TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4473, 21 July 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(fboji odb own correspondent.) Auckland, Tuesday. A Raglan correspondent writes that tho principal friendly Maoris of Raglan and Aotea and their followers are now cultivating side by side with the Maori King at Te Rua Uka Kawhia. His statement is of course open to correction. I give their names—Hone te One, Wetene, Moon, &c. Typhoid fever is still very prevalent in the city. _ Waikato coal is likely to be sent largely into the city, the railway having reduced the cost of transit to 7s. 6d. per ton. (rEK PEES 3 AGENCY.) Auckland, Tuesday. A public meeting re the land question was held last night, and a committee of six persons was appointed to draw up a memorial to the House of Representatives, and to submit the same to a future meeting. A smart fore-and-aft schooner of 118 tons has been launched from Stone's yards at Kauaeranga. She is named the Josephine. She was built to the order of Captain Souter. The Fiji Tunes expresses the belief that the new Governor has been so favorably impressed with Levuka as to retain the ca2iital there. The official departments are said to show signs already of improved control. The Governor is making a trip to various parts of the group, and is cordially received. The news is generally linimportant. A petition to the Assembly is in circulation by the publicans, praying for tho opening of hotels from one to three and seven to ten on Sundays. The Union Sash and Door Company have declared a dividend at the rate of twenty per cent.

A petition is being prepared in favor of the abolition of native rights to vote at elections of European representatives. Nahek, Tuesday,

Routledge, Kennedy, and Co.'s salo of fruit trees, quicks, Bhrubs, &c., from Mr. Hale's nursery gardens, Nelson, fetched excellent prices. There is evidently a good market for these sort of things in Ilawke's Bay. A native meeting is being held about, it is supposed, the same purpose as that lately held at Paki Paid. Noah Huki and other influential natives wish it to be understood that they entirely dissent from the programme of the committee. The Herald publishes the above statement on the authority of Renata,

' ' .-■ Masterton, Tuesday.'•. The Local Board election has closed. There were eight candidates—Bannister, Williams, Walters, Perry, Roberts, Donald, and E. Feist were elected. The polling was very close. Wanganui, Tuesday. The warm rain has melted the snow on Tongariro and Ruapehu, causing a very heavy fresh in the liver. Some damage was done at the railway bridge works. The fresh is not yet subsiding. A number of thefts have lately been committed ; also, eases of sticking up have occurred. '...... The settlers of Wairoa held a meeting last night to choose a new name for the township. They selected Waverley. No signs of the Manawatu or Stormbird. Christchurch, Tuesday. In the Supreme Court to-day, in the case Bain v. Walker, £SOOO damages for slander, the jury returned a verdict for the defendant. ' The Christchurch Metropolitan Kaces have been fixed for November Bth, 10th, and 12th. DUNEDIN, Tuesday. The Otago Times letter-box at the Postoffice was opened by a duplicate key on Saturday night, and letters containing money abstracted from a number of envelopes, and pieces of a cheque were found in the gutter yesterday. Some of the cheques have been recovered. The police have obtained a good clue. It is supposed to be a person who was lately discharged, and at the same time one of the keys of the letter-box was missed. Sir George Grey has given the Acclimatisation Society here twenty brace of quail. They are expected by the Wellington to-mor-row. The Darrells opened and had a magnificent house last night. "Romeo and Juliet" was the play, the Darrells in the title roles. The Government have decided to open five thousand acres for settlement in the Mount Beuger district. The Crown Terrace Company, Arrow, have opened a well defined reef two feet wide. A trial crushing gave 12ozs. to the ton.