LAST NIGHTS TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1309, 30 May 1878, Page 2

LAST NIGHTS TELEGRAMS

[BY SUBMARINE CABLE.] [beuthb's telegbams 'to THE PBESS AGENCY.] Earl Russell is dead. Consols, 97£. AUSTRALIA. Sydney, May 29. The Premier, speaking at Woollongong, said it was absolutely necessary that taxation should bo increased, as the colony was now living on its capital. INTERPROVINCIAL. [PBB PBBSS AGENCY.] Auckland, May 20. At a meeting of the Waitcmata County Council Mr Dalworth said he had been informed by the member for Waitemata only this morning that the Government were making arrangements for the employment of 20,000 Natives, at 10s per day, for the construction of the railway from Waikato to Taranaki. The Council resolved to represent again to the Government the evil of delay in letting the middle contract of the Kaipara railway. A letter from Mr Macandrew, re the vote of £40,000 for the provincial district of Auckland, states that payment thereof depended on the loan being negotiated by Mr Larnach.

Wellington, May 29. Sir G. Grey and Mr Sheehan arrived in the Hinemoa this afternoon.

The Hinemoa takes the Governor, Lord Hervey Phipps, Captain Maling, and Mr Sheehan, to-morrow to Lyttelton. The Governor will stay in Canterbury about ten days. Mr Sheehan goes to Kaiapoi to settle some Native dispute. Hokitika, May 29.

The Union Bank of Australia shipped per Tararua 24560 z. gold, the produce of this district.

Dunedin, May 29.

James Blyth, under remand for embezzling monies belonging to the Albion Brewing Company, and who had been liberated on bail, has absconded. He is supposed to have gone to Sydney or Melbourne. At a meeting of the Education Board today it was resolved not to entertain applications for school buildings until money for the purpose has been voted by Parliament. [EBOM THE COBBESPONDENTS OF THE PBBSS.J Auckland, May 29.

At Onehunga Police Court to-day a person named Edwin was fined for killing sheep and cattle without a license. A low penalty was inflicted at the request of sub-inspector Pardy. The Resident Magistrate stated that had the full penalty been pressed for, it would hare amounted to nearly £9OO. At the Licensing Court on Tuesday next several applications will be made for new licenses in the city. The Licensed Victuallers Association is taking action against their being granted. Timaetj, May 29.

The meeting convened for to-day to consider what steps should be taken to start a new morning paper was an utter failure, only two persons attending. The police yesterday morning received a telegram from Dunedin warning them that Jas. Blyth, a commercial traveller, who was out on bail awaiting trial for embezzlement, had disappeared, and was supposed to have come to Timaru. They traced him on board the barquentine Annie Bow here, which was on the point of sailing for Sydney. They arrested him and took him into the boat, but subsequently allowed him to return on board on the pretence of getting his clothes. The sailors (and, it is stated, the captain also) took his part, assaulted the police and forced them to leave the ship, because they had not got a formal warrant. They returned on shore for a warrant, but before they could get it the vessel sailed, Blyth getting away in her. The case has created intense excitement here. The frosts last week have been exceptionally hard, and there is every prospect of a very severe winter. All the back country is already under snow, and the loss of sheep is considerable.