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Evening Star, Issue 3749, 27 February 1875, Page 2

t (From our own Correspondents.)

Auckland, February 26. A requisition asking Sir George Grey to tit and jor the Superinteudency is to he circulated immediately. It seems doubtful whether Mr Dargaville will withdraw or not. A child suffering fro jq measles, having been forbidden by the doctor to di ink cold water, got out of bed unobserved, and, on going to the well to get a driuk, fell in. A rope was lowered, but the child was unable to seize it. A person then went down the well, but the child was dead. The committe of the ball to the Colonial Rifle representatives had a balance of Ll4 after payment of all expenses, which they have distributed among the charities. The * Star ’ comments on the total neglect of cricket by Auckland’s leading club, and attributes it partly to the failure of a Southern team to visit Auckland, as expected, in return for the triumphant tour of the Aucklanders last year. It says s “ That Canterbury, beaten on her own ground by a team looked on in much the light as a team from Paris or Italy would be in London, can content Itself with wreaking its ill-concealed dudgeon off Otago, is, to put it mildly, very surprising. \v e should have thought that a Province rolling in wealth, with strongly developed English ideas, would never rest till it had wiped out its defeat, or incurred another in the attempt. Mere courtesy would have suggested a return visit, and their eleven might depend on a fairer and heartier reception than was accorded to Auckland on the banks of the Avon. We are not pleased to make such reflections, but we can hardly avoid the thought that, although ihe cricketers of Canterbury can make over 300 runs in an innings, they have not the true sportsmanlike spirit of other Provinces. We had looked to Canterbury to take the initiative in having a smack at Auckland. Now they see how she backs out of it, it is time they made a move to save themselves from being included in her ignominy.” The Melanesian mission schooner Southern Cross has undergone extensive alterations. Her imzen mast has been moved three feet forward and an improvement in her cabin and rigging will be completed on Tuesday. She leaves for the Islands at the end of next month, ' Chbistohubch, February 26. At a meetingof the Chamber of (. ommerce last night Mr Hassal, of Messrs Miles and Co., called attention to the inaccuracy of Press telegraphic agency telegrams. He said instances bad occurred where telegrams sent by thatagency were published by the newspapers, and the next day other telegrams were received contradicting previous ones. In fact, as a rule the telegraphic news published by the papers was not as accurate as the local intelligence. He instanced particulars. The Chairman said he believed the Press Agency was in the hands of Messrs Brogden* He thought us concessions were made to parties sending Press telegrams, that the public could ask the Government to see that parties sending telegrams should only transmit authentic intelligence. A penalty ought to oe inflicted when it could be shown that unreliable intelligence had been transmitted wilfully, or through culpable negligence. Miss May Howard has been playing to fairly good houses. Baker’s Hibernicon plays in Port Lyttelton to-night, en route to Dunedin. 1 hey have had tremendous houses after the first night or two. The ‘ Press’ in this morning s article says Mr Vogel has now been gone for five months, yet, extraordinary as it may seem, he has not yet arrived in London, nor has anything been heard of him since December 16, and then only by the appearance of his name in the list of passengers at Brindisi. He has not communicated with the Agent-General. He has disappeared, and left no trace behind him. He is not a man who willingly remains incognito when he goes abroad, but likes, as New Zealand knows to her cost, to travel in style, and make a figure before the public. It will be an astounding effort at self-denial if he has really passed six weeks in a European town without making himself the subject of newspaper paragraphs or betraying his existence to inquisitive “own oorrespondents.” The ‘ Press’ goes on to say that Mr Vogel went Home to transact certain public business in which instant action was supposed to be all-important. His extraordinary delays on the road and the mystery with which he chooses to envelop his proceedings may, perhaps, be satisfactorily accounted for, but they are certainly matters on which the public have a right to demand an explanation.”