AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1031, 1 February 1879, Page 2

A USTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

THE NEW GOVERNOR OF NEW ZEALAND. SYDNEY, January 29. H.M.S. Bapphire leaves Sydney on Saturday for Auckland, aud[ will

arrive there about 'he 10th Fob. She will stay a week, and then proceed to Plymouth, to ba paid oft*. Sir H. Robinson's commission as Governor of New Zealand arrive'! by the San Francisco mail. He leaves about the end of February. MELBOURNE, January 29. The Cabinet has just resolved to support the action of New South Wales and Queensland m regulating Chinese immigration. A man was admitted into the hospital to-day almost pulseless, after a veal dinner at a Burke-otreet restaurant. SYDNEY, Jannary 30. The Chinese 8 11 empowers the Government to levy a tax of .£lO upon every Chinaman landing. In the event of non-pay men*, the captain of the vessel is liable to a fined of £20 and forfeiture of the vessel. The Council have inserted a clause m the Parliamentary Privileges Bill, defining " contempt" as acts, words, or.wrring, within or without the Chamber. i The report that the Governor had received his commission as Governor of New Zealand is prem iture. i His departure is not definitely fixed. Heavy gold has bean struck on Scrubby Plains, nine miles from Parks. A rush has commenced. MELBOURNE, January 30. The butchers are considering the project of a new meat company, with £20,000 capital. Mr John Thomas Smith is djad. He was was once a Minister of the Ofown, and seven times Mayor. It is rumoured that a ted action of railway employes is intended. Desperate fires are raging m the country, +