LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1476, 8 November 1878, Page 3

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

BY SUBMARINE CABLE U [rbuter'b tblkghams to THB PRESS AOENOY.] Calcutta, undated. The Madras and Bombay armies are to be increaeed by a brigade each. Calcutta, November 5. The "Pioneer" of Allahabad announces soveral brigades to be formed immediately for frontier service. It is stated the Ameer is at Jelallabad, and datermined to attack us at Kyber and Quettah. ~ . „ London, November 2. Consols, %\; Bank rate 6 per cent. ; market rate, 5:,'. Wool, quiet. Arrivals for next auction 100,000 bales. Wheat and flour unchanged. New Zealand Five per Cant Debentures, 100. AUSTRALIA. Sydney, November 7. The Assembly has finally agreed to the -contract for the cable duplication. Queensland, November 7. Four navvies were killed, and thirteen seriously injured, whilst passing under a bridge in course of construction on the Northern Railway. The derrick gear swept them off the trucks. The steam lug Lyttelton, bound for .New Zealand from Glasgow, called at Cooktown for provisions, and proceeded to Brisbane for coals. „ _ The departure of the City of Sydney is postponed till to-morrow morning. * Melbourne, November 7. The Arawata sailed with the English mails on Wednesday. The Ringarooma arrived on Thursday. [Per Alhambra via Hokitika.] Melbourne, November 1. An Outlawry Bill, similar to that passed by the Sydney Parliament, has been passed through both Houses to meet the cases of the bushrangers now at large. Under this Bill the ruffians will be liable to be shot down without quarter, while a penalty of fifteen years' penal servitude attaches to those who harbor them. The reward for their apprehension has been raised to £SOO each. The widows of the two unfortunate constables are to be liberally dealt with, and in the meantime they are to draw their husbands! pay. Yesterday news waß received of the finding of the body of the missing Sergeant Kennedy, close by the camp where Scanlan and Lonargan were shot. The body contained three bullet holes, and when found was scarcely recognisable, being covered with blood and partlj decomposed. The greatest excitement exists, and parties are out in all directions. A telegram received from the police at Chiltern yesterday evening stated that Kelly and three others had stuck up a man named Christian, close to the Murray, on Wednesday at dajbreak, so that they must be travelling at a pretty rapid rate. Wilberg's confession implicates Ellestoun, late chief officer of the Avoca, in the robbery of sovereigns from that vessel, and late Inspector Secretan of th> detective force goes home by the mail tj England today to arrest him. ... The sale of Sir Samuel Wilson's Ercildoun flheep on Wednesday realised nearly £IO,OOO. The Governor is making his farewell speeches previous to his departure from the The' Assembly adjourned last night till next Wednesday. It is probable that O'Farrell, now undergoing sentence for the Lands frauds, will be released on the ground of ill-health. The City of Sydney, on her arrival yesterday, grounded on the mud bank near the ncr. This is not likely to cause any injury. * Mr Spence, the newly appointed United Stat. 18 Consul, arrived yesterday. lN "EW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. [p£R PRESS AGENCY. J Auckland, November 7. Mr Moss an (1 Dr ' Wallis hitve called meefcin » 9 of their of vans were .madicd, but Sir Henry Havelock LodRO stating that his rea son tor voting against thobeer duty was that the country should not be ino unci """J- trade to a greater extent cependent he belongs to and than now. He says the i° (l »« , anurovine others in the South have passed votes approving his action. 7.

tag action. WILtISOTON| November 7. Considerable anxiety is felt £™ "gflg the Government steamer Stella, winch left West ort on bun day last for Wellington, via Firewell t pit. Immediately upon the arrival of fheSmSa from the south to-day she *as sent in search of tie missing boat. Ju£SSehmond,whohas been ill tor some time, will be able to resume his dutWfl in a few dtt ln the Supreme Court to-day, in an action by the Press Agency against the » Poverty Bay Standard" for an injunction to restrain deSant from publishing telegraphic news owned Ay plaintiff, without their consent. Mr Samuel, 1 .counsel for plaintiff, applied in Banco for an In V r to remove a demurrer raising the question % \he copyright relied on by plaintiff to the Pouiiof appeal. Mr Samuel relied on the d.f- ---& v or importance of the question Judge flffi's granted an order, observing that the ?• .« wm no doubt important, but that he tbhJthero would be much difficulty in - , abetted ™*^«%> Hugh Percy M u^' d Jlirne3 Strachan Leonard Harper, Kiehi, lu B ,"„. , w K i Harman, Edward William Staftoid, Vvm. .Kolleston, and Thos. Henry Potts. . . The following land is withdraw."* from sale in the Canterbury district :-All that ■«* •£ * ™ provincial distrit of Canterbury cont "t>"•» estimation (40,000) forty thousand aeres n. or f °' less ; bounded towards the north by a right . due east from the issue of the Tekapo river, from the Tekapo lake five hundred (500) chains ; towards the east by a right line due south s'x hundred and forty (Gloj chains; towards the south by a right line due west to the Tekapo river six hundred and ' forty (640) chains ; and towards the west by the Tekapo river to Tekapo lake, the starting point; excepting therefrom pre-emptive rights and sold land. An advertisement in to-night s Gazette c»u« f ov tenders for the supply of the whole or any portion of a hundred thousand tons of steel rails, to be manufactured within the colony from New Zealand ores. Blenheim, November 7. The body of W. .Newman was found by the search party about six miles below the place where he is supposed to have gone into the river. The body was very much bruised, Noiuinat ons tor the Marlborough Cup will close on Saturday, ut 8 p.m. Dunedin, November 7. The purveyor's hive commenced work on the 18 ,000 acre block on the Moufere run, which is t o \ ie thrown open for settlement. applications for free immigrants were r weived at I'unedin office between October 3rd ami' November I. '• j; ■, 'rovatore was perlormed atthcQwen s toni"lit t ° ;t crowded house. This piece is better mounted , v bin by any professional comnany. Morley int. >lJ ds t iking the troupo to Christchurcb at the iw] of ,; " : ""-.nth. lNVKiJCAiiCiitiTj, No7ember 7. 'Hie St(■'.-.-art family r.pewj.-l to-night at the Theatre JUoy.,l in "Rainbow Bevels.'' 'She house was crow 1. "'• to the doors. .1 he performance i : very supe vior > ap d tho company really talented, "'hey tn'o hk'ely to draw we 1 lure, where they will play for six nights, and then go to Dunedin. The Lakes lonting'ont ot volunteers for the Dunedin review arriv.vi here to night, twenty - seven all told. FROM TUB COBRESI-OKIWNTS OV THE PRESS.] Auckland, November 7. Mr Fallon has obtained the Obaupo and Te Awamntu contract at .820 000. Mr Conyers Is expected bore next week to settle some important contracts. A goods train r.m into gome truck', at l.>pakma station at midnight. It in supposed they

were maliciously let off the siding, and an official inquiry will he held. Dunbdin, November 7. The Mosgiol Woollen declare a ten per cent, dividend. Arrangements are already being made in view of the opening of the railway through to lnvercargill. About 400 invitations to public bodies will be issued for a free trip from Christchurch and Dunedin to lnvercargill. They will be banqueted, and such as like be conveyed to the Lakes, the festivities occupying three days. At the Government land sale yesterday, at Gore, some deferred payment sections fetched as high as J 212 per acre.