Telegraphic Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1414, 29 August 1872, Page 2

Telegraphic Intelligence.

WELLINGTON. [FEOM GREVILLB'S TELEGRAM COMPANY.] . PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. Thursday, August 29. In the House of Representatives yesterday, the debate on Mr Stafford's resolutions of want of confidence in the Government was resumed by Sir David Monro, who supported the resolutions. Mr White severely attacked Messrs. Luekie and Harrison, He flattered himself, that if those gentlemen were more independent and less servile in supporting Ministers they would do mote benefit to their constituents. He said that Mr Luekie was a mere attache of the Ministry. He attacked Government patronage, especially of ihe press. He said the Ptess Association was a mere Government institution, under the immediate eoii'.rol of two Ministers of the Crown and Mr Harrison, an un>crupulous supporter of the Ministry. He shewed that attempts had been made to influence his vote by means of the wii es.

Mr Yo<jel followed Mr White, and delivered a speech of nearly five hours' duration. He made a very able defence of the Government. He defended the administration as a whole, and showed that the prices of Mr Rregden's contracts were fixed by the Government engineers conjointly with Mr Brngden. He pointed out that Mr Reid, some time ago, in a speech delivered in Dunedin, estimated the cost ot the Clutha Railway at .£375,000 ; the actual contract sum was £276,ooo—yet the lion. member (Mr Reid) now charged the Government with having made a bad baigain. Mr Vogel then proceeded to show thai the Provincial Government of'Otago had offered £15,000 to any one who would raise £400,000 to construct the same railway at. 8 per cent. ; that the San Francisco mail seryice cost less than previous services; that reductions had been made in the Civil Service of the Colony; and that the piesent balance at the Bank to the credit of the Colony was £318,000, which sum, after paving all liabilities to the end of the quarter, would be reduced to £116.000. He then criticised the Opposition, and defended his own action in regard to the Press Association.

A Grey mouth paper apologises for the absence of a theatrical report thus : "Long play-bills,,short space, and coldfingered printers." The following telegram from Auckland has beeu received at Wellington : —" Sale of Gisboi'ue town lands very, successf'ii; ninety-four lots sold, realizing 41,400." The Otago Accl.imatisation Soeie! y has succeeded in obtaining upwards of 3,000 ova from the.female trout which was caught by Mr W. A. Young, a few. weeks ago, in the Shay River.

Speaking of the proposed International Boat Race at Sydney, in 1873,. the Sydney Morning Herald says:— " The committee of the Balniain Regatta have deciiled upon transmitting in* vitations by the mail, through the hon. secretaries of the London Rowing Club,, and of the Atlantic Rowing Club, New York, to the oarsmen, of Great Riitain,, and of the United State*, to t>end representative ere ws to take part in a grancb International Gig r» ace, to come off on or about the 9th November, 1873, ; in Sydney harbor. The committee guar rantee a prize of Au.itialian trophies to* the value of J£2GO sterling, and to givea cheque for 4500 towards the expenses, of a crew from the United States. If these spirited proposals-should lead to. tlie appearance of picked crews from, the two countries, to compete with thechampions oi the several colonies, the event would be indeed a red letter-day in our aquatic calender, and they, would,, it is needless to say, receive an enthusiastic welcome."

The Fall Mall Mall Gazette says.:— It is probable that before long the notice to be seen on. boai J steamboats, " No smoking abaft the funnel," will have to be discontinued-, owing toth.e absence of any funnel abaft which} smoking can be prohibited. Smokers will be simply requested to discharge' their smoke into the water; According to the Swiss Time 1 * two Austrian, marine officers and a marine engineer have discovered by united experiments m method of conveying away under water the smoke from the steam-engine,, instead of through a funnel into; the air. They make use of double ventilators, which compress the smoke and* force it overboard. JFor propelling' these ventilators they employ according' '.o circumstances, either water power—that is, the pressure of the water between the surface of the water and the place where this apparatus is fixed—or for smaller vessels,.steam power. Theadvantages of this discovery are the greater security of ships of war, a* in armor plated ships the only- vulnerable part, the funnel, will be taken away. Other advantages will be the saving of space now occupied by the passage of' the funnel through every deck, as well as.

security against danger iVoni tire; complete regulation of the draught, and in consequence of that, ike application o# a method for consuming the smoke, thereby effecting a saving of fuel ; and finally, better ventilation of the boiler. For submarine and torpedo ships and monitors this discovery will be of great value, as the last will be rendered quiteinvulnerable. The tiials that iiav«been mad*? have, it is alleged, resulted in a complete success, even to thesmallest details. Mr T. T), Fish, writing to the Garden, says :—There is no longer any doubt that the ants and aphides aresworn allies, unitedly bent on the discomfiture and defeat of cultivators. Tobacco smoke or water deals death to the aphides j but rhe ants seem rather to enjoy a smoke than otherwise, and nothing weaker than arsenic seems to disagree with them, either outside or in. When the tobacco-sick aphides fall down on the surface, there are their friends the ants waiting ready toreceive and bury them. The earth is heaped over them, not. to cover the dead but to resuscitate the living. This light, covering of earth shuts out tbesmoke, and they quickly revive. Even when the aphides are too sick to fall down in a fainting fit, the ants are equal to the emergency, and mount up the stems or leaves, where their dts--1 res.-ed friends " most do congregate, with bits of earth wherewith to protect them. And such earth shields aie effectual, and the aphides emerge from, the casemates hungrier and more ravenously destructive thau before.