run through. Wellington, September 25. Mr J. S. Williams, Registrar General, and Judge Weston, have been holding an enquiry into certain charges of defalcations, made against an officer in the Stamp Department. The enquiry has just concluded, and it is understood that the result is that there is no foundation whatever for the charges. New Plymouth, September 2-1. A stiff gale was blowing the whole of yesterday, and the sea in the roadstead was rougher than has been known for years. Shoals of fish were washed ashore. The waves were as high as the Sugar Loaves. At high tide the sea washed more reclaimed laud away, near the proposed railway station. During the storm on Tuesday the lightning struck a house in the country, doing some damage. Alexandra, September 25. The Waipa is now flooded higher than any time before this winter. A great extent of crops at Kopua, and other settlements, are under water. Nelson, September 25th. At the Fire Brigade Demonstration last night, the brigade formed a torchlight procession from the port, accompanied by the Artillery Volunteers and band. They paraded the town, and then dined at the Masonic Hotel. The Superintendent in the chair, the Mayor accepting the vice-chair. His Excellency the Governor and Captain Simpson, of the Blanche, were guests. His Excellency, in returning thanks to the toast of his health, made some very sarcastic remarks in reference to the frequency of fires, and the want of appliances for extinguishing them in Auckland. [from our dunedin correspondent.] Dunedin, September 25. Brothers Cameron, Adams, and Carr, represent the Dunedin lodges at the Christchurch Convention of Good Templars. They leave by the Bruce to-day.