YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1099, 7 January 1878, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

[BY SUBMARINE CABLE.]

[BBTTTBB'S SPEOIM TELEOBAMB TO THE PBESB AQENOY.]

AUSTRALIAN.

Colonial Revenues. Sydney, January 5. The revenue of New South Wales last year was £5,751,878, an increase of £714,516. The revenue of Victoria was £4,512,261, an increase of £19,098. The revenue of Queensland for the half-year was £823,615, an increase of £128,202*.

The Randwick Races. Gold from New Guinea.

[Per Rotorua, via Auckland.] Sydney, December 29. The total of the Indian Famine Relief Fund is £15,089. The torpedo corps has been increased to a hundred men. The following is a complete list of the horses scratched for the Maiden Plate — Royalty, Moira, Amendment, Strathearn, and the Dolly Varden colt. For Tattersall's Ciip —Timothy, Ramarae, Lockwood, Kisment, Amendment, Athos, Coventry, Victor, Ringwood, Saladin. Flour, 14s lOd to 15s lOd; bran, Is 2d to Is 3d; maize, 4s 6d to 4s 9d; Adelaide wheat, 6s 3d. Brisbane, December 28. Beadome, police magistrate at Somerset, telegraphs to the Government, stating Mr Goldie, botanist, has discovered gold inland from Port Moresby, New Guinea. He had fine gold in his possession. A bottle of black sand shows one spec, believed to be gold. The Rev. G. Selves has a likely looking specimen, but showing no gold. Bill Smith, in consequence of a business dispute, shot Robert Craig dead, and then shot himself through the head. Hailstones as large aa hen's eggs fell during the late thunderstorm in Brisbane. Great havoc was done in gardens, trees were stripped, buildings damaged, and verandahs blown away. Government House was much damaged, and windows in the Legislative Assembly rooms were blown in. Melbourne, December 28. A man named Loughton, living with a young woman named Egerton, is charged with beating her to death with a sapling. Both were drunkards. Mary Regan was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping Potts's child. The blood-stained clothes of a child were found in her possession All Government departments are ordered to cut down expenditure to the utmost. The salmon experiment has been successful. Thirty-two thousand miles of road have been declared open. Government intend to mitigate the sentences of life-sentence prisoners. Flour, £l2 10s ; wheat, 5s 9d.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[PEB PBESB AGENCY.] Fatal Fire at Auckland. Sir George Grey's Movements. Wellington v. Canterbury Cricket Matnh. Greymouth Coalmining Company. Auckland, January 5. The race horse Magician has been sold byMr Buckland to Mr R. Kelly for £4OO. Messrs Guthrie and Larnach have purchased the vessels belonging to Howard, and trading to the West Coast, including the Amaranth, Atlantic, Fiery Cross, and the ketch Wild Duck.

Vare's Harbor-view Restaurant and wharf were totally destroyed by fire early this morning. Although a two story building was in close proximity, with other wooden houses, the efficiency of the brigade and water supply confined the fire to the building where it originated. The building was insui'ed for £3OO in the Norwich Union. The charred remains of the body of a man were discovered after the fire. His identity is not yet certain, he is believed to have been an old tramp. Gisbobne, January 4.

Mr Sheehan has telegraphed to the Mayor, stating that the Hinemoa, with Sir George Grey, will arrive here on Monday, and that public addresses will be made an hour after arrival. A meeting of Natives is to take place tonight to pass resolutions relating to grievances and wrongs to be submitted for redress on Monday to Sir G-eorge Grey and Mr Sheehan. On Tuesday morning the Hinemoa will leave for Wellington. Wellington, January 4.

Owing to the fact that the Canterbury men will not arrive in Wellington in time to play on Monday, the inter provincial match ha* had to be postponed till Tuesday next. It is generally understood that the day will be kepi as & semi-holiday. " The newly-organised Amalgamated Friendly Societies' Funeral" Reform Association is making considerable progress. It lias been resolved that the wives of members of the various Friendly Societies should be perBitted w Jwome me»lww ©f the s#gQ?isPo,

The association, it is thought, will adopt the rules of the Victorian Society, under which a person can be buried plainiy for £2 15s, or with coach and pair for £3 15s. Gheymouth, January 5.

A largely attended meeting of the Greymouth Coal Company was held last evening. The present position and future prospects of the Company were fully discussed, and It was resolved that the capital should be increased by the issue of 8000 new shares of £1 each, £1 paid up. The directors were also authorised to mortgage the mine and plant for a sum not exceeding £4OOO, in order to secure themselves in giving their "joint and several" securities to the Bank for an overdraft to meet current expenses. It was generally understood that the directors would not find it necessary to exercise this power, but that the possession of it would facilitate their negotiations with the Bank. On all hands the greatest confidence in the ultimate success of the mine was expressed.^