TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 659, 31 July 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Per Press Agency.)

LATEST PEOM AUSTRALIA. ■♦ | By Submarine Cable.J Sydney, July 29. Sailed—Zealandia, for Kandavau. Arrived—Bowen, from Foochow, with a cargo of tea. She ran into and disabled the barque Helen Malcolm, on the coast, and towed her here. INTERPROVINCIAL. New Plymouth, July 31. There is considerable excitement here on account of a memorial sent by the Sabbath observance committee to the Minister of Public Works, in which it was stated that the community as a whole were opposed to trains running on Sundays. A large number of Reading gentlemen have taken the matter up, and a counter memorial is now being very numerously signed. Letters are appearing in the papers accusing the ministers composing the Sabbath observance committee of falsehood. Wellington, July 31. The Luna is engaged in sounding in Cook's Straits, with the object of getting a course free of rocks for the second cable. Captain Johnson conducts the survey. The deep sea sounding machine (Sir William Thomson's invention) has been found to answer admirably. The principal part of the work is now completed, and the Luna will pro bably return to-morrow. The DsMurska concerts have been so crowded that a second season is announced. Hokitika, July 29. A crowded public meeting was held on the 22nd, in the Town Hall, the Mayor in the chair, to consider the Btate of the Hokitika river. The following resolutions were carried :—" That it is highly necessary, for the safety of the port, that all the water of the Hokitika river be concentrated in one channel; that the Borough Council be requested to take the advice of a competent engineer with regard to the advisability of making a wing dam at or near the point where the old wing dam stood, for the purpose of turning the wafer running down the north channel into the lagoon, and that the Borough Council be requested to spend such a sura as is necessary to give effect to the opinion of the meeting ; and, if a harbour trust is appointed, that the money expended be refunded." A ratepayers' committee was appointed to confer with the Borough Council on the Bubject. Port Chalmers, July 29.

Arrived—Ship, Norval, from London, with forty passengers and 2000 tons cargo, and thirty tons of powder stwed in a properly, constructed magazine. She reports sighting an iceberg on July 17th, in lat. 49deg.