TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 69, 14 August 1878, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[Per Press Agency.] VERY LATEST.

Wellington, Aug. 18,

In the House Mr Shrimski gave notice to move that the beer duty be increased to threepence. Mr Hodrk : ns ; m gave notice to introclu e the Man. age with Deceased Wifes’ Sister Bi 1. Mr Macandrew said the Public Works Statement would be brought down some time next week.

On the motion for going into Committee of Supply, Mr Ballance, in reply Jo Major Atkinson, said ti e Bills embodying the Government po'icy were nearly ready. He expected to move their second reading on Tuesday, when the Fpposition would be afforded an Opportunity of discussing the, whole policy of the Government.

The first item of the Estimates proposed was the liabilities of 1877-78 — £115,440. A good deal of discussion ensued, several Opposition members requesting information as to why in certain instances the amount voted last year had been exceeded.

Government explained that the information involved a lot of details which it was impossible to carry in one’s head. The item was passed, on the understanding that the Government would ultimately furnish the information asked for.

Wellington, August 12,

All the Canterbury delegates, and Mr Reeves, of the West Coast, interviewed the Government to-day as to a main road between Ahaura and Anmri, The Government admitted the necessity of such a road, and said that if possible it would be done, but that they were afraid that the railway from Brunnertou to Amherly would absorb all the money.

Dunedin, August 12.

One hundred and sixty-eight acres of land near Forbury, about two miles from Dunedin, changed owners at £25,000.

[English Cable.]

London, Aug. 8.

A Court Circular issued to-night publishes in extenso the telegrams received by the Government from meetings at Sydney, Melbourne, Ballarat, Newcastle, Grahamstown, and Brisbane congratulating Earl Beaconsfie'd and Lord Salisbury on their action at, and the result of the Berlin Congress. The Australians played against eighteen of the Liverpool Stanley Club district. The Australians in their first innings scored 238—Gregory making 70, Boyle 68, and A. Bannennan 32. Their opponents have three men out for three runs. August 8. The ‘Daily News’ reports serious sickness amongst the troops at Cyprus, but no deaths. The armed population of Batoum are preparing to resist the Russian occupation. Twenty thousand Turkish Volunteers have gone to the frontier. A tornado visited Wallingford, Connecticut. Thirty persons were killed, and many houses demolished. Martial law has been proclaimed in BoSbia. Sir Stafford Northcote stated the estimates for the Kaffir war were within four hundred thousand pounds. The money market is stringent, and the Bank minimum unchanged. The Bank is charging six per cent. Australian securities continue depressed with otner stocks. The increasing value of money is producing a temporary inaction.

The corn market is flat. The weather is splendid for harvest operations.

SUEZ MAIL NEWS,

[By T,l graph.] Auckland, Aug. 12,

T; e "1 K-m arrived from Sydney to-day, and brings th ■ following news by the Suez .Mail telegraphed *o Sydney : Congress decided that the Sultan should have a right to fortify the Balkan Ranges at pleasure. The region south of the Balkans is to form practically an independent autonomous province, called Eastern Roumelia, paying tribute to the Sultan, and governed by an Hospodar, appointed for five or ten years ; the Powers having a veto over the Sultan’s nomination. The national celebration at Paris was an immense demonstration. Forty thousand troops were reviewed. The Rossean centenary was celebrated with great illuminations by the Socialists at Geneva.

The success of the Australian cricketers has induced a desire on the part of the Colonial residents in England to mark their sense of their achievements by entertaining them at a banquet, at Wills’ Rooms, on July 23rd. A very influential committee has been formed, including several late Governors, and the majority of the Agents-General, and other rvellknown Colonists, to carry out the necessary arrangements. The Lord Chancellor has announced that he would introduce a BJI dealing with middle class education.

Mr Courtenays annual measure for granting a woman’s franchise was rejected in the House of Commons.

The Royal Geographical Society will despatch another African exploration party.

AUSTRALIAN,

[Per Hero at Auckland.]

Melbourne, Aug. 5,

A verdict for the defendant was given in the action for libel against the Trades Protection Society’s Circular.

The Loch Ard concert added £4OO to the funds.

The Minister of Railways, in reply to a question, said £200,000 had been spent on the Spencer-street station.

The Postmaster-General thinks favorably of establishing a penny post and carrying newspapers free. An attempt is being made to exterminate rabbits by means of sulphur fumes. An amateur Blondin, calling himself Henry Ruffin, was killed by a fall from a wire stretched over a street at Geelong.

Mileta is still a firm favorite for the Cup.

Sydney, August 7. £2500 has been subscribed to the Mort memorial. Goldsworthy’s store at Newcastle has been burnt down.

NEW GUINEA AND SOUTH SEA ISLAND NEWS.

[By Telegraph.] Auckland, Aug. 12

Intelligence received at Cooktown from N w Guinea, reports that a great number of men in the digging party arc sick, and matters aie in a very critical state. H.M.S Sappho bad arrived with we’conm supplies of medicine. No gold is reported yet, although a slrong coin- is said to have been obtained.

Fiji news stat -s that Mr Deveau has been sworn in as Governor. Lieutenont Commander Moore, of the Alacrity, was fined £29 for a. bre .cb of the quarantine regulations at Fiji ; while a Chinaman had been lined £IOO for smuggling opium. Great dissatisfaction ex’sts ?-ethe Crown grants. A party of Native offi ers, sent by Katu, the Chief of the Eskilepo Province, to capture an offender, committed great ravages. They confined all th? male inhabitants of the village in one hotel, and the females in another, and subjected the latter, despite tbeir cries and struggles, to indiscriminate violation. On intelligence reaching the European officer at Noumea, be ordered the arrest of the offenders, and forty of them were punished. A German, at the Line Islands, has been murdered by the natives. News from the Solomon Islands shows it was not Mr Wright who was lately killed there, but a man named Townsend, A boy employed by him was ser’onsty speared.