Telegraphic Despatches.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 369, 1 July 1874, Page 2

Telegraphic Despatches.

(From our oion Correspondent. Dunedin, June 30th. At a meeting of the Athenaeum Committee held last night, it was resolved to exclude the " Maryborough and Dunolly Advertiser" and the "Religio-Pniloso-phical Journal." This afternoon his Worship the Mayor presented Mr. Job Wain, captain of the Fire Brigade, with a testimonial and plate on behalf of the insurance companies and the city of Dunedin. Tho Omeo arrived at Port Chalmers at 8 o'clock this morning. The Governor has assented to the Otago Harbor Board Bill. Anne Diamond, of the Globe Hotel, Dunedin, was to-day summoned under the Licensing Ordinance for selling drink on Sunday. This was the first case under the new regulations. It was proven that drinks liacl been ordered \>y a lodger, although one of the drinks was for a person not a lodger. The evidence showed that Mrs. Diamond waa not aware of the sale, and the Magistrate dismissed the case, bnt did not decide whether a lodger could ask a person to dine at a pu olic house and then give him a drink. July Ist, 9.22 a.m. The following telegram has been sent to the Superintendents of the various provinces re assisted immigration : — " The Groverpmont, after considering the replies from Superintendents, have come to the conclusion to instruct the Agent-General to limit the number of immigrants despatched by him between the Ist March and the end of the year to 25,000." At the meeting of the Education Board yesterday, it was resolved that, with a view of making the High School more efficient, a Board of Advice be appointed, to consist of seven members, and to be appointed on the recommendation of the Superintendent and Executive. A site of half an acre at Pelichet Bay has been granted for a Sailors' Home. The Tararua arrived at Hokitika yesterday with later English and Australian news. London, June 20th. The failures are reported of Snellgrove, Mark Lane, for £300,000, and a Belfast linen manufacturing firm for nearly a million. The Turkish ship Kars sank in the Sea of Marmora. Three hundred and twenty were diowned. June 22nd. The Agricultural Union have resolved to adopt a vi^ 01 * 0118 course of action to defeat the lock-out, and invited have Joseph Arch to taks the laborers to Canada. Among the Australian news are the following items : — the Torres Straits mail steamer has been wrecked in Cleveland Bay, North Australia — all saved. Madame Goddard and Blondtn were in an open boat all night and reached the shore safely but lost all their effects. — Green has beeu found guilty of the murder of Reynolds. -The steamer Easby and schooner Mera for Dnnedin, in the Newcastle trade have arrived ; Jlr. Fulton of Webb and Fulton is a passenger and brings a number of valuable sheep. The Basby "was oarriad by the current to Kings Island, but saw the^light in time to avoid danger.