The Globe. FRIDAY JUNE 9, 1876. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS—

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 616, 9 June 1876, Page 2

The Globe. FRIDAY JUNE 9, 1876. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS—

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| By Submarine Cable.J v‘lt Sydney, JuneS. r The Edinburgh has ? bleedparatory to going north. Mail ’advices speak .confidently o£ Trickett, : the Australian iro wear's; i chance -against Saddler. • fid ano .1 il r Ay< of hahisn : ‘-dbf> gni;*

00 I Melbourne, June 8. The police];.are.': keeping y.> the; supposed: Fenian agent nhderclose surveillance, u«; ;&( • The Albion sailed .yesterday;’/

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(.Juiof ! Wellington, June 9. j. The-Government jhave, decided to, diacontinijie the Industrial of the Life Assurance Department.

it'Wholesale produce prices—Flour, Adelaide, £l4 5s to £l4 10s; Colonial, £11:103 itd £ll 15s per ton ; oats, 2s 2d to 2s 6d per bushel-; maize, 4s 9d to 5s per bushel'; ibfan, Ist 2d- to Is 3d; sharps, Bs, very scarce; potatoes, 75s to 80s per ton; cheese, 9£d to lOd ; to lid per lb. Dunedin, June 8. L

In a case of vagrancy this morning iurthe police court, Mr Pyke, the presiding magistrate, intimated the intention of the Bench to carry out the Act strictly, in terms of the Act, by thrpwing* the onus of proof ,on i defendant Si-as to how their living is obtained. A woman so charged, though producing a bank book showing considerable funds, was convicted and sentenced.

At the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to day, the annual report was real, and also a voluminous report of the com-' mittee appointed to report upon the existing ban kruptcy law. In their general recqm meudiitions, they recommend strongly that a special Act be parsed validating all past proceedings under the Debtors and CreditorAct, 1875;in so far"as’ they are rendered doubtful by the conflict between the Act and the rules of Court, or by the ambiguities existing, They also recommend the Chamber to pointedly urge upon the Government,that the evidence t,i experienced persons should be taken before a :Sleet comnlit'thf^LP6rha- ; ment befor- , aav-ndi fig Art ig'^nWdiW that such evidence should also be obtained for the information of the Governor in ' ‘ • & * JL k' ,'H. si 3

Council before the amendments of rules of court are passed.” Sales—Bapk of New Zealand, £l7 12s to £l7 15s ; National Bank, £3 14a ; Colonial, £ll2s; Fiji, lls 6d ; National Insurance, 23s ; Standard, 12s. Buyers—Bank of New Zealand, £l7 12s ; National, £3 14s ; Colonial, £1 11a ; National Insurance, 22s 6d; Standard, lls 6d ; Otago and Southland Investment, 25s ; Mosgiel, £1 16s,