TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5299, 5 February 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

| [By Cable.] [reuter's telegrams.! LONDON, February 3. Mr Gladstone has consented to stand for Midlothian. The British troops advanced into the Zulu country on the Ist of December, and, so far, they have exparienced no opposition. PARIS, February 3. The President of the Council of Ministers has resigned. M. Dufaur also persists in resigning. M. Waddington is forming a Ministry. COOKTOWN, February 4. There has been a great gale on the eastern coast. Several vessels have returned dismasted. MELBOURNE, February 4. Governor Bowen lays the foundation j stone of the proposed Exhibition building on the 19th instant. Mr Crook, the surgeon who attended Mrs Collins in the abortion case, has had a fit of appoplexy. The failure of M'Clure, Valentine, and Co., is announced. The creditors are mostly local. The liabilities are estimated at £11,000. SYDNEY, February 4. Tho French ironclad Yictorienno went through torpedo practice and exhibited the electric light last night. It attracted thousands.

ESPEci-AXi id THE PREYS' ASSOCIATION,] ' LONDON, February,! A collision is feared between _ Russia j and Routnania, owing to frontier disputes, i ADELAIDE, February 4. ; The markets are depressed. Wheat is ( quoted at 4s Bd. ( MELBOURNE, February 4. ; It is reported that the Kellys have , been joined by two additional men. A is current, that there was a quarrel • between Ned Kelly and Steve Hart, over the Eureka plunder, and that a separa- ' tia,n nearly ensued. [By Special Wire.] : AUCKLAND, February 4. Mr J. S. Macfarlane has commenced : proceedings against Mr Bees, M.H.R., ] for £10,000 damages, for slander and i malicious defamation, in connection with i the late Captain Road's estate at Poverty i Bay. Messrs Whifcaker and Russell have '. been retained by the plaintiff, i Mr J; $. Macfarlano has distributed i this seasdri, aniong the country libraries in ■ thodistrict hefreprdsents, over 900 volume's : of select books. The cost of the whole is about one-half more . than the whole" i amount of his honorarium: , . i The mail steamer Zealandia arrived j this morning, having left Sydney on the ; 30th of January. The Australian news i she brings is unimportant. At .the in- : quest in Melbourne on Mrs Cellinsit was shown thatthere are houses there for the convenience of lady patients. One witness stated that during two years fiye illegitimate children had been born in her; house, and three had died. Mr Casey, the barrister, was in attendance •at the inquest, watching the case for Dr Crook, who had attended the deceased and gave a certificate of her death. The inquest was not concluded at the date of the' Zealandia leaving Sydney. CHRISTCHURCH, February 4. ... At the inquest on Scott a verdict of temporary insanity was returned. A man was arrested to-day for obtaining money by falsely stating that he was a detective. A girl nrmed M'Grath was brought before the E.M. as a neglected child this morning, and her father put into the witness box. He prevaricated a good deal, and attempted to make out that when a policeman roused him. out of bed at a quarter past t 11 last night he was going down to see after his child. The night was bitterly cold, and it was raining hard, in fact the girl would probably have been killed had she not been rescued by the police. Eventually the heartless old scoundrel broke down and pleaded that if let off he would not do it again. The child was almost starved, and had not taken off her clothes for fourteen days. She had been in the same lonely place where the police found her since December 16, and had been obliged on several occasions to beg for food from the neighbors. At the conclusion of the case Mr Mellish said the girl would bo sent to the Industrial School for, . two years, to be brought up in the Roman Catholic religion. DTJNEDIN, February 4. A deputation waited on the Minister of Public Works to-day, and requested a loan of £9000 to the district for the purpose of rebuilding the Clutha bridge, which, was destroyed by the late floods. Mr Macandrew said the Government would be prepared to grant a loan of £7500. The latest telegram from Gore states that Mr Conyers is still progressing favorably. A conference of ministers yesterday approved of the constitution of the proposed New Zealand Alliance. The Mayor to-day received a telegram from the Governor's secretary, stating that his Excellency will leave Wellington on the 18th, arrive at Dunedin on the 19th, hold an undress lev6e, and proceed on the same day per Ringarooma for Victoria. The Mayor has been requested by the leading citizens to call a meeting, to see what steps can be taken to give bis Excellency a suitable reception. " HOKITIKA, February 3. Tenders are called for the first section of the Hokitika and Greymouth railway, to close on the 4th of March. WELLINGTON, February 4. Fully 400 people assembled in Mr Duncan's sale-rooms to-day, when the reclaimed land was offered. In all there were 40 seotions offered, having an area varying from 13 to 19 perches each, and a frontage of about 2200 feet. Colonel Whitmore was present on behalf of the Government. The bidding was spirited, and all but four allotments were sold. The prices ranged from £31 to £153 per foot, and the total proceeds at the auction were £99,141 16s. It is understood that that the four sections passed have since been sold for some £800 more. After the sale about 150 gentlemen, at Mr Duncan's invitation, sat down to a splendid champagne lunch. : Colonel Whitmore, in complimentary terms, proposed the auctioneer's health, and his own was then drunk. In replying, he stated incidentally that the secret commission of distinguished officers 1 at Home, in their confidential report on the defences of the colony devoted a long complimentary paragraph to the exertions New Zealand settlers, in times past, had made in their own defence. The health of Mr Bunny, as representing the late Provincial Government, by whom the reclamation had been undertaken, was also honored. M'Eenzie, who was burned out oa Saturday night at Taita, was collector for the Hutt Road Board, and £40 of their money and the books were destroyed. The family are destitute and a subscription is started on their behalf.. At the inquest on the fire it transpired that the lamp which exploded had not been cleaned for two months. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency report, under date London, January 29 : — Wool : There has been a little private enquiry. Trade in the manufacturing districts is dull. Up to date 95,000 bales haye arrived. Wheat : Market quiet. Californian arrivals are heavy. Adelaide is worth 49s per quarter; New Zealand, 44b. Tallow: There is no speculative enquiry. Mutton, 37s 6d ; beef, 34s 6d. Leather : Best sides, 9*d. It is understood that the Government have discovered a very easy line for the West Coast railway between Porirua and Paikakauka. The Australia, with the mails, left San Francisco on January 21st, one day late. The City of New York arrived at San Francisco on the 29th, one day before contract date. The Education Commissioners proceed to Auckland at the end of this week, probably by the Hinemoa, to conduct enquiries there. The Hinemoa is having an ice-house built to carry the whitefishova, expected by the next San Francisco steamer, from Auckland to the South. Both the evening papers haye strong articles condemnatory of the light sentence passed on the City of Glasgow Bank directors. This morning Murtagh took Harkway two miles ef a fair pace. The horse appears to be tolerably fit, but hardly capable of competing "with his opponents. Black Prince had previously done two- miles. He, too, seems scarcely good enough "for other than up-country events. Sailor was next sent two isailes and a-half , three minutes being occupied witfe the first half, and but little less with the second. Te Whetu was sent a slow gallop once round, and The Agent soon afterwards galloped the same distance. Both horses moved nicely, an 4 the ! hurdle event promises to be a most interesting one, whilst the handicap next day will probably enable Grey Momus to fight this event out with them. The last mentioned were each sent once round at a fair pace, the first being accompanied.

towards the finish by a hack, who made the jp'acfe; very warm indeed. Eatcatcher Wai sent ctace. iound- with sweaters On. The pace was xh'dder"ate/ and the horse seemed none the worse for Ms exertions. King Quail followed on. He' is*, recovering frbm_ .his soreness, But does not ( show"; the pace which will carry hini to the fore in the big event. Maiitana and Bribery went about half a mile together/ when the Cup mare was sent oh by herself fof a round, after which Bribery again joined in* and the pace became much batter fcr half a' talle. Undine and Dundee did the fastest once round; a mile and a quarter, in 2 min 1 40 sees* This pair will go very near winning' tEe 1 twtt events for which they are nominated. Erersley was the only one of Vallance's team vm6' worked. He did two miles andahalf at a good p'stoe,. but was told out at the finish, there beingf a case of " bellows to mend." Longlands and Undine then went round with good speed, the horse going more like himself. Eata was out for a walk for the first time since his arrival, and his style of going showed that had it not been for his bad up trip acrbsVhe must have had abigsay in the Cup. Vallance sent his team home unworked, in consequence of the presence of certain gentry who he did not wish to dee them work. A slight fall of rain has niutih improved the ground. There appears to be but little likelihood of a further fall. Lara has gradually much improved in public favor, and is now backed at as short odds as four to one.It has become generally -known that he carried overweight last year, and Clifford is to ride him, wnich will make some difference, as he was taken very steadily round the posts, by his previous jockey. ; Alf . Walker has the mount on Diver, of whom report speaks favorably, Theboy will do him justice, and He has by no means a bad chance. - , : Laertes has come up a decided favorite to-night. At the Empire Calcutta sweeps, with 51 subscribers, the prices were;— Laertes, £16 ; Maritana, £7 10s; Lara, £7; Diver, £4 10s; Longlands, £7; Eata, £4. ; ; „,