NEWS BY CABLE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 245, 29 July 1876, Page 10

NEWS BY CABLE.

(REUTERS SPECIAL TO PRESS AGENCY.J Sydney, Friday. The steamer Egmont, from Noumea, brings news of the murder of the captain of the labor vessel Lucy and Adelaide by natives of St. Bartholomew, New Hebrides. The Government agent, who went ashore with him, escaped to a neighboring village, where he was protected. In the Assembly the Postmaster-General said the New Zealand Government wished to modify the Pacific Mail Service, but no proposal had been received from the contractors except as to changing the route. Brandy and rice are unchanged ; kerosine firm, 2s. to 2s. 2d.; Adelaide flour, £l2 to £l2 10s.; wheat, ss. 6d.; New Zealand, 55., nominal ; candles, 9£d. to 9g-d. A severe gale and floods are reported from from Queensland. Much damage has been done to property and railways. An engine capsized on one line and four men were seriously injured. Sydney, Saturday. Two schooners and a ketch were wrecked off the coast during the late gale. One man was drowned. A heavy sea washed five hundred shee]) overboard from the steamer Boomerang, coining from Brisbane. At Warilda a frightful flood is reported, during which 300 cattle were washed down the Mclntyre river. Sydney, Monday. Further particulars of the Queensland floods report loss of life at Warwick, and the rescue of seventy-one persons at Dalby. In portions of the country the floods are the highest ever known. The barque Ann and the brig Isabella were wrecked at Port Stephens. The crew of the former were lost. Arrived : The Otago, in four days. Sydney, Tuesday. Great floods have occurred in the Clarence district. Two villages have been entirely submerged and several persons drowned. Hundreds are reported as starving, having taken refuge in the buildings. There is nothing but wreck, ruin, and desolation everywhere. A branch of the Bank of New Zealand has been opened at Newcastle. The Government despatch a steamer tomorrow for the relief of the sufferers by the Clarence district flood. Five letter pillars were broken open last night, and a number of letters are supposed to have been abstracted. The Sea Spray, from Newcastle to Lyttelton, has put back. Sailed : The Easby. Sydney, Wednesday. The schooner Brilliant has been wrecked off Cape Byron. The fate of the crew is uncertain. Kingsborough's non-appearance on the training ground during the past few days has affected his position as first favorite for the Metropolitan. The Albion has arrived at Melbourne. The steamer Queensland, from Foochow to Melbourne, with 2400 tons of tea, has arrived here, and reports ten vessels loading for the colonies. The Clarence floods are subsiding. An affray between the blacks, and black troopers is reported from Queensland. Several of the latter were wounded. Melbourne, Monday. Miss Walker won the Waterloo Coursing Cup. The s.s. Bingarooma, with the New Zealand portion of the Suez mail, sailed for the Bluff on Saturday. Melbourne, Tuesday. Ashe, the Burrumtree murderer, has been sentenced to death. The Exhibition Commissioners have resolved to ask the Treasurer for an additional vote for the necessary expenditure to save the credit of the colony at Philadelphia. Melbourne, Wednesday. The Budget shows that the revenue exceeds the estimates. Customs, excise, and territorial revenue showed an increase and a prosperous state of the colony. It is altogether satisfactory, although the estimated loss of a million by the decline in wool would affect all classes. There is an admitted necessity for a readjustment of taxation, but to introduce it now would only be a waste of time. Melbourne, Thursday. The Payment of Members Bill has been introduced:, and is received with much opposition. New Zealand wheat sold for ss. 6d. Oats advanced. Adelaide, Wednesday. The Budget here is also considered highly satisfactory.