BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2703, 16 October 1871, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(from oreville’s telegram company, reuter’s agents.) Wellington, Oct, IG. Dr Carr was to-day fined L 5 and costs for tweaking the nose of a draper who had given him a wrong sized pair of gloves. Auckland, Oct. li. The Ohinernuri conespondents of the local papers, state positively that not only has Te Hira consented to the construction of the telegraph from Tanranga to Grahamstown, but a large section of the natives have expressed their determination to open up the Upper Thames to the diggers immediately. The body of John Fergus, one of the firemen of the steamer Wellington, who fell from the Onehunga wharf when going aboard one night and was drowned, has been found. Despatches from Opotiki announce that an engagement took place at Rotorua, between Te Kooti and the force under the command of Major Mair and Captain Preece. Major Porter left Opotiki on the 11th, with 80 men, to reinforce Mair. Wheat is dull of sale—Canterbury wheat fetches from 5s to 5s Cd. Flour, Ll2toLl4. The Caledonian mine has again stopped working, the pumps having broken. Shaves are falling in consequence. Mr Lennox reports them at LI 17 ; Thames’ at L 23 ; Nonpariel’s firm at L 5 l<s Gd j Shotovers, L2 1/s Gd.