TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4475, 23 July 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(from oub own correspondents.) Auckland, Thursday. The Wellington special telegrams to the Auckland papers are extremely speculative, and people wonder how far they are the reflex of lobby gossip. The Herald correspondent, for instance, to-day states that Stafford is to be Premier at the close of the season, Featherston will be dismissed, and Vogel appointed Agent-General. SwJS!^ Government have abandoned the frontier constabulary posts, established in the Waikato after Sullivan's murders. Another fine schooner of thirty-five tons was launched to-day for the Bay of Islands trade. Boys running away from the training-ship are a perpetual source of annoyance to the police. Three were brought up at the Police Court to-day, and a whipping ordered them. Dunedin, Thursday. The Guardian, this morning, referring to the resignation of Gisborne, as Commissioner of Annuities, speaks of him in terms of the highest praise, and says the success of the Government insurance scheme is principally duo to him, and also trusts that the report that Mr. Knight is about to take Gisborne's place is a mistake, as however nice a young man Knight is, he is utterly unable to occupy such | a position. Per San Francisco mail yesterday there were received 6236 letters, 600 book packets, and 23,629 newspapers. After the excitement of the mayoralty election quite a calm reigns. His Honor the Superintendent, M.H.R., left to-day for the seat of war at Wellington, and was accompanied to the port in a special train by his henchman, Donald Reid. George Tumbull is appointed Deputy Superintendent. (prom a special correspondent.) Dunedin, Thursday. It is rumored that the head of a banking establishment has been' informed his presence at the Club would be dispensed with, in consequence of his having spoken of a prominent Dunedin citizen, and member of the Club, as a swindler. When summoned before the Club committee, he denied having used the word swindler, but admitted that he considered him a dishonest man. Feeling runs very high on the matter amongst the upper ten thousand, and it is not improbable there may be a pulling of noses in consequence. (PER PRESS AGENCY.) Auckland, Thursday. At the Chamber of Commerce meeting this afternoon, it was stated that a representation had been made to the General Government, on the subject of non-delivery of the San FrattcisTco mail on Sundays, and on the delay in delivery of the Suez mail, through being sent via The Bluff, and that Yon der Heyde .bad been requested to brine; before the Assembly the question of lowering railway freights. Grahamstown, Thursday. The Bright Smile Battery openwl to-day. Everything worked admirably. The cost of the whole plant is £12,000. A champagne luncheon was provided. ■ Christchurch, Thursday. Mr. Wm. Maskell, Provincial Secretary, and Mr. C. J. Harper, both supporters of the new Education Bill, addressed their constituents at Leithfield last night, and votes of confidence in them were passed. Dunedin, Thursday. The Guardian this morning expresses a hope that Judge Johnston will be permanently appointed to Otago and Southland, and considers it a mistake to assign the most important judicial districts to the least experienced Judge. The Times, "in a leader on tho Featherston-cum-Vogel correspondence, declares that the doctor should be at once removed, and Bays it is not to be endured for a day, that in a matter of vital concern to the colony a subordinate officer should be allowed to act in direct opposition to his superiors, holding himself responsible to no one. A small lii-e occurred in George-street last night. A furniture-dealer named Russell was burnt out. Tho amount of insurance was £250, in the Hew Zealand Company. Had not the brigade been smart, and the water pressure good, there would have been half a block destroyed. Captain McLean, of the steamer Otago, states that Messrs. McMeckau and Blackwood's new steamer Riugarooma sailed for Melbourne on tho 23rd June. The following appears in the Star, re the Schiller's mails :—" Sir, —By tho late mail I learn from London that my letters posted here in March last, via San Francisco, were all recovered, and delivered twelve days after due date, marked 'saved from the wreck of the Schiller.' My friends also inform me that there was lying on tho table of the General Postoffico a mass of letters whose addresses were illegible, waiting to be claimed by their rightful owners." / Invercargill, Thursday. . Messrs. McNeill and Bastings are likely to contest the seat for Wallace The writ is out. Tho nomination is fixed for the 31st inst., and the poll for tho 6th August.