INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 172, 12 March 1878, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

(From the Press Agency.)

Auckland, March 11. Italian warship Christophero Colombo sailed for South America.

At a Cabinet meeting this morning, the Hons Sheehan, Hoani Nahe, and Swanson being present, Mr Stout's appointment as Attorney-General was postponed till to-morrow, for the preparation of the necessary documents. A large bushfire at Northern Wairoa destroyed one hundred thousand feet of timber. The electric light was exhibited by the Italian war ship on Saturday night, and illuminated the harbor for a distance of a mile, and within that distance newspaper print was easily readable. Wellington, March 11.It is stated that the Government will bring down the measures upon which they intend to stand or fall within a fortnight after the meeting of the Assembly. These measures will provide for a change in the representation of the colony, a change in the incidence of taxation and manhood suffrage. From information received by the police, it would appear that a well organised system of horse-stealing has been going on in this district for some time past, the horses being shipped away as soon as brought in. At the Theatre Royal Hotel, just as the lodgers were about retiring to bed, one of them fell through the open aperture in the upstairs floor on to his head on the billiard-table. He was a young man, named James Ahearne, and only lived a few hours after the accident. Lyttelton, March 11. Arrived, ship Pleiades, from London, 81 days from the Lizard. Dunedin, March 11. At the banquet to Ministers, Mr Macandrew said he was not without hope that public opinion might compel Parliament to restore to the people provincial institutions ; perhaps not as they Avere, but more adapted to the circumstances of the colony.