YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1206, 15 January 1878, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

[BY SUBMARINE CABLE.] [bbutbb's special tblegbamb to the bbbss agency.] AUSTRALIAN. Melbourne, January 14. It is announced that the Postmaster-Q-eneral declined to allow any officers in his department to bo dismissed. In some of •) o churches prayers have been offered up for the wives ar<i children of the Civil servants recently dismissed. Sydney, January 14. The investiture of Archbishop Vaughan With a JttUiWH JpWSMJted by Pooe pyflvgd.

a very imposing ceremony, the congregation numbering 3000 persons. [Per Wakatipu, via Wellington.] Melbourne, January 8. The Victorian Government have received a telegram from the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, Adelaide, intimating their preparedness to arrange for a duplicate line, and that if the other colonies would join in the scheme, the tariff might be reduced 6s or 7s per word. The racehorse Pluto, which ran in the Champion race, has died. The Chief Secretary of South Australia has informed the Victorian Government that owing to the outbreak of phylloxera, the importation of vines, grapes, or cuttings is strictly prohibited. Ministers of religion and members of Parliament waited on the Minister for Railways with reference to the goods trallic carried on by the Victorian railways on Sundays. Mr Woods pointed out that the work was one of necessity, owing to the limited rolling stock. He saw no difference between carrying goods and carrying passengers. They wero not going to have a puritanical Sunday in Victoria. At the same time he deprecated the continental Sunday. INTERPROVINCIAL. [per press agency.] Wreck of the Schooner Nellie. Reductions in the Railway Staff. Redistribution of Ministerial Portfolios. Ai'ckland, January 11. The schooner Nellie, of Auckland, bound from Lyttelton for this port, ran ashore on Astrolabe Reef. There was a smooth sea and all hands were saved. The cargo consisted of breadstull's. The wreck lies on the eastward shore of Makiki Island. All valuables were saved. The master sustained a fracture of his Tibs. The Nellie belongs to M. A. Owen. She was 60 tons register, built in 1876'. She was insured for £IOOO in the New Zealand office.

Napier, January 14. The remainder of the immigrants by the Renfrewshire were placed in the Quarantine barracks on Saturday. There has bcenayood deal of trouble in connection with them. On Saturday the sailors who took them over from the ship continued to get to the place where the stores were kept, drank all the liquor they could, and took the remainder with them on board. In the afternoon some half-dozen or so of male immigrants made their way to Tarndale, and were served with drink before it was known who they were. Yesterday eleven of them went to Tarndale and did the same. It is said that on Saturday night the single men broke into the single girls' quarters. Two police constables have been sent down to remain in quarantine. The police constables did not go to the quarantine barracks, as the immigration officer found that ho had no power to send them, and he did not think the circumstances warranted his applying to Wellington for authority. The wines and spirits which the sailors took were given to them by Dr. Dale, the ship's medical officer. He says be gave them because he considered the men must be wearied with pulling the boats two miles. The intrusion of the male immigrants into the female ward was not so serious as was at first reported. The breaking of quarantine previously telegraphed was a fact. The Commissioners of the Board of Health are making inquiries. Wellington, January 11.

A " Gazette" issued this evening contains notifications that Sir George Grey has resigned the appointment of Commissioner of Customs, and that Mr Ballance has been appointed Commissioner of Customs and Minister of Education. It is staled by the "Argus" that several other changes are about to take place in the Ministry as regirds the distribution of portfolios. Mr Ballance is to become Colonial Treasurer in place of Mr Larnach, who will remain in the Ministry as Minister of Public Works. Further changes than these are not anticipated before next session. The three-masted schooner Prince Alfred, from Lyttelton bound to Ivaipara, has put into Wo'rser's Bay through loss of sails. To-night's "Post" says: —"We are informed that as a result of an investigation into the working of railways it has been found possible to dispense with the services of about forty clerks in that department alone."