TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 591, 11 May 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

{' Per Press Agency .) LATEST PROM AUSTRALIA. * [By Submarine Cable.] Sydney, May 10. The subscriptions to assist the Strathmore survivors are coming in slowly. Sailed —Albion, for Hokitika. Melbourne, May 10. A nugget weighing twelve pounds has been found at Brett’s rush. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce a letter was read from the Colonial Wool Merchants’ Association, London, complaining of the undue dumping of wool before shipment, and recommending increased vigilance to prevent the evil. Sullivan is reported to be at Wedderburn. The Otago has arrived. She encountered heavy gales, INTEBPROVINCIAL. Auckland, May 10. Sir George Grey has addressed a letter to the Civil Service Commissioners, in which he says he learns from his Provincial Treasurer that the information they require is so simple and ordinary that he would have furnished it with pleasure to the Colonial Secretary, and does not understand why it has been thought necessary to send the three gentlemen to obtain it. Sir G. Grey also writes to know who is agent for the General Government at Auckland, understanding that a Minister of the Crown is at present discharging the duties. He comments strongly on this, and generally upon civil servants holding portfolios in the Ministry. Wellington, May 11. The reserved Crown case, from Christchurch, of Queen v Niccoll, for having committed perjury in the Resident Magistrate’s Court, was argued in the Court of Appeal by Dr Forster. The Court reserved its decision. At a general meeting of the Chamber of Commerce it was resolved to form a Harbour Board, and acquire for the sum of sixty thousand pounds for the Queen’s wharf and the Te Aro foreshore of seventytwo acres, the Corporation having control over the drainage and sewerage; one-sixth of the land is to be handed over to the Corporation for public reserves. The Government is to be communicated with, to learn what endowment Jthey will grant the Harbour Board, and whether they will introduce the necessary bill into Parliament, Dunedin, May 11. The Otago Education Board at their meeting this morning deferred the consideration of numerous applications for additions to school buildings and new schools, and also the appointment of teachers, owing to the Government having no funds at their disposal.