CABLE TELEGRAMS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3938, 29 June 1877, Page 2

CABLE TELEGRAMS.

SINGAPORE, June 27. 1.57 p.m. It is reported that Sir William Jervois replaces Mr Cairns as Governor of South Australia.

AUCKLAND, June 27. A deputation of licensed victuallers waited on Dr Pollen, requesting that the license fees in the Auckland district be equalised with those in other parts of the colony. Dr Pollen said that the alteration must be made by the Legislature during the approaching session. An amended bill would be introduced, but he was not able to say whether the fees would be raised to the Auckland standard, or eqiialised on the scale existing in the South. A report presented to the Waste Lands Board states that o\vt of a' total oi 35,000 acres only three acres are classed as first quality, 30 acres second class, and the remainder third class. The board decided merely to sell the right to dig for gum. June 28. Sir George Grey has completely recovered his health. In view of a water supply the City Council have decided to fix the levels of all streets not yet surveyed. CHRISTCHURCH, June 28. The rumor of the stabbing case at the Lunatic Asylum is confirmed, and has caused a great sensation here. The particulars were " as follows : — After having dinner yesterday, Frederick White, one of the principal warders, proceeded to the kitchen. Mark Price, an inmate, soon after came in, and asked White for his keys. White said he had given them to another warder. Price immediately picked up a carving knife lying on the table, and stabbed White just below .he heart. The force of the blow was so great that the knife-blade entered White's body its full length. White died in about twenty minutes afterwards. Price, who has been an inmate of the asylum 14 years, was considered perfectly harmless, and j allowed complete liberty both in and about the asylum. White had been warder several years, and was highly respected by all who knew him. It is not known what Price's object was in asking for White's keys. There had been a qiiarrel between the two men previously. Another warder was in. the kitchen when the sad event occurred, but he had no opportunity of preventing it. The reported accident on the railway arose as follows : — Yesterday morning Mr and Mrs Berry, elderly people, were driving near the railway crossing at Templeton. The train came up, frightened the horse, which bolted, upset the trap, and its occupants were thrown violently out. Mr Berry fell on his head and broke his neck, and Mrs Berry sustained a severe fracture on the right arm. A somewhat singular fact is that Berry's daughter is married to a son of White, who was stabbed in the Lunatic Asylum yesterday, so that each loses a parent on the same day, and very nearly the same time. The Board of Education has resolved to recommend the various school committees to establish a system of Penny Saving's Banks in their schools. A man named John Fraser was found dead on the floor of his bedroom yesterday morning. He is supposed to have died in a fit. DUNEDIN, June 27. A Joint Stock Company is being formed in Dunedin under the auspices of Messrs John Bathgate, W. H. Reynolds, J. P. Maitland, Captain Fraser, and twentysix others. It is ostensibly a building society, but the articles of association provide for lending money upon personal property and upon personal security, guaranteed by approved coobligants. GREYMOUTH, June 28. Last Monday evening Michael Kinsell, miner, accompanied by Mrs Margaret M'lverney, of Nelson Creek, her two children, .and a young woman named Bridget Fitzsimmons, who was engaged to Kinsell, left the foot of Nelson Creek in a canoe, to cross the river to Blackball Creek. They not having reached their destination, a search party was formed, and yesterday they found the canoe bottom up with a woman's skirt on it. It is supposed that the girl Fitzsimmons, who could swim, had clung to the canoe and had afterwards attempted to reach land, but failed. The body of Mrs M'lverney was found this morning. The other bodies are being searched for. It is certain that the whole party were drowned.

[from our own cobbespondent.] GISBORNE, June 28. There was great excitement here last night over the election of borough councillors, and a deal of money changed hands. The result is as follows : —

These are the names of those elected councillors.

(prom our own correspondent.) WAIROA, June 28. The Mohaka people are anxious about the Mary Ann Hudson. The bar here will be practicable tomorrow.

[from our own correspondent.] DUNEDIN, June 28. Sir Francis Dillon Bell has accepted a seat in the Legislative Council, and Mr Alfred C. Strode has been asked by the Government to become a member of that House. It was currently reported to-day that Mrs Burn had resigned the Principalsliip of the Girls' High School. In the Supreme Court to-day, Mr Macassey moved for a rule nisi, calling upon a solicitor to show cause why he ■ should not answer certain affidavits filed. His Honor granted the rule. Great dissatisfaction exists at the Suez mail being detained at the Bluff for more than twenty-four hours. It will not arrive at Dunedin till to-morrow.

SUEZ MAIL NEWS. London, May 11. American engineers have reached St. Petersburg. Since Russian subjects in Turkey have been placed under German protection, Turkish subjects in Russia have been placed under English pi-otection. In consequence of Mr Lingard's remonstrances Chefkat Pasha, a leader in the Bulgarian atrocities, has been removed from the Mildavy command. Tlie nonpunishment of the leaders in the outrages continues to excite a strong feeling in England against the Turks. W. H. Wood, late assistant secretary to the Colney Hatch Company, has been sentenced to five years' penal servitude for embezzlement. After the defalcations wei'e discovered he sailed to New Zealand with a young woman, in the Ma3 r Queen, but was arrested on ai-rival by a detective and brought back to England. He had left a wife and children at home. A man named Fred Ford has been sen- j tenced to 7 years' penal servitude for j stealing New Zealand bonds to the value of £2000 from his employers, a firm of solicitors. He bolted to San Francisco, but was there apprehended and brought back to England. A seam of bright, soft coal has been found at Billingboro, Lincolnshire, in which county none had hitherto been found.

Sirs John McDonald and M'Kenzie, of Canada, propose that the Queen should take the title of Empress of Canada. The International Prison Congress at Stockholm, intended to be held in August, is postponed till next year, on account of the war. A Polish Legion is being formed in Turkey. A Russian commissary has been summarily shot at Odessa for tampering with the provisions for the army. It was stated in the House of Commons on the 13th of April that the total expenses in the Tichborne trial wore £60,000. Mr Shaw's motion for a committee of enquiry on the demand for Home Rule was defeated on the 24th April by 41 7 to 67. The Government members were in the minority, but the members and supporters of the late Government voted with them and made the majority. A large number of 10-horse power boats are being built at Davenport for landing troops on shallow beaches. They are to be finished by the end of May. 200,000 felt helmets, to replace the shako worn in the infantry, have been made in the Royal Clothing Factory. _ The Grlcm go to News has been made the victim of a great hoax upon the public, contained in a full and circumstantial account of the capture of a sea serpent, 110 feet long and 11 inches in girth, at Aden, in Scotland, after being surrounded by boats and fired at by the local volunteers. A telegram from Mr Robertson, manager of the Westminster Aqtiarium, offering to purchase the animal for the exhibition, produced a reply that the statement was a shameful hoax. At a review of the Highland Rifle Military at Fort George, on April 22, upon Colonel Ross asking who would volunteer for active service, the whole regiment, 700 strong, stepped'forward as one man. Lieut. -Colonel Baker, of the 18th Royal Irish, who served in New Zealand, lias been appointed an A.D.C. to Her Majesty. Colonel Herbert Sandford, R.A., has been knighted for his services at the Philadelphia Exhibition. The Duchess of Edinburgh is visiting the Queen, and will shortly proceed to Russia for a lengthened stay. Recruiting is brisker than since the Crimean war. The news of war breaking out in the East was received with great satisfaction at Aldershot, it being hoped that it would lead to active service. The Birmingham manufacturers have received an order from the English Government for 25,000 tents, and 500 of Whitehead's torpedoes have beenbought at £500 each. The Emperor of Germany has been visiting Alsace and Lorraine, and has been well received. During an illumination at Metz the cathedral caught fire, and was seriously injured. The Emperor, Crown Prince, and Von Moltke superintended the efforts to extinguish the flames. Much excitement was occasioned at a speech from Von Moltke, in the German Parliament, on the 24th April, in which he drew attention to the massing of French troops between Paris and the frontier. A war budget was made the subject of the discussion, and it is now believed that the speech was a parliamentary manoeuvre to secure the passing of the vote, which was effected. Many of the English and German Liberal papers call attention to the cruelty and persecution practised by Russia on the Poles and members of the United Greek Church. The English consular correspondence on the subject has been laid before Parliament. A translation of the Bible into Russian is to be completed for that Government, the British Bible Society's version being strictly prohibited. The Italian Senate has rejected a Bill dealing with clerical abuses, thereby giving great satisfaction to the Ultramontane party. A complete amnesty has been granted to all Carlists without exception. The Statistical Bureau of Washington states that that the present grain supply is short, and that the Californian crop for 1877 will be short. The Commander of the Darien expedition has expressed the opinion that the Canal will soon be made through Columbia, if the public do not withhold faith, and the enterprise is persevered in with energy. Preparations are stillbeing made in India for warlike eventualities, and there are enquiries for tonnage to tranfer 15,000 men to stations in the Persian Gulf. Thes.s. Leo, from SovantahforNashau, has been burnt at sea, and 13 of the crew were rescued from a raft, whilst 8 others and 3 passengers are supposed to have been lost. The Chinese Government have purchased the Shanghai and Woosung railway, and propose establishing railways in other parts of the Empire, particularly in Formosa, where there are valuable deposits of coal and petroleum. A verdict has been given against the Brighton Aquarium Company for £200, for keeping open on Sunday, but the Court of Exchequer granted a rule for a new trial. The works at the Royal Arsnal and dockyards are being carried forward with despatch. It was stated at Woolwich, on the sth May, that within a fortnight there would be ready for issue at immediate notice the complete equipment for an army corps of 50,000 men. The Channel squadron has been refitted and greatly enlarged. Orders have been given for the immediate completion at the Clyde of all vessels being constructed there. The following extracts are from Indian papers : — Constantinople, May 14. The Turkish Chamber of Deputies have voted an address thanking England for her reply to the Russian circular justifying the proclamation of war. Paris, May 16. The negotiations for the treaty of commerce between England and France are virtually suspended, the French Ministry feeling unable to press the Chamber of Deputies for an extension of free trade unless England reduces her import duty on cheap wines. May 17. A.f ter a violent speech by Gambetta, the Chamber of Deputies adopted, by "335 against 154 votes, a resolution brought forward by him that the Chamber could only place confidence in a Cabinet possessing freedom of action and governing on republican principles. Constantinople, May 21 . Sheek Ne Islam has proclaimed a holy Avar against Russia, May 22. A strong Turkish force was advancing from Vau towards Bayazid, but withdrew upon the Russians re-inforcing the latter place. Paris, May 24. The French Ministry, at the request of the Spanish Government, have ordered the expulsiou of Don Carlos from France. ', Rome, May 24. There are daily receptions of bands of pilgrims of all nations, who are pouring into Rome. They come offering presents and money. The receptions are being held at the Vatican by the Pope. His Holiness, in receiving some German pilgrims, made a speech in which he compared the Emperor of Germany to Attila. Constantinople, May 24. The demonstration of Softas, so much spoken of, only numbered 7000. A deputation of five of them was admitted to the Turkish Chamber ok Deputies, and demanded certain Ministerial modifications. A court martail has been ordered on the Governor of Ardahan fortress, with reference to the retreat of the Turkish force from that place before the enemy. The Russian troops in Roumania are

moving towards the west, and 85,000 men are concentrated on the Upper and Middle Danube. London, May 27. The Persian Minister at Constantinople has presented a note to the Porte, con- j taining most pacific assurance from the Shah. The latest advices from the seat of war state that the head quarters of the Russian army corps of Caucasus have been transferred to Alexandroplc, and that the left wing lias reached Van. A Turkish ironclad has been sunk at Ibrail by a torpedo vossol. Paris, May 29. Tho Due do Broglie haw issued a circular, requesting the legal authorities to repress Radical attacks, and curb tho license of the Press. Renewed wliolesalo changes mo being made in the French profoctoral administration.

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