TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
(JPer Press Agency?) LATEST FKOM AUSTRALIA. ♦ [By Submarine Cable.] Sydney, October 24. The Batavia and Singapore cable is interrvpted. Melbourne, October 24. The report of the inspector sent to examine the new disease in sheep in the western district, shows that it is caused by rank, unwholesome herbage. Sydney, October 25. The cable steamer Agnes has sailed for Wellington, but it is understood she will not attempt to lay the second Cook's Strait cable till December. Our Parliament meets far t.he despatqh of business on the 12th of December. INTERPROVINCIAL. New Plymouth, October 24. Arrived —Onward, from Lyttelton. Wanganui, October 24.
The Supreme Court opened yesterday. F. Pillott, for larceny, was sentenced to six months ; Owen Kane, for criminal assault on a girl seven years old, was sentenced this morning to ten years and fifty lashes; Patrick Sullivan, for burglary, and H. Gaynor, for forgery, were found guilty, and sentence was deferred till to-morrow. Wellington, October 24.
The charges against Mr Nancarrow with regard to the Taranaki's and Napier's old boilers have been investigated by Mr Carruthers and Mr Blackett, who entirely exonerate Mr Nanparrow from all blame. Greymouth, October 24.
The Coal Company, while boring in their shaft this morning, passed through a 3ft pin seam of coal, at a depth of 570 feet. Hokitika, October 25.
Splendid accounts from the Mount Rangitoto silver mines. The manager's report proves the existence of 1741 tons of ore p the present workings. Riverton, October 25. A requisition, asking the Mayor to proclaim the day the Abolition Act comes into operation a public holiday, signed, by a large number of ratepayers, has been laid on the table at the meeting of the Town Council last night, and it was unanimously resolved that the day in question should be made a public holiday. Westport, October 25.
It is reported that Mr O'Conor, Provincial Secretary, when visiting the Kuramea special settlement, got into :.n altercation with a settler named Jerry O'Conner, and received a severe pummelling. Dunedin, October 24.
The publicans have decided to express their sympathy with Mr Birch in the late libel action by presenting him with a substantia* mark of their sympathy. Sixteen extra carriages are in course of construction for the railway department. Twenty single men, immigrants per the Timaru, were engaged yesterday at £52 per annum* The annual volunteer renew is to be held atWaihola, . A daring robbery was perpetrated last night. Two men entered a house in Clarendon street by the front door, while a woman was is*. ,the back, broke open a box, and took £lB The Times ment as economical in the long yun ; also a readjustment of the representation: '
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Globe, Volume VII, Issue 733, 25 October 1876, Page 2
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