TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 61, 10 August 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Per Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph Agency.) Auckland, August 8. The schooner Fairy stranded at Hokianga Heads. It is believed she will be got off safely, and the cargo saved. She is insured in the New Zealand for £3OO. She is owned by Captain Rattray, A few bottles of grog in the possession of the providore and not enumerated in the lists of stores, have been seized aboard the Star of the South by the Customs. Captain Farquhar is summoned before the Police Court for Monday, when an investigation takes place. Wellington, August 8. A meeting of immigrants has been held here, with the object of petitioning the Government that the remaining debt upon their promissory notes bo remitted. Several speakers alleged that they were unable to obtain an intervi w with the Agent General in London, though they tried repeatedly, and that they were led to believe the Government would not trouble them by the recovery of the promissory notes unless they acquired property. Nelson, August 8. There is groat indignation here at the suggestion made by the Government to carry the railway by the Wairau Gorge and Amuri instead of by the Bullcr. A crowded meeting was held at the Provincial Hotel last night, when resolutions to the following effect were unanimously carried—“ The abandonment of the Bullerin favor of one by Taradale would be a direct violation of a pledge given by the Government to Nelson, and would utterly fail to develop the mineral resources of the province ; also, in the opinion of the meeting, the waste lands of the province should, if necessary, be given as security for the extra coat of the Duller line.” Arrived—Adamant. 93 days, from Plymouth with 300 immigrants, all well. Bluff, August 8. The whaling barque Chance has arrived from Sydney. She is owned by Messrs Nichol and Tucker, and is splendidly fitted out. She will sail on a cruise in a few days. Hokitika, August 8. Mr Vogel’s remarks on provincialism are favorably received by nine-tenths of the people on the West Coast. The “Times” congratulates the Premier in throwing down the gauntlet to so formidable an opponent as provincialism. The other leading papers on the coast hold the same views, and advocate the abolition of the present system in both Islands. THIS DA YS TELEGBAMS. Wellington, August 10. The Public Revenue Acts Amendment Bill provides for the appointment of two Commissioners of Audit instead, of an AuditorGeneral and Comptroller of Revenues. The Commissioners must not be members of the Executive Council, or of the General Assembly ; they will hold office during good behaviour, and can only be removed upon an address to the Governor in Council from the General Assembly. The Governor in Council may suspend them during the recess, such suspension if not revoked shall continue in force till the end of the next session ; these Commissioners meanwhile drawing their salaries, which are to bo nine hundred pounds per annum each. The salaries of the Comptroller and Auditor-General are raised one hundred pounds. The third clause of the Act provides that the balance of interests unaccounted for in the colony, may be one hundred and twenty thousand pounds of the the special funds in lieu of seventy-five thousand, as provided by the Act of 1872. The Immigration Public Works Loan Bill provides for the appointment by the Governorin -Council of two agents who may borrow on bonds, debentures, or short dated debentures, which may bo exchanged for bonds debentures to the amount of four millions sterling, interest on which is not to exceed G percent per annum. Of this three millions are proposed to be expended in the construction of the railways now authorised ; £ GO,OOO on public works or goldfields ; £i!0.000 on roads in the North Island; £■>oo.ooo for immigration, and £390,000 on other public works, such as buildings telegraph lines, lighthouses, &c. Tauuanga, August 10. Arrived—The Luna arrived last right at, 5 p.nn- She placed buoys in the harbor, and landed a Government monument to deceased friendly Maketu natives. She left at 11 last night for the East Cape, and Poverty Bay, thence to Napier and Wellington,