TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 126, 27 May 1873, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

[Per Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph ": ■ Agenot]. P R O V I N.CIAL.', Wellington, May 27. The Independent to-day. severely eondems the working of the present electoral machinery. It condemns '.the Kegiatration Officer at Nelson for disfranchising, 170 electors on the West Coast on the ground of insufficient description, whereas the applicants fulfilled the requirements of the law as far,as possible.l It calls the attention ot Parliament to the matter; : 7 Westport, May 27. .?■■■ The Cynthia took the Bulier Bar yesterday at dead low. water. She steered eastward on to the shingle bank, her running gear being out of order. The Harbormaster got her afloat, when her anchor dragged, and she again drifted on to the sandy spit to the mouth of the channel, where she how lies in a dangerous position. The river is flooded and a heavy sea breaking. Blenheim, May 27. The Provincial Council has been opeued. The Superintendent referred to the increase of the resources of the province, and to the establishment of communication between Blenheim and Nelson. The survey of the Eai Valley is nearly completed, and a bridle track will be made through it to Nelson 7~;:. - Dunedin, May 27. r *Mr Reynolds has addressed his constituents and received.a vote of confidence. Pokt Chalmers, May 27. ThebarqueDukeof Edinburgh has arrived from Newcastle, bringing English news to the 10th instant. ENGLISH. London, May 10.—-Collecting taxes in the State of Louisiana has been met with armed . resistance, and the Government has telegraphed to President Grant that the State is driJting into a state of revolution and anarchy. Reinforcements of troops, have, been sent to suppress the disturbance. Mr Waite, a conservative, has been returned fpr Gloucester.The Bight Hon Mr Adderley said in the House of Commons, when the House was going into Committee of Supply that be intended to call attention to Colonial affairs. ' The Commercial Conf erence at Paris on the new sugar convention has decided that the assesUient shall be made according to strength, and not to color. There have been two severe engagements on the^gold coast of West Africa. The Fantees, in- ; habitants of the maritime districts, have been compelled; to retire The Aahantees, thirty to forty thousand strong, have advanced on Cape 7 Coast. The King of Ashantee has expressed his determination of taking Elmira, the capital, of the --• Dutch settlements on the West Coast. This ..- town is mostly inhabited by natives, and is defended by the castle redoubt. - The. celebrated political economist, John Stuart Mill, died yesterday.