LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1344, 5 June 1878, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

[BY SUBMARINE CABLE.] [special to the press agency.] London, June 2. Yorkshire made 72 in the first innings, and 83 in the second : the Australians made 118 in their first, and then won by six wickets. [renter's telegrams to the press AGENCY.] London, June 4. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in presenting the diplomatic correspondence, said the British Q-overnment have accepted the German invitation to a European Congress, for the free discussion of the San Stefano treaty, conditional upon the other Powers accepting. Each Power sends its Premier and Foreign Minister. The Emperor’s condition is favorable. The race for the championship of the Thames took place to-day. Higgins won ; Elliot was nowhere. The Australians played against Surrey. The first innings of their opponents closed for 107. The first innings of the Australians closed for 110. The attendance was enormous AUSTRALIA. [Per Rlngarooma, via Bluff.] Melbourne, May 29. In the present dormant state "of politics there is very little news of interest. The Ministry have issued free passes to country mayors to travel by rail to the Governor’s levee. Only about a dozen representatives of mercantile interests were present. This week the Chief Secretary and other Ministers have been attending banquets to local representatives. The cable contract has been drawn up and forwarded by telegraph to London. The company have to duplicate their lines within eight months from the dates of signing the agreement. Press messages must be addressed to licensed newspapers, and be in plain English, with no cypher or words of concealed meaning. Mr Farrel having resigned his seat for Castlemaine, Professors Pearson and William Garmson are candidates on the Government side, and Messrs Chapman and Josen in the Opposition interest. The Government have found work for upwards of 200 of the unemployed in carrying out drainage work, and intend further to carry out two of the new lines of railway by day labor ; but large numbers of unemployed are not laborers, but belong to the building and mechanical trades.

Public confidence has not been completely restored. Very little building is proceeded with.

The Government are very anxious to commence the erection of the Exhibition building in Carlton Gardens, otherwise the vote will lapse on the 30th proximo. The building will ultimately cost about £IOO,OOO. Country trade is very dull, and no business of importance doing. J. L. Hall is engaged to appear at the Academy of Music, Sydney. It is stated that the Governor has been offered an important position by the Imperial Government, but nothing is officially known, and the statement is doubted. The Queensland revenue shows an increase. Governor Robinson subscribed twenty guineas to the proposed monument to the late Archbishop Folding. A Chinaman for the murder of a countryman at Goulbourn, was executed yesterday, INTEEPEO YIN CIAL. [PEB PEE S 3 AGENCY.] New Plymouth, June 4 Majors Brown and Tuke left here early this morning for Opunake to meet Mr Sheehan there. Te Whiti, the Parihaka chief, has expressed disapproval of the conduct of Koraere in molesting cattle at Oeo, and has sent natives to try to make his party desist from interfering in any way. Sir George Grey has telegraphed to Rewi that he and Mr Sheehan will meet him at Waitara on 21st June. Fourteen thousand pounds worth of grass seed has been exported from here this season, Wellington, June 4 The greatest downpour of rain which has occurred here for a very long time fell today, It was raining all last night and all day very heavily. There is no sign of its clearing up. At the annual licensing meeting to-day very few applications were refused.

[feom the coeeespondent oe the peess.] Wellington, June 4.

As a commentary upon the action of the Government in withholding advertisements from non-Minieterialist journals, the “New Zealand Times ” to-day published two long advertisements under the heading “ Gratis.” A special meeting of the City Council is convened for Thursday, to discuss the drainage scheme submitted by Mr Clarke. The population is increasing so rapidly, and the present drainage is so shockingly bad, that an epidemic would not be at all surprising. Mr Clarke’s report will probably be adopted without dissent. It involves an expenditure of £145,000. It seems that if all the dangerous kerosene were destroyed, in accordance with the terms of the Dangerous Goods Act, there would be none left in the city. Dr. Hector has been kept hard at work during the last week testing samples taken by the police from the stores in town, and in no one case was the dashing point above the minimum fixed by the Act. The “scare” has benefited the Gas Company. The Native affair at Opunake, like other incipient rebellions in that locality, has ended in smoko. It was proposed at first to send the Armed Constabulary up in the Hinemoa, but at the last moment the Government hit upon a happy idea. Instead of dispatching the Constabulary, Mr tfheohan wont up him-

self, and took Mr Bunny with him to see what influence he would hare upon the Native mind. Mr Bunny’s forcible mode of address and his rough and ready manner have terrified many a Ministry whose fate was hanging in the balance. If there are any waverers at, Opunako, lie will probably settle their convictions. Mr Bunny as “ medicine man ” is the newest thing in politics.

The public works committee of the City Council have decided to spend £350 in laying down experimental street drains upon the Christchurch plan in some of the principal thoroughfares. A similar experiment was made some time ago in Grey street, but the drain was a very clumsy imitation of your neat and efficient channels.

During the hearing of a bankruptcy case the Chief Justice remarked that it was very improper for the trustee to ask the Court to do the duty which ho should himself perform. A trustee ought not to ask the Court to investigate matters until he had found himself unable to do so.

The Government have received advices that the negotiation for floating the three million and half loan are progressing satisfactorily. Mr Batkin, the Receiver General, acknowledged in a gazette of Saturday last, the receipt of a letter from Sydney, addressed to the Collector of Customs at Auckland, and containing two £1 notes of the original Bank of Sydney, with a slip attached bearing the words “ conscience money.”