BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2305, 26 September 1870, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(FROM THE NEW ZEALAND TKLKUHAM f'OMI’ANV,) Auckland via Wanganui, September 2.'5. A man named (Jasset lias committed suicide at the Thames. The groat Native meeting at the Waikato is proceeding. The friendly Natives report that the King sanctioned the recent robbery of the store at Otoa, The officers of the American war vessel .Rcseca were entertained at dinner at the Northern Club. The sale of the Rita’s cargo, from Lyttelton, took place yesterday. Oats fetched 3s od to 3s 9d; wheat (damaged), 3s ; wheat (good), Is bd; Adelaide Hour, L)di to LI7. R. 0. (Stewart, late resident magistrate at thp Waikijto, has been fined for sly-grog selling. Wallace’s colonial-made plough has been successfully tried in breaking up new laud.

Mr John Williamson, M.H.R., late Superintendent, presided over a meeting of the Hibernian Society and delivered an interesting speech. The Germans are preparing a local address. They have collected LSO for the patriotic fund. Departures Horo, for Sydney ; Santon, for New York, with a cargo of flax and gum valued at L 9.000. Late special telegrams from the interior report that the Natives continue to oppose the erection of the telegraph. Their demands are impossibly exorbitant. September 21. Thomas Laceiles Harris has been apprehended on a charge of embezzling toe sum of L 650, the property of the Shire Council of Bulla, Victoria. He was brought up at the police court today and remanded to Melbourne. John Griffiths and George Ellis were apprehended charged with obtaining money under false pretences, through representing themselves as detectives. The Government laborers at Coromandel have struck and demanded 7s a day. Southern flour is quoted at LI4 to LI 5 ; Adelaide, LIG to Ll7 j oats, 3s (id to 3s Bd, Mr Gisborne is appointed Minister of Public Works.