TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 704, 21 September 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Per Press Agency.') LATEST FROM AUSTRALIA. ♦ [By Submarine Cable.") Sydney, Sept. 20. Ai rived—Otago. The captain of the barque Moneta, which arrived yesterday at Newcastle, was expecting to meet his wife and three children, who were passengers by the Dandenong, but they are all drowned. Over four hundred immigrants arrived at Adelaide yesterday. Bank of .New Zealand shares sold at an advance of half a crown, and held for a further rise, Melbourne, Sept. 20, During the voyage of the Thomas Bell from London, she met very severe weather. Her stock of fresh water was destroyed, and the cargo had to be broached till rain water was obtained. Melbourne, September 21. Arrived—Albion; and Durham, s.s, from London, after a passage of fifty days. The resolutions re the opening of the Athenaeum on Sundays was negatived. Brisbane, September 21. Elizabeth Lancefield, charged with poisoning her husband, was acquitted. INTERPBOVINCIAL. Grahamstown, September 20. Simonsen’s Opera Troupe have had a very successful season here, and will play for six more nights. Barlow’s Circus is also doing good business. New Plymouth, September 20.

The Paraika meeting has terminated ; over a thousand natives were present. Te Witi was the centre of attraction, and was looked up to with almost adoration by the natives. He says the Maoris were the lost tribe of Israel, and exhibited maps and plans showing the supposed route by which the present race originally reached New Zca land. His knowledge of scripture history and of late researches in Palestine is spoken of as astonishing. He said it was no use educating the Maori. Regarding the land, he said each man could sell or keep it as he liked. He spoke of the proposed meeting of the Maori King, the Govern or and Sir D. M'Lean. The Wild Duck which was on a bank in Waitara river has been got off. One hundred and thirty-four acres within two miles of New Plymouth have been'sold to Mr Bourke, of Auckland, for £1650 cash, The trial of the smelting at iron works will commence to-morrow. Dunedin, Sept, 20, The Times to-day says a gentleman in Scotlmd, writing to a Dunedin friend by the hist mail, says the Stella and the Hiue rooa, both of which the newspapers said had been built as yachts for the Marquis of Normanby, havoiu reality been built for the Colo nial Government. It is asserted, he says, thnt the steamers are regular jokes, flimaiiy built, and exorbitantly charged fo», He states

that a gentleman connected with a steamboat company in one of the neighbouring colonies remarked of the Stella and Hineraoa that there would be a fine row about them when they got, out to New Zea and. Mr Dunning has secured the lease of the Queen’s Theatre. Mdlle De Murska opens there on the 26th. Dunedin, September 21. Mr Maeandrew and Mr Stout have expressed their disappointment at the conduct of the memorialists and the course they have pursued. Mr Maeandrew attributes to this the preservation of the Otago revenues. He said it would have been better had they asked their representatives to resign some months ago rather than to have left them fighting, charged as they now are with having done so against the opinions of their constituents. It is understood that Mr Maeandrew and Mr Stout contemplate resigning. The political committee last night carried the following resolution —“ That this committee believes the letter of Messrs Cargill, Fish, and others, totally misrepresents the public feeling of the people of Dunedin and of the province generally, and considers it necessary to request the city representatives to meet the constituency in public meeting assembled in order to satify themselves as to the state of public feeling, and also to provide for the work by concerting means for our own protection through the medium of the Provincial Council or otherwise; but that in our opinion, before leaving the Assembly they should meke it clearly understood that whatever measures affecting the welfare of this people may be agreed to, they will not undertake that such measures shall he respected by the people of this province.”