LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 171, 29 November 1876, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[Pku Pukss Agency,] AUCKLAND. November 25. A new coal mine has been opened at Maramara, Miranda district. Captain Heal, the inspector of surveys, is marking off the province into ridings. The work is to be completed in a fortnight. H.M.S. gunboat Conflict proceeds to tho New Hebrides on Tuesday, en route fot* Noumea and Sydney. C. E. Pritchard has made proposals to the Auckland Waste Lands Board for the purchase of 02,000 acres near the Waikato Heads, and to introduce 1,200 immigrants, paying their passages, and advancing tools, implements, and rations on the security of the land. He intends employing the immigrants on roads, and in aiding in building houses on a scheme very similar to the Fielding settlement. One third of the land to be allotted to immigrants, the remainder in blocks of fifty acres to one thousand to be sold from time to time. Pritchard represents the English Association, including Lord Bathurst, Earl Egraont, Colonels Doile and Trevalyan, and Mr Morrice. In all, eighteen capitalists. November 28. Mr Whitaker has gone to the Thames, accompanied by Mr Frazer, to institute certain abolition arrangements. A sample of Kaimai quartz has proved non-auriferous. WELLINGTON. November 25. The mail steamer Australia, which lelt on the 23rd of October, arrived in San Francisco on the 15th inst, one day before contract time, and the. City of Sydney left there with the New Zealand and Australian mails on the Bth inst., the advertised day of sailing. Consequent upon certain articles which have, during the last two days, appeared in tlie New Zealand Times , commenting on the conduct of Mr Barton, solicitor, in the Police Court, the latter has commenced an action for libel ngaint the Times. Travers and Buckley are retained for the plaintiff. November 28. George Clarke, a half caste, from tho Bay of Islands, was sworn in a member of the Executive Council this afternoon.

AUSTRA L I A N, MELBOUHNfiNovember 17. James Mackenzie, many years manager of the Chartered Bank at Clmies, lias been arrested, charged with falsifying bis books, A London telegram reports an advance of 20s on sugars. A number of volunteers at the presentation of prizes by the Governor, conducted themselves disgracefully, and assaulted the proprietor of the new arcade. An enquiry is to be held. The English cricketers are to leave for Sydney on the 27th. A silver mine has been discovered near Penguin Creek, Tasmania. All other news anticipated.