TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1214, 1 April 1884, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPY RIGHT. [Reuter’s Telegrams.] NEW YORK. March 30. SERIOUS RIOTING IN THE STATES. 100 PERSONS KILLED. Serious riots have occurred at Cincinnati. An immense mob, indignant at the leniency of the verdict returned against a prisoner, who was being tried on a charge of murder, attacked and burned the prison in which the convict was placed. A force of United States troops was called out to protect the prison, and a serious conflict ensued between the military and the rioters, who exhibited desperate courage, and refused to yield until a large number had been shot down. Fully one hundred persons were killed, and three hundred are suffering from wounds of a serious nature. The emeute has caused much excitement and alarm throughout the city and neighborhood. MELBOURNE. March 31. Preparations are being made for according a welcome on Wednesday to C :e Rev. Dr Barry before hns departure for Sydney.

In a Gazette issued this evening, Sunday next, the Gth irst, is proclaimed a day of general mourning throughout the colony for the death of Prince Leopold. ■ The proposed banquet to His Excellency has now been abandoned. SYDNEY. March 29. In consequence of the prevailing drought, the water supply of the city and suburbs of Sydney is now merely intermittent. The accounts from the country districts generally state that great distress prevails owing to the want of water. There is no present sign of rain. News is to hand fiom New Guinea that the island tribes there are engaged in a fierce war and the Ptev. Mr Chalmers has proceeded to the scene hostilitie to endeavor to restore peace.

(Special to Press Association.)

London, March 28. Sir Stafford Northcote and Earl Cairns have recovered from their illness. The friction supposed to have existed on Egyptian affairs between the members of the Cabinet has been reduced. It is believed that Mr Gladstone’s medical advisers will order him abroad. A Paris message in the Daily Telegraph states that Earl Granville has strongly protested against the French Government allowing convicts to escape from New Caledonia. The Earl of Rosebery, speaking in the House of Lords, testified to the horror and dismay with which the Australian colonists regarded the prospect of the Recidivistes scheme was being carried out. He said it was impossible to exaggerate the strength of the feeling entertained, and the excitement was double that which existed when England proposed to continue sending convicts to Australia. Lord Carnarvon said that private letters he had received confirmed Lord Rosebery’s statements, and he agreed with Lord Rosebery in urging the Government to bring diplomatic pressure to bear. It would be a great mistake to treat the subject as one of small importance. Earl Granville in reply reply roper ,ed the statement tnat M Ferry had Lord Lyons that the bulk o Recidivistes would be scut to Cayenne, and that only a small number of manual laborers would bo sent to Ne w Caledonia. The House of Commons having refused to separate their local tax atiou and local Government reform proposals have, on a motion of Mr Alfred P°"> M.P. for South Leicestershire, been defeated by a majority of eleven in a large House. The New England Shipping Company (New South Wales) is announced with a capital of a miltion, one-fourth being payable at once. There is no business doing in Australian wheat cargoes. March 30. The French Minister of Marine has informed the Recerlivistes Committee of the Senate that the Government is willing to send convicts to Guiana, but that it is only possible to receive 2000 of them at present. He asks that the operation of the law be delayed for a year. The Pall Mall Gazette doubts whether the Australian Governments seriously threaten such a step as to exclude French ships from Australian ports. Mr Gladstone’s health is improving, and he is now enabled to take out-door exercise.

(Per United Press Association.) O/MAUU, This Day. An unoccupied house, owned by a settler named Grant, Jiving at Kuroiv, was destroyed by fire yesterday. The origin is unknown. Two stacks of wheat belonging to a farmer named Cowlim were destroyed by fire yesterday. No insurance. The loss is estimated at L2OO, Dunedin, March 31. At the Supreme Court, George Lockhurst, for false pretences, was sentenced to three years ; F. W. Carroll was found guilty .of stealing from a gaol, from which institution he was discharged on the morning of the theft; William Yeoman, for indecent assault on a young girl, was remanded for sentence. The charge against Honrietta Hunter for larcency is being heard. The jury in jjCutherine Hunter’s case were unable to agree and a fresh trial will take place to-morrow, William Yeamans was convicted yesterday ofjj indecent[assault,i and§ sentenced to three years. Greymouth, This Day. Water is wanted on the Coast. The rivers are getting very low, and many miners are idle in consequence of the want of water. Auckland, This Day. Tawhiao and party leave for Sydney to-day en route for England. His Excellency the Governor returned from the Waikato yesterday. He sent a message of condolence to the Queen, through the Secretary of State, relative to the death of Prince Leopold. The City of Sydney and the Rotomahana had an ocean race from Sydney Heads to this port the Rotomahana winning by over 7 hours. Melven Dawson, a lad aged 14 years, was killed at Kauwaka through the kick of a horse. The New Zealand Insurance intend to pay the insurances in full on the Mataura’s frozen meat. .