LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 58, 30 October 1875, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

f I’IIESS AGENCY, | WELLINGTON. October 28. The Luna returned this afternoon from her surveying expedition, having been absent just two days. A line for now cable across (look Straits has been surveyed and thoroughly sounded a little to southward of present one, (he shore end being about four miles south of Sinclair Head. dim nature of tlie bottom, which varies greatly, lias been caret u.'iy ascertained, and the varia* lion in the dilferrnt parts of the line has been thoroughly marked out so that the cable may be constructed accordingly. M October 29. M»>onald, who was sentenced some IB months ago to three years’ imprisonment ■ r i Rtriietiiig the crossing of. a bridge n r Palmerston, by shooting one of the hones of Young’s stage coach, received Governor’s pardon, and was released this morning. CHRISTCHURCH. October 28. W. Fndcrson,the celebrated Melbourne jockey,-was sentenced to three mouths’ imp so uncut wi hj liar 1 labour to-day, lor steal m"- a goal watth and chain Horn the City H ,lel last Autumn races. DUNEDIN. Octo’ cr 28. A meeting was held last night at the Tempo nnce Hall to consider the desirability '>! Ala fing a work’ng men’s paper, and nft< r much taimng a uuu.r„ii(t,n was xonnecl to further the object. When the toast of the “ Press" was proposed at the banquet last night, it was received with hisses and groans. Only a few persons rose. It was hurried over befoim anyone could rise to respond. At last, after another toast had been given, a person named Fleming replied, and declared that he was a Provincialist, and of course was applauded. The committee throughout has treated the Press very discourteously. At first it refused them tickets, and thou on the Press dwaring they would take no notice of the proceedings, tickets were sent. It was at one lime decided to refuse all papers tickets esc pi the ‘Tablet, (Catholic orue.n), and that journal was to get £5 to report the speeches of the Hibernian Society , which joined in the procession, but this was refused.

The Macandrew Banquet last night was most enthusiastic; over 400 were present. Macandrew was received with tremendous applause. Ho said that it wou’d be the blackest day that ever dawned for New Zealand when Provincial sentiment was abolished. The colony was the most overgoverned and over-taxed under the sun, and the result of abolition would be a loss of £200,000 per year to Otago. When they took away the check upon Central Government by abolishing Provincialism, the Ceutial Government would ride roughshod over the liberties of the people. The two Islands should he left to manage their own affairs, independent of and irrespective of each other. (Terrific applause.) Sir George Grey dilated upon the excellence of toe Provincial institutions, and the injustice of destroying a federation without giving the members of that federation an opportunity of saying whether they < bj c ed to being aholi hj d or not. Eitzherb at considered the Abolition Bill the most audacious attempt ever made in the world to lake away the life (f the people. It was imp irallelod in the 1 ist ry of the world that *3 men had ■withstood the tyrannical opposition of an < verwliolining majority, and rendered hack to fie people their great privileges, which it would he their own. fault now if they did not tur i to good account. Kolleston looked for modification of the present institutions rather than any violent change of action of Government. It wai only drawing a red herring across the scent to lead people away from considering the administration of the Government in the future. Richardson, Stout, Sheehan, Thomson, and others spoke strongly in favour of Provincialism. The meeting broke up about midnight. October 29.

Tee fourth half-yearly report of tho National Insurance Company shows that the total receipts for the including £2OOO from previous balance, amounts to £42,738. Tho expenditure for the same period is £233,767, leaving for distribution £19,161, which it is proposed to appropriate as follows : Reserve fund, £SOOO, which will ten make the reserve 35,000 ; a dividend of fifteen per cent per annum, 3,750 ; carried forward to next half-year, £10,411. The company is interested in the Strathmore to the amount of £4,800, which is not provided for in th > present balance-sheet. In drainage machine competition at Melton yesterday Read and Grey took the first prize of £IOO ; no second prize was awarded. The four Superint ndents were present at the luncheon after the competition. Sir George Grey spoke at length against abolition, He paid a high tribute of praise lb Mr Murray, M.11.1i. Sir George Grey speaks at Cluther to-night at Thompson’s banquet, Sheehan, Bunnyj and J. C. Brown went on to Lawrence from Meltou. Sir George Grey delivers a lecture on Tuesday next, In one of our large halls in aid of All Saints Church Fund. He does not leave here till Wednesday on that account. AUCKLAND. October 28. Vision, schooner, arrived from Samoa, and reports having a seen a slaving veasel floating bottom upwards. The Kaipara railway was opened to-day. Passengers were conveyed. The Gorman war vessel Gazelle, from Sydney for Auckland, sighted off the V A special telegram to the Star from To (Waikato), states that a jealous husband tomahawked another Native, who has since died. Great excitement in the village. Crops abandoned The murderer and his wife were married, by Archdeacon Maunsell. Arrived—Hero from Sydney, after a rough passage. Heavy seas were shipped and considerable damage dime. The second mate was washed overboard. Captain Logan badly bruised, and several of the crew crippled. The ship arrived in a very disabled state.

The passengers per Hero presented Capt. Logan with an address and purse of soverreigns in recognition of his cool bchaviou dining a fearful gale on the passage from Sydney. October 20. Bnckbmd reports—Fat cattle Bo.s- to 87s per lOUlbs; shorn wethers tatted, B.LI to :J i. About Id per lead lower. A woman naumd Ilmth, an immigrant 1 y the British Em'pirc, tied her child to her back, and jump) al from the wharl into llic harbour, and was rescued. It is •behoved that the cans:.' was unhappiness Aviih a man she is living with nominally isa husband. LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. SYDNEY. October 2d, George Rope, under sentence for the murder of Ins sister-in-law at Mudgee, attempted suicide by opening a vein in his arm with a piece 01. stool from his necktie. October 28. Great fire at Home Rule diggings. One side of the street entirely destroyed. The Customs seized UIJU cigars and other dutiable goods aboard the Normanhy from Hong Kong. ’llie ship Samuel T’limsoll arrived from Lon lon with immigrants. She encountered a field of icebergs one hundred mi'es in extent. MELBOURNE. October. The new Minis!it is eomplc ted. MeCiilloeb, Premier and 'Treasurer ; McPlnrson, Chief Secretary ; Kerf AttorneyGeneral ;Dr Madden, Mini: for Justice ; Joims, Minister for Railways ; Ramsay, Minister for Education ; Anderson, Cus- . Meljc!lan, Mines. A boat coiiua.v.njr jive men capsized at Sandridge. One was n.-fm-ned. Last, Sunday’s Hospital collections amounted to £SOO. Connaught is scratched for the Derby. 1000 to 80 taken against Sterling for the Cup). ADELAIDE. Grasshoppers are appearing in alarming numbers in the North. The steamer St, Osyth had a narrow escape from tiro on her last homeward passage. The coal in the bunkers was discovered to be on lire, and it was eight hours before the (lames were subdued. LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

LONDON, October 19. British Artie Expedition arrived at Carey's Islands on (lie 27th July, and left immediately fo ■ Smith Sound. The season is described as very open, and there is every prospcc of a high latitude' being attained. Thu expedition is staled to he all well. A French note sent to Turkey protests against the hitter’s default in paying off coupons. A cablegram from Sir Daniel Cooper ami.unices the death of Sir Charles Cowpcr, Agent-General for New South Wales-.