TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 609, 1 June 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

0 {Per Press Agmey.') LATEST FKOM~AUSTKALIA. | By Submarine Cable.J Sydney, May 31. Press correspondence is proceeding as to the adaptability of Kandavau as a port of call as compared with the Bay of Islands. Shocks of earthquake were felt at Maryborough, Victoria, yesterday. Sheebockj manager of the Aberfeldie Gold Mining Company at Wood's Point, was shot at yesterday by Charles Graves in the company's office. Two shareholders who were present were also slightly injured. INTERPBOVINCIAL. Auckland, May 31. Scarlet fever has broken out at the Maori Hostelry, and the patients have been isolated. Nelson, May 31. The steam dredge Erskine, from Glasgow to Lyttelton, put in here to-day, owing to bad weather in the Straits. She is last from Adelaide, which port she left on the 16th instant. She will sail for Lyttelton when the weather moderates. Wellington, May 31. In anticipation of a very large attendance at the installation of Sir Donald McLean as District Grand Master of the Freemasons for the North Island, it has been decided to issue tickets, without which no one will obtain admission. Wellington, June 1. Complaints having been made by several friendly societies that the new Friendly Societies Rill proposed to be introduced by the Government had not been forwarded to them, it has been ascertained that the cause is in those societies not having been registered, but it is understood that any society making application to the Minister of Justice, and giving the address, will receive copies, or any registered society requiring extra copies can also obtain them the same way. Mr Eliot, who was recently appointed inspector for New Zealand of the National Bank, has been reappointed to the managership of the Bank of Australasia in Melbourne.

Dunemn, June 1

The meeting of shareholders in the Greymouth Coal Company, held yesterday, was adjourned to Tuesday next, no business being transacted owing to the small attendance. . Sir John L. C. Richardson has resigned his seat in the Council of the University of Otago. Sir John was Vice-Chancellor many years. It is understood that the Hon Dr Menzies has also resigned.