BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3101, 27 January 1873, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(From the New Zealand Press, Associatkji.)

Wellington, January 25,

The Volunteer representatives for the Province are Halge and Bould, who made 81 each.

Hector’s survey party at Ngawhawaho, West Coast, report the discovery near the surface of enormous seams of coal similar in quality to Mount Kochfort, One seam is 20 feet thick.

Auckland, January 25,

A public experiment was made yesterday with smelting the iron sand, in th?. presence bf a number of engineers, chemists, and spectators. The forna'ce was chained and heated, the sand smelted, and the iron puddled before cooling. A portion was taken to the forge, hammered, bent, and twisted without fracture. The engineers declared the process to be a perfect success. A company to work it will be immediately formed. The sand yields 8 per cent of malleable iron, at a cost of about L 5 ton, puddled. A lodge of Good Templars has been formed here. C-\.Mui;nx<E, January 26. The Maungatautari meeting concluded tQrday without any result. The Kingites still hold out not to sell, survey, or lease their land, and refuse their consent to open Aroha, Te Hira’s speech was pacific. Lawrence, January 25. At a public meeting held light night it was resolved to ask the General Government to subsidise prospecting for quartz reefs p.n the range dividing Weatherstouea and Gabriel’s Gully. January 27. bwdy or the Shepherd M‘Pherson was found in the Waikaka River.