LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume 1, Issue 48, 25 September 1875, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[Per Pun ss Te LEGRAPH AOHXCV.I DUNEDIN. September 22. Otago won the football match against Auckland, the latter only scoring half a point to the Otago’s 7 points. Over three thousand persons present. POUT CHALMERS. September 22. Arrived —Brigantine Francis Lewey, from New York. She left on the Bth May, and experienced a series of heavy gales since crossing the equator ; made Otago Heads on the loth, but was driven north to Timam, and crossed the Bay this morning. She brings 047 tons cargo, principally for Dunedin, the rest for Wellington. TIMARU. September 23. Arrived—Merope, with 250 immigrants and 20 cabin passengers. 64 days from Plymouth. Three deaths (children), and three births. NEW PLYMOUTH. September 23. A locomotive ran for the first time between New Plymouth and Waitara last night. It is supposed that the line will be opened for public traffic next week. LYTTELTON. September 23. At Lyttelton regatta meeting held last night, it was resolved that a regatta he held, and an influential committee was appointed to carry out the details. GREYMOUTH. September 23. A fatal accident occurred here yesterday ■to n so]t of '4 l* "a.v v.;\ i* r.ngiprecipice, and fell over, a distance of fifty feet, deatli being instantaneous.

AUCKLAND.

September 23. A now boiler for the Wellington, weighing' 28 torn, was taken from Yeoman’s foe,miry to the Yess ‘1 to-day. £B7 has been collected on hdi.-Pf of Mrs Noble, widow of the master of the cutter Hero, wrecked at Mokau. September '24. Bnckland reports—Catcattl‘'',2os ; higii-r tlnm previous week. Woo! .realised 35s to 40s per 100’b. Sheep, 3d to 4i pe BLUFF. September 23. The Ringarooma arrived last night. She left Melbourne on the evening of the 18th, making' the trip in 3 days 20 hours, being the quickest on record. CHKISTCIIUCIT. September 24. Redwood has sold race horses Kawri and The Chief, with all engagements, to Thomas Shand, Canterbury, for .£9OO. Haines, trainer for Delemaiuc, offers to back Templeton for £IOO, to run Rory O’More or King Philip any distance, from half a mile to four miles. Annual parade entire horses to-morrow. There are 03 entries this year, against 53 last. WELLINGTON. September 24. A Commission, consisting of Messrs Carnithers, Higginson, Passmore, Dr. Knight, J. E. Fitzgerald, and Colonel Gorton, is now sitting to enquire into the system on which the railway accounts of the colony are now kept, and the stores accounted for. Right Rev. Anglican, Bishop of Wellington, is suffering from low fever. He is considered to be progressing favourably. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ’ September 24. House met at 7.30.

Clause 23 passed as amended. Clause 24, appropriation of laud revenue not to affect public securities, nor permanent charges on sucb revenue. Considerable discussion created on this clause, many thinking that it unduly favoured Timaru and Gladstone P-» ■ ! of Works; or, as Sir Gcorc Grey put ir, was a most unbecoming attempt to keep for eight thousand people in Timaru, four thousand acres of land. The clause was amended on the motion of B-owu, that after the Act comes into operation the endowment of one quarter of land, revenue to Timaru and Gladstone Board of Works shall cease. Clause passed. 25, The Establishment of Shires, on being proposed by Treasurer, Held and Fitziicrbert asked if Government intended to abandon Local Government Bill that session. He replied no, but so much time had hern wasted on Abolition, he was afraid they could not get it through. 20 and 27 struck out. Tiie H rst new danse proposed to repeal sect ion seventeen of Comthutiou Act,-Gr-'V, Ivolirsfon, and McAmdrew, were' aghast tit such a proposal. Fitzherbert also profesied, and suggested an amendment that not withstanding provisions of section--17 of Constitution Act it shall not be incumbent on ■Gupmautendent.’s to convene (■ -Hindis unless they saw necessity so ter do. Government resisted all amendments 1 and suggestions, and were firm that Provincial Councils should not meet again. Carried their pointhy 34t0 16. Remaining' clans‘s passed and Bill reported with amendment. The third reading fixed for Tuesday. LATEST ENGLISH NEWS. LONDON. September 3. The ironclads Iron Duke and Vanguard came into collision olf Wicklow in a dense fog. The letter sunk in nineteen' fathoms. All lives were saved. The Turks have violated Servian territory, burned a village, killed some of the inhabitants, and seized a quantity of cat.tL. Popular feeling in Servia veiy excited against Turkey. September 8. Wool s:iles languid. Further decline on medium and vnor con's of 2d. under June rales, and better classes c-f wool a penny lower. Wc’j -breds sh: ,“iy, hut Combing eagerly bong*-:.. lOoy'O bales catalogu'd. Good, withdrawn. Sales close onOrdobcv 2nd. Captain Anthony Hoskins succeeds Commodore Goodcnough in Australian command. , Wholesale desertion from Cm-list forces, and a collapse of the cause believed to be imminent. Chinese Embassy proceed to England in connection with the Magary murders. September 13. At a conference respecting the colonisation of New Guinea, Lieut. Annltoan gave result of observations during the survey on the Coast, and after prolonged discussion it was resolved to form a Colonisation Society, and to organize an expedition of 200 volunteers under Government co-> operation. September 16. Tire Servian Parliament are divided on the question of an address to the Tlironcu There is a strong minority favourable to the declaration of Avar. The Empress of Austria was thrown from her horse and mh Tuned a slight concussion, but has row recovered. The Emperor of Mo xco is expected to visit England «bort * Two ship-knackers v.u.-re fined and imprisoned for sending a rotten vessel to sea for sake of the insurance. Nora Hastings, cousin to the Marquis of Bute, has joined the Romish Church. Decider, the actor, is dying at Mattreal. Two thousand men have struck at the St. Cothnrd tunned. At the contractor's request troops were sent, who, being pelted with stones, tired, killing four and waic Turkey* has uvui ccustuiiod by llfC. A vote of a* 40,000 has been .passed for the administration of affairs in Fiji.