YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1064, 24 November 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

[BY SUBMARINE CABLE.] [ketjtbb's special telegbams to tbb pbess agency.] AUSTRALIAN. Melbourne, November 23. The amount for the payment of members is included in the additional estimates. Parliament is expected to be prorogued on the 30th insfc. The Presbyterian Assembly have resolved to petition the Queen for the annexation of New G-uinea. Sydney, November 23. Markets Brandy unchanged. Kerosene, 2s Id to 2s 2d; rice, £23 ; Adelaide flour, £l3 10s to £l3 15s, with a falling market ; Adelaide wheat, 6s 6d; New Zealand wheat, 5s 3d ; New Zealand oats, Is 3d. Barrett's twist, Is sid to Is 6d ; price rising. Sugar unchanged. Belmont sperms, OJd, with a falling market. The Telegraph Cables. Wellington, November 23. The steamer Duke of Edinburgh is now employed repairing the fault in the cable between Singapore and Batavia. When that is finished she will proceed at once to repair the Port Darwin to Banjoewangi cable. INTERPROVINCIALr [PEB PBESS AGENCY.] Wreck of the Cutter Dido. Auckland, November 23. At the Helensville races Perfume was a complete failure, and only carried off the Consolation Stakes. Mr Firth a few days ago placed 40,000 Californian salmon ova in the Panui river, King country. Advices have been received that the ova have hatched out, and that the fish are swimming in thousands. The Natives are much interested in the experiment. Napieb, November 23. The first general meeting of the Working Men's Club was held last night in the clubhouse, when it was resolved to inaugurate the club with an entertainment at the Oddfellows' Hall; also to have a weekly musical reunion in the club's large room, and to form a string band of instrumentalists, and a debating class. The President stated that the club had now over 260 members, and that it stood second in New Zealand. A library has been started for the use of members. Masteeton, November 23. At the Agricultural Association dinner last night, Mr Pharazyn stated that the Government had decided upon an underhill line, thus avoiding Q-reytown, owing to engineering difficulties, and that tenders would be called for in a month. He further said that the line is expected to be ready for plate-laying as soon as the Rimutaka tunnel is finished, and the whole to be open in eighteen months. Nelson, November 23.

The cutter Dido, bound from Wellington to West Wanganui, has been wrecked at Totaranui. She had discharged an engine at Collingwood, and was taking another to West Wanganui, when she missed stays and ran on the rocks. The crew were brought to Nelson by the steamer Lady Barkly. The insurance is—On the hull, £400; on the cargo, £7OO, in the Union Office.