YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 908, 23 May 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

[by submarine cable, per press agency.]

EUROPEAN,

French Ministerial Changes. London, May 19,

The resignation of the French Ministry was owing to a complaint by President McMahon that Jules Simon had left undefended the Conservative Press laws which the Chamber had repealed. A Right Centre Ministry has been formed under the presidency of Due de Broglie. Due Decazcs, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Bethune, Minister for War, remain. ' A message from McMahon to the Chamber states that, as two Ministers had failed to uphold Conservative principles, and as he cannot associate witli Radicals, lie had resolved to maintain the status qvo until 1880. The excitement in Paris has calmed down.

AUSTRALIAN.

Sydney, May 21. The barque Pleiades, from Wellington to Newcastle had a rough passage. During a heavy gale the sea broke over her, straining her seriously. A man fell overboard but was picked up. The tidal phenomenon caused a rise and fall of 3ft Gin in Sydney harbor ; at Newcastle the water fell twenty-nine inches in four minutes.

The Tasmanian Ministry have been defeated by 16 to 13.

INTERPROYINCIAL,

[per press agency.] G-RAiiAMSTOWN, May 22.

The tidal disturbance was felt at the Chatham Islands on the 11th instant, but was nothing like so severe as that of 1868. A private letter received here from San Francisco says they are having bad times of it there, owing to the failure of the crops in the southern portion of the States, and the depreciation of stocks, by which oven every second man is ruined. The writer advises people who are making a living in New Zealand to remain.

"Wellington, May 22

The stewards of the Wellington Jockey Club, after discussing all the facts connected with the disqualification of Fishhook, and Derritt, the jockey, resolved to endorse the action of the Oamaru Jockey Club. Fishhook and Derritt are therefore disqualified from taking part in the Wellington races. A private telegram received from Melbourne to-day states that two large Melbourne firms have purchased all they could of the stocks of brandy in the Melbourne market, and brandy here has in consequence risen 2s per gallon. The Under-Secretary for Public Works writes, in reply to a communication from the chairman of the Westland County Council, asking whether Government are disposed to hand over to the Westland County Council the Mikonui and other races in the county, and*"if so on what terms, that the Grovernment will place at the Council's disposal the unexpended balances of the sums voted by Parliament. He states the Grovernment are prepared to hand over to the county the Waimea and Mikonui races, on condition that the county undertake all future liabilities in respect of those water races. The expenditure on the Waimea race, out of the Parliamentary vote, up to April, amounted to £IB,OOO, and works authorised in connection therewith, and now being expended, will amount to about £22,000 more, leaving a balance of £12,000 for works still to be undertaken. The Government propose to continue the charge of works authorised, and to place the balance of £12,000 at the disposal of the county, to carry on such water races ill Westland as the Council may recommend and the Governor approve. Out of the appropriation for Mikonui there is unexpended a balance of £15,000, which will also be placed at the disposal of the county to be expended solely upon [that race. The cost of any further work is required to be provided by the county. The Government propose to make payments on the certificales of the county engineer that the specific work mentioned has been performed, or, if that is inconvenient, to imprest the chairman of the County Council with sums of £IOOO, to be accounted for whenever an application is made for subsequent imprests. Hokitika, May 22, 8 p.m.

The s.s. Albion has just arrived from Melbourne. The Waipara has gone out to tender her.

Dunedin, May 22

The inquest as to the death of Margaret Melntyre was continued to-day. One witness swore to having seen Mrs Reid knock her down three weeks ago on the verandah and then drag her into the house by the hair. The inquiry Avas adjourned till Friday.

[EROM COEKESPOXDEXTS OF THE PRESS.]

TniAitu, May 22,

Mi 1 Martelli's funeral to-day was very numerously attended. People from all parts of the province were in the procession, which extended nearly a quarter of a mile. It is rumored that the Rev Mr Oillies, Presbyterian minister, intends to take legal proceedings with reference to a report circulated in the newspapers as to the ground of his refusal to bury the late Mr W. J. Fulton.

Wellington, May 22

The Post of this evening says:—"The members of the City Council appear to have become altogether bereft of reason. In fact. Wellington is at present blessed "with a Conned of lunatics, of whom his Worship the Mayor lias to act as keeper, and do what he can to restrain them in their vagaries. On no other theory than that of sheer lunacy or utter imbecility can we account for the istounding action of our City Councillors with respect to the wharf extension tenders. It a former meeting they muddled the whole business tall they got into a perfect maze of confusion, from which they have never yet been able to emerge. What

took place on that occasion Las already made them the laughing stock of the city. At last night's meeting they made confusion worse confounded. The report of the wharf committee was brought up and read. Of necessity it is a curiously involved document, because it is a record of the way in which those stupid Councillors contrived to stultify themselves. When this report had been read, these nincompoops of Councillors did not know what to do with it. It is hardly possible to write with patience in presence of such a spectacle of imbecility. Cannot the members of the Council for once act like honest, sensible men, and decide to accept the lowest tender for the whole work. Their whole conduct from first to last in this business, their shuffling, trickiness, imbecility, and inconsistency,] have earned them the contempt of every right-thinking man throughout the colony.'' _______