TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 170, 18 July 1872, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

[Pek Greville's Telegram Compakt.]

PROVINCIAL.

Wellington, July 17.

Mrs. Rodman, the mother of the infected child, is also infected with the smallpox. Her husband had been working in a butcher's shop up to yesterday, and attending the family at night. All the family are to be sent to Soames' Island to-day. Auckland, July 18. A rifle match between ten members of the Auckland Volunteer force and a similar number from the Thames took place yesterday and was won by the former. An enquiry into the circumstances attending the wreck of the Harriet King has been held, when il -was decided that a want of judgment had been displayed by the master, but not sufficient to warrant the suspension of his certificate. Picton, July 18. The railway works were commenced yesterday without ceremoriy.

One Ropemaker in Christciiurch employs a staff of twenty men. One. day during last month there were 13 American ships, representing 13.957 tons register, lying iu the port, of Newcastle, loading coal for San Francisco. The total tonnage in the port that day was 25,537. Tub following congratulatory telegram was forwarded by tbe Avoca Shire Council to the Lord Mayor of London : — " Tbe people of Avoca Shire Council congratulnte the Old Country on the establishment of telegraphic comraunicatioa." The Christchurch Press learns from a prigate letter tbat Mr. Wilby Morton Ollivier, sou of the Provincial Auditor of Canterbury, has been appointed AuditorGeneral of the Kingdom of Fiji. We {Press) are informed that a bullock on the faim of Mr. W. Tod, of Lincoln, was lost for three weeks, and then found in a straw stack, into which it had eaten its way. The animal seemed none the worse lor its Jong confinement. The Wanganui Chronicle says : — " Two smart shocks of earthquake took place at 12.15 and 4 a.m. on Tuesday, the 2nd inst. The first shock, accornpauied by a rumbling noise, seemed more like a violent concussion ol the earth's surface, than tho uudulatory kind of shakes usually felt ia this town. An English journal states that the Admiralty propose augmenting the Australian squadron by two or three gunvessels of the Foam and Coquette class for the suppression of the present illegal labor, alias slave trade, carried on amongst the South Sea Islands, and which has resulted in the lamented murder of Bishop Patteson. A Wanganui Paper says that the Kaiwhike natives have again interfered and stopped the ploughing on Captain Iveson's land. A mob of them appeared on the ground on the morning of the 4th, and caused the ploughmen to desist, removing at tbe same time the plough and horses to some distance. There is inteuse indignaliou in Auckland against the swindlers iu the Green Harp shares. Nearly £200 has been subscribed towards a fund for their prosecution, and more money is coming in. The Evening Star has been threatened with an action for libel by the old directors, but the public have come to the rescue with funds for the defence of the Slar, which will defend the action if brought on. " As a proof of the credit in which the Christchurch Corporation bonds are held," the Press notes " that, for the £4,500 worth of debentures issued under the City of Christchurch Loan Act, tenders were received by the City Council for £9,400, £300 of which was at 3 per cent, premium, £8,000 at par. und £500 at 15 per cent, discount. This is tbe second issue of debentures made by the City Council undi-r the powers of the act." Found Guilty ov Passing a Genuine Coin. — One William Watson waa charged at Ballarat with uttering a. bad halfsovereign, He was committed for trial, and was tried and condemned. After he was sent into prison, ihe i police thought of testing the coin, whereupon the jeweller pronounced it to be genuine. Everyone, judge and all, had taken the real point in dispute for granted. After this, what may not happen to a man in Victoria ? A Pastoral Simile,-— ln au articib on the recent elections, the Australasian refers to the conduct of a number of persons at a public meeting in the following complimentary terms: — "At Sandhurst, on the occasion of his first meeting, Mr. Mackay was debarred from exercising the nominal right of free speech, in a professedly free country, by the boohooing of a dyove of human oxen who bad been rounded into the new Town Hall, and there yarded by a few political stockriders, whose intelligence is probably little, if -at all, inferior to that of the bellowing bipeds who obeyed the crack of their whips." Mr. Yogel, says the Australasian, was rather premature in sending a congratulatory telegram to the Agent-general in London announcing that he had " concluded highly satisfactory partnership arrangement between Victoria and New Zealand for California service." Tbe preliminaries of the treaty were, ' indeed, highly satisfactory, but the conclusion has no°t been of that character that Mr. Vogel had in view when he penned his telegram. It appears that the promoters of, the agreement have been as unfortunate in America as here. Its success depended as much on obtaiuing the subsidy from the American Congress as on getting the support of Victoria, and both have been withheld. The Americans, in fact, have been more outspoken on the subject than we haves The proposal is noticed by the New Fork Herald of April 18, which says :— " The . Australian steamship subsidy swindle

was ogain taken up in tho Senate this morning, and after a short debate laid

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Upon the table: to allow the Judicial Appropriation Bill to be taken up; but the debate has gone far enough to demonstrate the fact that this little attempt of Mr. Banks to gather honey will fail in the Senate. There are in this grab so many glaring jobs that few men will have the hardihood to support it. As Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, said, 'It is a curious bill.'" It is the fashien in political discussion in America to call a spade a spade, and many of the impressions we have been conscious of respecting this wonderful bargain find very apt expression in the foregoing. The last steamer of Mr. Webb's line that arrived at New Zealand brought the news that the subsidy had been rejected. It may be a long time before the next steamer comes, and in the meanwhile the Sydney promoters of an Australian and Pacific service, have the field all to themselves.