Telegraphic Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1547, 3 February 1874, Page 102

Telegraphic Intelligence.

PEtt ANGI.iO-AUSTItA.MAiJ PRESS TELKGIUM AGENCT. INTERPROVINOIAL SUMMARY. AUCKLAND, 31st January. At the sale at Mr Joseph May's, rams averaged from £7 15s to £ls 15s ; one brought 25 guineas. Mr Buckland reports dairy cows in short supply; fat cattle averaged 2o< lOd per 1001 b.; sheep iu average supply, at 3Jd ; lambs from 12s to 22s each Mr John Reid reports Auckland oats at 4s 9d to 4s lOd ; wheat, 5s Gd to 6s ; pota. toes, £3 15s to £4 per ton. Yatterina won the Papakura handicap of 100 sovereigns. The barque Lauderdale has arrived from London, after an uneventful voyage of 96 days. She brings 125 Government immigrants. The Governor Blacka'l has arrived from Kandavau, after a passage of 117 hours there, and 124 back. The City of Melbourne arrived there on the 25th, with 35 saloon and 30 steerage passengers. The Governor Blackall arrived at Kandavau on the 20th, and had to wait for five days. The Relieving Officer has recommended the Provincial Government to establish a Poor Law Board of guardians for the city. 2nd February. The Murray. Pretty Jane, Colonist, and Merlin, all from Napier, have arrived. The Julius Vogel has sailed for Poverty Bay. ALEXANDRA, 30th January. King Tawhiao, his son, Tutawhiao, Te Wetere, Te Ngahau, and other chiefs are now at Kaipara, en route for Kawhia. Europeans will be invited to attend the great meeting to be held at Te Kuiti in March next. GRAHAMSTOWN, January 30. Gold has beeu struck in the Caledonian. It is supposed to be a continuation of the old lead. 150 pounds weight of specimens have breu taken out of 4 cwt. of picked stuff. The lode is dipping into Tookey's. TAURANGA, January 31. Arrived—Murray, s.s., from Napier, with telegraph material for the Opotiki line. A company is being formed to utilize the sulphur of the celebrated volcano, White Island. WELLINGTON. 30th January. The Provincial Government has definitely declined to take over the first section of the Hutt railway when opened, although it is willing to assume the management when the through line is completed. A prosecuti n has been instituted against the New Zealand Steam Shipping Company for carrying more than the prescribed number of passengers in theTaranaki between Pictou and Wellington., on her la«t trip. January 31. The Rechabites intend to erect a hall costing £I,OOO, and are about to ask the Provincial Government for a fr«e site. The Steam Shipping Company were fined in the Resident Magistrate's tourt £s' for the offence of carrying too many passengers between Wellington aud Picton ; besides being ordered to pay is for every additional passenger, making £lO altogether. The Luua brought down to-day twenty of the Native Arawa Contingent, to be stationed at Horowhenua. A meeting has b en held to form a Sea" man'B Union, and it Was resolved that an advance of £2 per month be made in the pay of the officers, carpenters, cooks, and stewards. The wages of the firemen are to be £l2 pGr month ; trimmers, £8 per month; foremast hands in sailing coasters, £7 per month. 2nd February. Six hours after the Ocean Mail dropped anchor, the Health Officer ordered her to quarantine, there being one case of scarlatina' and five children having died on the voyage from hooping cough. There had been three cases of scarlatina on the voyage, but all had recovered, and no more cases occurred until the day before arrival, when another case broke out. The detention is expected to be short. NELSON, 30th January. Last night in the Provincial Council, a resolution for a loan for the public works was unanimously agreed to. The Responsible Government resolution was negatived without discussion. January 31. The Council have pased a resolution recommending the importation of 140 immigrants per month. LYTTELTON, 30th January. The Merope has sailed for London, with a cargo of ;i738 bales of wool, 46 bales of skins, 2113 oagsot wheat, and sacks of wheatCHRISToHURCH, 29th January. The Canterbury College has arranged for obtaining the services of a professor of ma* thematics aud philosophy, at salaries of £6OO a year aud fees. The Spinning and Weaving Company have decided to commence the manufacture of woollen goods. The New Zealand Wesleyan Conference resolved that the Patea shall be constituted a separate district. Royse, Stead and Co. report new wheat at 4s 3d a bush'd. The farmers are holdiug back for higher prices. New oats are very active at 3s. January 31. A meeting of the Astronomical Society was held yesterday. The committee was requested to communicate with the General Government with the view of giving every assistance to the Transit of Venus Commission, when it arrives in the colony. It was also decided to take steps for the establishment of an Observatory. A new outfall drain, which cost £12,000, was formally opened yesterday. The Mayor' M. B. Hart, gave a commemorative banquet in the evening. ' WESTPORT, 30th January. At a meeting of the Coal and "Railway Committee last evening, it was expressed that the inhabitants of. Westport should urge

a more active prosecution of the railway and harbor works. The season for work is expiring, but no action has been taken, and the new township is jeopardized for want of river protective works. The Government is losing revenue both from the railway and the lease of reclaimed sections. DUNE DIN, 30th January. The case against Captain Johnston of the ship Surat has been heard. The magistrates said that drunkenness only aggravated his offence, and sentenced him to two mouths' hard labor. It it thought that a petition will be got up for the remission of Captai 11 Johnston's sentence. At the annual meeting of the Athenasum' which takes place to night, a great discussion is expected on the question of opening the institution on Sundays. Five Dunedin confectioners have advanced the price of their goods by 1\ per cent. January 31. At the annnal meeting of subscribers held last evening, it was resolved to open the Atheuseum for four hours on Sundays, by 91 to 85. A protest has been entered by several clergymen and others. It is thought that the resolution will not be carried into effect. A new submarine boat was successfully submerged to-day. PORT CHALMERS, 2nd February. The ship Lutterworth has arrived, after a passage of 84 days from London ; also, the Margaret Galbraitb, 95 days from Glasgow. The Paterson is in the dock. BLUFF, 31th January. The ship Bebington has completed her loading. She has the largest cargo of any Vessel that has yet left the Bluif, viz : 4646 bales of wool, 3974 cases of meal, 83 of tallow, and 6 tons of boues. She sails for London on Wednes ay. AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. BJELBOURNE, 24th January. Governor Bowen has returned from Tasmania. Governor Weld, after visiting Ballarat and all other places of interest in Melbourne, proceeded to Sydney this afternoon. Parliament is to be dissolved at the end of February or the beginning of March. The new parliament is likely to meet after the general election, early in May. The Lend Department is to be thoroughly reorganized by the creation of fresh branches > The question of tobacco importation over the Sydney border has again arisen in connection with the Customs duties. The Euglish cricketers were enthusiastically received at Syduey. Play commences to-day. The odds are at present in favor of the Englishmen. The Flintshire has arrived at Brisbane with the Torres Straits mails. An action has been commenced to condomn the Aurora for breaches of the Polynesian Labor Act. The Triennial Parliament Bill has passed its second reading in the Sydney Upper House. Two Solomon Islanders are committed for trial for the murder of the captain and crew of the Cato. It is believed that Mr J. A. Clarke's estate will pay to the Government about £84,(K;0 as probate duty. He leaves his Victorian property to his eldest son William, and his New Zealand property to Joseph Clarke. His wife has £3OO per annum. The second son is left a comparatively poor man. Commercial.—Wheat is very scarce, and has reached to 6s 7d to 6s Bd. Flour, £l4 10s' There is a scant supply of oats; a little is doing at 5s 3d to 5s 6d. There is a steady business doing in sugars. The latest Mauritius telegram (9th January) states that prices are firm, with an upward tendency. The William Connell had been chartered for Dunedin s There is a large sale here for cornsacks. Shipping.—Melbourne Arrived: 23rd January, Prosperity, from Hokitika ; Maude, for the West Coast Ports. Newcastle—Arrived: January 21, Australind, from Wellington; 22, Silver Lining, from Wellington. Sailed : January 21, Australian Sovereign, for Lyttleton; Woodbine, for Dunedin.