LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1136, 19 March 1872, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[per greville's telegraph company, ; reuteu's agents. j Nelson, March 18. Mr Lightband resigns his seat in the Assembly next month, and goes home. Messrs Luckie, Monro, and J. C. Richmond are probable candidatea. Andrew Richmond declines to stand,. owing to ill health. Wellington, March 18. The Government has no official information as to the truth of the paragraph in the Melbourne Age, of the 4th, stating that Mr Yogel, on behalf of the Government, had purchased the exclusive right to the Aigus telegrams, with a view to resuming the supply of English summaries to the press of New Zealand. The question is to be considered at a Cabinet meeting. There is nothing in Mr Vogel's correspondence to confirm the statement in the Age. . ■ The Post to-night says the Cabinet should repudiate such a contract if made by Mr Yogel. The ship England is to be fumigated, and afterwards quarantined for fifteen days. Two more; cases of sickness— a woman and child— on Saturday, but not serious. - Auckland, March 16. The Sydenham store at Newton was burned. Is insured in the London and Liverpool for LIOO, and the stock for L2OO in the Norwich Union. An empty cottage at Onehunga . has been burned ; was insured in the Victoria for LIBO. A disagreement has arisen between the contractors for the Kaipara Railway and the workmen. New men are to be engaged. The Adventurer, whaler, has arrived, and reports the mate killed by islanders. The share market is improved. Caledonians, Lls 15s; Thames, L 5 2s; Moanatiri, L 3 10s ; Cures, 17s 6d ; Tokatea, L 2 ss ; Otago, 158 ; All Nations, L 4 7s. Napier, March 18. . The liquidators of the Daily Telegraph Company disposed of the goodwill and plant of the paper for L 1327. The publication will be continued. New Plymouth, March 18. The Pariaka meeting comes off on Monday next, and it is estimated that 1000 natives will be present. Owing to the issue of a circular by the Wairoa 3ettlers, intimating their intention to prevent, by force of arms, the settlement of natives in that district, a large meeting was held to-day, at which the Superintendent presided. Resolutions were ; passed protesting against the Wairoa settleri taking the law into their own hands, arid calling upon the Government to adopt measures to check any outrage against the public peace. Pout Chalmers, March 18. The Port Chalmers Railway tunnel has been pierced through.