TELEGRAPHIC.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 9910, 16 December 1892, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC.

BBITISH AND FOREIGN.

IBS' BMOTJGIO TMiJO6BAPE,*~COPYMIQHT, ] [Special to Press Association.] FALSIFYING- ACCOUNTS. LONDON, Dec. 14. Paymaster Bice Harris, of H.M.S. Nymph, iwas sentenced to eighteen months’ hard labour for falsifying accounts and stealing two thousand poundsPETITION POE DIVORCE. LadyAbbyis suing for a judicial separation, on the ground of her husband’s adultery with Madame Benitz. A PAUPER’S FORTUNE. Sheridan, a pauper in the Lambeth workhouse, has inherited a legacy of a quarter of a million pounds. BISHOP SELWYN. Die. 15. Bishop Selwyn will probably be created a Prelate of the Order of St Michael and St George. A PAINFUL CASE. Gwyneth Maude, daughter of an officer of high rank, has been convicted on the charge of obtaining goods from Messrs Spinks, the well-known jewellers, and others by means of false pretences, and sent to St John’s Home, Fulham. When the charge was first brought to light it was alleged that the crime had been instigated by tho mother, who, on her daughter's arrest, committed suicide in a city hotel, where the family was residing. A PRINCELY DONATION. NEW YORK, Dec. 14. Armour, the Chicago “ Pork King,” has donated the sum of .£300,000 to the Science and Arr, Institute. AN AMERICAN IRONCLAD. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. The President proposes to place an ironclad carrying four fifty-ton guns on the Great Lakes. A MINISTRY RESIGNED. OTTAWA, Dio. 14. The Quebec Ministry has resigned. AUSTRALIA. AUSTRALIAN BANKING COMPANY. SYDNEY, Deo. 15. Nathan was sentenced to nine months* imprison meat in ‘connection with tho Australian Banking Company prosecutions. HEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS. At a thoroughly representative meeting of tho Opposition to-day, it was resolved to move a vote of censure on the Government in connection with the Financial Statement, but when tho House met Mr Laid, leader of tho Opposition, moved a direct vote of want-01-confideuce. Tho House immediately adjourned until Wednesday next. LAND BOOM FAILURES. MELBOURNE, Dec. 15. Two victims os tho land boom have failed; the deficiency in the two estates aggregating £IOO,OOO, NE W ZB A.Jj AND. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Dec. 15. Mr Backland, M.H.lt., add?; jEsed a meeting of the National Association to-night, denouncing tho policy of the Government, whose financial poiiey, ha said, was disastrous. A man named Harry Wrigg has been arrested on the charge of threatening to shoot Captain Armstrong, a resident of North Shore. NAPIEE, Dec. 15. A two-storied house in Carlyle street, owned by J. Rout, was gutted by firo tonight. It was insured ia tho Manchester office. Tug furniture &c., which was partially destroyed, was uainaateil. Professor Archibald hoo concluded an arrangement with Messrs Nelson Bros for atrip to India to ascertain what market exists for frozen meat and New Zealand dairy orodaoe. WELLINGTON, Dec. 15. Tho Hauroto, which arrived from Sydney this moraing, bn-ugbt fii ! y silicon and j ninety-.*uor.-.-.;c yiui-fiugc.i.. . | ‘iju rt-gula’..a-to by too jtuunc Tiujteo under •• ‘i ;!«■ i\ csv Ccauc Sottlc- ! men?. Reserves Aot, lbD2,” uro gazetted. 1 K fjhalmor, Receiver of Laud Revenue | in Wellington, retires from tho service at

tho end of tbs year to enter into business for himself in Dunedin. It is understood that the Wellington Athonroum will be carried on as a private institution.

Sir Walter Bailer, Mr James M’Kerrow and Mr S. Peroy Smith have been elected Governors of the New Zealand Institute. DUNEDIN, Deo. 15. Miss Edith Mawe has resigned the matronship of the Dunedin Hospital. The Harbour Board has received a communication from tho Colonial Secretary, stating that it is considered desirable that vessels from Hamburg and Bremen should not be allowed to enter the harbour, unless compelled by a tress of weather, until the health officers have inspected them, and requesting the Board to act accordingly. In respect to the barque Advancement, which left Hamburg for Port Chalmers on Sept. 19, the Board has instructed the harbourmaster to attend to the directions. Tho President of the Chamber of Commerce hqa received intimation from tho Postmaster-General that tho reduced cable rates will come into operation on Jan. 1.