TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 277, 1 May 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

{Press Telegraph Agency.} Auckland, April 30. A through train was run from Auckland to Mercer this afternoon. The line is now ready to be handed over to the Government. Fat cattle 28s to 35s per 100 lbs; fat sheep, full numbers, 3d to 3fd per lb; long wools, 14s to 16s each. The yachi; Fleetwing .has been sold to a gentleman in Lyttelton, and proceeds there to-morrow. Another sticking-up case has occurred on the Onehunga road, and a man named Morrison knocked down and jobbed of twenty pounds. Wellington, April 30. The Superintendent opened the Provincial Council at 2. He delivered a long speech. He said it was satisfactory that the financial year began witn a balance to credit of £16,197. The ordinary income for last year was estimated at £31,800, but it only reached £30,873. The territorial receipts reach £81,455, exceeding the estimate by £6455. The special income fell short by £9354. The estimated total income for 1874-75, was £122,726, and the actual receipts amount to £118,901. The Superintendent, in referring to Major Palmer's report upon the surveys of tie colony and the sound system of surveying initiated and carried out by Mr Jackson, said that the results afford a proof, resting on independent testimony, of the success of provincial administration. He expected the Education Board would have £IB,OOO at its disposal for the year. He said the plans of the new hospital would be submitted. While the census made the population of the province on the Ist of March, 1874, amount to 29,720, there had been an increase since, bringing the population up to 37,203. He referred very pointedly to the contrast between the way in which the railways and roads were being vigorously pushed on in Hawkes Bay and the slow manner in which similar works were being advanced in the Wellington province. He estimated the income for 1875 6 as follows:—Ordinary income, £32,750; territorial receipts, £120,000, inclusive of £30,000 proceeds of sale of foreshore to the corporation of Wellington ; special income expected to be received, £74,750. Altogether he calculated that £172,383 would be available to appropriate for the service of the ensuing year. All the members of the Provincial Council have been supplied with free passes for the railway while the Council is in session. During the sitting of the Provincial Council, Mr Hutchison gave notice of motion as follows :—" Resolved—That the Council, approving of the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 20th of August last, expressing an opinion that—' Taking the circumstances of the colony into consideration, the Provincial form of government in the North Island should be abolished,' request the Executive of the province so to arrange the business to be brought before the Council during the present session and the provincial business generally, as to facilitate the carrying out ol the aforesaid resolution, and to co-operate with the General Government with the same obj*>et, so that the abolition of provincial institutions in Wellington may be effected economically, early, and without any jar or interruption to public business." The New Zealand Steam Navigation Company have withdrawn formally from the Government arrangement for steamer telegraphing, and in future will exhibit the telegraphic reports of arrivals and departures of their steamers from each port on a board in front of their office. Mr Adam Burnes has retired from office as general manager of the National Bank. Mr Bridgeson, one of the London directors, who has been for some time on a visit of inspection, takes the office of general manager pro tern. THIS DAY'S TELEGRAMS. Wellington, May 1. The Internet was visited yesterday by the Commissioner of Customs. She sailed during the night for Auckland via the East Coast. WANGANUI, May 1. The butchers contemplate raising the price of meat. Beef, 25s per 1001 b ; fat sheep, none sold. Exports for the fortnight—l 36 head of cattle, 1000 sheep. [from our dunedin correspondent.] Dunedin, April 30. It appears that the Government will not open the Clutha railway line before the contract time in September. The contractors thei-efore are proceeding quietly, and to-day Messrs Brogden discharged half of their hands between Waihola and Clutha. The house destroyed by fire in Cheviot row this morning is valued at £SOO, the furniture at £300; the policy on the building only expired a couple of days ago! The owner of the house and the neighbors are'confident that, if a couple of bucketsf ul of water had been available at the time the fire was discovered, it would have been easily extinguished. Rain is now falling fast, and the universal prayer is that it may continue for a few days. During the last forty-eight hours there has been great grumbling over the failure of the water supply on high levels; people had to be content with a bucketful a day. At Otopepo, two masons employed on the railway works quarrelled about a rope, and then fell to calling one another hard names resulting in Knight striking the other, M'Connochie, down with an axe. The latter warded off the blow with his arm, and the axe inflicted a slight wound on the wrist. Knight has been committed for trial for attempted murder. Mr M'Donald says that he was not only present when the tatooing was perfoimed on Roger Tichborne, but can throw material light on the contents of the sealed packet. A peculiar case occurred in the City Police Court this morning. Samuel Tracy gave himself up to the police, and said he had forged and uttered a cheque. The prossecutor said he believed that the cheque was right. Although the cheque was given fivo days ago, and |forwarded to the bank on which it was drawn, only fifteen miles away, no notice of dishonor had been received. The police applied for a demand, which the Bench refused to grant. At Queenstown, to-day, Mrs Powell, wife of the hotel-keeper, sentenced yesterday to imprisonment for horsewhipping MrManders, M.P.C., was charged with perjury, arising out of Barry cuin-Sloan's case. The Bench acknowledged that the property was Barry's, but said no perjury had been committed, and Mrs Powell left the Court without a stain on her character..