TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4519, 14 September 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AGENCY.) Auckland, Monday.

Vesey Stewart’s settlers were shipped direct to Katikati to-day by a steamer specially chartered. They have livid aboard the vessel since their arrival. They took a considerable quantity of agricultural implements and provisions with them.

The football team proceeds south on Wednesday. Napier, Monday.

A fatal accident occurred to a drayman named William Ellis this afternoon, in Dickensstreet. The horse bolted and threw the driver ont, the wheel of the dray passing over his head and killing him on the spot. Christchurch, Monday.

Edwards, of Dunedin, has arrived here for the purpose of giving sundry exhibitions in walking matches. He announces his intention of walking seven miles under an hour on Saturday next.

The Lyttelton Times urges the Government not to be misled by a few hot-headed supporters, but to remain firm in their adhesion to the terms of honorable settlement which they have themselves proposed. The allotment of shares in the Loan and Investment Company of New Zealand will be made known to-morrow.

Nominations for the Canterbury Jockey Club Haudidap and the Canterbury Cup close on Monday next. The racehorses Tadmor, Tambourini, and Lough Neagh, will be sold by auction at Tattersall’s on Saturday next. The Lyttelton Times this morning, referring to the refusal of the Government party to accept the compromise proposed by the Government on Friday night, says—“ There is a very ugly rumor afloat, which professes to have discovered a motive for the action of the Government party. This is an idea that the Government party can resuscitate an old standing order of the House of Bepresentatives, under which the question can be now put, and the Dili forced through the House with the least possible discussion." The Times says it cannot believe any such idea will be put in force, and that a search through the standing orders and “ May’s Parliamentary Practice,” makes it doubtful whether such a thiug can be done, but even if such a power existed, it is a most dangerous one, as by stifling discussion it strikes at the cardinal principle of parliamentary government, and the Times feels sure the good sense of the Government will prevent them from establishing a precedent by virtue of which the House may be placed at the mercy of the Government. But even if the course proposed was not dangerous to the stability of representative institution, the Times relies on the Government not to follow it, for it is confident that in the face of an honorable compromise fair to all parties they must shrink from such an act of arbitrary injustice. The article then concludes as follows ;—“We hope the virulent obstinacy of a section of wrong-headed supporters of the Government will not be permitted to stand in the way of a fair settlement of the difficulty. The position of the Government ought not to be embarrassed. They ought to carry out the terms they have offered. Giving adhesion to a fair and honorable course never harmed any Government in the past, and is not likely to do so now.” Dunedin, Monday. A new monthly magazine is to be started in Dunedin, on the same style as the “ Contemporary Xleview." The first issue appears on the Ist January. There are five editors— Professors McGregor, Sale, and Brown (Canterbury), Itev. it. L. Stanford and Captain Hutton.

A little boy named Sbeelden, aged seven, had a narrow escape from drowning yesterday afternoon. He fell through the old jetty at Vauxhall into the water. A deaf mute named Eeager, jumped in and saved the youngster. This makes the fifth life Eeager has saved from drowning. Wiltshire, who started to walk 150 miles in thirty-six hours, accomplished the feat with forty-five minutes to spare. A deputation of clergymen to-day waited on the Deputy Superintendent to see if they could not get free passages on the line when on duty. The Superintendent replied that personally he was not in favor of the step, as there would be considerable difficulty where to draw the line. He failed to see if clergymen were granted the privilege why persons having benevolent missions to perform should not be similarly treated. His Honor promised to place the matter before the Executive,