YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1253, 13 March 1878, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS.

o [BY SUBMARINE CABLE.] [BEUTEE’S TELE6EAMB TO THE PEESB AGENCY.] AUSTRALIAN, The Quarantined Steamer. Cyclone in Queensland. Melbourne, March 12. Mr Glover arrived last night per Chimborazo. There is a probability of an early telegraphic conference in Melbourne. The difference between the Council and Assembly is in a fair way of settlement. Sydney, March 12. The case supposed to be smallpox on board the City of Sydney is not variola. The steamer is not yet released. Cairns, in Queensland, was visited with a great cyclone. Eight buildings were totally destroyed and others much injured. The place is in ruins, but no lives were lost. INTERPROYINCIAL. [PBB PBESB AGENCY.] Auckland, March 12. The banquet given by the sous of Old Colonists to Mr Sheehan last night at Hamilton, passed off very successfully. Forty-five guests, of whom thirty-five were sons of old colonists, were present, including the leading settlers of Waikato. In a complimentary speech the chairman stated that the object of the banquet was to do honor to the first native born colonist of New Zealand who had attained the dignified position of a Minister ol the Crown in the colony. The clothes of a young man named Russell were found on the beach to-day. It is believed he has bolted and placed his clothes on the beach only to blind his creditors. The Taranaki is detained until to-morrow morning in the Manukau, Mr Sheehan proceeds to Te Aroha tomorrow, to complete land purchase arrangements. A test case, City v Owners of allotments of reclaimed land, for'rates, heard to-day, went against the Council. New Plymouth, March 12. The agricultural statistics for the county of Taranaki show—Holdings 632, land broken up 1395 acres 5 in wheat 1586, in oats 412, in barley- 30, grasses 43,631 acres; potatoes 464, other crops 226; total number of acres under crop, 46,349. [from the coebespondent of the peers.J Timaeu, March 11. The person at Timaru who is supposed to be the mother of the child found at Blueskin having received a summons to attend at the inquest, left for Dunedin yesterday, Sir G. Grey arrives on Thursday night. He will visit Waimate on his way from Oamaru.