TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 102, 28 September 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

{Per Anglo-Avstralian Press Telegraph Agency. )

Auckland, September 26,

The Cross draws attention to the announcement from its Raglan correspondent to the effect that Tawhaio has resolved to permit railways to be constructed south of the confiscation boundary upon the condition of the Government paying the natives sixpence for each lineal foot of railway made into Maori territory. The Cross shows this payment would be at the rate of £132 per mile, or £l7 10s per acre, allowing a strip a chain wide for railway purposes. It considers the demand high, but thinks it might be made to cover a yard of railway instead of a foot. It looks upon this resolve on the part of the the Maoris as the final cessation of opposition to railroad and bridge making, and urges the Government to embrace the opportunity to make arrangement with the Maoris as to details, and says it is the most hopeful news received for many years. Messrs Henderson and Macfarlane, the owners of the barque Alice Cameron, 156 days out to Manilla from Sydney, not having heard of her have claimed the insurance, £3OOO. The policy is held by the Victoria office, but is re-insured with the New Zealand, South British, National Standard and the National of South Australia for £SOO each. New Plymouth, Sept 26. Major Atkinson has resigned his seat in the Provincial Council and Executive, and addresses his constituents on Monday. A whirlwind passed over the Bell block, doing considerable damage. Wellington, Sept. 26. The Post says it is currently reported—and we know the report is well - founded —that very serious charges have been preferred to the Government against a member of the civil service, holding a high position. The charges arc relative to his conduct in an office which he formerly filled. H.M. Blanche and yacht Blanche sailed on a cruise yesterday. Mr Gully, the artist, accompanied his Excellency to sketch the West Coast scenery, Greymoutii, Sunday, Sept 27. There has been incessant rain for the last twenty-four hours, and the lower part of the town is submerged, the river is rising rapidly. It is still raining. There are grave apprehensions of a serious inundation. The steamer Waipara with Judge Pilch - mond, the Provincial Secretary, the Stephenson and Burford troupe, and others from Hokitika, attempted to make an entrance but took the ground on the north spit; endeavors are now being made to land the passengers. Auckland, September 28. Sailed : Saturday, September 26th, Ryno, for Lyttelton. Arrived : The Tin Tsin, from Launceston, with 2117 bags potatoes. 800 salmon, recently arrived from Hobart Town, were turned into streams in various parts of the province, Greytown, September 28. There was a heavy flood at Greytown yesterday; from midday to evening a great part of the town was under water. A good deal of fencing is destroyed, and one or two houses are damaged. The water is rising again this morning, but is not likely to rise much. The coach cannot get through to Greytown,] 1 FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Dunedin, Sept, 27. There is another licensing muddle, as all night licenses in Otago expired last June, and the new Act is silent on the matter. There is not now a single house legally authorised to keep open after ten at night. The police intend to take steps to cause all houses to close at that hour. Nothing can be done until the Legislature meets,