TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4164, 25 August 1881, Page 3

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

HOD EDITION.

ADELAIDE, August 25. Wreck of tlie s.s. Euno.

Telegrams are to hand from Beachfort conveying tbe news tbat the steamship Euno, 284 tons, has struck on a rock off tbe coast near that place, and has become a total wreck. She sank in twenty minntes, and tbe passengers and crew, numbering 45, narrowly escaped with their lives. One passenger, a lady, was drowned.

SYDNEY, August 25 Mismanagement.

Rumours are freely current in town of gross mismanagement at the smallpox quarantine station.

Want of Confidence.

In the Legislative Assembly last night, a motion was introduced by Mr Forster, requiring the appointment of an additional Royal Commissioner to act with Mr Julian Salomons, Q.C., in tbe enquiry into the Milburn Creek Copper Company affair. The Government bave accepted the motion as one conveying an expression of want of confidence, and tbe House bas in consequence adjourned to Wednesday next, when the motion will be debated.

AUCKLAND, August 25. No Security. Dr Fhilaon, the Health Officer, has written to the Board of Health, declaring that the new regulations re vessels arriving from Sydney, pro Tide no protection whatever against the introduction of small-pox. Keep Sober.

Mr Jameson, the son of a farmer, coming into town, got on the spree, and fell in with two men, who robbed him of £15 at the Metropolitan Hotel. Both scoundrels have been arreated.

[PEON OUB SPBCIAL COBBESPONDBHT.]

WELLINGTON, August 25. Shutting them Out.

Clause 15 of the Licensing Bill, as sent down with amendments from the Counoil, provides that " the Governor, on the application of the owners of any block or area of Native land on which no publican's license has been hitherto granted, may, by proclamation in the Gazette, declare that no licenses shall be granted within such block or area, and it shall not be lawful for the Licensing Committee to issue any license to take effect with any block or area so proclaimed." No power iB given in the Bill to revoke this provision, and legal opinion given ia to the effect that, if once brought into effect, it is irrevocable. The clause is understood to have been framed by Mr George M'Culloch Reid, with the special view to its application to the proposed East Coast settlement speculation. Should the latter be successfully launched, it seems probable a million acres of land will be brought under the operation of the clause.