TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1057, 16 November 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[per press agency.]

Wellington, November 16,

The captain of H.M.S. Sappho has received instructions to proceed at once with the vessel to Samoa. She leaves this afternoon.

Sergeant-Major Chandler, drill instructor at the Armed Constabulary Barracks for the last seven years, died to-day. "Wellington, November 1(5.

In a Christchurch telegram the other day it was stated that the Christchurch Acclimatisation Society complain that they have only received the 50,000 salmon ova which they themselves had paid for, but none of the 100,000 promised to them by the Government. The facts of the case are understood to be as follow : —The American Society sent by the last San Francisco mail steamer ten boxes of ova, containing 10,000 each, and one of these boxes was given to the Christchurch Society, as had been always intended. They paid nothing for this 50,000, and they were never led to expect 10,000 from Government.

Dunedin, November 16. The annual meeting of the Diocesan Synod was closed last night. One resolution carried was, " That the Synod hopes every effort will be made by the clergy and lay members of the Church to proviso fqr the religious education A the young. 8 ' Two professional accountants &i'a ia examine the system of accounts now used by the City Jouncil, and also the system suggested by the vlayor, and report as to their respective raerits.