YESTERDAYS TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 943, 3 July 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAYS TELEGRAMS

* [by submarine cable, per press agency.] The Wool Market. London, .Time 28. The wool sales closed firm. There were great fluctuations during the series for the first three weeks, but there was a general recovery subsequently. The closing rates were good. Combing fleeces were a penny higher. Lambs realised high prices. Greasy partly recovered the fall at the opening. Cross-breds were most depressed. 200,700 bales were catalogued, and 150,000 sold for export, including 6000 for America. 60,000 bales were carried over. Sydney, July 2. A special telegram to the Herald dated London, 28th, confirms the war news. The Turks have abandoned Dobrudscha. The Grand Duke Nicholas, at the head of the 14th Division and the Bth Army Corps, crossed the Danube at Sunnitza, and carried the first position of the Turks.

AUSTRALIAN.

Wreck of a Steamer. Sydney, July 2. The s.s. Tararua brings the captain and crew of the steamer Bettie (? Bulk), from Newcastle to Tasmania, coal laden. She had been wrecked on the rock Mm ray's Paw. She now lies in five fathoms water. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, July 2. The Dante, cutter, which left Onehunga two days ago for Waitara, is supposed to have been lost. A quantity of wreckage and candles, known to have been a portion of her cargo, have been found on the coast between Manukau and Raglan. At the Supreme Court to-day Judge Grillies, in his charge to the Grand Jury, said the calendar wap the lightest ever known in the annals of the Court. Six out of the seven cases were from out districts, only one bein" 1 from the city. In a case where a juryman sent a medical certificate for non-attend-ance, the Judge said it was not sufficient. He must send some person to the Court able to swear to the genuineness of the signature of the medical man. Jackson, for stealing from a dwelling-house, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.

A prize fight for £2O a-side was interrupted by the police just as the combatants were about to begin. G-rahamstoavn, July 2.

Mr W. Carrington, engineer, is here, and proceeds up the river to lay out a site for a bridge, railway terminus, and route for the Thames Valley line. Wellington, July 2.

A conference of ministers of religion and others will be held this evening at the Provincial Hall, to discuss the temperance question, the main object being to agree upon some definite course which may be subsequently placed before a public meeting, backed by the approval of the conference. Members of the Wellington police force were sworn-in to-day for the official year commencing yesterday. The Chief Justice, in commenting upon the criminal calendar when charging the jury, pointed out in the fraudulent insolvency case that under the Act of 1876 an insolvent was liable to imprisonment for two years if he did not disclose the whole of his property to his trustee, and that the deposition showed that the prisoner Grey had concealed the amount of his property. Touching the case of criminal libel against Henry Powell his Honor said a charge of that kind—that persons in another employment were guilty of misconduct—was certainly libellous and defamatory, and if made with intent to injure, it then became malicious, and was plainly indictable as a criminal offence. It would not, however, be malicious if mp.de with an honest and thorough belief that the allegations were true, even if the allegations were subsequently found to be without foundation. There would be no case for malicious libel, supposing the statement had been made with honest intent in the first instance, and the statement would therefore, in fact, be a privileged one, presuming that in that case it was made without fear of prosecution by an action for libel. 8 p.m.

The Temperance Conference this evening was well attended. The Bishop of Wellington occupied the chair. Nearly all the clergy of the place were present, besides a large number of influential citizens, including the Hon. the Premier. The following is the text of the petition which the conference propose to adopt for presentation to Parliament: — The petition of the undersigned inhabitants of the Province of respectfully sheweth— That, in consideration of the acknowledged evils of intemperance, and the advanced state of public opinion on the matter of prohibition, no Licensing- Act can meet the necessities of the case, without clauses to the following effect viz. .• —

1. That all licensing districts shall as far as possible be bcranded by the same boundaries as the existing highway districts, boroughs, wards of boroughs, or other already defined areas of not too great dimensions. 2. That all licensing officers shall be elected by the ratepayers. 3. That on a requisition of twenty householders in any district it shall be imperative on the chief magistrate, or other authority of the district, to take votes by ballot of all the adult residents in the district in usual electoral manner, as to whether any license shall or shall not be granted. 4. That in the cast, of two-thirds of the actual votes given being against the granting of any license, no license shall be granted for the said district, nor shall any district under any circumstance be retested within a less period than three years. 5. That no new licenses shall be granted unless the person applying for such shall, in addition to complying with all other reiuurenicnts of the law, furnish to the clerk of the court a memorial being in favor of such license granted, signed by at least a majority of the adult residents in the district in which the house for which license is sought is situate ; such memorial to be lodged one" month prior to the date appointed for the annual meeting of licensing officers, and to be open for public inspection, and the genuineness of the signatures thereto to be verified on oath in open court, G. That applications for licenses shall be heard only at the annual meetings of the licensing officers. 7. Your petitioners therefore pray that the law of New Zealand may now be altered in conformity with this petition, and that your honorable House may be pleased to pass an Act embodying the aforesaid clauses in such a manner as to give them full legal force and. effect. Dunedin, July 2.

Mr Hugh McNeil has been appointed a member of the Harbor Board in place of Mr Eattray, resigned. The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court commenced this morning before Judge Williams. In the case of John Tenant, charged with assault with intent to commit a rape, the Grand Jury found no true bill, and he was discharged. The following prisoners pleaded "Guilty," and were remanded for sentence. Mary Carr, larceny ; John Cameron, shooting a cow ; Joseph Hanley, stealing from a dwel-ling-house ; John Maroney, house breaking ; Allan Mcßae, attempted suicide ; this prisoner was liberated on his own surety in the sum of £SO. John Craig pleaded "Not Guilty" to larceny at Oamaru. Thomas Labert was acquitted of house breaking. Two Chinamen were acquitted of keeping a common gaming-house, Mrs Reid will be tried by special jury on next Thursday week.