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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 871, 19 November 1870, Page 2

At a meeting of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, held on the 10th insfc., it was decided to decline for the present to enter into arrangements with Messrs Grreville & Co. for the opening of a telegraphic news room in Auckland. A late England paper says: —We have before alluded to the loss of the British ironclad Captain, which occurred off the coast of .•<pain, a few days since, while cruising in company with the channel fleet, to which squadron the vessel belonged. It is stated that only a boat's crew of fifteen persons were saved. This is one of the most appalling disasters which has ever happened to the British na*y. Nearly six hundred persons must have gone down with the ship, as, in addition to her complement of officers, her crew consisted of over five hu-dred men. Many of the officers, within a few years past, have been attached to vessels in the British Pacific Squadron, and were well known to many of our citizens. The captain of her was one of the most distinguished officers in the navy, having gained the Victoria Cross for great personal gallantry during the Crimean war. A correspondent of the Southern Cross, informs that journal that there is a very strong destre on the part of 6ome electors to make the Alliance or Permissive Bill question a test question at the approaching elections. They will refuse 'o vote for an opponent of that measure, whatever recommendations he may possess. If the friends of the Alliance keep together, they may on some occasions even decide the election when there is a near run. The correspondent further adds that in England every candidate for legislative honors is now subjected to a searching examination by indefatigable members of the Alliance, touching his Permissive faith, and the ground of his heresy when opposed to the bill. It is likely to be the same here ; and ev-ry candidate, therefore, would do well to study the ! question in; all i.ts bearings ere he '•'• comes out,"