BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 4046, 14 February 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Bluff, February 14.

■ The 8.8.' Ringarooma left Melbourne «,t 3 p.m. on the Qthinat; passed Swan Island •following day, and experienced strong S.W, winds until airival here at midnight bn the 13th. , She brings fiftymine ■ saloon and; fortyi one steerage passengers, and 360 tons of cargo for all ports. The Ringarooma will sail at 4 p.m. to-day for Dunedin. * Passengers : For 1 Dunedin—Messrs Bates! Wathen, Edgar, Toltnie, Spudding,: Donaghue! M'Caul, Fletcher (2), Robertson, Shore, Smith] Cameron, Telford* Dowuer, and Macfarlanei Misses Telford and Hansford ; Mrs Edgar, and Master Nicholson. 130 tons of : cargo and sixteen steerage passengers for Dunedin. | THE SAH FRANCISCO MAIL. . Auckland, February 12. \ The ‘ Waikato Times ’ states that the murderer Wi Wata was at Merangi settlement on Wednesday last, ■ slept at Wharepapa on Sumday night, sind arrived at Kuiti the foliowr ing evening. An orderly who brought word to the settlement for telegraphic transmission to the Defence Minister of these particulars, says he saw'Wi Wata at Kuiti, on the day he. left; Wi Wata was then about to leave forTabua; 'i’he Kiug^refused to give him shelter, and the King Natives have no sympathy with him,;buj; say there is no clai-n upon them to act as constables for enforcing the law.

... .. •, i ~ February id. . • The He'd brings the San FranCi-co mail for all ports of New Zealand. . The Grans, da wap to leave Sydney for Kandavau with the outward mail oh the sth February. ‘ | ENGLISH AND FOREIGN SUMMARY! A plot to blow up the White .Star steamer Mosel with nitro glycerine, for the' sake of the insuiance Of fictitious tOodskboard, : which were heavily insuie i, was discovered by the premature s-xploS’un of the explosive, material. I Montenegro hj s repevtedlv aopliei to Russia,' for pernaissioa to attack Turkey, but Russih drg d the preservation of neutrality. ’ The Admh’alty amended slave Circular affords ptot-ciion aboard"H. M. ships iu foreign waters only when lives are endangered, bitt there is a specification that no demand for surrender shall be ehteitained. . President Grants proposed mediation in Cuban affairs is to, be given effect to, Cdba will probably assume the ■ same relation to Spain as that subsisting bC- •. tween Great Britain and Canada. Moulton has commenced an action for fifty thousand dollars damages against Heecher. The Grand Vizier of Turkey has written to the Pope asking him to intercede with the Christians in disturbed provinces. The Pope is prosecuting inquiries of the priests. The Sultan is expending i ll the money he can get in strengthening the army and navy. _Wamwright has been hung for the murdero Harriet Lane. On the scaffold ht, handed to toe gaol officials a paper admitting the justice of his sentence. ,j . <

• TT . . Wellington, Febiuary 14. Hern brings newa that the Granada took the New Zealand mails and passengers from Kaodavan to Sydney, notwithstanding a strong protest by our mail agent (M‘Jago) against the proceedings. There i 8 a good deal of ■ discontent ; Over toe insurance oases per Border Chief, they have been four months in hand with out Buy settlement having b* en artived atiwith regard to a general average statement, and! a meet ng of consignees is called for to-morrow io consider the matter. ' ■ . MINISTERIAL GHANBES, The Hon._Dr Pollen will resign the Premiership to-day in favor of Sir Julius Vogel. The Ministry will be reconstituted before the Governor loaves for the North. 1 ■ Messrs M'Eirdy and Oakes, railway contractor have written to the Colonial Secretary asking if the Government will not, grant free passages to Wellington to those men out of employ ment at the Thames ah'd Willihg to come to r W® l? mgton-topeek it, in.the same way as immgrinto are forwarded from one pait of the Cofofty to Another. ' * The cob. tractors allege that there is not the abundance . r toey were led to expect, and that they incurred serious loss in consequence, and wonld probably be unable to complete their contracts in tithe if the Thamf s men were allowed to go to New South Wales. ' a, , i ' I GbetmootA, February 12j , A mail bag, ‘weighing about IdOlbs, dropped from the mail couch' near Nehbu Creek, sixteen miles from, Lotton, while in transit to Grey mouth. An active search has since been made, but without finding any trace. The police susoefit certain partie». The bag contained n raiacellaneous mail for all parts of the Colony.

« _ „ Hokitika, February 12. Mr Cox, General Government (Geologist, has maoe valuable discoveries in the southern part of the Province. _ He has found copper ore. mm, and slate .in abundance. He ascended Mount Cook to an altitude of 7,f100ft., which is believed to be the highest elevation yet reached. He atates that he found , inexhaustible quailtitles, in fact solid cliffs, of lion ore containing iirlbr 75 per cent, of mineral,- and al4 plate equal to fjhe besi Welsh. , , s gist, has -ttnee . retmned from the Soutk He declines to confirm the reports which preceded

' him, and which, as regards iron and slat- 1 , are ; a romance. ' He reports only to the Head Office ' epaitment. s {From our own Correspondents.) THE TUAPEKaTm WAITEPEKA RAILWAYS. i Balclutha February 14, | A deputatioh from Tuapaka waited on the Hon. E. Richardson at Balclutha to-day to urge the opening ot the Tuapeka Railway as f r Manuka Creek. The inister for Public Wo ks promised thai: it wquld be done soon as the plate laying was Competed. In th it case the line is exi ected to b*e open by M«y. A deputation, introduced by Mr Bastings, waited on Mr Richardson to urge the railway to Tapanui. Explanations were made and a promise given that it would be favorably considered. ;; • ’

Mr Richardson, the Superintendent, and Mr Blair arrived here by special train in two hours and fifteen minutes Lem Dunedin. , Mr, Richardson and Mr Blair have left, to examine the Waitepeka deviation. , THE RAILWAY FRACAS. Riverton, February 14. The cases connected with the railway fracas we> e again adjourned to the 28th. Four of the d fendauts who refused, to sivn the recognisancs to appear that day have been committed to Invercargill gaol. political aossip, / Wellington, February 14. The Pollen Ministry re.-h.med to-day, an<l Sir Julias Vogel is now Piemier. The Ministry is reconstructed much as bef ere. The land f ’Ad question ia the only rock ahead, Mr Whi taker will t-.st it by a series of resdlutiona as soon as Parliament meets. '