LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 341, 16 December 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

(FEU PRESS AQENOY.)

! WELLINGTON. Monday, : PARLIAMENTARY. The House met this morning at eleven o'clock. Swanson asked if it was proper for a Government Relieving Officer to bo a member of a County Council or Road Board. Hall said it was contrary to the Civil Service regulations. In reply to a question regarding the report of the Private Telegrams Committee, Hall said the officer who laid two telegrams before the Government which should have been regarded as private, had been fined and reprimanded. Being personally responsible, he expressed what happened,

Grey gavo notice to move, whon the House was going into Supply, a resolution regarding tho matter. Hall, in reply to a question, said the Government had no funds for an agricultural and pastoral association until such a society was started.

A Bill authorising the issue of eighty thousand pounds of treasury bills was introduced and passed.

A Bill imposing a penny in the pound as a tax on property was introduced and read first time. The second reading was fixed for 7.30.

Atkinson, in reply to a question, said the votes for public works would be adhered to as closely as possible,

After some discussion on petitions for compensation for losses sustained during the Maori war, the Premier moved the adjournment of the House, which adjourned till 2.30.

In the House, Speight, acting for Grey, moved that tho House considers the report of the Election Tolegrams Committee contrary to the evidence, He strongly condemned the action of the Government in this matter, and expressed a hope that nothing of tho kind would ever occur again. The Premier protested against the strong language used towards him in this and other matters by the hon, gentlemanlanguage which he hoped his character was sufficient to withstand. If it was not, then ho had spent a large part of his life in vain, If the hon. gentleman read the evidence he must know he was saying what was not true, He protested against being slandered in the why he had been.

Macandrew said the whole matter was a mistake of party. It would have been far better to submit to any use of the telegraph rather than violate the secrets of the department. After all they had the fact that some £3O worth of telegrams had been sent, £25 worth of which were on public service.

Saunders said some of these telegrams were intended to influence newspapers and individuals in connection with the elections,

Moss and Giaborne spoke against the Government, and McLean defended it. Stewart thought an Act should be

passed taking from ihe Government the -- 1 power exercised in the ' The debate was continued until 5.30 j p.m. . ( NEW PLYMOUTH. \ Saturday. John Hill was charged at the Police Court this morning with an indecent assault on Carolina Turchi, an Italian girl, seventeen years of age, on the Mountain Road. He is a brother of James Hill, now awaiting his trial for a similar offence, alleged to have been committed on a patient at the hospital.. Accused was commited for trial at the Disirict Court on Thursday next, He was admitted to bail, himself in £IOO, and two sureties in £250 each, DUNEMN. Saturday. Five insolvencies were filed during the week. • The principal are—George Campbell, master mariner, with liabilities £1521, assets £440; and George Atkinson, proprietor of the Tribune, with no particulars filed. The Rev J. McNicol, Presbyterian minister, died suddenly at Waihola. AUCKLAND. Saturday.. A man named Home was charged with cutting his wife on the shoulder with a pocket knife during a quarrel. A Maori escaped from a police-sergeant while being taken to gaol, but was again captured, after an exciting chase. An alarm of fire was given late last night, causing the brigade to turn out, but it was found to be only some paper burning in the yard of tho Herald office, and it was speedily extinguished without any damage being done. LONDON. December 11. The New Zealand Loan has completely succeeded. Tenders were opened to-day, i and it was found that nearly three times 1 the amount required was subscribed for. . CALCUTTA. i December 12. , Notwithstanding the complete measures i taken by General Roberts to prevent the spread of the outbreak, the hostility among the hill tribes has been followed J by a general rising near Cabul. Ton thousand Afghans, commanded by Mahommed Khan, attacked a force of British cavalry and artillery going to join General Macpherson's brigade, which was ordered to punish the tribes, The British made a desperate defence, and were compelled to spike four guns, which, l however, were afterwards recovered from the enemy. The latest news states that i the fighting continues. The British los - is unknown. The Afghans suffered a very heavy loss. 1 Mahmoud Ayub Khan, with twelve regiments, has left Herat to attack Can--3 dahar. The French Admiral Duperre has been ) ordered to seize Tonquin, Cochin China. i The floods in Hungary are spreading, 1 Temisoar and Arid are endangered. g The Seine, Loire, and Upper ThameJ t are frozen. The winter generally is severs in Europe. . A company is appealing to Germar i patriotism for funds to continue Godefroy's business, to prevent it falling into j English or American hands, The steamer Indus mot-with a terrific i hurricane in the Bay of Biscay, and'losl four boats, | The Revolutionary Committee of Rush , sia has issued a proclamation confessing the attempt on the life of the Czar. ThaH '. style his Government a despicable desp™ . ism, and will only leave him in peace on : condition of his transferring his power to an Assembly elected by universal suffrage,