TELEGRAPHIC.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1830, 31 July 1891, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(F;;OM OUR own (JoKKKKftiSIiKNT.) Dukedin, iliis liay. At Wednesday's meeting of the Land Board it , was resoi*ed tl.at several lessees of small grazing ; runs he notified that unless their ai rears are paid in I a month their licenses will he forfeited. —R. and C. j Turn hill I applied for glazing rights at the Lower | Wauaka an'l Lower Hawea ou i.onditiou of keeping ! down the rabbits, but theii offer was declined.—Au | application bv J. T. Grei>j, Gleuorchy for petpetual J lease whs approved ! Albert El ward Moss was charged at the police court, Ashhurton, with maliciously wounding his wife, and was committed for trial. < The Governor refuses to withdraw his resignation as a patron of the Wellington Hunt Club. [His Excellence's withdraw! was in consequence of the unsportsmanlike conduct ami alleged cruelty of the Club by attempting hunt a tame stag. At a conference of sheaier*' delegates and the Pastoralists' Association, N.S. W., the former unanimously agreed towoik wi.h non-unionists, and the latter uudertoA to prevent the employment of aliens. News has been received at Syduey of the wreck of one of the P and 0. Company's steanieis, bound to Yokohama, with coal, and all on hoard perished. A consignment of potatoes to London only netted £1 '2s 61 per ton to the shipper iu New Zealand. Mr G. M. B«rr has furnished his report re a protective sea-wall for St Clair. He estimates the cost of various schemes from £ISOO to £l'soo. An inquiry will be made almost immediately by Mr W. L. Simpson into the chuges recently made against the cond ict of the Seaclid Lunatb Asylum. Snow fell here yesterday aud this morning, and is lying several inches deep in to An. The same weather in north Otago is reported. At meetings of the Auckland and Christchurch Chambers of Commerce last resolutions were passed against the tax proposals of Government. LATEST PARLIAMENTARY. The Legislative Council yesterday threw out the lJunedin (Vmetery Bill, but the H >norahle D. Stewart will try to re-introduce it. The Council read the Labor Bills a first time. In the House yesterday the Indecent Advertisements and Gaming and Lotteries Bill was read a second time. The House went into committee on the bill to cancel the recent appointments to the Council. Progress was reported, and leave given to sit again in a fortnight. Sir G. Grey's moti >n appealing to the Czar on behalf of Jews in Russia was carried. A lot of time was wasted in the evening through Mr Bryce complaining of the treatment of the Opposition by Government in their lemarks made by the latter re stonewalling the Laud Bill. There is some talk of the taxation debate coining to an end day, but I don't expect it l»efore Tuesdav. It is mentioned several amendineuts will le made in committee on the Laud aud Assetameut Bill. LATEST CABLE NEWS. London, July 29. The Porte is resuming negotiation for British evaluation of Eirypt. There are further exposures of corruption in the Canadian public works. Heavy floods are reported iu the Bombay provinces. For the past nine mouths the imports to the United States, under the M'Kiulay taiiff, exceeds those for same period of last year thirty-one uiilliuu dollars A band of Russian soldiers fired a Jewish hamlet and fourteen persons were burnt to death. The Jews then attacked the soldiers, killing several. Serious rioting has taken place at Foo Chow, and for a time it seemed as if the warships would have to intervene. Mr Wanamakar, the United States PostmasterGeneral, is endeavurinii to commence a fast fort- v nightly mail service betweeen San Francisco aud the Australion colonies; the steimers calling alternately at Auckland and Wellington. The Bankruptcy Court in camera decided that Mr I'arnell is domiciled in England, and consequently would be declined a bankrupt unless he forthwith pays the costs of Capt. O'Shea in the divorce proceedings.