LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1299, 18 May 1878, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

BY SUBMARINE CABLE. [special to the globe.] AUSTRALIAN. Sydney, May 17. Sixty thousand francs have been received by the public liquidator at Noumea from Paris in liquidation of the Bank, the Government accepting the Bank’s m>tes. The Thales has arrived at Cooktown with 200 Chinese and 100 tons cargo fur Dunedin, consisting of rice and tea. Breadstuff j are declining. [erutee’s telegram to the press agency.] Case brandy, firm, unchanged; quarters, 9s firm ; kerosene and rice, unchanged ; New Zealand wheat, 5s 3d to 5s 61 ; New Z -aland oats, 4s; Raven and cable tobacco, Is ss-d to Is 6id ; sugar, unchanged ; caudles, 9|d. The Council rejected the Parliamentary Privileges Bill. There was great objection to its provisions, as too extensive and indtAAe. Sailed —Easby. Melbourne, May 17. The Cable Conference meetings are expected to close to-morrow. Tho proceedings will be published early. It is amicipatcd that a modification of Glover’s offer will be agreed to. Adelaide, May 17. Wheat, 5s 9d ; flour, £l2 10s to £l3. INTERPRO VINCI AL. [pee pbess agency] Auckland, May 17. Count Zaba gave two suc'essful lectures, and received special thanks from the Board of Education. A member of the Temperance Association memorialised the Board of E Incation to make arrangements for teaching children the beauty of temperance and the evil of alcohol. Tho Board agreed to consider the matter. Mr She -ban, replying to a deputation, re Wynyard Pier, said he had nope that Auckland would soon be made the chief naval station in tho South Pacific. New Plymouth, May 17. The Stella, with Judge Gillies on board, has left for Wellington. Wellington, May 17. In the Court of Appeal, in the case Regina v Simmons, a Christchurch case, Mr Chapman appeared for the prisoner. The Crown was not represented. Judgment was reserved. Oamaeu, May 17. Although grain is being delivered freely, tbe breadstuffs market is inactive. Prime milling wheat is worth 4s ; oafs, 3s to 3s 4d ; good malting barley, 5s ; flour, £H to £1 5« fob.; oatmeal, £lB ; pearl barley, £2O; pollard, £5 5s ; bran, £4. Dunedin, May 17. The directors of the Colonial Bank of N ew Zealand, at their meeting yesterday, resolved to offer to tbe existing proprietors, at a premium of 10s per share, the unallotted balance of the first issue of 200,000 shares, about 35,000, in the proportion of one to every five shares now lu Id. The whole of the premium to be placed to reserve fund. [from the correspondent of the press J Timaru, May 17. A heavy north-westerly gale set in at noon to-day, and continued fill seven o’clock, when it veered to south east, from which quarter it is now blowing. Many stacks have been blown down and minor damage done in the town. The McKenzie country is covered with snow, and great fears are entertained about the sheep. Tbe Chamber of Commerce held a special meeting to day, when the reply from the Government re grain tariff' was received, and caused great indignation. There is very strong feeling against Mr Conyers, who is spoken of as a tout for Christchurch grain merchants. Further joint steps hy the Dunedin, Oamaru, and Timaru chambers are to be taken immediately. The Government intend proclaiming the foreshore hero for railway station purposes, and as it it vested in the Harbor Board hy Act of Parliament, there will probably be opposition to it. If the Government pursued such a course they would deprive the Harb"r Board of its principal source of revenue, viz., tho laud which they themselves would reel dm by means of the mole. It wjuld also entirely prevent two of tho landing services from working, and ruin the slopping trade, which the Government seem bent on doing by every possible means.