SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 265, 17 April 1875, Page 2

SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Press Telegraph Agency.') Auckland, April 16.

The City East Provincial election resulted in the return of Mr Rees, the votes being—Rees, 270; Holdship, 230. The Cyphrenes sailed for 6an Francisco, with 129 passengers from Australia and New Zealand, including Major Palmer, The vessel is much overcrowded.

Grahamstown, April 16.

The news from Tairua is encouraging. The prospectors are breaking down stone, and intend sending a ton to the Thames as a trial. The stone is said to be of a most promising nature, showing gold freely, and is estimated to yield well. A small parcel of wash gold was received from Ohinemuri today. Three-quarters of an ounce was got by sluicing in two days by three men. The Waitikauri reefs are looking better. A parcel of stone crushed in a Berdan gave five ounces of gold from 165 pounds of stone.

THIS BA TS TELEGRAMS.

Wellington, April 17.

At a wool sale yesterday, 34 bales of ewes wool, in the grease, sold at 9|d per lb ; 14 bales of lambs wool, at 10£d per lb ; 24 bales of merino, at 11 Jd per lb. A number of other lots went at easy prices. At a sale of light saddle horses prices ranged from £6 to £7.

Major Palmer’s report upon the surveys of the colony is published. The New Zealand Times says he has written sufficient to thoroughly alarm the colony. He recommends for the effective control of detail surveys, first, that as soon as practicable the General Government will take charge of all survey operations in the colony, abolishing for this purpose the present provincial organisations. Secondly, that the whole be then placed under a Surveyor-General at Wellington, whose duty it will be to organise and superintend all details, as well as trigonometrical operations, 'i hirdly, that those of the existing staffs who may wish to take service under the new system, at present rates of salary, be retained, subject to approval by the Sur-veyor-General, who may, if he wish, introduce the test of examination as a condition of their remaining. Fourthly, that the existing system of centres and chief surveyors be adhered to for the present at least (should the abolition of the provinces take place, it might be desirable to rearrange the areas of district surveys, and perhaps to change the titles of the superintending officers.) Napier, April 17. The annual sale of rateable property in the town of Napier amounted to £45,000. Two schemes for water supply are now before one by artesian wells at a cost of £BOOO, another by gravitation at a cost of £20,000. Mr Osmond, the member for Porangahau in the Provincial Council, does not come forward again. Much sickness is prevalent still, though it is on the decline.

[FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, April 16. The Auckland Institute has raised £I6OO by private subscriptions, for the erection of a museum, which will cost £3,000. Sir G. G rcy informed a deputation of the society that the province was too poor to make a grant. The wedding of a son of a chief at Bussell being celebrated according to European rites, has caused a great stir there. Breakfast was laid out in a new ranpo building erected for the occasion, 70ft long. The refreshments were most lavishly supplied, and consisted of three bullocks, seventeen pigs, 300 c akes, 300 puddings, 350 loaves, and potatoes, kumeras, and melons in immense quantity* There were numerous waiters nicely drcs.sed, and also door-keepers. There were about' nine relays of guests, amounting to seven hundred people, and over one thousand people were on the ground. A childrens’ feast w;xs laid on a mat forty feet long, and cake was' piled along this four inches high. The wedu'ing cake cost £6. The wedding cost £2OO.

A shovel full of stuff at the new Tairua gold field was washed, and yielded three or four dwts of line rich gold. The prospect is considered an excellent one.

Nearly the first sale of New Zealand insurance shares since the formation of the new company, has been quoted on Change, and was recorded to-day at £4.

[FROM OUR DUNEDIN CORRESPONDENT.] Dunedin, April 16.

On the Baludery estate, near Oamaru, the crops yielded 91 bushels of oats, and 73 bnsiiels of barley to the acre,

There is likely to be a conflict between the Provincial Government and the city authorities re reserves. The Normal and the Fourth district schools are built on reserves under the control of the corporation. The Education Board requires further ground for extensions anti playgrounds, which the Council refuses to give. The Board now threatens to ask the Provincial Council to take the reserves altogether. The heading of the Chain Hills tunnel will be through in about eight weeks. During the last ten weeks nearly four chains have been completed, so that three months according to this ought to see the woxk finished.

The principal event at the Balaclutha races to-day was the Publicans’ Handicap of 60 so vs, If miles. It was a capital race up to the last turn, when Atlas shot ahead of Kathleen, who to all appearance had the race safe, and won by two lengths. Envy was a good third, and Unknown nowhere.