LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1368, 4 July 1878, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

BY SUBMARINE CABLE. AUSTRALIA. ["special to globe.] Sydney, July 3. The greater portion of the new teas were withdrawn from auction, as the bidding was inactive on account of expected arrivals. At Brisbane the Orient’s cargo fetched 53s the half chest to Is 9d a pound. A small quantity of best fetched 2s. 2fd. Importers are dissatisfied. A hundred thousand feet of American timber is going up to auction. The Government have decided to place a three million loan on the London market.

IN TERPROYIN Cl AL. [PEE PBBBB AGENCY.] Auckland, July 3. Coaches are to be laid on on Monday connecting the centre of the city with the railway terminus. Information obtained at the Pension Office here shows that £40,000 is annually distributed by the Imperial Government to nearly 1200 pensioners in the colony. The railway authorities will run special trains to meet the Onehunga steamers. The rates are to be reduced on coal and agricultural produce. Students’ tickets will be half price. Mr Lawson estimates the cost of a central railway terminus in the city at £70,000, The cutter Leth went ashore on a rock at the Great Barrier, and was afterwards beached and considerably damaged. The crew and the cargo were saved. She was insured in the South British for £2OO. Frank Gomez, supposed to have been lost in the cutter Mary, turned up to-day. He had pulled in a small dingy for twenty hours. In the Supreme Court Alexander Daniels was sentenced to one year’s penal servitude for stealing from the person. The trial of Mrs Major Oroker, for obtaining goods on false pretences, was commenced. Waitaea, July 3. Mr Sheehan and Major Brown left Waitara this afternoon, m rente for Paribaka, where they will interview Tiko Kowaru. It is rumored this morning that Rewi has accepted the Government offer to build him a house at Waitara, and give him a pension of £SOO per annum. It is not yet known if he will accept a seat in the Legislative Council. Dunedin, July 3, Mr Gillies has retired from the contest for Taieri, in favor of Mr Cutton. Mr Oliver was declared duly elected for Dunedin. The actual majority was 113. Mr Barron, of Banks, Barron and Co., who acted as secretary for Mr Oliver, will stand for Eoslyn. The “ Star ” says —“ We have good authority for stating that the libel cases Macassey v Reed and Reed v Macassey will proceed, exception having been taken to the so-called award on the ground of its including matters that were not referred.” The cases are set down for Friday. At this morning’s sitting of the Land Board Mr Bastings commented on the ambiguous wording of the Acts under which disposal of land is regulated. He said that the terms were as foggy as they could be, so that uneducated persons, or such as were unversed in law, were ignorant of the manner in which they should set about applying for land. In committing an infant to the Industrial School for a period of seven years the Mayor, who presided at the City Police Court this morning, said ; —“ The Bench take this opportunity of remarking that the Industrial School is overcrowded and is beginning now to become a reproach to the colony. Unless the Government or the Legislature take some steps it will soon be a standing reproach. The Legislature make laws and impose _ duties on justices to send children to an institution inadequate to receive them. I intend to use my influence as Maymr of this city with the view of getting Government to make better provision for the reception of these cases.” [PEOM THE COEHESFONDENT OF THE TEESS 1 ] Timaeu, July 3. The early train from Oamaru came in contact with a dray at a crossing this morning. The engine was thrown oil the rails, and the dray smashed, but no one was hurt. The train was delayed about an hour. The Harbor Board meet to-morrow to consider tenders for the first portion of the breakwater. Malvern.- -The school committees at Malvern and Russell’s Flat have decided to enforce the compulsory clauses of the Education Act. The Russell’s Flat committee nominated Professor Cook to 11)1 the vacancy ill fcho Education Board of Nr -’•bury.