TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 177, 2 January 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Per Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph Agency.) Wellington, January 2. The Hon Mr Sewell and Mrs Sewell will leave for England during this month. The Caledonian sports are interrupted byrain. FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT. Auckland, December 31, 1874. The nett profits of Madame Goddard's New Zealand tour are estimated at two thousand pounds. The City Council has written to the various corporations throughout the provinces to unite in getting a colonial Municipal Gas Bill passed. Unfavorable replies were received from the Thames, Wanganui, and Wellington, chiefly on the ground of lack of funds. The question of abolishing tolls on roads will probably be considered in the next session of the Provincial Council. The new Post-office buildings were opened for business to-day. The Star's Levuka correspondent states that, owing to the failure of the cotton crop, and the refusal of the Bank of Fiji to make advances on property, many planters remain idle on the land, cultivating for food only, and without money, except such as is realised by sending an occasional shipment of corn to Levuka. There is no capital to commence sugar culture. After careful enquiry the police consider it unnecessary to hold an inquest on the child of Gravenity's paramour. The child had been ailing for some time, no doubt owing to the ill-treatment it was subjected to, but its final decease does not seem to have been otherwise hastened. When the child was exhibited in court at the time of Gravenity's imprisonment, it was in a most emaciated condition from starvation and neglect.