LATEST CABLE NEWS.

West Coast Times, Issue 2480, 12 March 1877, Page 2

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

[ INTERC'OLONfIL, ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES " AT SIDNEY: „ Sydney, March .10. Arrived — The Easby. Sailed— Wakatipu and City of Netv York yesterday. THE LEGER. MELBotRN^i Mkt'ck & AdelaitfS, i ; Sfbii, 2 ; Aconite, 3. THE AtTS^MLIAN CUP. Sybil,- 1 ; CalSmiSy 2. Seventeen I started, a splendid race. Time, four I minutes four and a-half seconds. euFcllan. 'the porte refuses montenegro's demands*. Lbsfi)O^, MSrch ?. The Porte objects to th!e demands of Monterieg'rd for the 1 ceisfoh of territory and a seap'b'rt. RUSSIA BELLICOSE. Russia still expectant, pending an answer to her circular, has issued an ukase ordering the organisation of nine army corps, FIRM ATTITUDE OF TURKEY. The Porte maintaitis same confident attitude it assumed vvheh the Conference were 1 sitting, and is prepared lo accept war in preference to prolonged suspense. RUSSIA OBJECTS TO A YEAR'S GRACE. On the other hand Russia objects to the suggestion of a year's grace. Russia wistes ti?M:ey tq ACCEPT CONDITIONS OF CONFERENCE. Russia withdraws from the treaty of 1856,' unless ttfe" other Powers cooperate to obtain tlae acceptance by the Porte of the original programme of the Conference. THE TURKISH BUDGET. In the Turkish 1 budget and the estimates of expenditure fbi the present year, the army is set down at fourteen and a half millions, for the navy three" quarters of a million. THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT'S NOMINATIONS. Hayes has nominated W. Maxwell Ewart as Secretary of State, and STiearman as Secretary to the Treasury. FEARFUL CRIJ&IR I& NORTHERN QtTEENSLASff). For the l ! ast week (says the Cboktown Herald of February 3rd), we have been inundated with reports' of depredations being committed— north, east, south, and west, by those bloodthirsty savages, , the " poor blacks," Drays have been.stuck up, and teamsters obliged to fly, women hunted, pack-horses captured, bullocks speared, and their latest atrocious' act is the committal of the moat bloodthirsty double murder that it has been our tot to chronicle since Cooktown was first settled, and, God knows, there have been enough. But a short time back, say the first week in December, two packers, named Hugh and Donald Maoquarie, who for the last two., years' have been packers between Cooktown and Maytown, started from' Gray and. CJo.'s stores with their pack-team of. splendid' animals, representing a value, with their loading, of over £1000. The Macquaries take the " Hell's Gate '; track, and nothing more is heard of, them till a rep 1 or t is received on Wednesday last from John 1 Rbgkn, Who states as follovvs:— " Itfoi-ma^by, January 30. As I was travelling from Maytown to Cobktown on. the' Hell's Gate track on Sunday last, about tliree milds frob the latter place, from what I sdw, the niggers had just completed the slaughter of. two. horses, haVing. just r^nioVed one and a portion of the second. Some papejrs and" books wefe scattered about, whicli I picked up" for tjtie purpose of identification. They bbje tie name of HughMacquarie',' and wereinvdicesj letters, &c,, from Gray and' Co., and seyei'al others. There was a' pack saddle on the re'mainTng hor?e, ; but I did' not' remove it,; but travelled with all speed to the Laura, thinking to pull the men belonging to the slaughtered horse, and on my way saw frfesh tracks on the road. Soon after I picked up 6 horses, comprising 4 pack, 1 saddle, and_ 1 riding horse. I searched about , for signs^ of a fresh outrage/ but did not' fin<l any, and finally reacbed the Laura late that night. The horses I picked' up travelled down without being; driven, giving evident' signs of knowing the track well. I brought 4 horses down, one knocked up at the Laura, and another brokte his leg and t shot him on the track." Since this straightforward report haS-been received,- confirmation of the diabolical outrage has been afforded by another packer, who stntes that near where Ro w an first saw the slaughtered horses at Hell's Gate, he found tracks of bleeding bodies having been, dragged off the jroad

into the bush, and also picked up more papers bearing the name of Hugh and Donald Mqcsu.a.rie;,wl u l ch have, also been handed over to the police. The escort; which arrived in town on Wednesday, under Mr Fitzgerald, furnishes fresh reports ot outrages everywhere— horse 9 lying about disgustingly mutilated 61 the Hell's k'ft, Wk, mbi stfewn everywhere; ratioiis^atfetedjo: the kind; « for 0 % r! ?^,. stages.., have indulged in their cannibalistic feasts.