AUSTRALIA.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 197, 7 June 1878, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

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: Adeliade, June 6. Singapore and Sargon cable interrupted, thus cutting off telegraphic communication with China.

INTEBPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS. [PER PRESS AGENCY.]

. Auckland, June 6. SaUed—Wednesday, 10 p.m., Stella, for papier and Wellington, with the Frisco mail; City of Sydney, for Sydney, at 11 this morning.

Wellington, June 6. ■ Arrangements have been made by the Government, by which all those persons in the colony holding offices as Resident Magistrate, who are not lawyers, must relinquish their appointments, Government being about to appoint one man in eaiii provincial district to act as District Judge . and Resident Magistrate, this person in every case, to be a lawyer. A rQll of J's.P. will be made up, and those J%P, who do not attend to their duties as laid, down on the roll will be struck Market quotations.—Flour, colonial, £13. j oats, 4s 3d, in demand ; hams, 0d ;. bacon, cheese, 7d to 8d ; potataes, £3 15s ; butter, lOd to Is. Christchurch, June 6.

To-day subscriptions have been collected -to telegraph to the. Australian cricketers iii England, congratulating thena on their success against the English cricketers, and suggesting that if the Australians have any desire to have their revenge on Canterbury, they can return by San Francisco route, and call here, when a match will be arranged for them-

The Governor held a levee to-day, when about sixty gentlemen were presented. \ This afternoon a testimonial of .200 sovereigns w&s presented to Lieutenant Dugald M'Fariane, an old Waterloo veteran, aged 3s, as a birthday, -present. . . ', ' N

Tbe weather is still very wtt.

Grahamstown, June-6; ■ The County Council to-day decided bo send their Chairman to. the Conference on 21st July. • The Finance Committee recommended that the Counties Act be amended to, enable. .latepayers to elect two auditors j and that the accounts of the Local Boards receiving "Government aid be subsequently audited by the Government Auditor.