Telegraphic Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1536, 23 December 1873, Page 58

Telegraphic Intelligence.

PER ANGLO-AUSTRAMAN PRESS TELEGRAM ACENCT, INTERPROVINCIAL SUMMARY. AUCKLAND, 21st December. The report that Mr Perkin had purchased Mr Redwood's horses is correct. The Onehunga line wau officially opened to-day by the Superintendent. A large number of ladies and gentlemen were present by the invitation of Mr Brogdeu. WELLINGTON, 19th December. The Customs returns for the four last weeks amounted to £8,4(50, being £1,700 more than the corresponding month of 1872. The Wellington Price Current ehows that stocks of case brandy, geneva, and wine are very heavy, there being over two thousand cases of each in bond. Carpenters are receiving 12s per day, and employment could be found for double the number. It is the same with painters and paperhangcrs. 20th December. The barque Hope, the lirst of the New Zealand Shipping Company's vessels, is.to leave immediately with a cargo valued at £39,564. The Jockey Club have resolved to raise £IQOQ to build a grand standi • s ;

An officer of H.M.S. Pearl, now at Levukai writes that New Zealand is to be the future head-quarters instead of Sydney. He expects that if Fiji is not annexed, a revolution will result, the people are so much in favor of it. The Blanche and Rosario are respectively at New Hebrides and the Solomon Islands. The Basilisk and the Southern Cross are expected with Mr Layard at the end of the month. NELSON, 21st December. Canterbury flour is sclliug at lis lOd ; cheese at 7(1. BLENHEIM, 21st December. ■ Taylor's flax-mill, with 114 acres of ground, and machinery, lias been sold to Fell Bros. for £2,790. DUNE DIN, 19th December. Thirty thousand eight hundred and ninety shares in the Standard lusurauee Company have been applied for. in this Province. £2OO lias been already subscribed towards Mr Vogel's testimonial. The Premier and the Superintendent have inspected the immigration barracks. The Presbyterians have waited upon the Provincial Government with a memorial against running Sunday trains. The Superintendent promised that the matter should be discussel fully by the Executive, but added that it would probably be Buttled by the Council. 21st December. The following vessels have sailed for New Zealand :—October 31, Crusa'er. for Canterbury ; Anayie, for Auckland ; October 14, Wave Queen, for Auckland.