INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 243, 15 November 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Agency.)

Wellington, Nov. 14

In consequence of the scarcity of coke, the Wellington tramways are obliged to use coal, and Griffiths' biscuit manufactory will have to stop if a supply of coke be not obtained shortly.

The New Zeulander this morning, referring to.the management of the Wellington Hospital, insinuates that the property of persons who die there is frequently appropriated as perquisites by persons connected with the hospital. It mentions the case of a Mr Mason, received into the hospital two or three months ago,;whose wife was residing in Invercargill.

A warrant of committal for contempt of Court has been issued against a man named Hill, who called upon and Annoyed his wife after she had been granted judicial separation.

The cargo and hull of the Carlotta as she lies on the rocks was sold for £43.

Market quotations—Flour, Adelaide, £17 ; colonial, £11 to £11 10s ; oats, 4s 8d ; hams and bacon, B|d all round ; cheese, 7-Jd ; potatoes, £4, good demand.; butter, 9d to 10d.

The evening papers reply to the charges and insinuations against the hospital officials in this morning's New Zealander, and go into all the circumstances of the case referred to in order

to show that the allegations were altogether without foundation. The Post >. says the hospital authorities have written

to the Colonial Secretary to cause an * enquiry into the whole of the circumstances.

The Mayoral election is causing great "warmth of "feeling, the contest becoming * keener every day. Dunedin, Nov. 14. The Church of England Synod appointed a Committee to enquire into the unsatisfactory financial position ot the Diocese, and suggest a practical remedy for its amelioration. At a meeting of the Otago Agricultural Association, to consider what sug- » gestion should be made by the delegate at the Oamaru Conference, it was re-

solved—'

■" That in the opinion of the

society, the Grand National Show should »• he peripatetic, and that the first and second shows should be held at Christchurch and Dunedin respectively, and successive shows at Oamaru, Tirnaru, and Invercargill, thereafter at the respective places mentiened in rotation.