TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1255, 27 March 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

CABLEJtfEWS SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE. [from our own correspondent. 3 SYDNi:y, March 27. The New Guinea expedition sailed yeatcrday. There are no traces of the survivors from the wreck of the Merchant. Parliament opens the museums and libraries on Sundays. [eeutbr's telegrams to THE PRESS AGENCY.] Melbourne, March 27. In the Assembly, Mr Berry moved the adjournment, to Thursday. He stated that he had positive assurance that the terms of a compromise, which the Assembly could accept, had been agreed to on behalf of the Council. He gave notice oi motion, for Thursday, to move that a commfytfi.ee be appointed to search for the Appropriation Bill and restore it to the Assembly. The motion was carried. INTERPROVINCIAL. agency.] Dunedjn, March 27. The returning officer has received a writ for the election of a member of the General Assembly for Port Chalmers yico the Hon. W. H. Beynolds resigned. The nomination will take place on the 9th of April, and if more than one candidate is proposed, the poll will be taken on the 12th April. No candidate is yet in the field. Six thousand six hundred and four persons travelled on the Otago railways on Saturday last. Fielding, March 27. Mr Halcoiube has employed a sluicing party to prospect the M&keno Creek at the place where gold in quartz specimens was lately found, and reports that no mare gold has been discovered. He thinks the Ifokeno Creek is not auriferouslat Fielding Hokitika, March 27. The Alhambra, which has sailed for Melbourne, takes, for the Union Bank, 263fc>oij.of S Vareat mny le aee e *' or goW-mwtog Iww been applied tot m Mi»«w Act, owing to &° new mtit <towmw W tiP