INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 56, 30 January 1877, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, January 26. The Kaipara railway will be commenced immediately by letting off ten miles, from the Newmarket end. The murderer Curtin received the intimatian of his early execution with calmness. He declared his innocence of any intention to kill. Kichard Badham has been fined £25 for a breach of the Customs regulations, by making a false declaration. Intention to -defrand was not alleged, but the invoice on -which the declaration was made was proved to be incomplete. : January 27. Tbere :are . numerous entries for the Auckland Eegatta. It is expected to. be •flic best held in Auckland for years. On the arrival of the cricketers this morning at Onehunga wharf, they were taken to Auckland by a drag with six greys, accompanied by a four-horse drag ■and band of musicians. Bennett introduced the cricketers to Auckland. The hand played an original air •• Welcome to New Zealand." The team were driven round town afterwards, and, went to practice on the ground. Wellington, January 27. The following tender was received by the Public Works Department for the construction of a refreshment room at Timaru station :—Accepted, Neal Murphy, Timaru, £659. Alexandra, January 26. Tewlieroro met Tawhaio and Manuhiri yesterday at Kopua. Te'Negakau acted under the order of Tawhaio in stopping the Pirongia survey, and in warning the Taupo road party.

Dr. Pollen is expected here on Tuesday next to meet and confer with Manuhiri. Nelson, January 26. Tiie difficulty about the Wanaka has been settled. As it appeared unmistakably that the child Day from Lyttleton had scarlet fever, the child and family wero put ashore, and the steamer proceeds on her excursion at two o'clock this afternoon. Dunedin, January 26. It appears that the proposal of the Otago Convention to send Sir George Grey and Mr. Macandrew to England will come to nothing. Mr. Macandrew wrote to the Council of the Convention, expressing his readiness to undertake the mission, but Sir George Grey is not prepared to go, and on January 18th telegraphed to Mr. Macandrew as follows :— " Mr. Macandrew. Am still, regret to say, unwell, and cannot move to Auckland. There is no hope of my being able to leave New Zealand for f.ome time. —George Grey." Mγ. Macandrew subsequently forwarded a letter as follows to the President of the conference. " Superintendent's office, 22nd January, 1877. Sir, —Since writing to you on the 6ult. I have had several communications from Sir George Grey. I regret to say that from the state of his health there is no hope of his being able to leave New Zealand for some time Under these circumstaces perhaps it may be well for the Council of the Convention to meet for the purpose of considering the position.— J. Macandrew." The Council of the Convention will shortly meet to consider the matter.

Produce is quoted as follows:—Flour, £15, with downward tendency ; oats , 2s to 2s 3d ; barley, from 2s 3d to 4s ; wheat, old, 5s ; do, neAV, 4s 6d; bran 4s 10d ; pollard, £6 10s. Balcutha, January 26. The correspondence between Mr Macandrew and Sir George Grey and the president of the Otago Convention is published in the Clutha Leader to-day, showing shat in consequence of the illness of Sir George Grey the misson to England must be postponed. The Leader suggests that the money co;Lcted to defray the delegates should now be expended in trying the question of the legality of the Abolition Act in a court of law, and urges that this would be a popular mode of disposing of the funds. At a meeting of the County Council to-day it was unanimously resolved only to bring portions of the act into operation.