LAST WIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1442, 30 September 1878, Page 2

LAST WIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

[BY SUBMARINE CABLB.J

[EEUTEE'S TELEGBAMS TO THE PBBSS AGENCY.] AUSTRALIA. Mblbouene, September 28. Arrived, s.s. Durham, from Plymouth, after a passage of forty-nine and a half days. She has 277 passengers. Sydney, September 28. Parliament is making great progress with the work of legislation. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. [pee pbhss agency.] Napiee, September 28. At a meeting of members of the Athenaeum last night a resolution for opening the reading room on Sunday afternoon was carried by 15 to 11. It was also decided that members should not in future be allowed to take papers home on Saturdays. Hokitika, September 29. The Christchurch coach has not arrived yet, and the Court will be adjourned from day to day until arrival of the Judge. The Reefton cases will not be heard before Tuesday. Dunedin, September 29. A proposition has been made by the Mayor of Dunedin to the suburban municipalities which will probably settle the water supply dispute in a day or two. Inquiry is to be made by the Commissioner of Railways re the collision which took place at Palmerston.

At the meeting of the Harbor Board this morning the contract between Mr Proudfoot and the Board was annulled. Mr Proudfoot received £SOOO compensation for the Rocky Wall contracts, and hands over the dredging plant to the Board, making good any damage done to it while in his possession.

[fbom the cobbespondents of the pbess] Auckland, September 29. The second mate of the barque Wellington, John C. Artwright, fell down the ladder into the hold, and was cut severely about the head. He was sent to the Hospital. Joseph Chandler, of Cambridge, dropped dead in Wyndham street last night in an apoplectic fit. At a public debate in the Temperance Hall between the Auckland Total Abstinence Society on " Does the colony lose pecuniarily by the use of intoxicating drinks," the Rev. A. Webb presided. Five hundred persons were admitted by tickets. Double the number offered. The debate was adjourned till next week.

Kaiapoi, September 29. At the Kaiapoi Church this morning the Rev. W. F. Oldham, in a sermon referring to St. Michael's contest with the dragon—the day being the festival of St. Michael and All Angels—concluded by stating in reference to the recent disunion in the parish, that the Rev. H. E. Carlyon had withdrawn the stater meuts made by him in reference to the points of doctrine on the forgiveness of sin and the real presence, as well as some other matters, which retraction would appear in the first issue of tho "Church News." The Primate, in a letter received by the mail, atated he had strongly advised Mr Carlyon not to emigrate again to this province. The announcement was received with much surprise, and Mr Carlyon's adherents took the first opportunity on leaving the ehurch to express doubts as to the genuineness of the same.