LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 57, 27 October 1875, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[ [>UH»H AGENCY, j W EL LING TON. October 22. The boating season opened this afternoon with a procession of about 2<> boats, and Gt) members, ns under:—'Star, 11 boats, 42 men ; Wellingtons, 4 boats, 11 mm; Telegraph, I boat, 5 men; Queen’s Oun, 4 boats, II men. Snow, Commodore; Wain Held, Secretary. October 26. Andrew Young is the successful tenderer for tbe conveyance of mails for the next two years from Palmerston to Waipukara, and from there to Paki Paki. Mr Young has now the mail from Wellington to Uawera or West Coast, ami right through Napier on the Mast Coast. At .Bank New Zealand meeting Stone in moving (lie adoption of the reports, said that since the commencement £ ( J2O,(K).) had been paid in dividends, £IBO,OOO revenue fund, ami £IOO,OOO written off. The balance sheet showed deposits £ 180,000, including one million ami half of the four million Joan. The demands for accommodation during past year were very great. The directors believed that a return as favorable as that of to-day could be made on increased capital, ami they .proposed, therefore, to issue ten thousand new shares, which will he first offered to present shareholders at £5, viz. £8 below the present colonial value; payment for new shares licit required before first .January, from which date they will participate in profits of the half year. The deed of association to he altered i-o increase reserve fund. Referring to the Government account, the chairman said its possesion had been the can.se of so much jealousy that the Rank would not feed aggrieved if submitted to public tender. He doubted whether the future condition of the Government account would be such as to cause envy. The Chairman and T. Whitaker spoke in strong terms of condemnation of Bridge’s evidence. Mr Cotter said as confidential adviser for 14 years of the Bunk he. had never known its influence used for political purposes. A dividend of it) per cent, and a bonus of 5s per share was declared. LYTTELTON. October 28. Captain Smith, of the barque Coquedu Village, committed suicide this morning. The mate found him dead in his berth with a bullet bole in his temple. Pecuniary difficulties is the supposed cause. AUCKLAND. Oct. 23. A row occurred between Natives and Europeans at Kawakawa owing to Marsh Brown and his Kawiti followers going to the hotel where Eugene Beda and his Maori wife were staying and demanding that she be given up. A bushman and others joined in the row, and shots wore fired from amongst the Europeans, which wounded one Native ; one European was taken into custody. The Coronet, from Tahiti, reports that the guano ship Eddystone, which put in there leaking, was repaired and sailed, but had to put in again leaking worse than ever. DUNEDIN. October 23. Enquiry into the wreck of the Bruce concluded last night. The captain's certificate is suspended for one year, and the mate’s for three months. Dunedin won the chess match by telegraph with Lawrence. A well to do M. P.C has been served with a writ for £8()0(), for breach of promise, of marriage, by a lady he has jilted. He marries another in a few days. Plaintiff has engaged counsel. .October 26. The Union Company have telegraphed to John Darling, their building inspector at homo, to build and despatch without delay a steamer of the same dimensions as the Bruce,, to be called the Watiaka. Th ;y have also ordered another steamer , similiar to the Hawea and Tanpo. .. It; is proposed to luvmo her tlie Rotorua/ : v ADDITIONAL ENGLISH NEWS. The P. and O. Company have purchased two new steamers of 3,000 tons each, and have one building of 3,400 tons. ■ A railway accident on tbe Midland line near Sldpton, caused the loss of seven lives. The, Alexandra grain warehouse at Gloucester -Docks was destroyed by fire. ... At llifafn,, in Russia,3oo bouses were burnt, Obituary.-i-.M f Clnro, Boyle Bernard, dramatic writer, r Sii- E., Ryan, Prince Charles of BtivaHa, Professor Smith, of Berlin, Lord Grantly, a Waterloo hero, and Bennett, a veteran actor. Ekports to 1 New Zealand, £283,750. * The Indian financial statement was fmacle by Lord George Hamilton.' An amendment was proposed by Smollot condemning the policy of. borrowing large sums each year without regard to income, hut was negatived by 66 to 21. . A motion by Fawcett, censuring the Government for deferring the Indian budget to the close of the session, was also negatived. A scheme for army organization will engage Hardy’s attention during the recess. ,// t .. ; • ■ r ,■> : The Prince of Wales’ visit to Sheffield was a distinguished success. The

Prince and family afterwards left for Scot,laud. The- Duke of Edinburgh Is handsomely entertained in Russia by his father-in-law. The Duke of Connaught has arrived in Beilin, after visiting the Grand Duke of Baden. The Duke is promoted from the rank of Captain to Major in the Seventh Hussars. The King of Italy has presented to the Queen six Italian ponies. The tStatuo of the late Lord Mayo has been unveiled at Brokcrmouth. There, is dissension among the Magna, Charta Association. The Leic stei branch is unable to obtain a satisfactory statement of the appropriation of its contributions, and has repudiated Keuealy, ami denounced him as dictatorial, tyrannical, and avaricious; and the Englishman as the most infamous paper ever published. Tin* committee threaten to prosecute Keuealy for slaudtr.