NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1383, 22 July 1878, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[PEE PEESS AGENCY.] Nelson, July 20. In the football match Wellington v Nelson, during the two first half-hours there was very hard play, without any result, though the position of the ball was generally in favor of Wellington. In the third bout, Wellington scored one goal and one try. The fourth bout was very hard play, but no further result was obtained. The Wellington team will be entertained at dinner to-night. Wellington, July 20. Mr Boardman, the agent here for the South British Insurance Company, has received private information that the following are the insurances on the Hydrabad —Cargo : South Australian, £3OOO ; Mercantile Marine of South Australia, £2500; New Zealand, £2500; Adelaide, £2OOO ; National of South Australia, £2000; National of New Zealand, £2OOO ; Yictoria, £1750; New South Wales, £1750; Globe, ‘£1500; Merchants, £ISOO ; Netherlands and India, £1500; Imperial, £1500; South British, £1000; Southern, £SOO, Dunedin, July 21. The Dunedin Jockey Club last night resolved to remove the disqualification from Fishhook and Derritt, which was imposed for unfair running on Oamaru course over a year ago. [fHOM THE COEEESPONDENT OF THE PEESS.] Dunedin, July 20. A public meeting was held at Anderson’s Bay r last evening, when it was resolved that the County Council should be requested immediately to adopt the whole of the Counties Act; that a petition should be presented to the Government, praying that the whole county be declared a railway district under the District Railways Act, for the purpose of constructing a railway through the centre of the Peninsula, from Anderson’s Bay to Portobello and the Heads. The committee of the Chamber of Commerce have resolved to recommend the Chamber to give its support to proposals that notice of all bankruptcies be advertised in the “ Mercantile Gazette of New Zealand.”

The Hon. 11, S. Chapman has written to the Chamber of Commerce, recommending that the Government should reduce the railway fares to twopence per mile for first class, and a penny per mile for second class. He points out that New Zealand charges maximum rates for a minimum speed.