TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1506, 13 December 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

CABLE NEWS. SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE. London, December 12. The Italian Parliament have refused a vote of confidence in the Ministry. AUSTRALIA. [SPECIAL TO “ GLOBE.”] Sydney, December 13. The A.S.N. Company announces the departure of several steamers. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. [per press agency.] Waitara, December 13. After repeated efforts the steamer Hauraki was floated off the beach this morning. Little or no damage has been sustained by her the weather having been unusually fine daring the last ten days. Wellington, December 12. It is stated that the Marquis of Normanby is not to enter upon his duties as Governor of Victoria before the end of February next. The question of a more central site for the railway station is being taken up vigorously, and the City Council will memorialise Government to remove the present station to the extreme end of the reclamation. The City Council passed a resolution—” That it is undesirable that any officer of the corporation should become a member of the County Council or any other political holy.” The City Council also agreed to ask permission of the ratepayers to borrow .£IOO,OOO for improving the streets and footpaths. In reply to a deputation of the Hutt County Council, which waited on Government to obtain aid towards repairing the serious damages inflicted on tba West Coast road by the late floods, the Hon. Mr Ballanco said Government declined to accept any responsibility whatever iu regard to the mam roads of the colony. If the counties would not undertake the work, be asked, what use were they at all, and if Government did loud them a sum of money it could only be for two years, the time for which subsidies were guaranteed, and the county would have to undertake to repay the loan at the end of that time. Port Chalmers, December 12. The Port Chalmers Marine Lodge, No. 012, E.C., of Freemasons, held an installation meeting last night, when Bro. C. Del. Graham, retiring master, pro ented Bro. Joyce, P.M., and Past President of the Board of General Purposes, who is leaving Ur Christchurch, with an illuminated address setting forth the which the lodge had for Bro. Joyce, and their deep regret at his departure.