TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 655, 26 July 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

{Per Press Agency.') LATEST FROM" AUSTRALIA. ♦ | By Submarine Cable.J Sydney, July 25. Great floods have occurred in the Clarence district. Two villages have been entirely submerged, and several persons drowned, - and hundreds are reported as starving. There is nothing but wreck, ruin, and desolation everywhere. A branch of the Bank of New Zealand haß been opened at Newcastle. The Seaspray, Newcastle to Lyttelton, has put back. Sailed—Easby. Government have dispatched a steamer to the Clarence for the relief of the sufferers from the flood. Five letter pillars have been broken open, and a number of letters abstracted. Melbourne. A She, the Marrumee murderer, has been sentenced to death. The Exhibition Commissioners ask the Treasurer for an additional vote, to save the credit of the colony at Philadelphia. INTEBPROVINCIAL. Auckland, July 25. The City West polling resulted as follows —Mr,Tonks,|6s6; MrFarnall,3B; Mr Bochfort, 13. The official declaration takes place on Friday. The Franklin electors meet to-night to discuss political matters. Wellington, July 25. It is believed that alluvial gold has been discovered in a creek at Waiumoniata about ten miles from Wellington, The delegates of the Wellington friendly societies will meet to-night, and decide as to what questions and suggestions regarding the new Friendly Societies Bill shall be submitted to Government. Having decided upon these matters they will be telegraphed free to all friendly societies, and the replies will also be franked. The results will be then submitted to the Government. This evening Mr Rolleston will ask the Government when they intend t® bring down the tables and rates in connection with the new Friendly Societies Bill. Wellington, July 26. Sailed—Matau, for Kaikoura and Lyttelton, at 7 a.m. Blenheim, July 26. The Taylor and O'Maka rivers being both up yesterday, the town was much flooded. Fortunately the Opawa was not in flood, and so all the water ran off the town during the night. A few yards of the embankment of the rail way were carried away near Koromiko Station, and the train did not run yesterday afternoon. The morning mail was brought through on the line on a trolly. The train has not resumed running yet. Grevmouth, July 20. Sailed—The tug Titan, for Lyttelton. Port Chalmers, July 26. The City of New York is detained by a heavy roll on the bar. The sea is breaking on the bank. She may possibly get out tonight. (From a corespondent of the Press.) TIMARU, July 25. The first action under the new building regulations of the borough, which provides that no building shall be erected within a certain area, of any inflammable material, was concluded to-day in the Resident Magistrate's Court. The plaintiffs were the Timaru Borough Council, and the defendant Henry Green, commission agent. The case was regarded with considerable interest. The alleged infringement lay in the fact that defendant hid built a wooden building within the inner area. Judgment was given for the defendant, on the ground that the three newspapers in which the regulations been published had not been put in in evidence as required by the Act. Another case was afterwards heard, that of the Borough Council v Henry Whittaker. In this case the newspapers were put in in evidence, but a point was raised that a judgment could not be given under the regulations, on the ground that the by-law of the Municipal Corporations Act under which Buch regulations were made had not been published in full as required by the Act. A notification of the adoption of the by-law had been published in the Gazette, but nothing more, and it is doubted whether this is a legal publication of the by-law. The plaintiffs stated that the course taken with reference to the by-law was the same as that pursued in Christchurch, and that in consequence, if the regulations at Timaru were bad, so were those at Christchurch. His Worship adjourned the case for a fortnight, to consider the point.