TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5759, 13 September 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(FEB PBKSS AOENOT.) Grahamstowk, Friday.

The Advertiser learns on the best authority that Sir George Grey's resignation as a member for the Thames was forwarded from Wellington to-day. Mr. Williams, one of a party of four prospectors in the Wairarapa, has just had tested at the Moanatairi a parcel of one ton of hard stone taken out of a large reef discovered by Williams and his mates in a locality situated in the ranges about 17 miles back from Featherston. The result of the test, which was very carefully made—Mr. Williams having experience on this field—was a yield of 23dwt. from a little over a ton of hard atone. Mr. Williams brought the stone from Featherston to the Thames, knowing the superior appliances for testing on the field, and is glad to find the result so satisfactory. No doubt the Wellington people will take steps to have the reef opened up, and break down a larger quantity for crushing, as a more satisfactory means for thoroughly testing the country, and inducements to erect machinery. Auckland, Friday. The Chaplin-Osborno Company will open here on Saturday night. A free reading room for ladies will be opened next week. NAPIER, Friday. Gisborne won the football match against Napier at Farudon to-day by two points and a touch-down against nil. Messrs. Swan, Lee, and Faulkner have been elected for the Napier Borough Council. Dunedin, Friday.

The nomination of immigrants for the current month number 122 souls, equal to 112 statute adults, being only 50 per cent, of the number received for several months past. Seven new insolvencies have been filed this week, including Alexander Gray, Kaitangata, farmer, liabilities £4774, assets £4830 ; Dev. Father Larkin, liabilities £1699, assets £212.

A meeting of unemployed was held to-day. About 300 persons were present. Speeches were mostly moderate and sensible. A committee was appointed to interview the Mayor. A small subscription was raised to pay for advertising and the rent of a hall to hold the meeting in. The Young Men's Christian Association had a successful conversazione at the Garrison Hall to-night. . Invercargill, Friday. A resolution was passed at a meeting of the Council to the effect that the present system of acting under the Counties Act should be abolished, and that in lieu thereof each riding of a county should be rated separately for renewal purposes sufficient to meet its own requirements for works, plans, &c., and its share of the county's working expenses, but not to exceed the maximum fixed by the Counties Act. Copies of the resolution to be forwarded to the members of both Houses. A further resolution was passed, urging that the County Council should be allowed some privilege with regard to endowments similar to those enjoyed by the municipal councils, harbor boards, &c. Mr. Shanks, M.H.R., has resigned the chairmanship, owing to Parliamentary business. The appointment of his successor was deferred for a fortnight.' The missing girl Lucia has turned up all right. Timabd, Friday. At the Chamber of Commerce to-day a resolution was passed, urging on the Minister for Public Works the immediate calling for tenders for the new railway station, as the execution of a site is on the eve of completion.