TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4338, 13 February 1875, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[Per Press Agency. 1 Auckland, Friday. The steamer Pretty Jaue is abandoned to the insurance companies. She was insured in the New Zealand office for £2500 ; South British, £2500. The former reinsured £750, and the latter £1250. The estimated cost of raising the steamer is £ISOO. The A.S.P. .Company gave £7OOO for the vessel originally. Captain Clayton, insurance surveyor, has been despatched to the wreck. The steamer Wellington sailed South at noon yesterday with the Volunteer representatives. It is supposed that the meeting between the Governor and Tawhiao will take place in April, if the Cabinet approve. Geahasistown, Friday.

Several fresh cases of measles have occurred. Adults have been attacked in one or two instances. The disease has assumed a mild form. A discovery has been made at the goods wharf extension works, which appears to confirm the theory advanced years ago that gold deposits would be found under the foreshore. A boulder was found yesterday embedded in black sand, and with specks of gold visible. This was found about 1500 ft. from the shore, at the’ extreme end of the wharf extension. The boulder is of the same character as those found in the creeks in the early days of the field. Some of the black sand has been taken away for washing. Sir D. McLean and the Hon. Dr. Pollen have arrived here per Luna. The two Ministers proceed to Ohinemuri to complete arrangements for opening that district. It is reported that everything is favorable for the completion of arrangements. Mr. Mackay came down to-day. The reserves and boundaries not marked out will take four or five days to complete. Sir Donald McLean and Dr. Pollen ■will remain down here till all is completed. It is definitely settled that Oninemuri will be opened under the Goldfields Acts probably a week hence. Mr. Frazer, the Thames Warden, is ordered up there. Nothing fresh is reported in the way of discoveries. A deputation waited on Sir Donald McLean and Dr. Pollen to-day, to ask the Government to bridge the Kaueranga, and make a tramway to Kopu harbor, at the mouth of the Thames. Ministers considered the work one chiefly of local import, but would assist in the way of removing the native difficulty. Lyttelton, Friday. The Board of Health decided this afternoon to admit the ship Ilakaia to pratique, and liberate the single men from quarantine. Christchurch, Friday. The Press this morning says that Mr. Joshua Strange Williams, Chief Registrar of Lands, has accepted the Judgeship offered him by the Government, and will enter upon his duties in Otago. Another meeting was held last night in reference to establishing a peal of hells in the city. It was decided to add five bells to the three already attached to the German Church, and that all the lot be under the control of a committee, .three members of which shall be appointed by the German Church and five by the City Council; that the present bell tower be leased by the City Council, and that the committee have power' to remove the bells to another part of the city when considered desirable. Several liberal subscriptions were promised. The general health of the passengera-Jjy the Kakaia is rapidly improving. They will probably be liberated in a day or two. One of the city cabmen has applied for a license under the new bye-law, but he not being a member of the Cabmen’s Society it does not affect the general dispute between the cabmen and the City Council. In the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, the City Solicitor said that the City Council being satisfied with the conviction against Goodyer, desired to withdraw all the other eases. Deave to do so was granted. The Cabmen’s Society intend to bring the case in which the City Council obtained a conviction before the Supreme Court. Hokitika, Friday. John Curnow, of Auckland, has been appointed by the Central Board of Education as Inspector of Schools. There were fifty-six applications. INVERCARGILL EACES—SECOND DAY. Invercargill, Friday. Splendid weather and attendance large. Handicap Hurdle Kace.—White’s Sir Tatton, 1 ; Pollock's Don Pedro, 2. Unknown came lame to post but did not start. Invercargill Handicap. Six started. -White’s Atlas, 1 ; White's Lyndon, 2 ; Morrison’s Tadpole, 3. This was a good race although considered a certainty for Atlas. Selling Kace.—Young Leamington, 1 ; Atlanta, 2 ; Digger, 3 ; Kufus, 4 ; Young Maharatta, 5. The winner was bought in by the owner for £27. Consolation Stakes. —This was the race of the day, Little Dan beating Tadpole on the post by a short head.,