LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 284, 1 September 1877, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[press agency.] Dunedin, August 30. A meeting of members of the Jewish persuasion was held last night, to .consider the Education Bill, it was resolved that sub-section 3 of clausa 95 should be struck out, and that in danse 75 the word “ non-religioUs” should be added after the Word, “hooks” that education should be purely secular. ' At a meeting of delegates of the Friendly Societies held last night, the following resolution was carriedi-h- ---“ That the time bias arrived .for the various Societies in Dunedin to co-ope-rate for the purpose of estdbl&hiiig a medical dispensary to be callwPthe Dunedin United Friendly Societies Dispensary.” , Auckland, August 30. .Samoan advices stateTthat the waria over. The victorious form the present Government are’tiioise who sided with ' Strfnbelger, - The chiefs of the defeated tribes took refuge in the British Consulate,. atuJtSb victors demanded their ’ 'summderi guaranteeing that they! BKoliia u nbt ; -bp injured. The ’ Consul' refused *afid called upon the captain of the. John Wesley to take his to the Government ofjftjii .Avtuclj he luctantly complied with, being 'bound elsewherb on missionary, work;. ; , r k Wellington, August 20.. rojmrt 'shows the revenue last year to be, £o6,s74',"hs against £80,656,. the year, and the expenditure £145,226, *or £47 10s less than the amount Voted, The saving was effected under the iteih “ Conveyance by sea ” 1,342,886 more letters, and 1,151,471 more newspapers passed through the various New Zealand Post-offices in 1876-7 than in 1875. The letters increased. 12 and newspapers 16 per cent. - Negotiations for effecting a modification in the San Francisco mail service only await the assent of the Sydney Parliament] in the meantime contractors have been perm ftted to perform a modified service, under which the New Zealand contribution, is £32,500, and £SOOO. for Coastal', service, making a total for New Zealand of £37,500, against £44,975 under fW original contract. The modification consists in abandonin'; calling .at Kmdavan and the performance of a Coastal service by the contractors; payments during the past year for this service am Mint to £49,129, -and the receipts £25,387, leaving a net cost to the Colony of £33.742. Galle payments, £14,225 ; receipts, £8129 neb co-it, £l)09o. Tlie number of money o-rlers issued daring the year vvi b ) 35 > f>r £510,2 3S, bain; an inure-ise ■ ,,v m* th• pr fvion year of 7228 o’dera f.r £l6 83 5. The srr *« raven an f.-oin money orders wua £5261,. net.L3957.