The Globe. THURSADY, MARCH 16, 1876. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 544, 16 March 1876, Page 2

The Globe. THURSADY, MARCH 16, 1876. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press AgmcyJ) LATEST EEOM AUSTRALIA. ♦ [By Submarine Cable.] Sydney, March 15. Depressing accounts of the drought continue to arrive from the provinces. Nearly five hundred immigrants arrived in Queensland yesterday, and five hundred Chinese at Cooktown from Hong Kong. A steamer, supposed to be the Durham, from London, passed Cape Otway yesterday. She has salmon ova for New Zealand on board. Sailed—Albion for Hokitika. Melbourne, March 15. Arrived—Alhambra. Sailed—Otago. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, March 15. The Provincial Gazette published to-day, gives the correspondence between Sir George Grey aDd the Colonial Secretary re the Education Funds; re Removal of the Unemployed Miners from the Thames ; and (he January accouuts. Sir George Grey's final letter re the unemployed contains the following—" You ask me to say whether or cot I desire that the men shall be removed at public expense from this province to Wellington. I have to state that the corresp ndence connected with the removal of the people from the Thames, and the proposals related thereto, was conducted in the first instance contrary to the usual custom in the public service, with a private person, without the superintendent having been in any way consulted or referred to by the Government on the subject. I therefore ought not now to advise or interfere in the matter." Wellington, March 15. The annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, after a lapse of nine years, was held to-day. In moving the adoption of the report, the chairman took occasion to refer to the block of traffic on the Queen's wharf, and said unless some improvements were made, their commerce would suffer. He had long been of opinion that the management of the harbor should not be in the hands of the City Council, but that a Harbor Board should be appointed to have control not only of the harbor, but of the wharf, lights, &c. It was their policy to make Wellington what it was certain to become, sooner or later, the great receiving and distributing port of the colony, and to that end it was necessary that they should not look so much to a revenue from their wharf and harbor as to the increase of trade which would accrue. He thought that by making Wellington a free, or nearly free, port, this result would be obtained ; and he hoped the Chamber of Commerce would keep that steadily in view. A motion was carried that the Government should be moved to amend the present bankruptcy law. The report was adopted, and Mr Levin re-elected chairman. Wellington, March 16. The s.s. Easby sails for Lyttelton and South at noon. Original passengers—Messrs J. Sharp, W. Fowedd Bohanna, C. Walker, Mrs Thomas, Mrs Bohanna. Hokitika, March 15. Sailed—Lizzie Guy, for Oamaru, with 60,000 feet of timber and 300 empty sacks. Cleared—Augusta, for Lyttelton, with 90,000 feet timber. She sails to-night. Mr Rolleston has arrived from Greymouth, and leaves on Friday. Dunedin, March 15. The Waste Lands Board have appointed Mr R. B. Martin permanent auctioneer to the Board. He will be an officer of the Government and do no private practice. The privileges for race meeting realised £1903, including gates, £7BO ; staud, £3GS ; saddling paddock, £205 ; cards, £lO5. Dunedin, March IG. The Dunedin Jockey Club announced conditions—The Derby for 1877 and 78, the date of nomination is April 19th. The added money is 150 sovs; the sweep is 10 sovs. After long continuance of fine weather, there is a sudden change to rain, with sharp cold. The arguments in the Tairoa salvage case probably conclude to-day.