INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 105, 20 July 1877, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Agency.) Auckland, July 17.

'. In a pigeon match between Perkins,bfAuckland, and Maxwell, of Christchurch, PerKihs scored 17, Haxwell 14, Perkins winning by three points., Wellington, July 17. The City of Sydney left San Francisco on June 20, and arrived at Honolulu on June 28, the: total time San Francisco to Auckland being 566 hours. Mr. Houston, representing the Pacific Mail Company, is a passenger to Sydney. . He has full authority, from the Company to conclude such modifications in the mail service as may be mutually agreed upon by the New Zealand and Sydney Governments and himself. He says that arrangements have been made to run a special mail train from New York to San Francisco in five days, and that if the Company's steamers were allowed to leave San Francisco on the arrival of the mail there would be an average saving of about four days. On the present trip of the City of Sydney the mail arrived at San Francisco 66 hours before the date of sailing, and when the special mail train is run there would therefore be a still greater loss of time. The conference, for the suppression intemperance concluded its sittings. The second draft petition to be submitted to the Legislature was adopted.with the amendment, that a clause should be added, declaring the present constitution of Licensing Courts unsatisfactory. The members for the City were requested to take charge of the petition and support it to the utmost of their powei. It was also resolved to establish a Temperance Society, and a Committee of gazetted Ministers of Religion as well as laymen were appointed to carry out the resolution A resolution was. also carried, that the conference thinks it desirable that no new publicans' licenses should be issued until after next session of Parliament, and this is to be conveyed to the Licensing Bench.

(prom times own correspondent); Auckland, July 17. Walker, the so-called "Trancemedium," has gone to Wellington, whence he intends to visit Christchurch. It is understood tbr-* he comes back to Auckland, when <; will marry Miss Krabazon about Christmas. Wellington, July 17. Members are beginning to arrive freely from all sides. Furnished houses and lodgings .are in great demand, very scarce, and command enormous prices. The Governor's speech is said to be very short and more than usually un meaning. Dunedin, July 17. Cunningham, suspected of the Lake Ohau murder, has been arrested in Sydney. The Colonial Bank of New Zealand was appointed to place the balance of the Harbour Board's loan on the London market. The Church of England denominational education movement, led by the Bishop, is going on. Mr. Smythies, whose telegraphic money order the Bank of New Zealand would not honour, on ground of the name being misspelt, got £300 damages.