INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Press, Volume XXVI, Issue 3510, 5 December 1876, Page 2

INTER PRO VINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, Decanber 4 • Signalled—Hero, from Sydney. / S<iled—Ladybird. 7 Tbe Suwarrow case will come before the civil courts on a case by Mr ... Dr Gould for larceny as a bailee has bieen sentenced to four months' imprisonment with hard labor. I

The inquiry re the fire in Shortland street commenced to-day.

: Letters to the agent of jths Georgia Minstrels show that owing to the excellent business doing in San -Francisco they de-' tided to remain there until tbe next'maiL A person named Corby n. agent of Mr John Bennett of Sydney, took*, advantage of this to engage ten non-professional darkies for -Sydney, and ship, ttmu-as Ooorgla Miaaturelo. Tbey went up in the City of Sydney- Mr Kirby, agent here, is instructed to go to Sydoey, and expose them. The San Francisco Post severely denounces the proceeding as a fraud. ""'" '■:. ;

Letters from America.r«, the, marl servics are favorable to the permanent service, via ADckland. ' The following is an extract from a letter sent to the Auckland agents by a piominent official at bead He says :—" We have heretofore given,you pur opinion at great length regarding the serious drawback to .the prosperity of pur line dn,3 entirely to the on us'of running to ports where ships of such sizs. shoald never be sent. We are. sparing7no exertion to haver this corrected. As to calling at the'■ Bay of Islands or to hftvidgCODneCtioD with that paint we areas at renuously opposed to it as we ara to th.enre?ent route... .Our calling places shoald ! be Hon6l alb,- Anckfnnd, and Sydney, and all collateral business should bei _epa_ately and apart f com onr main line." ~- ,- - Welllnoton, December^*.

The rumour which has bteen lately current respectingthe appointment of Messrs Shearman and-Weldon North and Middle Islands respectively, and that the Hon C. C.'3.oijve-_*w*_-l shortly resign the portfolio, of- r pf Jnatiee, with the view of taking the of Policeof the Colony, is entirely unfounded. Arrived — Schooner Herald, from Lyttelton. ,~. ... ~ . T . r .* r - -~,- .. Post Chalmers, December i.

for Lyttelton—Misses Langlan and Taylor, Messrs Milroy, McMahon, Haines. Thorn paov, Harris, Blythe, O'Brien, Everett, Bencbor, Dawson, Hill, Brown, Digby,' - Wheatjejr, Kprkwood. . Cbristepaen, Phrophet, -Halliwell. and Quelch

' Donedin, T>ecember-I.' . The Provincial Library is to be banded over to the Uhiverrity. 1 "' * "_ ? .'•"'.;"" f A conference in regard to railway manage- ' ment is being held here, p !' : ' h -■'"-

. Mr Charles Bright commences his second I lecture season oh Wednesday. ' ' z

, f Two persons have taken scarlet fever, v*z r mothers of .the children upon whom trxey had been in attendance. ~<..,- . '

fFBOM OTJB OWN COBBESPdN-Ji&iT.l r .., At a meeting of the Jockey Cjfup it was decided that from the year 1879 fh<i ! iranedin, Derby shall be abolished, arrangements having been come to with the Canterbury;. Club by which the Derby,-to calßti New Zealand Derbyr and increased t» 250 s&vs, be run annnally at the Canterbury Spring Meeting, and the St Leger in Canterbury, done away with -and run at the Dnnedin March meeting, the stake being increased to 280 soys. -'-■* .?--• ft '■'■•"