YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1254, 14 March 1878, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS.

♦ [BY SUBMARINE CABLE.] [ebuteb’s telegbams to the pbess 1 AGENCY.] AUSTRAL^. The Samoan Protectorate. i Barratry in Australia. rSI'BCIAL TO GLOBE.] Sydney, March 13. Liar del, the Samoan fiaDpul, if) dead. The Queen refuses to assume ’lff? protectorate of Samoa without also haring the, direction of affairs. The evidence in the Ashley insurance case is astounding. The captain swears that Manning offered him SSOO to lose the ship. INTEBRROYXNCIAL. [PEB PBS 80 AdHNOY.] The Ministry. The Jones Libel Case. Sir George Grey at Oamaru. Auckland, March 13. At an in* erviev the Tamaki Natives, Mr Sheehan, referring tc recent stoppages of surveys, said it must be once for all that whoever took up arms or res rted to violence put himself outside the p..ie of law, and must stand the consequences. The Italian Opera Company stay here for another week. Anotimi* attempt is being made to bring the Counties Act into foj;c.e in Eden County. A letter from t he Lord Mayo? of |J,ondon thanks the Mayor of Auckland for the subscription to the Indian famine fund, and says the action fully bears out the belief that in any great calamity affecting the welfare of the British Empire, colonial aid may be safely counted on, Wellington, March 13, Messrs Macandrew and Stout arrived by the Hpiemoa this morning. Mr Stout will be sworn in in a few days as Attorney-General. He has decided to gi>e up hie Dunedin practice and reside permanently at Wellington. In addition to his other portfolios, Mr Macandrew will take that of Minister of Works. . Oamaiiu, March 13. Sir Geo. Grey arrived from Dunedin by special Drain at six o’clock to-night. He was met at the' railway platform by a large crowd and heartily cheered. At eight o’clock he addressed the largest public meeting ever hold in Oamaru. The speech turned principally on man]mod suffrage, the incidence of taxation. and a land lax. It lasted for two hours, and'' ho was frequently applauded during its delivery. At the conclusion Mr Shrimski, M.H.R., proposed—“ That this meeting express its entire confidence in the policy of the Ministry of Sir Geo. Grey, as detailed by him.” The motion was carried without a diepeptiout, and amid vociferous cheering. Sir |Geor w nsitu the public mi

breakwater to-morrow morning, then be entertained at lunch, and leave for the north at one in the afternoon. Dunedin, March 13. The plea in the Jones’ case will be argued to-morrow. Counsel for the prosecution has notified that he will demur to the plea, and the matter will probably be discussed before two Judges. Bailey’s menagerie and circus, the largest ever in the colony, arrived to-day. Sir Geo. Grey left for North to-day. Riverton, March 13. At a meeting of the Harbor Board last night, it was agreed to authorise the chairman to telegraph to Sir George Grey that the Board was willing to guarantee £l5O for the purpose of securing a survey and report on the harbor by Sir John Coode. [from the correspondent of the press ] Timaru, March 13. Sir George Grey and party will arrive here to-morrow afternoon, A banquet and public meeting will be held in the evening. They will leave for Christchurch and intermediate townships on Friday morning. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court today, Edmund Cornish, a storekeeper in Timaru, was fined £5 for sly-grog selling.