TELEGRAPHIC.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 5056, 31 December 1887, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

LONDON, Dec. 29. A heavy snow fall lias taken pl«co on the Continent, extending as far south as Nice. [special messages to dec. 27.] The death is recorded of Captain B.uico, of Messrs Shaw-Saville and Albion Co.'s ateamer, which recently arrived in England from N T ew Zealand. Captain Bauce diud shortly after the Coptic left Wellington. Sir Geo. F. Bowen has written a latter to the Times in which he deprecates Western Australia being given to a handful of emigrants. He advocates the adoption of Wakefield's system, and in the event of Responsible Government being granted to Western Australia, that a large portion of the land revenue should be devoted towards promoting emigration. A proposal to opon the Manchester Library and Art Gul'ery on Sunday has met with tho approval of tho Right Rev Dr Moorhoiise, Bishop of Manchester, and the Rev Herbert Vaughan, Bishop of Salford. The Hawaiian Commercial and Industrial Company has been registered with a capital account of a quarter of a million sterling. Rothschild and Sons deny that they are connected with any syndicate established for maintaining the price of copper. (SPECIALS TO DECEMBER 30.) The IJoyal Humane Society have awarded a medal to G orge Deer, one of the crew of the H.M.S. Nelson, for gallantry in trying to save the life of Major Robelliard when one of tho boats belonging to the Nelson capsized in a squall. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 29. Ismail Pasha, ex-Khedive of Egypt, having obtained permission from the Sultan to take up his residence in Constantinople, arrived in that city to-day. PARIS, Due. 29. The time for receiving applications for space having beon extended, the French Government have decided that France shall participate in the Melbourno Exhibition. The French Consul at Melbourne !ha 3 been appointed CommissionerGeneral, and the Minister for tho colo- : pies institutes a Commission forthwith, he himself acting as President of tho Commission. MELBOURNE, To-day. It has been ascertained that in all 150 cancelled notes are missing from the Bank of Australasia, of which number only ft fevi have, as yet been put into circulation. It is considered probable that Mr Griffiths, the Queensland Premier, will be appointed Chairman of the Federal Council, which is to meet at Hobart shortly. The Victorian Premier, Mr Gillies, has communicated with the Governments of the other colonies with a view of ascertaining if they will join Victoria in inviting Lord Wolseley to visit the colonies for the purpose of inspecting the forceß, and acting as military adviser to the Australian Governments. CHRISTCHUROH, To-day. Tho womfui Dalziel, who drowned her child and tried to drown herself at Rakaia, is in a very precarious Btato, not having recovered consciousness. John Jamieson, a middle-aged man, stableman, was committed for trial to-duy on n charge of indecently assaulting a child seven and a half years old. WELLINGTON, To-day. The general property tax is mado payable on the 31st January. The National Insurance Company of New Zealand was interested in the serious fire which occurred last week atMsssrs Anthony Harder n and Co.'s stores, Sydney, to the extent of a risk of £2000 on the building, a part of which was reinsured The South British Company had risks amounting to £1150 on the buildings and stock, which, however, was largely re-insured. The fine recorded against Henahaw, of, the firm of Messrs W. J. Hunt and Co., of £200, £100 in each of the two charges, for selling by auction without a license, has been reduced to £5 each case. HOKITIKA, To-day. An old man named William Esky, better known as " Old Ned," hanged himself at Kanieri on Thursday night while rathor tho worse for liquor. He was quite dead when found.