TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4816, 29 August 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(per press agency.) Auckland, Monday. Colonel Balneavis, sheriff, who arrived with the 58th Kcgiment in 1848, is dead. He took an active part in all the Maori ware. Little Nell has gone South in the Wellington to fulfill an engagement at Dunedin. The Thames Gas Company has declared a dividend of 7J per cent. Grahamstown, Monday.

There appears little doubt but that the fire yesterday morning was the work of an incendiary, and originated in the Kuranui Hotel, •which was the only building insured. It was insured in the Standard Office for £450. An inquest will be held. New Plymouth, Monday. Jones and McMillan, who have leased 43,000 acres of land at Mokau from the natives, chartered a small steamer, and went there with provisions, grass seed, &c. The steamer entered Mokau river on Friday, when she was boarded by five natives, who piloted her three-quarters of a mile up the river, where the party landed, and were well received by the natives. The cargo was landed, the natives working well and willingly. A meeting was held afterwards, when the headchief Takerau was loud in his protestations of friendship to pakehas. Natives say they have seen more white people during the last four months than for L many years. The steamer after remaining twenty-four hours steamed out of the river under the guidance of natives. Certain natives who have come into town state that Tawhiao, the Maori King, has decided to come to Waitara to hold a meeting. The Governor is to be invited, when arrangements are to be made for the settlement of the land by Europeans. . Westport, Monday.

The schooner Flying Cloud, from Lyttelton, left Charleston, in ballast, on Friday evening. She met a heavy gale, and is supposed to have been wrecked the same night, and all hands lost. Pieces of the wreck are now coming ashore.

Charleston, Monday. Yesterday forenoon portions of a wreck were found In Constant and Second Bays. Shortly afterwards the shattered hull of a small vessel was observed awash in the roadstead drifting northwards. Part of the comb-

mgs of the hatchways and deck-beams of a vessel ot about forty tons, planks, and two f 1 ® 0 ®? °*_kaudrail, were picked up with the letters, h-L-Y painted white. No doubt the wreckage is portion of the Flying Cloud, of Lyttelton, which left here on Saturday, in ballast, with a strong breeze from the N.E, ( wind unsteady. Probably the vessel capsized in a squall, and drifted on-the-rocks near the Four Mile River. -A boat was picked up near Brighton. The surf, is breaking furiously. No hopes are enterfcafiaed of the safety of Andrews (master) aud.threo men.

CimsTCHUEOH, Monday. The so-called Dr. Turnip'hydropathic lecturer, who was on remand dharged with stealing a coat, escaped from the gaol yard in broad daylight yesterday. He climbed the corrugated iron fence, and was seen by an unarmed warder, but being fleet of foot evaded pursuit. All the detectives and a large number of policemen were hunting for him all day and night, but without avail.

Dunedin, Monday. The prospectus of the projected Australian and New Zealand Steam Shipping Company is published this morning. In the football match Oamaru v. Dunedin, the latter won..

The Times to-day says Fitzherbert becomes Premier, with Rolleston Speaker;. Vogel goes Home. Late this afternoon • the town was startled by a report that Mr. C. E. Haughton, late Under Secretary for Immigration, had been arrested as he was on the eve of departure for Melbourne en. route for England. The report was unfortunately true. Mr. Haughton was on the point of entering the railway station to go to the boat by the 2'30 p.m. train, when Inspector Mallard, in accordance with telegraphic instructions, arrested him. At four o’clock Mr. Haughton was brought before Mr. Mercer, J.P., charged with having, at Wellington, “within six months last past, attempted to commit an unnatural offence.” On the application of the police, a remand till, to-morrow was granted, bail being fixed in the accused’s surety of £2OO, and two of £IOO each.