TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 290, 3 December 1873, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

f Psr Aa<no-£vstß&ujLs Press . TEiiEGBAwi .. , '. AGESOr], ' I PBOVIK C I A L. i Auckland, December 3. A project is en foot amongst some of tlie J Waikato natives of influence to induce Tawhiao and Manuhiri to meet the Governor at Ngaruawhia during the autumn. „ Wellington > December 2. . The preliminary prospectus of the Wellington Sugar Rt fining Company is published; capita), £12,000 in shares of £10 each, with power to incresseto £?00,000. Two thousand thares each in Otagp, Canterbury and Auckland. The remaining six thousand shares for the other provinces of New Zealand and elsewhere. The carpenters and painters are in a very unsettled state respecting the demand lor increased wages. The masters refuse to accept their proposals. A meeting id'f ' each trade is called to discuss the matter mote fully. Port Chalmers, December 2. The Zealapdia ha 9 arrived, with 103 immigrants, i She wai followed by tbo Jessie Headman with the same number. Owing to some cases of measles and .whooping cough oo board the latter, she was placed in quarantine- lending the decision of tl»e Board of Health. The ship Duke of Edinburgh, with immigrants for Wellington, was off Lizard Point on September 20ih. .. The Salisbury, with 230 immigrants, sailed for Wellington in the/end of October. ' Christchurch, December 2. The Premier, in reply to a deputation from the Chamber of Commerce, which waited on the Bon E. Richardson with respect to the new mail service, wrote informing them of arrangements made with the New Znaiand St am Company, and stated that he had telegraphed to the Colonial Secretary of Kew South Wales to detain the Macgregor if necessary to allow the Phoebe to tranship her mails. The Cjmpany have agreed to collect mails at the. different ports an.j tranship them to the Phoebe at Manakau. Be statf s that he does not think it will be practicable so to arrange the service as to secure fortnightly communication with England. If it were possib'e, New South Wales would no ioubt desire to make it for the port of Sydney, and it was not possiole to.secure, with mail services going in opposite directions, regular, fortnightly intervals between departures from more, than one place. Supposing the mails were to leave at fortnightly intervals between the ar- i rivals ..of. the mails in England it would be ! very different, if the-service was performed ac- i cording to .contract. There will be a money loss on every letter sent via Suez, and a gain on every letter -sent by the other route. He does Mt.tlunk it compatible with the heavy ergaeemenM into # which the coloay has entered for the Baa trancisco.aemcs that anything like special Inducements to use the Saez service should be offijred. The object in maintaining connection Wiflj that route was to have a service at command in cass that ihr- Cdlifornian should not ansirerexpect^tions. Should the latter service be efficient, encouragement to uas it should ba offered," v i :.* /. ' . ■ . . '. ;Hokitika, December 3. The Governor arrived last- night at seven o'clock. "Great aissati&facttofi ia expressed became he did not wait for a procession. A great i demonstration of loyalty, toak place however. The Governor holds a levee to-niQrrow, and pro- i ceedt to Grey mouth on Thursday, ! _i „ , Dunedin, December 3. -The licensing question has cropped up in an interesting form. Tha Bench considered that they had no power to grant new licenses under the new. Act, and Cjunsel contended tbat if the Bench bad no pjwer to grant usw. licenses tb>y oouM-noi transfer old ones. Ultimately all the cases were postponed for a fortnight to.take the ftdvii# of the Attorney-General. .Notwithstanding the late arrivalsof labor" all lands are still in great.demand. tßtenu « Chinese ward now ia the Tuaneka Hospital, / - * -The larrikin noiaance is becoming seriouer *\lf. : oi CFao»r A Corresposi)ehtJ . * in.* if V Westport, December 3. J i^The Nelson papers publish a protest signed ty -Wertpo*tcitJ2snß4wainstan-article iv tbo We°tIpmmm df, the 15th November,' statin* that therein it is plainly siited that the suDporters of ' MSXX'OcbSfir.&re, as such, expectant of ehmtß in -pepaooatgaiiuiatQfiheLpablJcjestateof the pro- : Mpcfr .^fte ; p^per v ,never expiessed this., "xhe * OT <i§'s!ete. copied byWu'^nor'a Committee M <M#^*°s* fo ln stshgof E. J. O'&nor anaX/0. as deeply interested in the Mount KocHfart coalfield schemes.