TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 5, 5 June 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Per Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph A geneg.) THIS DA Y'S TELEGPAMS.

Wellington, June 5. In the General Synod the following Bills were passed ; —A Bill for making certain necessary alterations in the organisation of the church ; the Diocesan Courts Bill; the new Lectionary Bill. It was resolved that in consequence of the paramount importance of religious instructions to the young, the Synod expressed a hope that the bishops and Synod of various dioceses would do everything they could to secure the parochial clergy the privilege of imparting religious instruction in Government day schools. It was resolved to extend widely as possible the system of mutual insurance in regard to church properties, provided that for the present no single risk be taken exceeding £SOO. Auckland, June 5. Sales—Exchange, 16s; Cure, 14s 6d. Buyers—Bank of New Zealand, 350 s ; National Bank, 65s 6d ; South British, 475; Alburnia, 41s ; City of London, 24s 6d ; Thames, 67s 6d; Caledonians, H)ss. Grauamstown, June 5, The gold returns for May show a decrease of 1600 ounces on the previous month. A number of natives are in town en route to a great meeting at Miranda. Plenty of food but no grog is allowed to the natives. They have arrived from Maketu, on the Kast Coast, and remote districts. The ostensible object of the meeting is to lift the bones of a great chief to remove the tapu from his burial ground.