TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4457, 2 July 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(fkoji ouk own correspondent.) Auckland, Thursday. The Cross considers it quite probable that Rothschilds made Vogel an offer, but says—- “ We have reason to know that the last letters received in the colony from him speak of business, arrangements connected with his private affairs which have to await his arrival in the colony; and we are greatly mistaken in our estimate of the man and of his regard for his public reputation, if he docs not still intend to come back to -New Zealand at' the earliest possible moment. That one day he may return to England is extremely likely, and if this reported offer has been made to him he may then creditably accept it.” The only intimation the Superintendent received of the payment of the disputed capitation money was an intimation from the bank that the money was paid to their credit. The Customs revenue for the half-year amounted to .6121,946, against 6108,445 for the previous half-year. The gold export for the quarter is 640,778. Stevenson, secretary to the Improvement Commissioners, goes to Wellington again during the session with a Bill prepared similar to that rejected last session, enabling the mortgagee to sell for non-payment of interest. The Commissioners are now indebted £27,000, which they cannot raise for love or money. In the Supreme Court to-day, Judge Gillies granted a case to take to the Appeal Court in the case Smith v. Thomas, in which is involved the question whether an agreement signed by five out of six shareholders in a company is legally binding on the six. Dunedin, Thursday. The Guardian , to-day says the statement in the Times that the General Government are about to take over the control of the police force is the effect of a diseased imagination on the part of the writer. During the past six months 726 births, 228 marriages, and 320 deaths have been registered in Dunedin. A parcel of 1400 National shares have been in one line at 245. net. A young barrister, lately passed, has eloped to Melbourne with a young lady of this town. The cricketers here are disgusted at the conduct of the Auckland cricketers, in arrogating to themselves the right to settle that the match Australia v. New Zealand shall be . played in Auckland. At the Police Court to-day Messrs. Denhistou and Bathgate again came into collision. Douniston was commenting on a case after the judgment had been given, when Bathgate peremptorily ordered him to be quiet. The Evening Star to-night, in speaking of Vogel says— ■“ There is a clique of which the Wellington Evening Post is the centre, which has branches in the Daily Times office, Dunedin, and one or two other towns in the colony, and in the Age office in Melbourne, that may be designated a . canard manufactory.” The Star continues, “the self-constituted ‘leading journal’ here accepts its Wellington items as true, and from time to time weaves a commentary on the texts they afford. The Melbourne Age publishes a repprt, most probably transmitted from Wellington, and gullible journals here seize upon the paragraph and give it currency as an independent corroboration of a New Zealand invention. The clique has set 'itself to lead to the belief that Sir Julius Vogel will not return to the colony, and accordingly reasons are adduced which vary in order to keep up the sensation. Although he is 16,000 miles away, they are fully acquainted with his every movement and every aspiration. They know he will not return, first because he is about to seek a seat in the British House of Commons ; or, if that will not do, ho has received a lucrative offer from Messrs. Rothschilds to take an active part in conducting their affairs. This, of course, must be true, for the Age has received an intimation to that effect ‘on good authority.’ For our own parts, we, like a great many other ordinary people, are in complete ignorance of the matter, but we do not believe it. It seems to us, however, that it should be a very good offer to induce Sir J. Vogel to resign the distinguished position he has attained as a colonial statesman in order to bury himself in the obscurity of a subordinate position in a money broker’s establishment, although it is said to be that of the Rothschilds, nor are we certain that his peculiar talent lies in remaining in such a position, but that is not the meaning of the report, for we believe it to bo one, and not a Melbourne but a New Zealand one. It is a covert and mean attack upon Sir Julius, insinuating that he has sacrificed New Zealand for his private interest, and is a poor return to him for the efforts he had mado to forward its best interests and prosperity.” At Maloney's prospecting claim, at the Lyoll, CSOozs. of gold have been obtained from seventy tons of crushed quartz. The Cvonmell Argus has no hesitation in saying that if barristers hero had to write from dictation alone, in order to pass an examination, there would bo several in Otago who would have to go to a night school before they . could qualify themselves. There is talk hero of keeping up the O’Connell centenary. Tho'Batcs’H season closes on the 18th hist. The weather is wot, dirty, and wretched.

(run nusss agency.) Auckland, Thursday. Tho Customs revenue for tho financial year, closed yesterday, amounted to X231.G 10. New Plymouth, Thursday. Tho Council closed last evening. Thu members dine together, at tho invitation of tho Superintendent and tho Executive, this evening. Brennan,■-■ft® 1 ' stealing a watch, was committed for trial. Naiter, Thursday. Tho Council will probably bo prorogued to-morrow, Leo has introduced a Bill to amend tho Licensing Act by giving power to grant bottle licenses. It will bo opposed. The item, Assistant Sheep Inspector, .£3OO, was struck out. It is thought tho present inspector will resign. Burton, in tho Council, showed that in the last nine years £IOO,OOO had been spout by tho Provincial Council, but only £IOOO of it on tho Spit in all that time. Christchurch, Thursday. Tho horses shipped in tho Tasmania by Mr. Dowling were landed yesterday, and comprise twelve draught mares, two draught stallions, and an Arab stallion. Tho latter is a handsome animal, and bore the voyage well. The whole lot are exceedingly valuable, and are considered a groat acquisition to the province. Dunedin, Thursday. Fifteen persons wore summoned to-day for neglecting to clean tho footpaths fronting their shops. As those' wore the first cases of tho kind, tho magistrates dismissed tho defendants with a caution. All the papers for the last three days contain letters on the filthy state of the streets, and saying they are the dirtiest streets of any town in tho colony. Invercargill, Thursday.. Tie Mataura Paper Company is advertising for tenders for cutting a race and masons’ work at tho Mataura Palls. Tho plant for a paper-mill is being manufactured at Sydney. A company has been formed here to secure patents for a now description of rowlock,

invented by Captain Thomas, Harbor-master at Bluff harbor. The chairman of the railway and immigration committee has received a letter from Sir Julius Vogel, communicating that he had made arrangements for eight ships direct for The Bluff, each to bring 300 immigrants, during the next twelve months.