LATEST TELEGRAMS

Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1556, 31 July 1873, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS

[Anglo-australian press telegraph AGENCY.] Wellington, July 30. The New Zealand Shipping Company have received telegraphic advices from their London a2ents, dated J uly 3 1. The Punjaub sailed for Lyttelton in June; the Adamant was ready for sea, and the Cardigan Castle and Delaware, all for Lyttelton, were to follow. The Duke of Edinburgh was loading for Otago, and the Cingalese for Auckland. The contract with the Government was to com-, mence in September. There was a large colonial application for shares. At a meeting of Mr Stafford's supporters to-day, Mr Stafford informed them that private affairs would prevent his continuing to act as leader of a party with constitutional liability of taking office in the event of the existing Government retiring from office. The organised Opposition was, therefore, dissolved. The Juvenile Offenders Act^ introduced by Mr Steward, provides that males under sixteen may be cited before a Resident Magistrate for a breach of the Act. The offender may be sentenced to solitary confinement with or without whipping. Whipping may be ordered without imprisonment. When whipping is ordered it is to be inflicted within the precincts of a gaol. The Municipal Corporations Amendment Bill provides that a Council may make bye-laws for licensing hackney coaches within a certain radius. They may adopt, with or without modification, any subdivisions or parts not sub-divided, in section oue, part ten, of the thirteenth schedule of the Act. Sates and fares of hackney coaches to be subject to amendment. A Council may regulate public streets, including positions for railway stations, with the consent of passengers. Penalties against bye-laws to be recovered in a summary way. The following is from an official source: — A slight omission from summary of Financial Statement last night. Sentence as to Estimates Revenue of 1873-4 should have been as follows :— Total of estimated Revenue for 1873-4 was L 1,3, 3 80,500, to which must be added L 3835 Is 2d, balance at the commencement of the year, making together L 1,184,335 Is 2d. Deducting from thi3 expenditure for the year there would be left a surplus of L 52,600.