TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 2675, 5 February 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

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!•' >/■; '; Auckland B^fflfe' ! About 25 bags of newspapers fo£*j^w Zealand were destroyed; in the railway accident on the Omaha line. IjrapFau cojcjiaining them was burnt. Nojglmgare ,v ;jMeavy lan-1-rtlp*' --* * IPb»T Chalmbrs, Saturday. A slip occurred on the Port Chalmers line, when fully one hundred tons of stone fell on the line. The debris was removed and the traffic unimpeded. She All -BaffUuMl Mattel. a« Welia-jr--fon Wellington, Sunday. Abont half-past eleven last night rain again,came on very heayy., and. Rpj^e4Jn torrents all night, and it has Jbeen raining,, all day without intermission*;- \l3~uess tf_u_i weather holds up soon, and Astrong^wiPiL | sets in, the cricket sa»tphjwith the All : England Eleven will be almost-impossible, to-morrow. The Crop* at Oamaru Oamaru, Sunday. The continued rain is causing vejj ' »**riwu» damage, tu> thb crops. ' " Vj _n_e General Synod Neuon, Saturday 3. The debate on the Formularies S|l was brought to a close last night, after lasting three days. Thirty-five members spoke. The motion for leave to introdt.ee the Bill was lost on a division, as folio*.*: —Ayes, Bishops, 5 ; clergy, 7 s faity 5 j total* 17, Noes— Clergy, 18 } laity, Hj total, 26. She I,a«e IBemeaa-tratloa off tha _?_***• Brifraftea Dukidin, Saturday. The fire brigade demonstration cquc|mittee report their receipts L54J>, disbursements L5Ol . The balaDce has been handed to the Dunedin brigade. . Vost-soisieaal PtSfiiraiacea f Mr Murray addressed his constituents at Milton last evening y about loo -weife present. A vote of thanks wa_' passed: o Theatrical - J-\',-:7J^ Mrs Scott-Siddons has been so successful here that she will stay another, week. CALOGrRAMS. m . — ••jriuraY, Feb. 2. It is understood that the^New Zealand Government has obtained an advance of half a million from the Bank of New South Wales for two years on favorable terms. Stdnbt, Feb. 3. The Torres Straits" steamer Singapore, has been wrecked off the Queensland coast. No lives were lost. The cable conference closed to-day. The following, amongst other resolutions, were carried :— That the several Governments of South Australia, Queensland, and Western Australia be invited to open negotiations for the construction of cables connecting their several colonies with Singapore or Ceylon; and the Govern* ment of New Zealand, for the cons traction of a cable from that colony to the United States. That in such negotiation the Government of New Zealand shall enter in to communication with the Governments of the United States for the ;purpose/of procuring their consent to contribute to the payment of any subsidy that may be payable in respect of the same,; and further, that in all negotiations of [the several Governments, the necessity of procuring a reduction of the present tariff rates be especially kept in view, the maximum rates being six shillings per word. London, Feb. Ist. 1 A definite indication of Russia's course of action is anxiously awaited. It is believed she desires to recede from the ground she had assumed at the time of the Czar's Moscow speech. It is stated that Servia claims Little Czioorack and the complete evacuation of the territory.