SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 439, 13 September 1877, Page 3

SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

(From our own correspondent.) Dunedin, Friday, Sept. ?. Mr. Jones was committed for trial at Dunedin. Defendant's counsel wanted to put Mx. Whitaker in the box, but the Prosecutor successfully raised the objection that it could not be done a.t the preliminary enquiry. There is a decline m the London wool, market. Scoured wool shows an average decline of Id. to l£d. per lb,, fleece and greasy %d. to Id. An unoccupied brewery at Queenstown has been partly .burned. It was insured for £BOO in the Norwich. PARLIAMENTARY. In Committee to consider an Address to the Governor to give effect to the recommendation of the Goldfields Committee re Gold- . fields rewards and aids to prospectors, a motion was agreed to to the effect that Chinese bejiot counted in estimating the population of Goldfields ; and that rewards be payable for the discovery of a new class of workings in the vicinity of existing fields. In Committee on the Local Option Bill, clauses 2, 6, 7, and 8 were struck out on the. voices. The whole of yesterday was occupied by a very warm discussion about land transactions in Hawke's Bay. Mr. Orrnond made an earnest speech in reply to charges* made against him and the settlers generally. He had had only three leases from Maories and two he gave up when he became Superintendent, and of 301 charges brought agains.t the Hawke's Bay settlers before Judge Richmond not one was substantiated. Mr. Sheehan and Mr. Rees dared the Government to appoint a Committee of enquiry. Mr. Ormond said the Government opposed a Committee being appointed, but would appoint a Commission with judicial functions, if those who demanded it gave security for costs. - • The'Waka Maori' case went against the Government—damages, £SOO. Mr. Ormond read letters reflecting severely on Grey, the production of which was demanded by the House.

Messrs. Goldsborough and Go., of Melbourne, announce their intention of holding an esifaitiou of merino wool at their warehouse, Melbourne, in February next. They propose to give four gold cups of the va'iue cf 25 guineas each fur vrrished arid greasy -»vool grown in Victoria and t!v nei^-hboring-colonies, including Tasmania and Naw Zealand;

Spelling bees in America have giveii place to another amusement. 3t ia called a "Cap Festival." Caps are provided for all the ladies attending a party, and neckties corresponding to each cap are sold to the gentleman as they enteri It is expected that each gentleman will find the cap that corresponds with his necktie, and in-ike himself agreeable to the wearer during the evening.

Dean Stanley lately "presided at a meeting of the supporters of the Sunday Society, and explained that their object Was not only to maintain the value and importance of the English Sunday, but also to do the best they could to improve it. The fourth commandment, he said; was more applies able to the present state of society in England than to the J ewsj because rest was more necessary to us than it wa3 to them.

On Jane lOfch the- Pope gave audience in the llall of Consistory to the representatives of the Catholic Tress; assembled from all parts of the world," to offer congratulations to hii Holiness on the part of their papers. They were led by Monsignor Tripedi; and Monsignor Parrochi, Archbishop of Bologna, who was himself once a journalist, read an address in tho-natne of the Press, to which his Holiness replied. A. number of gifts were presented. The Spanish journalists offered a valuable collection of gold coins. E:ich pressman presented a ropy of his paper, handsomely bound in an album, containing addresses of. congratulation from every Catholic journal, many of which were splendidly illuminated. The number of journalists present was about 400.