YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1247, 6 March 1878, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

[BY SUBMARINE CABLE.] [bEUTEB'B TEIEGBAMB TO THE FBESS AGENCY.] AUSTRALIAN. Sir John Coode. Massacre of Europeans. End of the Victorian Crisis. Mr Berry Yields the Point at Issue. Re ognition of Arthur Orton. The Cable Conference. Sydney, March 5. Goldie, the discoverer of gold in New Guinea, desires any party about to test his discovery to adhere to their ships till the country is prospected. Melboubne, March 5. It has been decided, to hold the Intercolonial Cable Conference at Melbourne when Colonel Glover arrives. Sir John Coode will leave for England by the San Francisco mail next month. Ho will furnish his report from home. Several 9 inch guns have been placed in position at the Heads, and arrangements are being made for laying torpedoes across the entrance of the channel. One large firm within the last threo months has sustained losses of nearly £40,0G0, owing to the number of failures. It is understood that the Governor received a telegram from home instructing him to be guided generally by circumstances, and to aooept the advice of his responsible advisers. INXERPROVINCIAL. [PBB PBB3B AGENCY.] Coming Native Meetings. A Strange Incident at Blueskin. Alexandba, March 5.1? A large meeting of Natives will be held at Kuiti on the 7th. Natives from the East and West Coast will attend, and the King will bo present. It is said that the nest meeting with Sir G. Grey will be the largest meeting ever held, as Sir G. Grey's influence is brought to bear to have representatives of every tribe in the Island present. Wellington, March 5. Competitive plans for a new St. Peter's Church in Willis street have been received from Auckland, Napier, Christchurch, and Dunedin. The selected one was by G. Rosholz, architect, of Wellington. Dr. Somerville has closed his mission in Wellington, and will proceed at once to Wanganui to hold a series of services there. The Northern Land, Loan, and Building Company have sold their frontage on Lambton Quay at £ll6 per foot. Dunedin, March 5. At two o'clock on Sunday afternoon a girl named Bella 8011, while gathering firewood near the railway station, Blueskin, found a box with a label on the lid, on which were written, in large letters, the following words : —" If you find my motherless darling, I pray, for Jesus' sake, bury it in the true Catholic way." The girl immediately reported the matter to the constable stationetl in the district, and on going to the place he found a soap box as described. It was tied systematically with small twine, and on opening it the constable found the body of a male child, apparently eight or ten yeara old, in a perfpet st'ite. There were no marks of violence on the body, and the child was dressed in a neat and respectable wanner. It is supposed that the box was left there by a passenger by the evening train on Monday. An inquest will be held on Thursday. The country districts are preparing for the reception of Sir G. Grey, but nothing is being done in the city. Bluie, March 5. The Hinemoa has arrived, after landing the Ministerial party at Riverton.