THIS DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 186, 13 January 1875, Page 2

THIS DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Wellington, January 13. Wellington College has been made the New Zealand local centre for Matriculatioir Examination for Cambridge University. An attempt is being made to arrange for men who have matriculated being eligible for the civil service without further examination.

At meeting of the anniversary Regatta Committee last night, it was announced that over one hundred pounds had been received, and a promise ot more money had been made. The chief race will be that by ytvehls for Shaw Saville's Cup, and in addition to the sum of £7 for the winner, there will be £5 for the second. The other first prizes range from £ls to £5; second, from £5 to £l. In the event of boats entering from other parts of the colony, the value of the prizes will be raised. Hokitika, January 13. The Tararua has arrived from Melbourne.

[PROM OUR.AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, January 12. The revenue of the Harbor Board for the year amounted to £17,589. There is much comment upon the action of the Native Minister in not proceeding to the Thames to complete negotiations for opening the Ohinemuri. Considerable dissatis faction has been caused by the publication of a rumor, that M'Lean determines not to open the country until after his contemplated visit to the King in March. There is a probability of the district being rushed if further delay takes place. The first Native; volunteer corps in the colony has been started at the Thames. Forty Natives have joined, and the chief Kaipara will probably be elected captain.

A telegraphic wire is being constructed from the place chosen for the colonial prize filing to Grahamstown. Commenting on the Lyttelton murder, the Star says that it is not often that public attention is arrested by the announcement of a crime so fiendish as that just perpetrated in Lyttelton m broad daylight. In the vicinity of the centre of the population, a poor little girl is brutally murdered after a fierce struggle for life and honor. How this could have occurred without attracting attention, and help being rendered.to the child in distress, is difficult to understand, but it is as difficult to conceive how human nature could become so utterly demoniacal as to have perpetrated such a crime. Justice appears to have followed rapidly on the tracks of the guilty. For such a crime, so cowardly, so heartless, so diabolical, the criminal code knows no penalty which can be regarded as adequate, and its existence should convince even an atheist of the fitness of judgment to come where life's wrongs may be rightly repaired. Auckland. January 13. I The New Zealand Insurance Company's half-yearly meeting, was held at two o'clock this afternoon (Wednesday). The report stated that the company continued to make steady progress. After paying all losses, the business resulted in a profit of £38,935.' A dividend was declared at the rate of twenty per cent per annum, absorbing £IO,OOO. A resolution to increase the nominal capital of the company to one million has been carried out, but the offer of 50,000 shares to the public at £4 10s, did notmeet with the immediate response anticipated. The old shareholders had taken up their allotted shares, and it was satisfactory that the number of shareholders has increased to three hundred. The premiums received during the half-year amounted to £55,548; the fire and marine losses to £41,177.

Arrived yesterday—The Vision, brig, from Dunedin. Sailed—Waitangi, ship, for London, via Lyttelton. [FROM OUR DUNEDIN CORRESPONDENT.] Ditnedin, January 12. Professor Sale declines the nomination to the Lectureship of History at the Melbourne University. Fulton has been elected working captain of the Otago Eleven. McCulloch, Resident Magistrate at Invercargill, has obtained twelve months' leave of absence. Captain Elmslie .had his wife on board the Cospatrick, but she had left her two children at home. The discovery of a valuable deposit of slate is reported. John Campbell was found dead in his bed on the Greenfield station. The Southland railway committee send a vigorous protest to Vogel against his treatment of that district in the matter of immigration. Turnbull v Mackay and Gillies is likely to be satisfactorily settled. The Education Board declines to agree to the suggestion of the Victorian Board, and will not accept teachers certificated from other colonies without previous enquiry. The Provincial Government has placed at the disposal of the Chamber of Commerce, a room in the Government Buildings for an Exchange, • The. Harbor Board has decided that the whole time of their engineer must be devoted to the works in progress. It has been decided to place £IOO,OOO worth of debentures in the London market. Hawkins and Company, of Lyttelton, at

tenderers for the extensions. - " " ( A v :: January 13. convicted rliere, and sentenced to'twielVejnoiiths' imprs(Sninent, for indecent yassattlt; '■ : ! i ■V j > ;sTJtt?i? a"well known publi for Dunedin, and Xas imbrihecl could reach this place i &$ Lurline ran second to ffrCHje" Midsummer Handicap. Calumnyran third at Williamstown.