LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 484, 13 December 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Agency) WELLINGTON. December 12. It has been notified in... Gazette that single tickets from any station to any station will be issued on all Government railways between the- 20th December and' 3rd January, and will.be availablofor return any day up to, and inclusive of, Monday, sth January. The following telegraph stations are to be kept open till midnight for Press and public purposes five days in the week Auckland, Grahamstown, Napier, Wellington, Christchurch, Titnaru, OainarU, and Dunedin ; on Saturday till 10 o’clock ; Sunday hours remain as at present. Upon arrival of Australian steamer at the Bluff, offices will be kept open as above. AUCKLAND, December 12. A telegram has been received annoucing that Father Chiniqy leaves Sydney for Auckand on the 23rd inst.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. There was a good deal of Opposition in the House last night, in order to prevent new business being taken up after 12.30, but eventually the House went into Committee on Immigration Estimates, which had been left over. All the items were passed as brought down, except in the case of the salary of Under-Secretary, on which £IOO increase was struck out. House sat till 2.30. In the House to-day, the Accounts Committee reported upon the payment of £3OO to Rees for service to be rendered re West coast Natives, stating that full powers had been given to enable such payments to be made. When the House Was in Committee on Working Men’s Clubs Sites Bill, Dr Wallis asked why these clubs should receive such consideration, there being many other institutions equally deserving. Mr Kelly said according to the present definition, any body could join together and call themselves Working Men’s Club, and claim land under the Act. Mr Andrews considered these clubs mere gambling hells, and a means of licensing places which would not otherwise obtain licenses. Mr Hutchinson thought a Working Men’s Club had as much right to a license as a rich man’s club. Sir G. Grey considered clubs identical with Mechanics Institutes. Mr Gisborne thought it libel to say working men could not meet together without drinking and gambling. _ Bill was amended in certain details, and reported.