TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4192, 27 August 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[Press Telegkaph Agency,] Auckland, Wednesday.

A presentation of a valuable locket and necklace was made to Miss Alice May at the concert last night. The company proceeded to Napier by the Southern Cross to-day.

A seaman named Salmon was drowned at Kaipara in endeavoring to secure a dingy which had got adrift. The agent of the A.S.N. Co. has received a telegram from Sydney to the effect that the City of Melbourne, which leaves there for San Francisco on the 29th, will probably call at Auckland, leaving here on September 4. Gkahamstown, Wedneday.

Henry Koache, miner, had hoth legs broken this morning, in ascending the Queen of Beauty shaft. A loaded truck was on the cage at the same time, which partly slipped, and jammed his legs against the beam end of the shaft. Napier, Wednesday.

There is a talk of starting a company to make a branch railway from Havelock to the main line at Hastings, a distance of two and a half miles. The estimated cost is £7OOO. The movement is said to be well supported by the settlers in the district.

A Hew Permanent Building Society meets to-night to, elect trustees and a committee. The prospects appear satisfactory. Greymouth, Wednsday.,

A mining accident occurred in the Grey Valley yesterday. A man named Charles Baurenson was killed by a fall of earth while ground-sluicing in Callaghan’s Creek. Christchurch, Wednesday.

A meeting of the Acclimatisation Society was held yesterday afternoon. The Curator announced that upwards of 10,000 ova had been obtained from the trout in the gardens ; also that they had 42 young salmon alive and doing well. A large number of trout, varying from eighteen to thirty inches in length, have lately been seen in the river Avon. Dunedin, Wednesday.

At the inquest oh the late fire an open verdict was returned, with a rider that greater precaution should be exercised when engines are used near inflammable material, and that an additional watchman should be appointed to the look-out tower. Nothing suspicious was elicited. AUSTRALIAN NEWS TO AUGUST 21. •Bluff, Wednesday. The Albion, with the English mail, left Hobson’s Bay at 4 p.m. on the 21st, and arrived at 11.30 a.m. to-day. She experienced a heavy gale from the N.E. She brings 29 saloon and 35 steerage passengers, and 300 tons of cargo for all ports. She sails for Dunedin at 5 p.m. Passengers—Mr. Shannon, Mrs. Snowden; 5 steerage; 200 tons cargo. Melbourne, 21st August. Very little doing since the departure of the last steamer. The Assembly has been occupied during the week in discussing the Local Government Bill. The Einaucial Statement will be made on Thursday, the 27th inst. The Postmaster-General has been re-elected by a large majority. ' A libel action is proceeding—Theatre Eoyal proprietors v. Herald, in reference to the production of the “ Princess of Trebizonde.” At the annual horse sale, Little Barman was purchased by Mr. Combe, of New Zealand, for 390 guineas, and Renfrew Jack by Mr. Mclntosh, of New Zealand, for 4GO guineas.

The cable between Singapore and Batavia is still interrupted owing to repairs. The German expedition for the observation of the transit of Venus arrived by the mail steamer, and will proceed to the Auckland Islands. The expedition for Christchurch sailed per Merope on the 4th July. Commercial. —Improved rates are obtained for yellow sugars. Comsacks are improved in value. There have been large sales of tobaccoes, owing to the telegrams of an advance in Virginia and a deficient crop. Sales are up to Id. advance here. The grain market is unchanged. Sydney. Mr. Parkes, in addressing his constituents, said in reference to the Californian service, that telegrams would be sent to Sir Charles Cowper to notify the English Crown Law Officers that the bond of £50,000 would be enforced against Hall’s co-partners. He said the service would be carried on. Madame Goddard, after disappointing the public at Bathurst, pursued a similar course in Sydney, whither, after being advertised for three concerts, she suddenly left for Melbourne. It seems she objected to one of the professionals in the company. Affairs at the Palmer are favorable. The alluvial workings are proving rich and extensive. Great difficulty in obtaining supplies. EUROPEAN NEWS. Adelaide. The B.s, Nubia made the run from King George’s Sound to Glenelg in ninety hours, London, July 10. The new Colonial offices, forming additions to the Foreign Office quadrangle, have been completed, at a cost of £250,000. The International Exhibition is still poorly attended. The Australian wines attract much attention, and numerous purchases have been made. Victoria shows twenty-four samples, and South Australia seventy-seven. At a special meeting of the Scottish Australian Investment Company, it was resolved to make the company perpetual, instead of for twenty-one years, increasing the capital to £1,000,000. The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh have been staying with the Russian Imperial Family, at Jugarticnm. Before leaving England, they opened the Infant Nursery and Mission in the East of London.

Congratulatory telegrams wore interchanged between the Queen and the Emperor of Brazil,

on the completion of telegraphic communication between England and Brazil.

Silver medals have been awarded to Dr. Livingston’s faithful followers. The Government pays .61000 for arrears of their wages. Leicester Square, which has been transformed and beautified by the munificence of the Albert grant, was publicly opened on the 2nd o July.

The four escaped Communists are at present in London. Rochefort prudently affects seclusion, and refuses to lecture, or to attend public demonstrations. The Yen. Archdeacon Basil Jones succeedsDr. Thirlwell as Bishop of St. David’s. During the last fortnight there has been a march of agricultural laborers through the eastern and midland counties, beginning at Cambridge. The men wore blue ribbons, and some carried flags. There were twenty-five-thousand laborers in the procession, -with forty bands of music, and altogether fifty thousand were present. Mr. Arch was the principal speaker.

Seven thousand miners in South Staffordshire have accepted the terms arranged be-, tween their delegates and the masters. Miss Richards, the champion walker, accomplished the feat of walking a thousand miles in, a thousand consecutive hours. She finished quite fresh. She undertook the task in orderthat her father might win a 650 wager. The Duke of Richmond, on retiring from the turf, has sold a portion of his stud at Paris for £6516. Fbancb. The new postal connection with America has been approved by the Assembly. Figaro, La France, and, Lo &>!R--have been fined for reproducing from American papers passages from Rochefort’s letters. M. Courbet, artist, has had his property sequestrated towards paying the expense of restoring the Vendome Column. Spain. The Government has. accorded a grand funeral to the remains of Marshal Concha, A public monument is to be erected to his memory. The laxity of the French authorities with regard to the Carlists’ movements across the frontier has been bitterly denounced by the Spanish.' Strong Carlist bands are gathering about Santander, alarming the inhabitants, who have telegraphed for reinforcements, the garrison being weak. Should an attack be made, the Spanish vessels will shell the approaches. Don Carlos and the Princess Marguerita re viewed 18,000 men on the 3rd of July. Hazelden, an English merchant, has been captured by brigands. The American Government demands from Spain indemnity for the capture of the Virginias and the killing of prisoners. Ceylon. Major-General Street, C. 8., has assumed the command of the troops in Ceylon. The steamer Penasserim, homeward bound, from Rangoon, and the ship Royal Family, have both been wrecked at Cape Guardafui. The famine, or, rather, scarcity may be said to have ceased. The crop prospects are generally all that could be desired, LATE SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. London, July 11. In the House of Commons, last night, Mr. Childers called attention to the apparent declension in the revenue. Sir Stafford Northcote replied that he saw no reason to modify his estimates. The strikes in Scotland and South Staffordshire have ended. July 16. In the House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone has withdrawn his resolution against the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Bill July 23. The atrocities by the Carlists are exciting profound indignation. July 24. Mr. [Disraeli has abandoned the Supreme Court Judicature Bill, the Land Transfer Bill,, and obnoxious clauses in the Endowed Schools Bill. General Garibaldi has recovered from his illness. , . • Obituary.—Sir Charles Jackson, Miss Agnes Strickland, Monseigneur Merode.