YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1077, 10 December 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

[BY SUBMARINE CABLE.] [eeutee’s special telegeams to peess AGENCY.] AUSTRALIAN. Sydney, December 8. Mr Parkes is still endeavoring to form a Ministry. Mr Clarke, hydraulic engineer, is at present in Adelaide. He leaves for Christchurch and Wellington in six weeks. The New South Wales contribution to the Indian Famine Fund amounts to £13,000. INTERPRO YIN OIAL. |_PEE PBEBS AGENCY.] Wellington, December 8. It is understood that next week Mr Bunny will be gazetted Commissioner of Annuities, and Mr Rees Attorney-General. Oamaett, December 8, At the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day Henry Andrews, revenue constable, was committed for trial for perjury in the recent case of sly grog-selling, in which he swore that he saw a beer-engine in the house of a man named Comin. Bail was allowed. It is rumored that about eleven publicans will shortly appear before the Magistrate charged with permitting gambling in their licensed houses. fPBOM TfJE COEBESPONDENT OP THE PEESS.] Tijiahu, December 8. Heavy rain set in this afternoon and still continues. It will save a gold part of the grain crops. The Waitaki river is running bank and bank. It is the heaviest flood known for years. The Grand Lodge of New Zealand Good Templars opens its annual sitting at Timaru on Monday. About forty delegates are expected. The Hon. W. Fox is also to be present. Fourteen criminal rises are set down for hearing at the Supreme Court next week, including one of breach of promise against a well-known squatter, in which £3oou damages are claimed. The sitting is like ly to occupy nearly a fortnight. The hospital commissioners hare received a telegram from the Government to-day, approving of the appointment of a resident surgeon. The stakes for the next Timaru races will probably exceed £7OO, ead will be the beet hr