TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4777, 14 July 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(pee press agency.) Auckland, Thursday. A schooner has arrived at the Bay of Islands from New Caledonia, and reports that a large French frigate had arrived there with nine hundred convicts. Farnall is announced for Auckland City West. Goldie, J.j M. Clark, and Hurst are spoken of. The Auckland cricketers telegraphed agreeing to the new terms for a visit from the English eleven. Grahamstown, Thursday. The Orange soiree last night was successful, in point of numbers and other elements conducive to the enjoyment of a pleasant evening. Vesey Stewart was in the chair. Some of the speakers were conspicuous for intelorance and want of judgment. Napier, Thursday. Simonsens' Opera Company have played six nights, to the largest houses and most money ever known here. The Orange Lodge celebrated their anniversary last night by a hall and supper. There was a large attendance, and the affair passed off well. The Napier Gas Company have resolved to reduce the price of gas from 18s. to 16s. net per thousand to large consumers using 20,000 feet per month. The concession will only affect one or two customers. Greymobth, Thursday. The report of the wreck of the Tui is unfounded. She sailed yesterday for Wellington via Westport, and to-day from Westport to Nelson. Dunedin, Thursday --, A railway hand at Stirling named Jollify Young was killed to-day by a truck passing over him. The railway earnings for last month were £9886. The Post Office Savings Bank returns forthe quarter are:—Deposits, £13,466 ; withdrawals, £48,851. Talbot opened last night to a fine house. THE TEREMAKAU RUSH. Hokitika, Thursday. The rush at Teremakau is now assuming large proportions. A great number of claims on each side of theprospectors’areon good gold. Some miles of ground not yet touched is expected to carry thesamelead. OverSOO sections in the new township have been taken up, and are now fetching very high prices, thirtyfive pounds being refused for some half sections. Messrs. Cameron Bros.', Lyttelton, tender for Titan, steam tug, £4900, lias been accepted. No satisfactory tenders for sailing vessels were received. THE THAMES OPINION OF SIR GEO GREYS ACTION. (from our own correspondent.) Grahamstown, Thursday. As far as I can opinion is decidedly against the action taken by Sir George Grey. Everybody except his partisans condemns the fast-and-loose policy he has adopted, as unbecoming a man, much less a statesman and a gentleman. The star— the only leader or representative of public opinion since the Advertiser has been like a house divided against itself—on receipt of the telegram giving

' the select committee’s opinion o£ Sir George’s double election, commented as follows : —“ It will be seen from our telegrams that the committee of inquiry into Sir George Grey’s double election have come to the conclusion that his return for the Thames was according to law and precedent. It will, also be seen that Mr. ' Stout has given notice of motion that on Tuesday next Sir George shall declare for which ' constituency ho will elect to sit. It remains to he seen what decision Sir George will ultimately come to after the very marked indecision he has displayed all through —whether he will still feel that circumstances compel him to represent Auckland City West, or whether he will once more his nund and become our first representative, instead of our third. From what has come to our knowledge of maneuvering already begun even in this district, wo believe Sir George will be guided, not by his own inclinations, nor by the wishes of Auckland City West or tho Thames, ’jjnt by the advice of certain political jackals who are .already bn the trail to discover whether the chances of returning a candidate of Sir George’s way of thinking are better here than in Auckland.” Yesterday, when the telegram arrived stating that Sir George required further time to make’hp his mind, the Star had the following:—“Sir George Grey, as will be seen by our telegrams of to-day, has demanded a further period during which he may consider whether it will better suit the views of his own party that he should represent the Thames or Auckland City West. The further period allowed to Sir George Grey to decide as to whether he will or will not represent a constituency he had pledged his broken word to support, is limited until Friday next, at which time, unless a reason for further procrastination be discovered, he must make his election betwixt us and Auckland City West. -Why all this delay, .unless it be, as we suggested on Saturday, for the purpose of serving his party, we are at a loss to conceive. Surely Sir George has had time since the last elections to decide whom he will represent—surely ho cannot forget by what means he deluded ns into electing him ;• and surely also, he cannot forget his promises made. His conduct is, to say the least, inexplicable, as might have been expected.” The news in this morning’s paper (conveyed in form of telegram to Dr. Kilgour) that Sir George had made up his mind to sit for the Thames, caused some surprise, coming so soon after his request for more time to make up his mind, and I have no hesitation in saying that the disappointment was almost universal when it became apparent that no chance would be afforded the constituency of redeeming thenerror. To-night’s Star contained the following :—“ Sir George Grey has decided to sit for the Thames, and has, we are told, telegraphed to the chairman of his election committee to say so. It of course by no means follows tbit because Sir George has said a thing he ■will do it, for he telegraphed to the same chairman of the same committee once before, saying that owing to circumstances'he could not sit for the Thames ; and now we find that he will, or we ought to say says he will, as the two things by no means mean the same. Circumstances alter cases, but the circumstances of the Thames are pretty much the same as when, before his election, Sir George Grey promised faithfully to serve us, which he promises now. Neither, as far we can see, have they ever been altered, but Sir George may have other circumstances affecting himself and party, and these may vary in a way we know not of ; at any rate, one thing is, or seems to be clear, and that is, that after first of all soliciting our suffrages, and then rejecting them, Sir George Grey is going to honor,us by condescending to represent us.”