Telegraphic Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1385, 26 July 1872, Page 2

Telegraphic Intelligence.

FROM GREVILLE'S TELEGRAM COMPANY. WELLINGTON. NEW ZEALAND PARLIAMENT. Fbiday, July 26. In the JHouse of Representatives last night,— Mr Curtis introduced a Larceny Act Amendment Act, which proposes to simplify the existing law. The Bill v as referred to a committee. The Public Trusts Office Bill, the Lite Assurance Companies Bill, and the Drawbacks Bill have all passed their tstcond readings. In reply to Mr Rolleston, Mr Vogel stated lhac the mail steamer Nebraska would be quarantined at Wellington for fifteen days. An Imprest Bill of £IOO,OOO was past-ed. A child on Soaraes' has died of small-pox. The Health Officer here has discovered three cases of small-pox on board the Nebraska. The pa' ients are convalescent. It is supposed here that the authorities at Auckland did not discover the existence of disease on boaid the mail steamer.

Oranges are being very successfullygrown in Nelson. In an at tide headed "The GomingSession/'.the Nelson Examiner savs:—--But of all the logs that can be rolled,, the most undesirable is the ousting of a. Government by patties acting from different motives and principles, and whocannot hold together for any. .work except destruction. It, would give us no* satisfaction at all to see Mr Stafford lead on a majority v composed of his old associates of the colonial and economicparty, reinforced for the occasion by tho-ultra-provincialisls, the hungiy, and thedisappoin ted. If .he attacks the G*>vernment, it should be after hearing their proposals for amending their own, plans, and after finding them inadMquate; and not even then unless he can produce positive and practical proposals of his own which his supporters will bind themselves to carry through. The geneial objects for which- we- wish.' to see a battle engaged are first to bring about a balance of income and expenditure ; 2nd, to make the burden of taxation fall less heavily on industry ; 3rd,. to assimilate and liberalise the land laws; 4th, to distribute the publicworks' expenditure on principles of equity and commercial prudence, and so as to avoid an anuual scramble; sth,. to localise the administration of the funds ; 6th, to define without further delay the great arterial lines which are to be the subject of operations; 7th, to limit and regulate public immigration by the area of land from time to timeopen on easy terms for immediate settlement ; Bth, to establish real national education, to be locally administered, but national in respect of common inspection, a common system of higherrewards, and a common field of promotion for the too-much-neglected profession of teachers. " Atticus," in the Melbourne Leader, writes: —A. commercial fraud has recently been committed" not many thousand miles from Melbourne, whreh for ingenuity surpasses anything heard of for a long time. A, a confidential officer of a certain institution, had embezzled its funds to the- extent of £5,000. The half yearly balance about to bo struck, and he could not raise the money. In this, dilemma In* consul led his solicitor. The exact nature of the advice git on is not known, but what A did was to appropriate £ 10,000 more. When the audit day came, the defaulter related his sad. story to the manager, stoutly maintaining that he had lost the whole J£lo,ooo< in tins iccessful speculations in various mines. Criminal proceedings were threatened, but then there was (he injury to the credit of the institution, and to the reputation of the directors for smartne-s and sagacity. Could not A. make restitution ] He was afraid that he could not, but he thought his wife's family rather than see him sent to jail would do something. The Board gavehim 24 hours to consider. At the close of that, period he offered £5,000 cash on confederation of receiving a letter testifying to his integrity, and regretting that his being about to commence business upon his own account prevented the institution retaining his valuable services. The offer was at once accepted, and A walked out of the office with a clean hill of health, and £5,000 carefully stowed away in his cash-box as a slight consolation for his loss of office.

The London correspondent of a con temporary B»y* :--Lncifar matches am attracting attention, with a view to making them move palpably safe thai* they are At present, a match i* lighted with a hang and applied to the lamp or the candle, and it is then very possibly thrown down on the floor, with the burnt end still in a glow, in which state it remains for two or three seconds The losses by lire fiom this simple bit of carelessness are enoimous, and it is said that one fire insurance company estimates its own losses from Inciters' at £ 10,000 per annum. The contemplated improvement, therefore, is to impregnate tlie wood of the match witli some chemical solution which prevents the smouldering for a moment long'T than the match is actually lighted-—so that,, once the blaze isovet, there is no further danger. Thus an element of danger is removed from the hands of many a careless housemaid.