TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4432, 3 June 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[from OUE own correspondent.] Ddnedin, Wednesday. The debate last night was simply a fight for place, loaves and fishes appearing to be the great aim of the majority of speakers. Mr. Armstrong, who on the occasion of the BastingsFish Government being formed, said'he would support them if they kept within the ten commandments, said, last night, that finding they had done no more for his district (Mount Ida) than the former Government, he should vote to turn them out. On the Council meeting to-day, Bastings informed the House that the Executive had resigned, and Reid stated he had been sent for to form a Government. It is very probable John Davie will be Treasurer, and the Hon. Dr. Menzies will very likely be in the new Executive. It is thought possible that Mr. Bastings may be asked to hold office, and so form a coalition Government. Turnbull -will not, it is thought, accept office again. At the annual meeting of the Licensed Victuallers’ Association last night, ten guineas were voted to the Benevolent Institution. It was resolved to celebrate their anniversary'by a supper. Mr. and Mrs. Bates were passengers to-day by the Phoebe, and open to-morrow at the Princess, in the “ Hunchback.” The Fakir of Oolu leaves for Christchurch in a few days. The Star of the South arrived this morning, and leaves again to-morrow. The Wellington left this afternoon. Passengers for Wellington Messrs. Nation, Kelly, Norman, and Strawn. The body of Mr. Kennaston, supposed to be drowned in the River Mblyneux, has not yet been recovered. He occupied the dual position of town clerk at Roxburgh and correspondent of the Tuapeha Times, and has been in bad spirits lately. He is thought to have thrown himself in. [Peb Press Agency.] Auckland, Wednesday. A public meeting at Otahuhu adopted a petition to the Minister for Works, for the reduction of the tariff on the Mercer railway. Justice Gillies to-day gave an important decision in the case Bond v. Witherford, involving the right of a married woman to will away, without her husband’s consent, property conveyed to her by him. Gillies decided she could not do so. Gbahamstown, Wednesday. The missing boat is all right. The occupants found their way to Aucldand. The miners' rights inquiry was held yesterday, and was adjourned sine die, but Major Keddell and Inspector Thompson have since arrived to resume the same. The latter will get up evidence. The prolonged absence of Mr. McKay has interfered with the inquiry. The Star gives the gold returns for Hauraki, from Ist to 31st May, as 7292 ounces. This does not include returns from private tailings mills and other works. The City of Loudon has declared a dividend of 275. 6d. per share. Some anxiety is felt for the safety of a boat, containing four men, out since Saturday. Tauranga, Wednesday. The body of the unfortunate Mr. Gilfillan has not yet been recovered. The Bay of Plenty Times, this morning, in a leader, advocates the adoption in the district of the deferred payments system of land purchase. ’ . Bend’s meeting with the Tauranga natives is postponed till to-morrow. Oamarc, Wednesday. One of the free immigrants who arrived here from Dunedin ex Wennington, described as a single girl, is a decrepit old woman, aged 63, bent double, and scarcely able to walk. She is now in the barracks awaiting employment. . Christchurch, Wednesday. Justice Johnston arrived per Phoabe yesterday, and was formally received by the Superintendent. There are only four candidates undergoing the annual examination for the Civil Service. Mr. Webb, of Riooarton, has obtained the astonishing yield of 100 bushels of oats per acre from an eight-acre paddock. In the Provincial Council last night the Government were requested to obtain a report from the medical staffs of the Christchurch and Timaru hospitals, as to the advisability of receiving pupils as hospital dressers. The Lyttelton Times has just received important information respecting the New Zealand passengers by the homeward San Francisco mail of March last. Captain Rose, who left New Zealand for England by the Mikado, in March, on business connected with the New Zealand Shipping Company, writing from Ogden, Utah Territory, April 22nd, says that on arrival at Ogden he found the line was damaged by floods for a distance of 200 miles beyond that spot, and in consequence he had been detained there for a week, but expected to proceed on his journey that day. Owing to the state of the roads, ho calculated that<iihe could not embark at New York before the Ist. of May. Forty New Zealand, and three hundred other passengers, wore detained, with Captain Bose, at Ogden; the mails by the Mikado had been sent on by the previous train from San Francisco, and got through to New York after fourdays’ detention from the floods. It will be

seen from this that Captain Bose and the rest of the passengers could not leave New York at the earliest before the Ist of May, the Schiller was lost at the Scilly Islands on the 4th or sth of May, and must have left New York at the latest on the 25th or 26th of April; it follows, therefore, that the New Zealand passengers per the Mikado could not have been on board the Schiller. Dunedin, Wednesday. Mr. Eeid’s want of confidence motion in the Bastings Executive was carried at two this morning, by five majority. It was generally expected that at most there would only be two of a majority. The Provincial Council met at 2 p.m. Mr. Beid said he thought he could form a good Executive. The Council adjourned till two to-morrow. At a caucus meeting to-day it was rumored that the new Executive will be : Beid, Provincial Secretary ; Stout, Solicitor ; Davie, Treasurer. Lumsden represents the South, Stewart the North ; McKellar, Goldfields Secretary. The Presbytery received an overture, re instrumental music, which was favorably remitted for the consideration of the Synod. Hokitika, Wednesday. There is no late news by the Albion. Passengers for Wellington—Mrs. Palmer, and 12 steerage.