The Globe. FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 230, 5 March 1875, Page 2

The Globe. FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(From the Press.) Auckland, March 4. Messrs Robert Graham and Sheehan proceeded to Kawau to-day, to present a requisition to Bir George Grey, asking him to stand for the Superintendency, and to ask him to express his views. A fine seam of coal has been struck in a drive aCWangarei mine, which has been in process of construction for eighteen months It is 1020 feet long. The drive was valued by Dr Hector as worth £2OOO. It has been carried out wholly by working men on their own account. The Daphne, from Levuka, brings later Fiji paper?, but they contain nothing important. Measles are very prevalent amongst the natives. A discovery of coal has been made at Ilewa. Two informations were sworn to-day by Captain Burgess, pilot, against the captain ol the immigrant ship India, charging him with interfering with the discharge of his duties ; also with calling him a d d liar, and threatening his head. GRAHAMSTOWN, March 4. At Ohinemuri the prospectors' claim o? the reserve has been jumped. The b'azette notice only reserved ten men's ground Mackay gave the amalgamated party fifteen One party pegged off five men's ground las night, and the remainder was jumped to day. The residence and business sites havbeen pegged half a dozen times over in Mackay town. O. F. Mitchell has lodged ai application for a prospecting claim at Waite matune. He reported to the Superintendent having found payable gold in December, 1873, «nd aiked for protection, The mouej

received for miners' rights and business! licenses amounted to over £IOOO. It was I brought down by Inspector Buller to-day. Wanganui, March 4. At the settling for the races laßt night, the following sums were paid—Jackson, £'7l; Quinlivan, £47; Palmer, £47 15s; Day, £47; Gower, £3B; Wilkie, £23 9s; Total, £423 3s. In the Hifle Match with Nelson, Wanganui scored 490 out of a possible 000. Nelson did not tire. Wellington, March 4. The construction of the new General Government Buildings was commenced today. The block will cover 310 feet by 130. The north wins? is to be rearly by the end of November, and the whole building is to be completed in fifteen months. The total amount of the contract is £24,685. «. THIS DATS TELEGBAMS. [FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT. ] Auckland, March 4. Ohinemuri neivs to-day states that those who have pegged out claims are sanguine of getting payable gold, but nothing very rich has been discovered as yet. Mr Mackay has sent in his resignation, because the General Government will not go on with the necessary works. It is evident that the General Government's management of the goldfields will not prove satisfactory. 860 miners' rights have been issued, and the receipts on the first day must been £IOOO. The visit of the deputation to Sir George Grey to-day to present the requisition so far as it is signed, and to ask for an expression of his views was deemed advisable in consequence of an impression fostered by the Southern Cross that Sir George Grey only goes in to the House of Representatives to carry out his ultra provincial views which are not generally popular. The requisition is already very influentially signed. The Star to-night urges the Government to issue the following notice : —" Wanted — A barrister of colonial reputation ; will be required to visit and confer with all the highway boards in the North Island, to apprehend all their views on the right construction of bridges, culverts, and waterways, and to embody all their opinions in a bill for altering the constitution of New Zealand. Physical as well as intellectual qualifications will be essential, inasmuch as he will be required to be able by riding, swimming, and scaling, to confer on an average with three highway boards each day during the next few months, comparing, condensing, and codifying while in the saddle, so as to be able to submit the measure in a completed form on the return of Mr Vogel with the money bag." The Southern Cross, in reviewing the provincial statement of receipts and expenditure, says that the Provincial Government will not have next year sufficient to meet the departmental appropriations, and is practically bankrupt. The Herald replies indignantly, pointing to the Customs revenue and land fund of the south as a possession of which Auckland is being robbed. The Herald to-day criticises the criminal statistics of Christchurch, and says—- " Christchurch, the City of the Plains, appears from its criminal records to be a very wicked community indeed, and quite different to what we should have supposed from its very respectable belongings. It has very many churches, very many clergymen, excellent schools, richly endoAved, has some noble institutions, and prosperity reigns supreme among all classes, but notwithi standing all this Christchurch must be a hotbed of crime and impurity." The same journal criticises the land sales of Canterbury as made to sustain a falling off in the provincial revenue, and says that " a wiser counsel would be to so regulate the outlay, or delay the expenditure of the sums voted, and so avoid the sacrifice of the people's birthright. But economy is a virtue which our Canterbury friends never studied, and they cannot understand the position of affairs which necessitates the drawing in of the purse strings. They will, however, have that lesson to study before very long, especially if they try many such experiments simply to relieve the executive of part of their anxiety." Referring to the reply on the Canterbury cricketers behalf, the Star of to-night says —" Our remarks the other day on the want of cricketing spirit shown by Canterbury, in not returning the Auckland team's visit, has called forth a very hot rejoinder in the Canterbury Globe, which rejoinder has been telegraphed to us to-day. Our strictures were perhaps rather severe, but the object was to provoke a raid from the South upon our Auckland stumps. If Canterbury or any other province will come and play us a match, say at the beginning of next season, they may count upon a warm welcome. We doubt if a single Auckland cricketer has ever heard before that it was an understood thing that the Canterbury eleven would not come to Auckland. [FROM OUR WELLINGTON CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, March 4. Arrived—The Esk, from London. The barque Malay, from Hobart Town, has just arrived with 14 passengers. She has measles on board, and is ordered into quarantine. March 5. The Provincial Surgeon pronounces the disease on board the Malay, from Hobart Town, to be scarlet fever. The vessel is in quarantine. The agreement between the Corporation and the Provincial Government for the purchase of the Thornton reclaimed land by the former has been formally completed. The New Zealand Times' company's balance sheet for fourteen months' operation shows a profit of only £289 13s 2d, without any allowance for depreciation of plant or bad debts. There is great discontent amongst the shareholders. [FROM OL t R DUNEDIN CORRESPONDENT.] Dunedin, March 5. At the Naseby meeting the racing was indifferent. The Flying Handicap was won by Cotton's Envy, and the Grand Stand Handicap by Keen's Gamecock beating Envy by a neck. The result of the latter race was a great blow for the bookmakers. The Guardian hints that the General Government have definitely refused to confer on the harbor board any delegated powers.