AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 3412, 3 September 1885, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

(Pbr Electric Telegraph— Copyright.) (Reuter's Agency.) [Received 3 p.m., Sept. 2nd. J Melbourne, Sept. 2. Correspondence extending over a period of eighteen months between the Hon. Mr Sargood and Colonel Disney, Commandant of the Victorian forces, was laid upon the Table of the Legislative Assembly last night. The letters give evidence of the complete want of harmony which existed for some time between thera. Mr Sargood objected to Col. Disney making reports to the Governor, Sir H. Loch, as ! Commander-in-Chief, and afterwards insisted on all communications fnm ' Colonel Disney being addressed to the Secretary of the Defence Department instead of to himself. Mr Sargood ■ further states that he considers Colonel , Disney and other Imperial officers serving m Victoria aa akin to members of the Civil Service. The Argus, commenting on the correspondence, characterises Mr Sargood's letters as intolerably offensive, arrogant and supercilious, and considers that he exhibits clumsy and insolent sarcasm. Adelaide. Sept. 2. The Orient Company's R.M.S. Sorata arrived this morning from London.