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Colonist, Volume XXII, Issue 2514, 22 February 1879, Page 5 (Supplement)

TELEGRAPHIC.

' '■ [Pbb'.Bbutbb's Telegbams.] Stdvby, February 19. The Governor laid the foundation Btorie of the International Exhibition. The civil authorities, military and naval forces, were present, and a great concourse of people. >:.-^ ,'-> : , February 20. ' Mr Koberts, the Mayor of Sydney, gave a fancy dress ball last night, when 2000 guests were present; February 21. ; ■ In the Assembly Insfc night, standing orders were suspended, and -the Kelly Gans Outlawry Bill wa? passed through all its stages. The Bill gives power to < proolaim outlawry over the border. ■ ■ Bbisbane, February 20; The Queensland Government has sent instructions to the Agent-General to stop all emigration from the Continent of Europe to Queensland, and to reduce the number of British emigrants by one third. ■ The Blacks continue troublesome in Queensland; News has just been received of the murder of four Europeans on the Bourke river. Melbourne, February 19. The foundation stone of the Exhibition Buildings was laid by the Governor to-day with great ceremony. The*e was a large attendaooe, and a half holiday was proclaimed. A: gold trowel was presented, which was valued at a hundred guineas. f [New Zealand Pbess Association Telegbams.] ■«? Auckland, February 21. is mooted that both candidates for City West ■hould retire in favor of Mr Eobert Graham. The nomination is fixed lor March Ist, and the eleotion for the Tuesday following. The Working Men's Club and Theatre Eoyal buildings had a narrow escape from destruction by fire through b'azing gas in the stables underneath. A foot of the gas-pipe was burnt away. Constable M'Donald promptly tore off his great coat and smothered the flames before they got ahea J. Fleury and Huxtable, seamen of H.M.S. Sipphire, are sentenced to four months' imprisonment for the aisault on the Rev. Mr Dutton and others. The Hawea took D. Gonk and five men, with pumps borrowed from the Dock authorities and the South British, to pump out the laupo and float her to the beach. Gonk is familiar with such operations, and is sanguine of success. Timabtt, February 21. The nominated immigration list despatched from Timaru this month contains the names of 70 souls, of whom 55 are Irish, 3 English, and 6 Sootoh. : Harvesting is going on rapidly, and threshing has now commenced in tome fields. Weather is fine. Wellington, February 21. Hon. Mr Maoandrew has during the last few days been.interviewed by parties seeking grants in aid of looal roads, bridges, etc. The reply to their solicitations has been that no funds were available, and could not reoommend Parliament to vote money for • tush, undertakings. ■ - ■ ■ Owing to the compositors'strike, the Government have telegraphed to the Agent-General to send out a lot of compositors. Dr. Newman (son of Captain Newman, of Napier) iras married yesterday to Miss O. Featherstono (daughter of the late Dr. Featherstone). The Chief Justice was sworn in to-day as ActingGovernor. The Resident Magistrate dismissed some charges laid against demi-monde, on the grounds th ;t prostitution was not illegal if prostitutes did not openly • solicit, and they were not disorderly. • DuHEDltf, February 21. "The balance of loans to the credit of the City Council is £34,490, and £33,400 worth of bonds remain unsold in London. A. woollen factory is shortly to be established in Kaikoura Valley, near Dunedin, by Messrs Boss and ■Glendenning. The building is to be commenced at onoe, and the machinery is on its way from England. Through the upsetting of a kerosene lamp, two five-roomed houses in Hone-street, were burned down this evening. Owing to a lack of time, the Invercargill Corporation and Volunteers met the Marquis of Normanby at the Bluff, The Artillery fired a salute as the steamer left. New Plymouth, February 21. Ferdinand Paul, who killed his step brother, Carl Gungall, in a row at Normanby is committed for trial for manslaughter on the Coroner's inquisition. The Borough Council invites tenders for the conitruotion of waterworks, Gbeymouth, February 21. The ornshing of stone from the Welcome Company's mine is turning out splendid, and is likely to give a yield of over five ounces of gold to the ton of stone. The Just-in-Time Company have struck a reef ten inches in thickness, in the lower level. It promises to be as rich as the first reef they worked. A north-east gale raged all la3t night. Immense damage has bean done in the Maraden district. Traffic is stopped on the Kumara tramway, and the New River is in a higher state of flood than ever before known. The effigy of Mr Guinness, the Grey County Council Chairman, has been burned at Oobden. His Apposition to devoting money for building the Cobdon bridge was the cause of the demonstration.