TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 346, 22 July 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(V>'ess Telegraph Agency,') New Plymouth, July 21. *>-own has been appointed Civil Commissioner in the place 01 mi Parris, who retires on a pension. Wellington, July 21. Owing to the ball at Government House, the House meets to-morrow only to allow of the circulation of papers re loan negotiations, and then adjourns till Friday. Dunedin, July 21. Mr Walter was elected Mayor by a majority of 372. There was great excitement. Files per Otago show, that for the Melbourne Cup, Imperial has come into the betting market at 100 to 7, Echo 100 to 5. Kingsborough is still first favorite for both the Metropolitan and the Champion Race. Lurline has been backed at,a shade less odds than Kingsborough for the Champion, and Calumny is first favorite for the Hawkesbury Handicap. In the Supreme Court the case of Glassford v Reid, action to recover £IOOO damages for polluting the stream at Manuherikm, the jury returned a verdict for plaintiff of one shilling for polluting the stream, and £SO for damage to property. THIS HAY’S TELEGRAMS. Auckland, July 22. The schooner Pacific which left Timaru for Auckland on the 3rd of June with a cargo of wheat, is given up as lost. She was insured in the New Zealand and South British for £IOSO, Captain Bradshaw has a wife and child in Auckland. Captain Urquhart was a passenger aboard, and there were also the mate, cook, and steward, and four seamen. Wellington, July 22,

Arrived—The Onward from Lyttelton; There appears to be.no misunderstanding as to the meaning of the Governor’s speech re the abolition of the provinces. The Government will ask the House to go further than last year’s resolutions. The Government Bill provides for the total abolition of the provinces, and that the Road Boards and municipalities are substantially endowed and that the land fund will be left to open up the country, and introduce population. It is announced that the Government measures are all ready, and will be brought down with the financial statement as soon as the debate on the address is concluded.