AUSTRALIAN.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2125, 15 December 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

[retiter’s telegrams.] MELBOURNE, December 14. N.Z. Oats. New Zealand oats, feeding, 2s 8d per bushel. There are no milling qualities in the market. A Close Division. The Legislative Assembly has negatived Dr. Smith’s vote of want of confidence in the Ministry by a small majority, the numbers being forty-four against and thirty-nine for the motion. Sir Bryan O’Loghlen, Sir J. O’Shannassy and Mr McKean voted with the minority. The Sugar Trade. Latest advices from Mauritius state that 1300 tons are shipping frar Australia. 58,000 tons have been shipped since August Ist. Shipping. Sailed—Rotomahana for the Bluff. BRISBANE, December 14. Trans-Coutinental Railway. The Ministry received a telegram this afternoon from an influential London firm, promising cordial co-operation for pushing forward the transcontinental project. It farther states that the present time is considered favorable for that purpose. NEW ZEALAND. AUCKLAND, December 15. Poor Mr Grant. Intelligence by the mail states that Mr Grant, of Grant and Foster, is unable to realise his property in England, owing to agricultural depression. This will not prejudice the Te Ahora settlement. Mr Bryce. Mr Bryce, the Native Minister, is expected in Auckland shortly. Mormouistic Amenities. Mormon Elder Butt writes a savage letter to the Press in reply to Elder Landon’s letter, per the Australia. He says that Lundon was baptised at Fapanui, bat was in search of a wife, not the Gospel, and he assures bis readers of Lundon being '• as mean as the de vil.” The letter conclodes that if any person should want to make money by betting they can stake on this, that the Mormons mil con. tinue together by hundreds of thousands, because this is the work of God. The letter also states that two hundred converts in New Zealand are awaiting passages to Utah. Fatal AccidentA boy named Leith, ten years old, the son of the lighthouse-keeper, fell over a precipice at TiritirL The body has not yet been recovered. MayoralMr Clark, the new Mayor, in his inaugural address, spoke of the necessity for seeing to the parity of the water, reducing the charges for its supply, and bringing the disputes with the Harbor Board to an end. He gives a dinner. INYEEOASGILL, December 15, FireLast night the store of Messrs Harris and Co., of Lowther, was burned down. No goods were saved. The insurance on these and the building was £l5O in the New Zealand, but they were valued at £4OO. It is believed the fire was caused by the sparks from a passing engine, the building being near the Waimea Plain line. The engine was burning Native coal, and there was no spark-catcber. The sufferer intends to apply for compensation. AUCKLAND, December 14. Fijian Affairs. The Albion has sailed for Levuka with Governor Dea Voeux and suite. Mr Lodder, manager of the Auckland Steamship Company, was also a passenger. The object of his visit is to endeavor to arrange for the proposed fortnightly steam service between Auckland and Levuka. Both Sir A. Gordon and Governor Des Yoaux are anxious that the trips of the company’s steamer should be more frequent, and should the finances of the Fijian colony warrant the expenditure, a vote will be asked in aid of the seheme. Horace Lingard in Trouble. The first meeting of creditors in the estate of William Horace Lingard, actor, was to have been held this morning, but in conse* queues of the non-appearance of any of the interested parties it was adjourned. The assets, £1053, ore quits nominal. The liabilities are £llOO. Norfolk IslandThe excursionists by the Southern Gross mission schooner were present at the opening of St. Barnabas mission church on Norfolk Island, which took place on the 7th inst. Broke Down. Sinking Fund, during s gallop with Lone* band to-day, broke down badly, and it is thought he will not be able again to undergo preparation. WELLINGTON, December 14. A Well-designed Gratuity. At a meeting of the Executive Council to-day it was decided that a gratuity be made to Mrs Mansford of an amount equal to fourteen months’ salary of the lata Judge Mansford. Regatta. Active preparations are being made to hold a regatta here on the Ist proximo. The Hutt Council on the Situation. At a meeting of the Hutt County Council it was resolved that the Council co-operate with the Wairoa County Council in endeavoring to obtain endowments from the Government for counties, on the same footing as municipalities, and also for amending the Waste Lands Act. TIMAEU, December 14, Timarn Roadstead. A heavy easterly gale has been blowing all day. The vessels inside the breakwater rode it out safely, but the barque Especulador, lying outside, dragged this afternoon. Shedidnotput her second anchor down till signalled by the harbormaster. Shortly after dropping the second anchor she secured the services of the s.s. Taiaroa, and was towed out to sea after slipping both anclors. She will probably proceed to Dunedin. OAMABU, December 14, Mr Oliver. _Mr Oliver arrived here yesterday, but has given no opportunity to several deputations appointed to see him of conferring on subjects of importance to the district. DUNEDIN, December 14. The Retiring Mayor. The question of voting a salary to Mr H. J. Walter, the retiring Mayor, was permanently shelved to day, several Councillors retiring and leaving no quorum. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.J WELLINGTON, December 14, Re-arrangement of Portfolios. It has now been definitely arranged that Mr Eolleston shall undertake the portfolio of Mines, relieving Mr Oliver, who retains Public Works. Mr Eolleston retains Lands, Immigration, and Justice, but resigns the portfolio of Education, which will be undertaken by Mr Dick, in addition to the duties of Colonial Secretary. The change is made solely with a view to a more convenient distribution of departmental duties, and does not indicate any change of policy whatever in the matter of education or in the principles on which the present law has been hitherto administered. It is desirable that this should be understood, as the sympathies of the new Minister for Education are supposed not to be very strongly engaged by secular education, and it might otherwise have been thought a change' of policy in a direction adverse to secular education was impending. Such a conclusion would be wholly unwarrantable and unfounded.

The Hew Branding; ActAa the new Act to regulate the branding of stock and registration of brands used for thafc purpose comes into force on January Ist, the Government have decided to appoint all sheep inspectors throughout the colony to be also registrars of brands, the branding districts to be conterminua with the respective sheep districts. The chief inspectors of sheep will be also chief registrars of brands under the Act for their several districts. Press Telegraphic Tariff. By an Order in Council passed to day at an executive meeting the now telegraphic tariff for Press messages comes into force on the Ist prox. This it will be remembered takes the place of the special wire which Parliament refused last session to legalise any longer. Resignation of Mr Maginnity. Mr A. T. Maginnity, secretary to the Telegraph Department, has tendered to the Government his resignation of that ment, and the resignation has been accepted.