TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4342, 18 February 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[Per Press Agency."] Auckland, Wednesday. At the annual meeting of the Auckland shareholder* of the New Zealand Shipping Company to-day, Dr. Campbell and Messrs. H. Isaacs aud Clark were elected directors. Captain Logan, of the s.s. Hero, applied today at the Police Court for a rehearing of the case against the Hero, in which he was fined £l5O for a breach of the passenger regulations. The Magistrate doubted whether he had power, and dismissed ihe application; remarking however, that if application were made to the Government the fine would probably be remitted and Captain Logan exonerated. The ships Inverene and Warwick have been chartered by the Government to convey railway iron to Napier. Grahamstown, Wednesday. The inquest on the body of the man killed yesterday was held this morning. Verdict, accidental death. The Star correspondent states that Sir Donald McLean meets the Ohinemuri natives to-day, to make final arrangements. Captain Frazer, Warden, and other Government officers, have come down the river in order to he present at the Superintendent's funeral. Sir Donald McLean and Dr. Pollen are unable to come, owing to arrangements to meet the natives.

Dr. Pollen; in answer to a deputation headed by 'Mr. Charles O'Neill, M.H.R., yesterday said the goldfield would be opened under the Act of 1866. He also said no concessions would be made to persons who had broken the law, and the whole field ; would be open in a few days. The new regulations proposed are that the area of one man's ground on the field shall be—for quartz'claims, 15,000 square feet; shallow alluvial, 2500 feet; for deep alluvial, 3600 ; and that the aggregate area allowed will be for quartz claims, ten men's ground ; shallow alluvial, four men's ground ; deep alluvial, six men's ground. Amalgamation of claims will be allowed. The gold returns from January 21 to February 17 are put down at 7853 ounces, an increase of over 4000 ounces on the previous month. . It is believed that since the death of the Superintendent the Governor's powers, under the Goldfields' Act, revert to the Governor. He will be advised to retain them or delegate them to a commissioner nominated by the Government. , There is a feeling prevalent here and at Ohinemuri that delegated powers would be exercised more for the benefit of the field by the Governor, or commissioner than by the Superintendent and the Provincial Government of Auckland. This would be specially the case at Ohinemuri, where it is believed that Mr. James Mackay should have control for some months at least, in view of possible difficulties with the natives. Beadan is here: with the view of prosecuting a land claim for .over fifteen thousand acres in the Piako district. The transaction is alleged to have taken place in 1839, and a portion of the land has since been sold to other parties. In the event' of its being resisted here, it is said the veteran captain intends prosecuting the suit before the Privy Council. The sharemarket is collapsed just now, the brokers and mining agents having mostly turned their hands to other employments. !The exodus to .Ohinemuri continues at the i-ate of something like fifty or sixty per diem from the Thames.

. ■ Masterton, Wednesday. In the cricket match between the Star Club v. Masterton eleven, the Stars made 114 in their first innings. The ground was a little wet. The result of the day's play was that the Masterton team were beaten in one "innings, with 63 runs to spare. : ."""''''' "' Blenheim, Wednesday. i The Marlborough Jockey Club Eaces w,ere well attended yesterday. The weather was exceedingly fine. Hurdle Bace —Whalebone first in both heats ; Tally-Ho second in first heat, and Lulu second in third heat. Maiden Plate—Ravenswing, 1 ; Certainty colt, 2 ; Tangi, 3. The Scurry Handicap would have been won easily by Guy Fawkes, who came in many lengths ahead of the others, but he having run inside a post the race was given to Ranolf, who came in second. The Shearers' Purse was won by Ward's Haphazard. In the first heat Harvester was first, winning easily In the second heat the horse was detained a few seconds at the starting-post, his owner not letting go the horse's head, as soon' as he should. The jockey thinking it a false start, turned back and was distanced. The third heat, therefore, was walked round by Haphazard, who won the second heat. Jockey Club Handicap—Guy Fawkes, 1 ; Magenta, 2 ; .Little Dick, 3. The weather to-day is rainy, and the glass is down. . Westport, Wednesday. The captain of the schooner Mary Campbell, from Melbourne, reports' that the Victorian authorities offer £IOO to any vessel taking the murjlerer Sullivan as a passenger to New ■ Zealand. 1 . .',',■." >: Christchurch, Wednesday. , ■ meeting of the Board of Health yesterday,!!;.was resolved to liberate the balance of the immigrants by the ship Bakaia, excepting those families who had been afflicted with scarlet! fever. The Superintendent drew the attention of the Board to the fact that in March next they would have to send in a report of their proceedings to the General Assembly, and said in his opinion the Public Health Act was thoroughly unworkable. It was decided that a special meeting of the Board should bo held to consider the subject. Hon. S. T>. Hastings, of America, P.D.R. W.G.T. of the Order of Good Templars, who is on a tour from the Bight Worthy Grand Lodge to lecture on tho principles of the order, arrived yesterday, and was recejved by a committee specially appointed for the purpose. He will lecture to-night. , Port Chalmers, Wednesday. The Oamaru, from Greenock, whence she sailed on the 30th November, has arrived with 280 passengers.' Scarlatina broke out on the sth instant. Two children aro in hospital, isolated from the others. The ship is in quarantine. The Wellington will be taken into the graving dook;for overhaul on the 18th. The Tararua has sailed with the Suez mails.