YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 981, 17 August 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

[by submarine cable. peb pkess agency.] AUSTRALIAN. [Per Albion, via Nelson.] The election committee are still engaged in dealing with petitions. Considerable dissatisfaction is expressed at the unseating oil Dr McArtney, on Hie ground that he is a minister of religion; and public meetings have been held to protest. Mr John Stevenson, late Secretary of Railways, has been discharged from the Government service. It is expected that the negotiations with Green will lead to the establishment of a Cape service. In Tasmania, Mr Fysh has been sent for to form a (iovernment. The Adelaide Legislative Council decline to proceed wi'jh lmsiness, having passed a vote of want of confidence in the Chief Secretary. The Ministry denies the right of the Council to say who shall be Ministers. The drought in country severely felt. The weather is very dry and warm. Business is improving. Large supplies of breadstuffs continue to be received from the country, but as market is not forced there has been no reduction in prices. A young man named Frank Nash, while performing at the Colosseum, fell from a trapeze, twenty feet, and received serious injuries. Arrangements for sending an Australian cricket team to England arc now complete. The following are the promised and chosen Victorians : —Allan, Blackham, Horan, Kendall, Boyle or Midwinter ; New South AVales: Banuerman, D. Gregory, Spofforth, Thomson, Murdoch, G-arrett; Tasmania: G-. Bailey. The team will play a series of matches in the colonies, aiid will leave for England in December. The Southern Insurance Company has declared a dividend of 6d per share, being equal to S per cent, per annum. The action De Courcy Ireland v. Captain Chapman, 11.M.5. Dido, for false imprisonment at Fiji, continues. The P. and O. Company intend to perform the Australian service with the Tanjore, Assam, and Siam, three of their fastest boats. A young man, named Paxton, clerk in the National Bank, was drowned in the Yarra. The boat upset, and it is supposed he was seized with cramp. A man named James Batley, a supposed lunatic, committed a murderous assault in the Colac train. A Bill for the regulation and inspection of mines has passed the Assembly, and will come into operation at the beginning of the year. The Commercial Bank declares a dividend of 8 per cent per annum. The National Insurance Company have also declared a "dividend of 8 per cent. INTERPROVINCIAL. The Football Match in Auckland. Auckland, August 16. Owing to wet weather the football match had not begun at 2.40 p.m. About 1500 persons were present at the match after the weather cleared up. The game was very well played throughout, the teams being evenly matched. Several good scrimmages and capital kicks were made, Auckland showing to the best advantage in kicking, and Dunedin in scrimmages. Rose, Dixon, and Cargill were most active for Dunedin, and Wood, Nolan, and Robinson for Auckland. In the first round Dunedin was forced-down, but no score was made. In bomi two, Dunedin nearly made a touch-down, but Auckland saved it. In the third bout Dunedin got the best of a ten minutes' scrimmage, but without improving their advantage ; and in the fourth bout Auckland was twice forced-down but rallied, and pressed their opponents hard. The game ended in a draw, neither side scoring. There seemed to be hardly anything to choose between the teams. The National Bank have written to the City Council offering to take £'25,000 of the waterworks loan at 98 net, or float it at best price, on behalf of the Council. Alburnia shares have advanced from t'.i 10s to £5 10s since yesterday. Applications tor the Union Insurance Com* panv's shares amount to about £IIO,OOO. TAUIIANGrA, August 16. Upwards of 2000 shares in the Union Insurance Company have been applied for here. NIUuON, August 16.

to-day before Mr Lowther Broad, R.M., and Captain Johnston, as nautical assessor. The Court was adjourned till to-morrow. There is every probability that the inquiry will last for a week. The Government Scheme of Immigration. Wellington, August 16. Government is informed by the AgentGeneral that, in consequence of the very stringent instructions which he has received as to the class of emigrants to be sent to New Zealand this year, he might have some difficulty in making up the specified number, 5000. He states that strict supervision is being exercised to ensure that none but the classes ordered should be selected, even if this results in making the total number shipped less than 5000. Great difficulty is experienced in obtaining single women, and, as an additional inducement to the free passage, Sir Julius Vogel is offering free passes to the ports of embarkation. By cable telegram the Agent-General informs the Government of the sailing of the ship Mataura, for Napier, with 184. immigrants, and the Rangitikei, for Canterbury, with 277. Dunedin, August 16. Two hundred and fifty thousand shares in Union Insurance Co. have been applied for in Dunedin. Tiniaru Harbour Board. [prom the correspondents of the press.] Timaru, August 16. At the Harbor Board meeting to-day, it was decided to take immediate steps to secure competent engineers, also to invite competitive plans for harbor works at Timaru, £2OO to be offered for the best plan, and £IOO for the second best. Allan and Stumbles' plans were ignored, and no action was taken with regard to them. Country members are doing all hi their power to frustrate Harbor Boards, and public feeling is beginning to run very high. The action of the Board to-day is generally condemned, and it is probable that a movement will be made to protest against the course it is pursuing, owing to the opposition of country members. Dr. Moran on the Ministry. Dunedin, August 16. The "Justice of the Peace" expresses a hope that some member of the House will call attention of the Government; to the present state of the judicial arrangement of the district. It says—" For some time past we have been left without any Judge at all, and disappointed litigants have been fretting at the law's delay. If it is thought necessary that two Judges should be stationed in a small district like Wellington, on what ground is it considered that one Judge, young and the least experienced of five, is enough for this district, largest in the colony. The best thing that can be done is to make one district of Canterbury and Otago, and station three Judges in it, to sit alternately in banco in the two cities every three or four months. As there is apparently little or nothing to do in Auckland, we do not see why Judge Gillies should not sit occasionally in Wellington, so that either the Chief Justice or Mr Justice Richmond could sit here." All the speakers at the Catholic meeting were very temperate in their speeches. At the close Dr. Moran delivered a strong speech, in the course of which he said—" Probably the Government, if hard pressed, will consent to remove the objectionable clauses, because the present Government has with all Bills this principle, to stick to their places and pensions. What right has any man sitting upon the Government benches to put himself forward as an advocate of education P How many of them are really educated men ? How many of them show fitness for legislating in the matter of the education of Catholic people ? How many of them are in possession of Christian principles ? Some of them are Christians, but I have strong reasons for believing that there are some of them who are not. The Government may pass the Bill, but as sure as they do pass it, we will disobey it." [Loud cheers.] (When Dr. Moran spoke approvingly of the position taken up by the "Guardian" upon the Bill, some individual called for three cheers for its editor, naming him personally. Some of the audience, mistaking the name for that of a person who figured in a criminal case which greatly exercised the public mind very recently, did not appear to relish the interruption, for the author of it was very quickly " run out'' of the and was handled somewhat roughly. At Q.ueenstown Judge Harvey, in the case of Scott v Hall, a mining case, awarded the plaintiff £350 damages, saying it was the most disgraceful attempt at a swindle he had ever known. A share in the Tipperary claim was involved.