LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1167, 25 April 1872, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[per grevillb's telegraph company, '.'.■' ..; „ reuter's , agents. j

. Auckland, April 23. Several parties at Alexandra . are likely to complicate matters in connection with the gold fields by, endeavoring to purchase or lease the auriferous land. - : ReWi has obtained a. number of nice nuggets out, of the gravel beds, which extend over a large area. The field is ft) miles from Alexandra. The "best way, there is round as the track from there crosses open valleys. 1 ' ' ' ' ■ ":. " W'fiLtiNCJxpN, April 24. •■• Coal is very scarce. The New Zealand • Steam are' talking of chartering a vessel to go to the Buller for a cargo. ,' Picton, April 24. The Master of the Emerald reports seeing the, schooner" Ocean Bird, of Auckland, floating bottom upwards, ten miles . west of Stevens Island," and no signs of tho crew. . „ New piYMopxH, April 24. The Natives have turned the European prospectors back, saying" that they will not allow prospecting until the Government comes to terms. : ..■•.<■ :,• Dunbdin, April' 24. Mr Shepherd addressed his constituents at Cromwell, and received a vote of confidence. • ' ■■'•■" ; ; The Jockey Club intends holding a meetJ ing on the Queen's Birthday. ' ' >' ■ ' . ' - NjEtsoN,- Aprir24. . Mr Richmond addressed a large meeting, and. declared that the House was jan arena of place-hunters, .whom he de T nbUhced. He took a gloomy view of he prospecte of,the ; C(jlpny, and criticised ihe i policy of Mr Yogel and the Government '

unfjiyorably. He condemned DrFeatherT ston's inimigration; spheme. Tlie meeting was more distrirbejl vjihan usual, and broke; up before a; Vote of^hanks was moved, seconded, or put. <