The Globe. FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1876. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 563, 7 April 1876, Page 2

The Globe. FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1876. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Agency.) LATEST FROM EUROPE AND Al T STRALIA. [By Submarine Cable.] EGYPTIAN FINANCES. London, April 5, Mr Cave’s report on the finances of Egypt has been published. It states that affairs are critical, everything being pledged to meet the demands of the foreign creditors ; but if the floating debt was converted and the revenue properly managed, sufficient resources could be found to meet all charges on the Government. REVENUE OF GREAT BRITAIN. London, April 5, The English revenue exceeds the expenditure by nearly a million. The estimated revenue this year is less than the expenditure. An increase in the income tax is proposed. AUSTRALIA. Sydney, April 6. With reference to the negotiations to replace the Colima, the agents here are willing to send the Zelandia on Friday, via Auckland, and the City of San Francisco to call at Auckland with the coming mails. Sir J. Vogel disapproves of the use of the Colima for the service. The Government here will probably consent to the arrangement. Later. The mail arrangements have been ratified by our Government. The Zelandia sails tomorrow. The incoming mail also calls at Auckland. The Ringarooma has left Melbourne fo the Bluff. INTERPROYINOIAL. Auckland, April 6, The Judge yesterday refused Mr Hesketh’s application for a special jury in Pitt’s bribery case. The trial is set for Friday. All the criminal cases are disposed of “Vox Populi,” in a letter to the Herald, suggests that a meeting should be called to express the opinion of Auckland on the conduct of the Premier. Sir George Grey has addressed a letter to Dr Pollen on the position of Auckland, and the attitude of the General Government. The following is the concluding half :—“ At the present crisis they hold in their hands the power of obtaining justice in these respects as a condition precedent to the relinquishing the rights which the law now secures to them. You must remember that their revenues are raised for themselves and are their own, and that the General Assembly has been authorised to raise those revenues for certain specific purposes, and to carry ou the constitution established, under which, and for the support of which, those revenues have been raised; if discharged, their revenues would necessarily appear to become the property of the people here, and it will be for themselves and not for Parliament constituted to carry out a totally different constitution, to which the people of this province may not have assented, to receive and to expend those revenues. You will see therefore how necessary it is that the inhabitants of this province should, after they have been informed of the precise nature of the new constitution which it is intended to impose upon them, give their intelligent assent to it before they relinquish the great liberties they now enjoy. If you will not agree to appropriations out of the revenue of this province which as its Superintendent I may make, being openly appropriated, I shall refrain from making any recommendations for appropriation of such revenue. The time has now come when the people of these provinces must accustom themselves to make pecuniary sacrifices for great public principles. A habit of taking what can be got for fear of suffering loss rather than the system of refusing anything but what is lawful and right has led to great losses to the province of Auckland. We must therefore now say we will have what we are entitled to by law and constitutional principles. We will have nothing else, and we will take it in no other way, ***** * Constantly repeated, a system may be established which would render it easy plunder and deeply injure the interests of the people. I consider that in advising people to part with lawful and constitutional rights in order to secure an expenditure of public money, I should act wrongly, as if I advised a man to accept a bribe on condition of neglecting his duty. Did I accept au appropriation of public money on the conditions you offer, I believe from dealings which have already taken place, that probably the money obtained would not be expended until after longer delay than will occur from the course I intend to pursue. But whether this may he the case or not, I believe that the whole of the province will support me in the course 1 have thought it my duty to pursue, and that the very men who may temporarily suffer from want of employment they may have hoped to gain, will feel pride in submitting to inconvenience in support of the principle which they will recognise as great and true. One will learn that there is pleasure in making sacrifices for the maintenance of public rights, and will hereafter value more dearly the privileges which they have purchased by a personal loss.” (Signed) G.Grey. To the Colonial Secretary, Auckland. The Ferry Company are about increasing their capital from £SOOO to £20,000. The master of the quarantine sration reports, in reference to the Pearl, that all the crew are in good health. The Harbour Board has resolved that the ship be admi ted to pratique at once. Tauranga, April 6. The Governor arrived to-day in the Luca ; he was met by the principal residents. II drove to the Gate Pah and the cerante y. • No landing was effected at White Island, . owiog to the heavy swell.

Tauranga, April 7. Captain Morris, one of the candidates at the election for the East Coast, has been served with a summons to appear at Poverty Bay on the 18th instant, for bribing the electors there. | Wellington, April 6.

The Customs revenue collected to day amounted to £B6BO. It is the largest amount ever collected in one day at Wellington. An order in Council fixes the next sitting of the Court of Appeal for the 28th of May next.

Mr Clement William Govett is gazetted Assistant Law Officer to the Government of the Colony. The following notice appears in the Gazette, re tenders for banking business, In order to secure both parties the continuance for one year certain of any agreement entered into, the following is to be read in place of the introductory paragraph to the conditions published in the Gazette of the 2nd of March, 1876 : —“ Any agreement entered into to be terminable by either party at any time on six calendar months’ notice given to the other, but no such notice shall be given until the expiration of six calendar months from the date of taking over the Government account.”

The following are the credentials and instructions of Messrs Gisborne, Beed, and Knowles, on thoir visit to the several provinces. The Commission takes letters of introduction to all Superintendents, who are asked to assist with their views on the points upon which the Commission are seeking advice ; also, asking Superintendents to introduce the Commission to members of the Executive and officers of the Provincial service, and allow them access to the Provincial offices. The Superintendents are also furnished with a copy of instruction to the Commissioners; the substance of them is as follows ;—“ First, to obtain the information requisite for preparing and submitting to the Assembly the estimates for carrying on the public services in the provinces during the coming year. The changes are not to be made so suddenly as to cause local inconvenience, and therefore, while some departments are at once incorporated with the General Government, it may be found desirable to continue for a time others on a more local footing. It is proposed to arrange to make local payments for contracts in progress, for works which, as soon as the necessary arrangements can be effected, will devolve upon the local governing bodies. The Government intend to incorporate, as stated hereinafter, Provincial with General Government services, in some respects, such as land and education administration. This incorporation will mean little more than the appointment of the General Government department, with which it will be the duty of the local department to correspond. With respect to charitable aid, the commission are merely to indicate the present cost and footing, as they will be handed over to local control without any intervening taking charge by the Colonial Government. The commissioners are merely to report on the present cost and standing of the various police forces. The commissioners to suggest to the Government the appropriations which they consider necessary ; also to indicate the office which they think may be dispensed with without giving the name of the holder. The commissioners are to defer as much as possible to the advice of the Superintendents, and when they do not concur, to represent it to the Government. The commissioners are to be careful to treat the Superintendents with the respect their high positions merit, and to remember that their functions still continue, and that the General Government are not entitled to do mare at present than seek information which will enable them to discharge the responsibilities which the law devolves upon them after next session. The Provincial Auditors, being General Government officers, are to renter every assistance. The following transfers of provincial departments are proposed ; —All executive departments connected with incompleted clerical work, such as keeping records, &c, to be in Colonial Secretary’s department; police forces in that of the Minister of Justice ; the Crown lands survey, goldfields, inspector of sheep, in the Secretary of Crown Land Department; the railways, public works and public plantations, in the Minister of Public Works Department ; the harbors in that of the Commissioner of Customs ; education in the Minister of Justice’s Department; the hospitals, lunatic asylums, industrial, charitable institutions, orphan asylums, public libraries, museums (subject to arrangement to be made for continuance of local control for charitable institutions) to be in the Colonial Secretary’s Department.” The following telegram has been received from Messrs Gisborne, Seed, and Knowles, on their departure from Canterbury : —“ On concluding our work here to-day we proceed to Dunedin. We have received every possible assistance from His Honor the Superintendent and the officers of Provincial Government.” The General Government sends the following telegram to the Superintendent of Canterbury : —“ The Government thank your Honor for the courteous assistance you and the Provincial Government officers have given Messrs Gisborne, Seed, and Knowles.” The Government have received a letter from Mr Seymour, of Marlborough, expressinghis utmost readiness to assist the commission in their work in every way, Before the Colima came to grief Sir J. Vogel telegraphed to) the New South Wales Government that the Colima was not fit for service. He was so satisfied of this that he gave instructions for a survey to be held on her at Port Chalmers, but not being able to get in there, it was to be held at Lyttelton. After the accident the agents in Sydney telegraphed to know if our Government would have any objection to allow the route to be altered so as to allow the Zelandia to call at Auckland. The Government replied “ yes,” provided the New South Wales Government agree. No answer has yet been received. Hokitika, April fi. Pollock, Bevan, and Co, pioprietors of the Rangitoto silver mine, have resolved to form a joint stock company. The prospectus will be issued in a few days.