Telegraphic Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 961, 8 March 1871, Page 2

Telegraphic Intelligence.

Prom Greville & Co.'s Telegram Company, (Renter's Agents.)

AUCKLAND.

Monday, March 6. A severe thunderstorm occurred this afternoon. Several stores in Queenstreet were flooded.

The rifle contest has been postponed till to-morrow. The latest news from Waikato is to the effect that a deadlock has occurred in the negotiations, Rewi refusing to come to Kopua to meet Mr M'Lean. The share-market is* very firm. Caledonians, £100; Thames Gold-mining Company, £2O; All Nations, ,£6; Junction, £2; Belfast, £1 ss; and Inverness, 15s.

The City of Melbourne ha<? arrived from Sydney; the Star of the South from Napier; and the Phoebe from Taranaki.

The mail si earner will convey 66 passengers to San Francisco. She takes 20 from New Zealand. News from Waikato under date 6th March states that Mr M'Lean, Native Minister, has had an interview with Rewi at Kopua. Manga and several other influential chiefs of the Ngatimaniapoto tribe were present, and the meeting passed off" very satisfactorily. Numerous speeches of a pacific character were made.

A public meeting was held at Sydney on the Ist March to urge upon the Government the necessity of assuming the protectorate of the Fijis. Extensive quartz reefs have been discovered at Tenterfeed, in New South Wales. One hundred ounces of gold are expected from one ton of stone.