TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 129, 19 September 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

I PER PRESS AGENCY.] Wellington, Monday. A PROTEST. The following protest was placed in hands of the Speaker on Saturday night,' but he declined to put it before the House: —"We, the undersigned members of the House of Representatives, do hereby protest against all adjournments except those provided for by the Standing Orders, , and will use every constitutional means to prevent the was signed by E. W. Stafford, A. J. Richmond, J. Sharp, E.; Wakefield, J. Henry, T. Kelly, A. P. Seylnour, W. Russell, Y. Pyke, A. Cox, J. The object of this was to uninterruptedly through Sunday..

DuNEjxrsy Tuesday. A REQUEST. A letter is to be sent to-day, addressed to Mr. Macandrew and the other Dunedin city members, expressing the opinion .that an end should be put to •wrangling' arid factious obstruction; and that they should address themselves to the business of the country. The letter is signed already bj more than 500 citizens, many of them influential. • Christchubch, Tuesday. THE SALMON OVA. In consequence of the success in hatching out the trout ova, it was resolved, at a meeting of the Acclimatisation Society yesterday, to still further reduce the price to 30s. per 100. THEATRICAL ITEMS. The Simonsens succeed Hoskins at the Oddfellows' Hall. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hall and Laura Wiseman appear at the opening of the new theatre, now rapidly approaching completion. Auckland, Tuesday. NEW CALEDONIA AND NORFOLK . ISLAND. Trade at the former place was .very quiet, and the nickel mines were almost at a standstill, owing to the unfavourable advices received regarding the ore sen' Home. Twenty miners arrived here by the barque Star under agreement for twel* months. If any more should think ® trying their luck they would be unable f obtain work. Everything is quiet. The whaling season has so far prov?, successful that five good-sized whales hafl been caught. - '