LATE TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume 1, Issue 28, 19 February 1873, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

(From the Daily Southern Cross. NEW ZEALAND. The Hon. John Hall resigns next week and goes home. The period for granting a bonus upon cured fish has been altered from the Ist November to the Ist August. The Governor has approved, of the regulations for the New Zealand University, apportioning £l,OOO for 20 scholarships, and the remaining £3,000 for the incidental expenses of the Council. AUSTRALIAN. The delegates proceeded to Sydney by the mail steamer. The Hon. Mr. Vogel was too ill to go. He followed next dav. The Intercolonial Exhibition is finally closed. The visitors to it numbered 150,000, and the receipts were £5,000 The lumpers in Hobson’s Bay have struck work. They object fo sailors loading and discharging ships'. It has been announced that 33,000 shares in the National Bank of New Zealand will be placed in the market shortly, to be taken up by the colonies. H.M. ship Cossack has sailed for England, and on her way will touch at the Auckland Islands. ' Mr. Wallis, the bootmaker, has been warned off the Melbourne racecourse for two years, and has been expelled from Tattersail’s, for offering a bribe to a jotkey. The Italian frigate Garibaldi, with the Duke of Genoa on board, is expected to visit Melbourne in April. The death of the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel has been reported in a private telegram. A private telegram to his Excellency the Governor states that Gavan Duffy has been knighted. Captain Gay, of the steamer Wainui, has been committed for trial on a charge of kidnapping. Jt ha? been proved that 130 men and 7 women have been stolen by him from Solomon’s Island, , At Sydney the Legislative Assembly sat from Wednesday to Friday at daylight, forty-two hours. Several disgraceful scenes were enacted. In the Northern Queensland provinces famine prices rule on account of the floods. Exchange on New Zealand is 2 per cent., discount. „ Mr. Miller, rope manufacturer, Melbourne, in consequence of a rise in the price of Manila hemp rope, has raised the price of rope made from New Zealand flax £2 per ton, and cordage A bill has Been introduced info the Assembly giving the citizens, instead of the Aidermen, the right of electing the Mayor. EUROPEAN. i Lord Lytton, the celebrated novelist, died at Torquay, after twenty-four hours’ illness, during which he had suffered from ear-ache and inflammation. He had just returned the proof of a new work winch he was preparing for early publication. It is stated that Earl Granville informed Schon Valoff that inaction on the part of England ceases if the territories under the rule of Afghanistan are invaded by Russia. ) Sir James Fergusson has arrived. *nie Hew clipof wool i* arriving, but present arrivals indicate no satisfactory qualify, The Liverpool sales show an advance in prices, f The French indirect revenue for the year 1872 exhibits a deficiency <rf 154,000,000 franc s._ A despatch has been received from Dr. Kirk, British Consul at Zanzibar, dated November, which states that the men and supplies want , to Livingstone reached him safety, and that the doctor had started on an exploration of the interior in August. The ship North Fltet, for Hobart Town, has been sunk at Dungeness, through coming in collision with a steamer. She had 412 immigrants on board, and only 100 landed safety. The fate of the reiniiiirdei is uncertain. • ---

The St. Petersburg Gayytt * details the whole of the Anglo-Russian negotiations. ifit h regard to Central Asia which commenced three years ago, and had continued upon a friendly basis. The latest correspondence on the subject shows only unimportant differences of opinion. ThfGerinah Emperor vftits St. Petersburg in April; but it is denied at St. Petersburg that the interview will be in any way connected with the Khivkn-question. Masses have been said in the various Paris churches for the repose of the soul of the late Emperor. The churches were crowded. The Committee of Thirty resolved only to allow Thiers to speak in the Assembly in the debate on bills. An attempt of the Right to censure Jules Simon, Minister of Public Instruction, was unsuccessful. (From Hawke’s Bay Herald.) ... — NEW.ZEALANIL Mr. Vogel telegraphs that there is eveiy probability of Webb getting the American subsidy of £lOO,OOO for ten years, but that the Inter-Colonial Conference, ia not likely to du anything. George Rogers, Esq., solicitor, is dead. The Kaipara Railway Works will be sb far completed within a month hence as to be ready for laying the sleepers. Cotton has been grown successfully on Captain Stcale’s farm, near Hamilton, in the Waikato district. At Mr. Buckland’s sheep fair at Remuera yesterday, over a thousand persons attended. 5000 sheep were pennpj. High prices ruled for good animals. A number of two-tooth longwoolled ewes were bought on account of the Hon. Mr. Waterhouse by Mr. Kerr, of Springfield. A large nupiber of farewell addresses to the Governor from various Maori tribes are being sent in. Preparations are being made to hold a largo meeting of natives at Ngaruuwahia to bid farewell to His Excellency. The monument to the memory of Tamati Waka, which it is intended to erect at Russell, is expected by the Phoebe. The Governor will be presenUat the uncovering. There will bo an immense meeting of Northern natives on the occasion. Stormy meetings arc Being held throughout the province with regard to the education rate. Mr. Driver catalogued 1000 bales of wool al his late sale. Prices Were about one penny in favor of buyers compared with the early sales of the season. «

Messrs. O’Neill and Thomas, of Wellington, have offefodto lay a,tram way through the < ity, and to give the Corporation 10 per cent, nett profit after paying tliemsfelrfes. The Government have telegraphed to Dr. Featherston expressing surprise that he had not informed t hem of his illness, ami their si ill greater surprise at liis appointing Mr. Morrison to act for liim, after receiving an iutiwption that Mr. Morrison’s'resignation was desirable. Instructions to dispense altogether with Mr. Morrison’s services are reiterated, and a wish expressed that Mr. Julyan should act for Dr. Featherston oi>any temporary emergency. It is contemplated to establish a London Board to advise with and assist the AeentGcneral. ‘ The Commission appointed to report on the case of Mr. Eyes recommend hie removal from Blenheim. The old Golden Crown at the Thames ,has again struck gold. Fiji advices to hand is to the effect that gold has been found, and that Consul March has left the islands. News lias been received of the loss of the barque Cereal, between latitudes 40 and 30 south, bound to Monte Video, and thence to Otago. She was owned by Captain Sewell, of Oamaru. t EUROPEAN. The latest proposals of Russia aim at the establishment of a neiitml territory between the possessions of Great Britain and those of Russia in the East. The St. Petersburg public are much excited at the accounts received of atrocities committed Upon Russian prisoners at Khiva, and demands are made for the exemplary punishment of the offenders. Vigorous preparations are being made to fit out an expeditionary force, which will probably number 50,000 men. Princes, and others high in rank, are velqnteering. A letter in the Times on authority denies the report of a joint guardianship over the Prince Imperial, and affirms the of two Bonapartist factions. L ZLvI, . Prince Napoleon awaits the course of events. _ The Coburg Gazette denies the rumor of the intended, of Prince Alfred with a Berlin papers state that the Russian army of the Caucasus has been, transformed into a Central Asin army,' numbering one hundred battalions of infanfry, thirty-six batteries of artillery, and twenty squadrons of cavalry, which are considered sufficient to defy the British forces; and further that Russia is. waiting to take advantage of any false step that may be made by England.