TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 871, 10 April 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

{Per Press Agency.') INTERPROVINCIAL. Dunedin, April 10. An official enquiry will be held this morning in reference to the Taranaki having struck upon the Shag reef. The session of the Otago Institute is postponed till June, as the Museum lecture room is not ready. The railway line is about to be continued from Balclutha bridge up to the township. On dit that Sir F. H. .Bell is about to be made a member of the Upper House. The Queen’s Theatre opened on Thursday night, under the management of Mr Keogh. Hr. Scott, M.B.,O.M.,Edinburgh University, 1874, and at present anatomical demonstrator at that University, has been appointed Professor of Anatomy in the Otago University. Wellington, April 10. Mrs Seott-Siddons, last night, concluded the most successful season, in every respect, ever played here. She and Mr Steele leave for Christchurch to-morrow. The Havenports also closed well attended performances last night. They leave for Rapier. The Lydia Howard troupe are to be the caterers for public amusement for the next few nights at the Theatre Royal. Charles Hillsdcn, custodian for the Theatre Company, and business manager for the lessees, has brought a criminal action for libel against a person named Powell, formerly connected with the Theatre, for having written an anonymous letter to one of the Public Hall directors, in which he insinuated that the directors of the company and lessees of the Theatre were being defrauded by Hillsdcn. The case was heard before the Resident Magistrate, and Powell, who reserved his defence, was committed to take his trial at the next criminal sittings of the Supreme Court. AUSTRALIAN. WRECK OE THE SCHOONER S. M. RATS ON. Sydney - , April 10. The schooner S. M. Ratson, from .Newcastle to San Francisco, sprung a leak off Cape Howe, and bore up for Howe’s Island, where she beached. The captain, wife, and crew, were safely landed. Three of the crew took a boat and provisions, and sailed for Sydney, arriving on Sunday. The Hero sails to-morrow. YESTEBDATS TELEGRAMS.