LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1264, 6 April 1878, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

[BY SUBMARINE CABLE.] [eetjtbb's special telegrams to the pbeßs agency.] The Budget. Proposed Increase in Taxation. Russia and Rouman ; a. London, April 4. The expenditure, as shown in the budget amounts to £81,000,000, leaving an ordinary deficit of £500,000, and an extraordinary one of £5,300,000, whereof £2,000,000 are passed over to next financial year. It is proposed to have an increase of 2d on the income tax, id per lb on tobacco, and a dog tax of 2i 6d. Official despatches Bhow that Russia is treating Roumania imperiously, and refuses to discuss in Congress the Bessaraba question. AUSTRALIAN. Sydney, April 5. Case brandy is xmchanged ; quarters, 9s 3d, scarce. Kerosene is unchanged. Rice, £23 10s to £24. New Zealand wheat is unchanged. New Zealand oats, 4j. Tobacco, sugar, and candles, unchanged. Adelaide, April 5. Flour, £l2 10s to £l3 10s. Wheat, 5s lid. INTERPROVINCIAL. [PEE PBE3B AGENCY.] Auckland, April 5. Sir G-eorge Arney, writing to a friend in Auckland, denies a rumor ot his marriage. The police are making another raid upon unstamped weights. The Board of Education elected Judge Chillies, Colonel Haultain, and J. C. Campbell, as G-rammar School Governors. The discovery of a bed of clay—supposed to be meerschaum-is announced from the North. A cable message reports the arrival of the ship City of Auckland on April 3rd. Andrew Smith, charged with rape at Coromandel, was acquitted, the witnesses for the defence proving that the girl was a thief and habitual liar. The Lrctitia, from New Caledonia, reports that the Pacific Slope, from New Zealand, had put in in consequence of her cargo of timber shifting in a gale. Five hundred French Communists arrived per Higgenson, to work in the copper mines by contract for twenty years at ten cents per head a day. Noumea suffered from unprecedented heat, sunstrokes being numerous. Great distress prevails through the failure of banks. A Government enquiry is proceeding. A reform in the bankruptcy law is advocated. Six New Hebrides workmen attempted to escape. One was killed, and another wounded. Rich gold has been discovered. Wellington, April 5. In consequence of the rapidly diminishing quantity of water in the reservoir, the water lor the city will from to-morrow be again cut oil', otherwise it is said that in less than a week the supply would be exhausted. In the Supreme Court to-day, Mr Barton moved for a rule nisi calling upon T. K. Macdonald, R. Kerr, C. McKirdy, and J. H. Bethune, to show cause why an attachment should not be issued against them for contempt of Court, in selling shares of plaintiff's E. T. Gillon, in the "Argus"_ JNewspaper Company the matter being then in the hands of the Court. In support of the application he read an affidavit by G. Lestrange Barton, showing he had handed to the auctioneer, Bethune, a protest against the sale on behalf of Gilio'n. Tho motion was ultimately adiourned until Tuesday. At the Supreme Court Francis Richard uul Babert James Vm, cwtli j

builders, charged with fraudulent insolvency, were acquitted and discharged. Nelson, April 5. The census returns for the city of Nelson are—Males, 15380; females, 3482; total, 6862. In 1874 the total was 5860. Hokitika, April 5. The jury in Byan's case has been locked up since fire o'clock. There appears no likelihood of an agreement. [feom the cobbesfondent of the peess.] Another Mishap on the Railway. TIMABTJ, April 5. Sir John Coode will inspect the Milford lagoon ten days hence. A lad named Musker, who was employed in shunting trucks of grain at Timaru railway station this morning, was severely crushed about the bowels between two trucks, and now lies in a precarious state. The result of the election for the Board of Education of South Canterbury is generally considered highly satisfactory.