LAST NIGHTS TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1369, 5 July 1878, Page 2

LAST NIGHTS TELEGRAMS

|BY SUBMARINE CABLE. [bbuteb'B telegbams to the pbess AGENCY.] Beblin, July 3. The Congress was engaged yesterday in discussing the question of navigation of the Danube. London, July 3. The Press here strongly oppose the cession of Batoum to Russia. AUSTRALIAN. Sydney, July 4. The " Gazette " notifies that stock arriving from abroad must be quarantined for ninety days before they will be certified as uninfected. The Government have decided to call for tenders for four locomotives and rolling stock. INTERPROVINCIAL. [PEB PBESS AGENCY.] Wellington, July 4. It is announced in to-night's " Gazette " that the following land in Canterbury provincial district is withdrawn from sale :—"All that area in the provincial district of Canterbury containing, by estimation, forty thousand acres more or less, bounded towards the north by a right line due east from the issue of the Tekapo River from Tekapo Lake five hundred chains ; towards the east by a right line drawn south six hundred and forty chains ; towards the south by a line due west to Tekapo River, six hundred and forty chains; and towards the west by Tekapo River to Tekapo Lake, the starting point; excepting therefrom preemptive rights and sold land." This is proposed as an endowment for the Milford Harbor. The Supreme Court was occupied all day with the case of Wm. O'Connor, charged with attempting to administer strychnine to Wm. Light. He was found guilty, and is to be sentenced to-morrow morning. Patrick Comoy, for cutting and wounding, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labor.

A telegram from Otaki states that the Hydrabad has been driven further ashore, and is almost dry at low water. There is not more than ten feet at high water. It is now thought it will be impossible to get her off. It has been decided to telegraph to the South Australian Government to know whether they will be willing to receive the railway rolling stock if got out safely, instead of the insurance money. The Cabinet met Mr Burns, the New South Wales Postmaster- General, to-day and had a long interview. They considered various proposals respecting postal and telegraph business. It was finally resolved to refer the question to Messrs Burns and Fisher, the Postmaster of New Zealand, to report, when the Cabinet will decide. It is rumored that the Government are inclined to in the duplication arrangement agreed to at the Melbourne conference. The Orient steamer Garonne arrived at London prior to July 2nd. The Lusitania left for Australia on July l6t. Nelson, July 4. The insurance companies offer £2OO reward for the discovery of the incendiary who set fire to Watkins's house. Dunbdin, July 4. At the Taieri nomination to-day Mr Donald Reid, late M.H.R., seconded the nomination of Mr W. H. Cutten. Mr Reid said it had been his good fortune to know Mr Cutten for thirty years, and his still greater fortune to have been associated with him in the conduct of provincial affairs. Ag the present time the electors wanted a man of ability, who could see through sophistry, which it would be endeavored to pass upon the representative.'. Messrs William Snow and William Barron were also nominated. All announced themselves supporters of the present Ministry. The " Star" says that it has the best authority for stating that Mr A. J. Burns, M.H.R. for Roslyn, will place his resignation in the hands of the Speaker on his arrival in Wellington. A man named Dennis Spellacy is supposed to have committed suicide at Moa Flat on Monday. His clothes, with some money in them, were found on the brink of the Molyneux. He had been drinking heavily. At the Harbor Board meeting to-day some correspondence, which had passed between the Board'and Government with reference to the construction to be put upon a portion of Sir John Coodo's interim, report was read. The first letter, dated 20th of June, was from the Mai'ine Department, Wellington. It acknowledged receipt of tho Bo.trd'B letter of 12lh June, and forwarded a memorandum made upon it by Mr Blackett, stating his opinion that tho Harbor Board bud too much Btreos on the fact that Sir John Coocle recommended a site for the railway station. He appeared to "haye accepted it as a fact agreed upon that the railway station should be parallel to Crawford street, as shown upon lithographic plan submitted to him as the one agreed to at the conference held February 9th, 1878, and his recommendation simply ' amounted to this—That its position was too fur out into deep water. The Board fcolo-

graphed back that it could not understand the memorandum, and after several telegrams had passed, the Board prepared an exhaustive reply, setting forth that its interpretation of Sir John Coode's report agreed with his expressed opinion while in Dunedin, but disagreed with the Government's interpretation. It was resolved to despatch this reply. The libel cases of Macassey v. Reed and Iked v. Macassey, will commence tomorrow in the Police Court. Mr Denniston appears for Mr MacaSßcv, and Mr ismith for Mr Eeed.