YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1073, 5 December 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

[BY SUBMARINE CABLE.] [eeutee’B special telegrams to the PRESS AGENCY.] AUSTRALIAN. Sydney, December 3. Yesterday the debate on the address in reply was adjourned to Tuesday. It is supposed that the Government defeat will be saved by a majority of one vote. [Per Tararua, via Bluff.] The Tararua brings no news of importance. The latest date from Melbourne is November 28th. It has been resolved to recognise the services of Sir Redmond Barry in connection with public institutions, and notably the University and Public Library. The form of the commemoration has been left to a committee to decide. A child six years of age was burned to death yesterday in a wooden house at Sandhurst. JLM.S. Wolverine and Sapphire left the Bay this morning. The s.s. Northumberland came in, fifty-five days from London. [Per Rotorua, via Auckland.] The Rotorua left Sydney on Nov. 28th. She brings only one day’s news later than the Albion. Melbourne. Mr Berry, in introducing the payment of members item on the estimates, and referring to the undoubted privileges of the Assembly in dealing with the question in the manner they proposed, said that the Legislative Council would have thrown out the Land Tax Bill if it had dared. It would also throw out the Appropriation Bill if it dare, but it would be its death knell. They would be guilty of an act of revolution, and every member of that Chamber who upheld it would bo stigmatised as a traitor and revolutionist. However dire might be the consequences they would bejjreeponsible for the acts. At the invitation of Commodore Hoskins and the officers of the Wolverine, a large party, including the Governor, assembled on board the Wolverine and Sapphire. The former visits Portland cn route to Sydney. The Sapphire goes to Sydney, thence to Samoa. The Wolverine will reach Sydney about Christmas next, and proceed to New Zealand. A large sale of fencing wire and corrugated iron took place, and owing to advices of short shipments a rise will probably occur in prices. A fire broke out at the Victoria Hotel, Essendon, when the whole of the training stables were destroyed. The horses were got out with great difficulty, and but for assistance of neighbors the whole main building would have been burned down. A young man Edward Stevens, charged at the City Police Court with the embezzlement of £670 of his employer, W. H. Lambert, was remanded. Adelaide. A frightful murder has been committed at Port Augusta. A man named Fagan split the head of another named Bonner while his victim was fast asleep. In the Assembly the lion. Mr Boucaut submitted his revised summary of revenue and expenditure for the year ended 30th June, 1877, showing a debit balance of £16,365. A sale of 20,000 bushels of new wheat has been made for delivery at Port Adelaide during the month of December, at from 5s to 5s Id per bushel. The Australian cricketers, after playing at Maitland and the Hunter River, will finish their Australian engagements at Adelaide, thence take steamer to Xcw Zealand, and return to Sydney in February in time for the colonial match. INTERPROVINCIAL. [ter press agency.] Auckland, December 4. The Rev. Mr Stuart, Bishop elect of Waiapn, and the Bishop of Auckland, leave in the Rotorua to-night for Napier, where the consecration of the new Bishop takes place. Mr Lazar, of Hokitika, who came up to conduct the Masonic installation, left by the Taranaki. Geahamstown, December 4. A woman named Devey has been fined twenty shillings and costs, in the Resident Magistrate’s Court, for assaulting the head teacher of Kaueranga Girls’ School, The defendant went to the school and shook the teacher because she punished one of the defendant’s children. [from the correspondents of the press.] Timaeu, December 4. The ballot in the matter of the water scheme takes place to-morrow. Public feeling is running very high. The libel case brought by Judge Ward against the “South Canterbury Times” was adjourned to-day till Monday next. The Supreme Court opens on Wednesday. The calendar is exceptionally heavy. The weather is still dry. Many farmers will suffer heavily. Dunedin, December 4. All the County Councils have re-elected their chairmen. Bruce persisted in voting £l5O to Mr Clark, though he declined taking it. Robert Hickling has been sent to gaol for two months for brutally assaulting one of the Opera troupe. EMIGRANT SHIPS FOR THE COLONY". WEllington, December 4. The following ships have left British ports for New Zealand—Opawa, from Plymouth, for Lyttelton, September 27th, with 290 emigrants ; Renfrewshire, from Plymouth, for Napier, September 29th, with 299 ; Canterbury, from Glasgow, for Otago, wit h 262 ; Appclles, from Glasgow, October 16th, for Auckland, with 248 souls. The following were also to have sailed with emigrants, but the number in each ship is not given:—Oamaru, from Glasgow, for the Bluff, about October 26th; Hereford, from Plymouth, for Lyttelton, about October 19th; Gainsborough, from Plymouth, for Nelson and Wellington, October 24-th; Wanganui, from Plymouth, for Lyttelton, October 31st. A ship, name unknown, from Plymouth for Otago, about November 9th. Another for Lyttelton, November 16th, and the Wellington, from Glasgow, for Otago, about NoFembar %lit,