TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4956, 9 February 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PEK MESS AGENCY.) Auckland, Thursday. The Thurland Caatle has arrived from London after a passage of 95 days. There are no Government immigrants, but several passengers. '. , During the passage of the Thurland Castle, on December 12, on the.watch turning out two men were missing. It was supposed they were broaching. cargo, and a boy waß sent down' the hold. He found a man's hat. The forehold was then closed and a guard placed over it. Raps were heard below as a siguaL and the hatch was raised aud two .men were discovered with two bottles of £i'og, one in each hand, with five more at their feet. One of the men actually handed two bottlesf to the mate, supposing he was his shipmate. The men were placed in irons until arrival. Within two yards of the broached brandy cases there was enough gunpowder to blow the ship to pieces. Traces of melted grease were found close to the powder.

Inspector Brohaiii bSs gone'to.Wellirigton ;.to "conference of,-Inspectors of the fArmed .Constabulary relative^ "bution of "the police force. *- Dr. Aiken, surgeon, and Miss Hamilton, matron of the Lunatic Asylum, have resigned, in consequence" of their dissatisfaction at the -manner.-of conducting., the into, the state of the .asylum: ' ; -i- . "■' ' : " Twenty-eight, fallow deer,have been safely 'landed out of thirty-two shipped. Niccol intends to withdraw his claim to the 'plffze''at~ Nelson "for the Secret, and will substitute- an application, for .the return pf .the entrance fee and" a" 'declaration from the committee that all debts (sic) be declared'off. ■ ■••>.. New .Plymouth, Thursday. ' 'The nominations' for' the Taranaki Jockey Club Handicap, 150 sovs., close on Saturday | : next.-, ••,"- ,': -.- . ri -,., -- ■■- r T..-.V'v•:•'",-'.. 1 "~''"'."• "!■■"■'•■'■" Napier, Thursday. ' The nominations: for the vacant seat in the to-day occupied over two "Five candidateVwere nominated —Tiffen, f -> Sitton,, Colenso; Buchanan, anii. Rhodes. Tb« shdwof hands was in favor of jSuttoß,,. he -. h»ying tl : one r . more - Vote- '■'. thwi TBuch.-uian. A," was' derqanded "by Tiffen, and it'will take place next Thursday.. :■. .• . Poi(T Chalmers, Thursday.The railway line Hasre-opened traffic. .; - ; ; Allen and Kingstreet, contractors of the Port Chalmers section, of the Moeraki railway) estimate the"damage done'to the line at £IOOO. ' . ... ..,.....•;, Balcltttha,Thursday. , : The-weather is'showeryi but the river coh-" tinues falling, and • all- danger has : passed. The Island of Inchclutha continues half covered with back-water. Great damage has been done to the crops. Only one mail has. arrived from Dunedin since Monday. The people.are kept in the dark as to when another may -be expected. -Great ■ annoyance is felt, as . the ordinary roads arc all clear. " _',.-;..' .• Thursday.;" . Janiea,Green h'as beeii appoihted'a member of the Otago Waste Lands.Board,J)ice.the Hon. D. Reidi" K - '" -•-■■-■-'-' \ In consequence of the late fall. -of- rain Ithe Cricketing Oval will not'be" fit for practice'for some days. The Davenport.'Brothers are announced to appear at the Princess Theatre on the -sth March. ; '-'• ■ Weldon,- Commissioner;o^ : the'O'tago Police, has gone to Wellington to confer with the Go-, vernment re police matters. _ ! ■ - Two thousand jhave been drbwned on the Henley estate. j On the Taieri Plains large numbers of cattle' and sheep were - carried-down the river. " '" "CftRISTCHtmcH, Thursday. Weather again very wet. ■ The fpllowtng'-are-the nominations for !the Autumn' Handicap :—Shadbolt's Eclat, syrs.; Griffiths' Corruption, 3yrs.; Mallock's Mangle; ; Sfxßae-'s Tekou, ;. Ashton's Black Eagle; Delamain's Templeton, Pungawerewere, Elfin -King, and Titania,; Powdrell's Queen of Vale; Wattes Ariel; O'Brien's Fishhook; Goodman's Tadmor ;' Walters' King Fisher, Isaac Walton,. and Hippooamo_uß,;_ Studholme's Blue Peter-; Vallance'B "Mischief ; Nosworthy's Eallaby ; Maney's Maritana ; Hungerford's Jasper; Mackay-and- Handley's Chief-; Redwood's Guy'Fawkes, Korari, Pilriri, Bribery, Marbro, Stirabout, and Songster ; Ward's Lara, 3yrs.; Murphy'a Amanda"; Walker's Tambourini; Ray's.-Danebury..and- Middleton ; Grjgg*B ■Tatte;-Lbgan ,, 8 i 'Cloth tit tSold' and ,T>ead Heat; Yeend's King Phillip. j.:..^ The weather ißclearing'up. There is nearly a clear-sky. j- r . - rr rT T . ~. ; . At' a"meetiilg of the Permanent InvestmentSociety the Chairman of the Board of Directors stated that the confidential clerk named Henderson had absconded, and that defalcations amounting to £SBO had been discovered. ', !,. r r ~.,.,..., . Westport, Thursday. Tiiere Wasa; rie'avy"stbrm froni the southward •this, morning. r The r river was flooded, but no Jdamage wife done fewm.'- 'The'he^wstone protective : works are standing well so far as they are completed.' iv 7 . The Sarah Pile, from Kaipara, is in the. rftftdsj^ad.;)'- ■i'J'U'.'SCd