TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5413, 2 August 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(feojl oub own corkespondent.) Gisborne, Thursday.

■ The anxiety about the safety of ’the Hawea increases hourly, and the Telegraph Office is besieged by inquirers. She loft hero shortly after eleven on Sunday morning for Tauranga; since which time nothing has been heard of her. The Pretty Jane left on Saturday tor Auckland. She, too,, is unheard of. It is just possible that the latter .is in Hicks Bay, but the Hawea is likely to have been disabled and blown off the coast by the strong north-wester which has been blowing the last four days. She has .on board a large complement of passengers, among them being soven saloon from here, including Messrs. S." C. Caultou, Trimmer, and Mrs. Batty. It is now blowing from the south-east,-which will probably bring the Hawea in shore if she is disabled and under canvas. ~ (PER PRESS AOENOY.) Wanganui, Thursday. Frederick Whitlock, Thomas McDonough, Ambrose Lough, and Underwood were charged in the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day with having an illicit whisky still and a quantity of spirit in their possession. They were remanded till Friday, _ under heavy bail. Thomas McDonough is the proprietor of the, city brewery, where the still was found by the Collector of Customs.

Auckland, Thursday. The body »f Mr. Marshall has been found on the beach, : 1 ■ ’ .. ' A mau named Michael Button has been arrested for kicking a-neighboring settler named Callaghan, causing rupture of the bowels. Callaghan is dying. . Tho Sash and Door Company have declared a dividend of 20 per cent. . ‘ L Mr. Crowther defeated Captain Casey for the City Council by a majority of 278. • Napier, Thursday.

There was a heavy fall of snow here this morning—a thing that few remember before, or at ail events for the last ten,or twelve years, in this district.

OAMAUU, Thursday. Mr. Sumpter,- secretary .to the WairekaLivingston Kailway Committee, has received an official report from the surveyors appointed by Government to make reports on the survey of several suggested' routes of the Waireka railway to Livingston.; The report shows that the difficulties in the construction of the lino are very small from an engineering point of view, if they can be termed difficulties at all, inasmuch as a great part of the Hue is level, and where the grades occur the average is 1 in 10d, or easier. There are only about threoeighths of a mile of tunnelling in the whole line, and even this might bo dispensed with ; and the entire railway could bo constructed forunder £80,000,i or at an average cost of '£5500 per. mile. Action is being taken, by the residents of Marewhenua with a view to beginning the Constructionof this railway as a colonial work. A. petition to the House of Representatives, with that object is now in process of signature, and probably further action in the matter will be taken by the Bail way Committee. A meet-

lug to consider the engineer’s report will bo called almost immediately. William Craig, farmer, Waimotu, was entertained at a dinner last night at Herbert, when the settlers’'presented him with a gold lover hunting watch. ... Mr. Craig has bought a large, run" at Wanganui. He leaves O unarn shortly. Christchurch, Thursday.

The Jockey Club received the following entries this evening : —Canterbury Cup.—W. Keith's Guy Fawkes; W. Walters’ Hippo ; Mallook’s Nemo ; fiilligan’s Laertes and Merlin ; Goodman’s Maligner ; Redwood’s Maroro, Ariel, Longhands, Wait!, York, Natator, and Raupo ; Fraser’s Naiad'; J. Williams’ Jangler ; R. Farmer’s Mac Lain and Dundee ; O'Brien’s Fishhook ; Owen and Lethbridge’s Foam; Ray’s Templeton; Horsefall’s King, Quail. Canterbury Jockey Club Handicap.— Hawdon’s; Bversley ; , Keith’s Prudence, Harlequin, and Guy ; Walters’ Hippo; Mallook’s, Nemo and Foul Play ; Gilligau’s Laertes, Merlin, Danebury, Mufti, Songster, Fiction, and Ifolle Farlue ; Gibson’s Otawa ; Perkins's Pnugawereworo; Swanson’s Blue Peter; Logan’s Dead Heat, Cloth of Gold, Nosworthy, Fallacy, Fable, and Catastrophe ; Goodman’s Chancellor ; Redwood's Ariel, Longlands, Puriri, Orange Lightning, Piufire, Rata, Raupo, York, Waite, Ratnarama, and Maroro ; Fraser’s Bribery and Naiad ; Lunn’s Maritana; Todhunter’s Sorceress; J. Williams’ Jangler; Farmer’s Mac Lain and Dundee; O'Brien’s Fishhook; Neilsou’s Te Whetu and Luna ; Knight's Lama ; Owen and Lethbridge’s Foam ; Mason's Conballo; Ray’s Templeton, Titania, Insolent (late Bide-a-Wee), Sinking Fund (late Ranolph), Horsetail's King Quail. . The number of entries last year for the Cup was 24, and for the Handicap 39. Dunedin, Thursday.

It transpired during the hearing of the case in the District Court yesterday in which Mt.' Proudfoot was defendant) that he got paid for nearly 4000yds. of metal on the Blueskin contract iu excess of what" ha actually supplied to the Government. : i

At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to-day the question of direct steam communication with Great Britain was discussed, and the Chamber resolved that it was not in possession of sufficient information to enable’ it to come to a decision on the matter. The following resolutions were carried :—“ That with regard to an insolvent declining to assign his estate or file a declaration of inability to pay his debts, he should be declared insolvent on the petition of the bulk of his creditors being presented to the Registrar.” “That the provisions of former bankruptcy Acts as to discharge of debtors in oases where dividends are less than ten shillings in the pound should be reserved.” “That notices of all bankruptcies be advertised in the mercantile Gazette, of New Zealand, provided it becomes a public newspaper." “ That the law ought to provide that a debtor, on filing a declaration of inability to pay his debts, should send a written notice of the same to each of his creditors. That the recommendation made last year by the Wellington Chamber of Commerce to the Government, for improvement in the machinery for arresting absconding debtors, be again brought under the notice of the Hon. the Minister of Justice, with a request that he will bring in a Bill to carry the same into effect.”

The Harbor Board to-day resolved that in the event of the Government deciding to adopt the Hon. Mr. Macandrew’s plan for tho railway station and goods station site, in opposition to tho resolutions of the Chamber of Commerce, the City Council, and Harbor Board (carried unanimously on July 26th), the Board are of opinion that these local bodies should unite in applying to Parliament for the appointment of a committee to inquire into the whole question' Mr. John Darling left per Wakatipu to-day en route for England, to superintend the con-’ struction of the new steamer for the Union Company. Captain Cameron, of the Wakatipu, remains on shore after this voyage as ships’ husband, and Captain Wheeler gets command of the Wakatipu. Captain Peterson, of the Beautiful Star, gets the Taiaroa. Timard, Thursday. The Customs revenue for the month of July amounted to £2537 3s. Id., being an increase of £ll7l 18s. Id. over the corresponding month of last year.