Telegraphic Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1535, 19 December 1873, Page 54

Telegraphic Intelligence.

PEE AKOLO-AUSTBAUAX I'HESS TELEGIIAJI AOENCr. INTERPROVINCIAL SUMMARY. AUCKLAND, lfith December. Mr O'Rorke has becu elected Speaker of the Provincial Council. An unsuccessful attempt was made to put Mr Carleton iuto the position, the ground of opposition to Mr 0' ftorke being that the duties of a Speaker of the Council and Minister of the Colony might clash. Honolulu sugar, £27 10s to £33 ss. 18th December. In the Provincial Council Mr Sheehan stated that the Superintendent had been ofi'ared a steamer to ply between Poverty Bay and Auckland for a subsidy of £I,OOO. The service is very soon to start. The charges agaiust Dr Couglitrey, of the ship Chile, are now being investigated. The evidence or Mrs Vesey is most sensational. Disclosures have been made showing barbarous conduct on the part of the doc ..or. He hud a woman tied to the capstan with her feet off the deck, from morning to uight, during the hottest day of the voyage. FOXTON, 16th December. The Government have decided to settle the Horowhenua dispute by two Commissions' composed of Europeans and natives. The natives are well pleased with the arrangement. WELLINGTON, 16th December. A sharp shock ef earthquake was felt here and at Wanganui at 25 minutes past 12 this afternoon. The Taranaki takes the San Francisco mail north on Thursday. The insurance agents have decided to reduce their premiums 12J per cent, immediately, in consequence of the water supply. CHIUSTCHURCH, 16th December. The Governor, when laying the foundation stone for the new school, warmly eulogized the conduct of the Provincial Goverment iu making such large provision for education, His Excellency and suite attended the luncheon, and supper, and sports. HOEITIKA, 17th December. The Tararua has arrived from Melbourne, which port she left on the 11th inst. Passed the Claud Hamilton off Hogau Islands on the 12th. 18th December. The s.fi. Albion has arrived with the English mail, having left Melbourne on the 13ih inst. DUNE DIN, 16th December. Forty tone of preserved meaty are being sent to the Blnff for shipment to England per Bebingtou. Mr Vogel presented the prizes to the girls in the high school. The prize for the most popular girl was given by himself. In his address, he spoke of the advantages of such schools, aud regretted that this was the only oue of the kind in the Colony, He also advocated a female franchise, aud hoped chat New Zealand would be the first Colony in which it would, exist. A public meeting has resolved to carry out a system of underground drainage—the first works to coht £IO,OOO.

EUROPEAN SUMMARY. LONDON, 9th December. The Emperor of Austria has created Mr Tallerman a Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Francis Joseph for the introduction of Australian meats. General Wolseley is ill. 10th December. A Conservative has been elected for Exeter in the room of Coleridge. The Prospectus of the New Zealand Land Improvement Company has beeu issued. Capital, £500,000 ; first issue, £250,000. The Company Avill make advances to land purchasers at interest on mortgage, to enable the erection of farm buildings. The Lauderdale, with immigrants, was off Deal on the 21st October, Six pounds mutton quoted at s§. The Salisbury has sailed with free-passage immigrants; also the Colonist and Corporation. The Anglo-Australian in London says that when the line between New York and San Francisco is in working order, the service will be conducted in forty days. Dr Featherston hay been on an immigration tour to th') North. In the course of the next six months two thousand Germans sud Scandinavians are to be sent to New Zealand, after which German immigration is to ceaseA select party of viguerons are to proceed to Hawke's Bay. New Zealand ores are attracting much attention, The following emigrant ships have sailed : —•Dunfillan. for Otago ; Queeu of the North, ; for Hawke's Bay; aud the Salisbury, for Wellington. 11th December. Discount, H. John Line, a witness .in the Tichborne case, formerly a convict, is to be prosecuted j for perjury. 12th December. The Cypress sails for Sydney on the Gth of January. General Wolseley has defeated the Ashantees, who are utterly demoralized. The Pope censurc3 the German and Swiss Governments in an encyclical letter,

The French ship Villes collided with the Loch Erin, off the Azores, in the night, liighty-seven were saved. The Captain-General, Cuba, telegraphs that it i 8 impossible to surrender the survi-, vors of the Virginia's crew at once, public feeling beiug so much against it. Ho has since resigned. Presideut Grant's message says, that it would be dangerous to continue relations with the Cubans, misrule beiug far too prevalent, and that it is for Congress to decide the ultimate action to be taken in the affair of the Virginia. PARIS. 10th December. Bazaine has been adjudged guiity by a court-martial, and condemned to death and degradation. Macmahou takes a severely neutral view ■if French affairs. The German fortifications are being pushed on with rapidity. The Carlist leaders and soldiers are deserting to the republicans. 11th December. The Judges in Bazaine's case have unanimously recommended him to mercy. 12th December. The prosecution demands the military degradation and execution of Marshal Bazaine. AMERICAN. NEW YORK, 9th December. Congress supports the Cabinet in its refusal to recognize the belligerency of the Cubans. 10th December. The Spaniards have decided to surrender the survivors of the Virginia's expedition on the 18th December. President Grant has declared that the recent money panic will prove to be the first step towards specie payments. Stokes, who shot Fish, has been sentenced to imprisonment for four years.