YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 953, 14 July 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

[by submarine cable, pee press agency.] AUSTRALIAN. [Per s.s. Tararua, via the Bluff.] Melbourne, July 5. The address in reply to the Governor’s speech was agreed to without discussion, and the business of the session has been commenced in good earnest. The budget speech and the question of finance will not be dealt with till the middle of the month. A Railway Construction Bill will be introduced next week. There appears to be a disposition amongst members to do work. They are well kept in hand by the Speaker, who will not allow the time of the House to be wasted. Sir Charles MacMahon is scarcely likely to obtain any satisfaction for the statement at Geelong as to the “ corrupt Speaker.” Mr Berry says he has apologised quite enough, and sees no reason for re-opening the question. Mr John Jamieson, of Ballarat, has bean appointed Chairman of Committees. Two miners have been smothered in a mine at Ballarat by foul air. The principals in the late prize fight have been bound over to keep the peace for twelve months, and those present, twenty-six of whom were summoned, were let off. The barque Planter, from Newcastle to Adelaide, with coals, has been lost off Elinder’s Island.

The insurance losses last year were very heavy. It is reckoned that half a crown has been paid for every shilling received. Business is very dull. There is little doing in the way of amusements. Three theatres and St. George’s Hall are still open, besides other entertainmeats,

Sydney, July 13. Case brandy, thirty-one three-quarters, £8 and £9 ; kerosene, 2s 2d to 3s ; dull. Hire unchanged. Adelaide Hour, £lB 10s to £l9 10s ; Adelaide wheat, 8s to 8s 3d ; New Zealand wheat and oats, nominal; tobacco and sugar unchanged; sperms, 10 [d. INTERPROYINCIAL. [ten press agency.] Auckland, July 13. it a meeting of the creditors of S. 11. Meyers and Co. the liabilities were shown to be £18,000; the assets £OOOO. It was resolved that the estate be liquidated in the Bankruptcy Court. Much sympathy is felt for the bankrupts, in consequence of the heavy business losses shown in the statement. The City Council took action against the sharebrokers to test their power to levy a license fee under the Sharebrokers Act. The case was upset on a technical point raised by the defence, the transfer not having been completed. Wanganui, July 13. At a meeting of the colonial regatta committee, a sub-committee was appointed to Hx the date for holding the regatta, and drawing up a programme. A general meeting will be held on the 26th to receive the same. Suggestions from other boating clubs in the colony will be invited before that date. Wellington, July 13. A good deal of misapprehension has existed, not only amongst the public, but amongst lawyers, as to the apportionment of the costs in the late libel case, Anderson v. Gallon, Kent, and Waters, but, according to the decision of the Registrar of the Supreme Court, the principal portion of the costs will fall upon the defendants. The amount which will have to be paid by the plaintiff is only trilling us compared with that to be paid by the defendants. It is reported that the Union Steamship Company intend to lay up the steamer Wellington. Kumara, July 13.

Mr Barff’s meeting with his constituents here last evening was largely attended. A unanimous vote of confidence was passed. He will support the Government measures, but is not satisfied with the Government action in regard to the Counties Bills, the waste lands, the gold duty, and the new police regulations. He is in favor of reforming the Legislative Council, of establishing a school of mines, of consolidating the goldfields laws, of larger subsidies to hospitals, of an alteration in the licensing laws, and in the constitution of the Education Boards. He would support a continuance of the honorarium, of expenditure on public works, of the erection of the Teremakau bridge, and of an improvement in the electoral registration. Lawrence, July 18.

At a land sale to-day the Government auctioneer sold a lax’ge number of towxx sections in Lawrence, at prices up to £75 per quarter-acre. Rural sections also brought good prices. The friends of Mr Bastings entertain him this evening to congratulate him on his return as a County Couxxcillor. Dunedin, July 13.

Mi’s Eeid’s case was continued to-day. The prosecution closed this evening. Mr Stout then proceeded to contend that the xi was no case to go to the jury. The case wi be concluded to-night.