TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 144, 4 December 1877, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[Special to the Mail.]

(FliOM THE PftTCRS AffENCY.)

Wklmngton, Dec. 3. Government Buildings, 5.30 p.m. >

Waste Lands Committee reported that the Land Sales Bill should remain unaltered, as being a desirable measure of policy. This result was only arrived at after warm discussion.

The has just sent down a message 'concerning long correspondence between himself and Ministers regarding the visit of Sir W. Jervoise ami Colonel Scratchley. Sir W. Jervoise asked that the Hinnemoa might be sent to Hobart Town for him. Ministers refused, and in a further correspondence say that in the present financial condition of the colony no money can be spared for external defence, and ask the Governor to indefinitely postpone their visit. . The Governor, in reply, expresses great regret,-and says that such conduct will not tend to raise the credit of the colony and he asks that the correspondence may be laid before Parliament. Timaru, Dec. 3. The continuous drought is seriously felt. Everything is drying up. Yesterday prayers for rain were offered up in Church. A serious accident occurred yesterday afternoon to Miss Cornelius, who was riding on horseback near the Washdyke, when her horse fell, throwing her underneath, and severely injuring her. She remained unconscious till early this morning, but is now doing favourably. Market quotations. — Messrs Jones and Hart report sales of heavy draught horses, £35 to £52 ; medium, £28 to £30 ; fat cattle, £11 to £12 10s, equal, to 32s 6d per 1001b ; store cattle,- two years, £5 15s to £6 ss, mixed sexes.

Hokitika, Dec. 3

The Hon. A. Bonar was presented by the Mayor at a public meeting in the Town Hall, with a silver epergne, costing two hundred "guineas, from the inhabitants of Westland, in recognition of long and valuable services. Dunedin, Dec. 3. The Morning Herald made its first appearance this morning. Special prayers for rain have been offered at St. Joseph's and the Synagogue. One hundred of Hallenstein's hands have been knocked off owing to the stoppage'of water supply, and 200 are on half-time. Great distress through want of water, and crops are. suffering everwhere. The premises of Simpson, baker in -Curaberkind- street, are destroyed by fire. The property was insured for £270 in the South British, and £200 in the United Sydney Office.