TELEGRAPHIC.

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

TELEGRAPHIC.

GAEL E_ NEWS [EEUTEE’S TEUEGEAMS to the PEES 3 AGENCY.] AUSTRALIA. Melboueke, March 12. The warrant for the month’s expenditure, under the 45th section of the Constitution Act, was duly perfected yasterday by the signature of the Audit Commissioner and the Governor. It will not be acted on until it is seen whether a compromise cannot be effected bet ween the two Houses by Tuesday next. On Thursday Mr Jenner will move in the Council that a conference be sought with the Assembly. The motion is likely to be carried, but the Council will, it is said, insist on the withdrawal of the item, Payment of Members, from the Appropriation Bill, as a preliminary to any conference. INTERPROVINCIAL.' [PEE PRESS AGKNOT.I Alexandea, March 13. It is now generally reported amongst the Natives that no meeting of the Natives and Sir George Grey will take place this month. Txmaeu, March 13. An important case was heard at the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day. The South Canterbury Licensed Victuallers’ Association prosecuted a storekeeper named Edmund Cornish for sly grog selling. Mr Hamersley appeared for the Association, and the defendant was fined £5 and costs. Dunedin, March 13. In the Jones libel case to-day the defendant entered a fresh plea of justification, and the case was then postponed. Messrs Baldwin and Ashcroft have started a Corn Exchange and Farmers’ Club in Dunedin, the first of the kind in the city.