YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1259, 20 March 1878, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

— —■ [BY SUBMARINE CABLE.] [eeuxek's special to the j?»ess agency. AUSTRALIA. Sydney, March 19. The Rev. William B. Clarke, Government geologist, has been stricken with paralysis. Melbourne, March 19. The city is solely dependent for water "supply upon the Yarra, and there is serious hardship. [per press agency.] (Per Rotorua, via Auckland.) Sydney, March 13. Ilifrginson, of New Caledonia, has issued a writ for £SOO damages for libel against the "Age." The military establishment at Freemantle is to be broken up. The political association at Adelaide propose to abolish freo immigration, and to reform the Upper House. The cargo of the barque Pacific Slopes, from New Zealand to Shanghai, shifted, and she put into Noumea. The vessel was damaged, and had to discharge 85,000 ft. timber. The chief Bteward j umped overboard and was drowned. Colonels Scratchley and Richardson have gone to Newcastle to carry out defensive measures. Graham, a partner o£ Moore, bookseller, Sydney, fell through a trap-door and was killed. A fire >at the Ross Glassworks, near South Hales, destroyed property which was insured for £IOOO in the New Zealand Insurance Company, Burglaries are frequent in Sydney. From New Guinea, Chalmers reports that after May Bth the South Cape party had an anxious time. Natives have been very threatening. The friendly villagers prevented the others attacking Chalmers. He left his wife at the South Cape. No other Europeans were there. Captain Nedrek's beche-de-mer party are reported killed by the natives of the Engineer Group. The vessel was burnt, and the station ransacked. INTERPROVINCIAL. [per press agency.] Auckland, March 19. The New Zealand University Senate todav resolved to confer the following ad enndem degrees:—A. D. Brandon, Cambridge University • E. Rutherford Waddell, Queen's University, M-A.; A. Sutter, Cambridge, M A • T Mcintosh, Aberdeen, M.A. The Bowen prize ia to be'£iO to be spent in books It was resolved that the Chancellor should impress on the Government the desirability of a uniform matriculates examination

";;fc The working men's club was opened by the Governor to-night, the Mayor presiding. The club rooms are very commodious. liOKITIKA, March 19. Hamer, the agent for the Bank of New Zealand at Eo?s, has turned up. The Christchurch coach reached here this morning. Hamer was arrested in Ross,- and will he brought before the magistrate on Friday/ It is reported that his defalcations are considerable, extending since March last year. Several of the amounts abstracted were represented by false entries. Ktjmaua, March 19.

Father Hennebery since his arrival on the West Coast has denounced marriages between Catholics and Protestants as adultery, the result being the separation of families, and much domestic misery. He was strongly criticised by the Kumara "Times," and retorted by a personal attack on the editor, who has commenced an action in which damages are laid at £IOOO/ Most Catholics have withdrawn their subscriptions from the "Times," and Protestants have doubled and trebled their subscriptions. It is feared that gectarian difficulties may take placed as the Catholics are being incited from the pulpit. 'Mr Barff addressed his constituents, and received a unanimous vote of confidence. G-RETMOUTH, March 19.

A fire broke out in Green's Hotel, Maori Creek, this morniug, at 1 30, which destroyed the hotel and billiard room, Walker's boot store, the Good Templar Hall, Wilson's store, and Mrs Brown's fruit shop. G-reen was insured in the South British, Walker in the New Zealand, and the Good Templar Hall in the Victoria.

InvebcaegilTj, March 19,

Forty-four thousand salmon ova and fifteen hundred trout ova arrived to-day per Alhambra, being pari; o( : the consignment per Chimbarazo to Melbourne. They have been taken to Wallacefcown ponds, but the result; of. the inspection has not been ascertained. Sir S. Wilson examined them, and in his letter of advice to Mr Howard says that of the ova in two of the boxes packed by Mr Buckland only 270 are looking likely to hatch out. Those in the boxes packed by Youle' looked splendid, being large and healthy. Later.

Although the ova packed by Mr Youle looked clear and healthy, upon being examined with a glass they seemed imperfectly impregnated, and are thought- to have been prematurely taken from the fish. '1 he trout ova, which are in good condition, were packed by Buckiand, from Oapel's establishment at Footscray. Eew, if any, of the salmon ova are any good. The 30,000 presented by the Victorian Government, part of the same consignment, turned out better.

[feom the cobeeseondent oe the peess.] Timaeu, Maroh 19.;

A meeting of settlers in the Otaio district was held this afternoon, to consider the question of constructing a branch railway line up Otaio Yalley, under the District Railways Act, A committee was formed to collect the necessary data, and report as early as possible to a public meeting. • ; '., . §..;;-. At the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day Samuel Armitage was committed for trial at the Supreme Court for embezzliug money from his employers, Loader and Green, butchers. • . >. ..,,■