AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXII, Issue 307, 26 January 1894, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS

:■-: ;< Wreck ' * .*: : : - _> Sydney, January 2s -^Oh* barque Nicoka, bound Saigon to mea, watf wrecked at tike entniuice to the latter port yesterday. Tfie crew, reached the -slidW'iA safety. ..The vessel was owned in Melbourne. HLS.W, polities -^ ! Sydney* January' 25.-^Aiter 101 l consideration the Cabinet has decided that the best interests of the country will be served by not accepting Cbpeland's resignation. ?- ;< ; In the Legislative Assembly the Hon. Hindle has given notice to the effect that the Government has earned the condemnation of the House in reinstating Copeland.; The Premier declined to accept the motion as one of censure, and said he would deal with it in the ordinary way. . Sydney, January 25.— At the request of Mr Copeland the Premier has written to the Hon. Hindle, 'who tabled the motion of censure on the Government for reinstating Gopeland^ stating , that as the <> motion attacks Copeland's , personal honor he * will give it precedence- ; of motion, for Wednesday next. ■'..* . v r ■...; ...■ .• .-■ •- Praise. -. -n - )->>■ ■ Sydney; January 25 .— The Swimmers who attended the carnival at Auckland speak enthusiastically 'of the treatment accorded diem. - liiuiki tiff profits. Sydney, January ' ; 25.~1t Is esti- ! mated that the local banks in the colony will pay £300,000 in dividends on the basis i of the i half-year's operations, and that £1^200,000 wiU/Be distributed W dejjositors in interest. Terrible fires. .■'«.,"'', . '. , : Melb .tßxiij^aniiary . 25. ~9eye|i business Places ; at Mfcbop,, inj,"^es? GippBrkhy6sstrict,' f^aye been destroyed by nre. . The damage is estimated at 388,00 p. : ./ ~ ",I'^' ;i r ;.;;„; i Bush f ires are still raging r in , the; HvJpetoun" district and 50,p0'0 <^acrjagj have alr^aidy been devastated. ,' t [j j it ' t j - "_.' " s . ; ; ' Iflercaiitiie Book. ; , Melbourne, ; January 2s.^— Walsh, Crown prosecutor, recommends : that a presentment be filed , against; Sir Matthew Davies, MilUdge and Muntz in connection with the Mercantile Bank failure, ' Walsh: Hniself ; will undertake the prosecution qn behalf of the .Grown. ;.^ ( '- .--.> >[- ■■ -.» ■•!«;•/?/' y Tltfal dl6surbaiicei. , . I Brisbane, January 25. — ExtraOrdinary' high lidea^ have!')tysm/e<perienced in the Gulf of Carpentaria, and a sudden rise of water destroyed all the beacons along the coast. : ' •-■• - : A maclmau •;^;:' Brisbaub, January 2d.^The cutter. Mercury, bdund to r the 4 j^cehe 6f the gold rush at * Eocky €feek H with a number bf passengers, 1 lias returned to Ojoktown. During the voyage ? 6ne/6f tliepassen^era, amannameaßurchardt, began 1 firing indiscriminately a^aong, the other passengers, and aft«p f wdutid'ing one of them he retreated to '%fie hold of the ' vessel and committed suicide: ■'- lr ■■■* '■ ■?■.■■ :- c -- f - '-' : - ? ' ■■■ • . Have? agodd look' at the fac^ i^f a 1 MclIwunife larrikin of tiie lowest-type," frays a Sydney papery 4 'and then T say, honestly >yhet^er- or.: not Darwip. -, was near the niaii. We (Trutjh) consider the l oregoing the most; outrageous insult ever offered tp the luonkeV 'tribe. The Ohirienmri Jockey C/lub have -decided only to have one day's race meeting, to be the 17th March. As usual the club gives a tofeiloi £20 r O, as followsi^-Hurdles, £35 ; Maiden, £20 j Pony £20 ; Cup, £60; Miners' Hate, £20; Publican's Pu rse, £30 ; Forced Handicap, £15. f It is said that the Wellington hotel/proprietors/are also organising in vjeV of the action which the prohibitionists: intendto take at the coming licensing elections; What that action exactly willbevhas not yet been decided by. the anti-liquor people. . . . v . » Women snflrage rb. now universal throughout Colorado . A telegram, dated Denver, December 2nd, iv a San Francisco paper, sayst-^'jrhe State , Canvaesing Board completed their wbrk tnlsniorning. The count shows that women suffrage was carriedby 8,347 majority, Thiil afternooii Govenicr Waite, iniaccordaiiqej with the above, issued a proclamation giving women the right to vote :at all elections in thia State.".' ; ,, ■..,; . , : . . ....... ..,,, . ; .. fji Enterprising Danevirke. It is going to raise £200 to make a trial bore for artesian water. ' ... , „.. _'.. ■. ','..'. : ', -„-. Miniatcrs are expected shortly , to turn out a fresh batch of J. P,'s and some of > the old names may expect to, have the pen run through them. "Dynamo" in "Inangahua Times'? says: — "The ancientidea of choosing some prosperous old fossil for fte civic^ttair is now dying out^ an 4 consideration of personal qualifications for the duties is entering into the selection; The "BufleW" thinks Sed&m is only »; ' 'shickery Radical, " t^cangfe Seddon thinks things like' titles "come more gracefully at the end of a man's career." The "Bulletin*; remarks that Judas Jscariot's 30s came at the end of his career,- » A native on the Gilbert Group of Islands, haa gone mad upon the subject of marriage. He is related to a high chief and "cannot be brought to answer for a crime. His method is to marrjr to-4»y, to morrow he places a cocoanut on his wife's head and pretending to shoot it, misses and kills the wife "accidentally." Next day he gets another wife, and so on. Shescanned the paper through, and said, ••There'snobody 'born/ahdnobody *wed'; What stupid men those editors are Who cannot provide a readable par!"