LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 769, 16 May 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

'' ■" (Ftom Our Own Correspondent.) , . WELLISGTOK. j This day. The licensed victuallers are bestirring' themselves in reference to the Licensing Bill to be introduced next session, and on Saturday deputationed the' Colonial Secretary on the subject of fees, Sunday trading, and Club licenses. - A deputation from Fielding will interview the Government'to-day, concerning the proposed Fielding municipality. It is" understood""they advocate the nine miles, boundary,'> to which many settlers.object.'- 1'. : .. ; - DUNEDIN. The Tararua disaster enquiry shows that the captain and the mate were not on the beat terms, and that the former had telegraphed to the Port Chalmers agent to obtain another officer for liiin. Libeller, Billingsgate, and Randwick are scratched for all Dunedin engagements.

AUCKLAND. Johnny Lundoti, member of the House of Representatives for the Bay of Islands, has charged James McLeod with taunting 'him that he had been a' prisoner in the Mount Eden gaol. McLeod was bound over.

LONDON, The Czar's ministers have tendered their resignations in consequence of His Majesty's proclamation' of stringent Imperial authority,'. . . The consideration of the Act to permit an affirmation in lieu of the oath in the House of Commons, has been'postponed until after the passage of -the Irish Land Bill. ' .

■ The wool markot is steady. Coarse oroasbreds Id lower.

The French-Tunisian difficulty has been settled by treaty with' the Bey, under which the latter gives substantial guarantees of quietude on the Algerian .frontier and the complete control of the finances of his kingdom to a French Commissioner. • ,