TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4809, 21 August 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(prom our own correspondent.) Taueanga, Saturday.

There is delay in the opening of Kaima, consequent on the Hauhaus declaring they will not allow prospecting. The head chief of Ngaitirangitoai,' Tupaea,has sent a messenger ordering them away. He recommends Europeans to have patience and all will be well. Prospectors will be guided solely by Brabant and Tupaea respecting their movements. Commissioner Brabant holds his first Court on Monday next, to adjudicate on land titles within the original confiscated boundary. The public is sanguine that the Clarke policy is ended.

(pee peess agency.) Auckland, Saturday. The immigrants per Bebington were released from quarantine to-day. Alfred Buekland will be a candidate for a directorship of the South British Insurance Company at approaching meeting. Grahamsiown, Saturday. There is considerable activity in the share market over a fresh discovery in the Waitekauri Company’s ground. Shares advanced from lla. to 20s. Karangahake is not turning out as well as expected; 258 tons quartz crushed yielded 67ozs. amalgam. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hall are expected to open the dramatic season here next week. Christchurch, Saturday. The steamer Akaroa left Lyttelton at ten o’clock, to tow in the vessel seen bottom upwards off Amuri, and now believed to be the Clematis. Dunedin, Saturday. The Times says ;—“ We do hope the Opposition will not allow themselves to be broken up, but that they will at least control and criticise, if they cannot turn out, the present Ministry.” Superintendent Whiteford’s letter, re Ballarat IFire Brigades demonstration and the cup, is published in the Times this morning. The Dunedin men are greatly incensed. Lyttelton, Sunday. On the passage of the Alhambra from Wellington to here a steerage passenger from Hokitika for Melbourne, named G. B. Gordon, supposed to be a chemist, was missed. The ship was searched, but no trace of the man could be found. It is supposed he jumped overboard. Money and other articles of value were among his effects.