Telegraphic Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1458, 18 October 1872, Page 2

Telegraphic Intelligence.

[Ffioas ©Seville's telegram company.] AUCKLAND. Friday, Oct. 18. Lewis Mart, cook of the p.s. Nevada, has been fined £IOO and costs, or six months' imprisonment, for smuggling 1,050 cigars, valued at £3OO. A milkboy has also been arrested with his cans full of cigars. The German Princes Philip and Augustus, of Saxe Coburg, leave for Sydney to-day in the s.s. Hero> The Auckland Annual Racos are fixed for the Ist and 2ud January, 1873. The sum of £SOO is to be spent on the purchase and preparation of a course at Ellerslie. Great satisfaction is expressed here at the passing of a subsidy for a Fiji mail service, TAURANGA. Friday, Oct. 18. Stocks of flour are getting very low. This district is entirely dependent on the South for Hour. GRAHAMSTOWN. Friday, Oct. 18. Caledonian shares, £27: Cures, £1 17s 6d. Market dull. The Black Angel has declared a dividend of £2 17s 6d, CHRISTCHUROH. Friday, Oct. 18. There is a balance at the Treasury of £142,353. Flour, £l2 ; wheat, 4s lOd to 5s ;. oat«, 2s 2d to 2s 3Jd ; no barley in the market. WESTPORT. Friday, Oct. 18 The livers are very high, ami the sea is encroaching. High water mark is now twenty feet from the Post Omce hotel. DUNE DIN. Friday, Oct. 18. The biig Waite, from Newcastle to Oamaru, passe..! a vessel bottom upwards in Fovear.x Strait,- on Sunday last. Eighty feet of her keel were uncoppered. Wheat—prime, 5s 3d ; inferior, 4* to 4s 9d. Bailey, none. Oats, 2s to 2s 3d. Flour, .£l3 ; oatmeal, £ll I Op. Pearl barley, £25. Potatoes, £6 10s. Butter—fresh, Is 3d, salt, lOd to Is ; e og s ) 9d > cneesc > 8d ; bacon, Bd. WELLINGTON. Thursday, Oct. 17. The report of the Privilege Committee on the Harrison Holt scandal is to the following eilect:—lst. That no proposition derogatory to a member of the Legislature had been made. 2nd. That the evidence, while raising suspicion, is not sufficiently explicit. 3rd. The Committee regret that Mr Harrison laid such serious charges based on a private conversation. Mr Stafford has given not 1 ice of motion for the following question:— Whether the Government would give the House an opportunity during the present session of expressing an opinion regarding ph.e advisability of a dissolution 1 Friday, Oct. 18. The amendment made by the Legislative Council in the Maori Representation Bill has been agreed to. In the House of Representatives, the Hawke's Bay Native Lands Alienation Commission Bill passed through committee, Takanioana taking charge of it. The remuneration of commissioners is fixed at .£2OO each per annum, and travelling expenses. The Middle Island Native Council Bill was discharged..

The k.s. Tarauaki has arrived from, LyttcHon, and leaves for the South atu 1 p.m. to-morrow. The Press Conference met to-day. Thirty papers were represented, the* Hawke's Bay Times being one of thenumber. The following resolutions were adopted :—That in the opinion of* this Conference the tariff for press telegrams should be reduced Lo sixpence for every twenty-five words; that a, fixed rate should be paid by the Government for postal and other public notices now published gratuitously in the press ;; also that the attention of the Government should be drawn to the impropriety of inserting in the Government. Gazette only advertisements inlended to be public A deputation, consisting of Messrs Luckie, Harrison, Gillon, Montrose, and Lord, was appointed to. wait upon the Telegraph Commissioner and Postmaster-General to urge- these views. Latest. . Mr Stafford, this afternoon,, askied' the question of which he had giVen> notice, as to when an opportunity will; be granted to those members who believed a dissolution necessary to ex«press their opinion thereon. Mr Vogel said it would be inconvenient to delay the necessary business of the country for such a discussion. He would, therefore, recommend that the discussion be brought on after the Appropriation Act was passed. He also said that before the prorogation he would how the vacant seats in the Executivewould be filled.