TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4867, 27 October 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AGENCY.) Auckland, Thursday. The Southern Cross of to-day thinks that Sydney is attempting to drive a one-sided and hard bargain in reference to the San Francisco Service, and that the New Zealand Ministry have been too plastic. Honolulu may, be relinquished, but the price of the relinquishment must be Auckland as the port of call. The article concludes by saying:—“At all risks, even at the risk of the abandonment of the service, Auckland must not be sacrificed as the port of call, and the Government must show unmistakeably that they are, determined it shall not be sacrificed. The same paper suggests the issue of freight stamps for prepayment of parcels as being a great convenience.”

The Auckland Members Reception Committee are awaiting a telegram as to the probable date of the arrival of the members, before taking steps. The properties of the old Prince of Wales Theatre were auctioned to day. The entries for the Auckland Handicap of £2OO and the Racing Club Handicap of £l5O, close at eight o’clock to-morrow, i The amount of the arbitrators’award in the case Jones and Ware v. Brogden was £1379. The plans of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Insurance Company provide a two storey brick building ; fronting Featherston and Brandon streets. At the meeting ,of the creditors of Samuel Wells, who levanted to San Francisco, there was shown a total of secured debts £716 ; unsecured, about £IOOO. Many small amounts entrusted for investment and rents collected are not accounted for. Alexandra, Thursday. Numbers of Waikato natives are down.here to-day with residue of Kuiti produce. Amongst them is Parengarenga, the murderer of Winiata’s father, and several other members of that family. ■ . .. Christchurch, Thursday. The Acclimatisation Society this afternoon decided to send the curator to Auckland to take charge of the salmon ova to arrive by the next mail steamer. Two hundred and fifty trout ova will be sent as a gift to Taranaki, in place of the lot which died on their way to there. f The shearing promises to be above the average. The price per hundred is lower than ; usual, owing to the influx of Victorian shearers.

Private letters from the Kumara goldfields are discouraging. t ■ Dunedin, Thursday. . The Superintendent > has addressed a letter as follows, in accordance with the request of i the Political Association :—“ I have the honor to request you to be good enough to attend a meeting of members of the House of Representatives and Provincial Council, Mayors of Municipalities, Chairmen of District Road Boards and of Local Education Committees, to be held in the Provincial Council Hall, Dunedin, on Wednesday, November 8, to confer and determine ns to the best means of extricating the province of Otago from the evil results involved in the Abolition of Provinces Act. I need not say that the present is a crisis which demands the most serious attention of all earnest men who have the future welfare of the province at heart; and I venture to hope that there will be a goodly muster of such at the proposed meeting, which need not occupy more than one or two days.” The Ocean Beach railway opened to-day. A verdict for the defendants in the case Mackay v. the National Bank was returned.

: The Union Company have agreed to issue return tickets at single fares from any 'part of the colony to members of fire brigades visiting the Dunedin demonstration. "■ Nearly all the immigrants by the Timaru have been engaged.