EUROPEAN & COLONIAL TELE GRANS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 42, 9 April 1873, Page 2

EUROPEAN & COLONIAL TELE GRANS.

(FROM THE NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND. The Church of England Mission station at Kaitaia, twenty miles from Mongonui, has been burnt to the ground. The Bev. Mr. Puckey, who has occupied the station for over forty years, lost everything, including an organ, and an excellent library. , The new Auckland market house, it is stated, will be open in about six weeks. The p.s. Nebraska arrived last night, at ten o’clock. She brings San Francisco papers up to sth March. She arrived at San Francisco on her up trip on the 21st Februaiy. The December colonial mails arrived in London after a passage of 47 days. San Francisco, March 2. It is estimated that 1,000,000 lbs of wool from last clip are still warehoused, chiefly of low-priced descriptions. New York. Phormium quiet, but steady, and in moderate demand at 8i cents for good and fair parcels, Kerosine has undergone a further decline. It ranges from 28 cents to 32 cents, according to brand. London, March 4. Phormium is quoted at £3l 10s to £33 for medium half-dresssed. Tow ranges from £l3 10s to £l5 15s. Preserved meats —Mutton, 5d to 6£d; beef, 5d to 7|d. The charge against the priests of intimidating during the Galway elections lias proved a complete failure. j Yellow fever is prevalent in Brazil. Foreigners are leaving the country. It is stated that Noyes, a clerk in the Bank of England, who was a confederate with the the forgers, has made some startling revelations to a member of the house of Rothschild, who visited him in Newgate. It is reported that frauds to the amount of £2,000.000 have been perpetrated, £350,000 having been drawn on on Jay Cooke, M'Culloeh and Co., £200,000 on the Rothschilds, and a large amount on Baring Bros. All the French arsenals are being replenished with war materials.

The revolt in Ukrain has assumed alarming proportions. Atrocities are being perpetrated by the revolted peasantry of a most diabolical character. The Russian Government profess ignorance of the circumstance. A number of the convicts at Blackwell Island, New York, made an escape. Among them was the man-eater, Cuoich. All were caught. It is rumored, that cholera has broken out at Vienna, but that the authorities are keeping the matter quiet. . ; The Nebraska brings the English mails. The captain knows nothing of the reported stopping of the mail service. London, March 22. Victorian six per cents, April-October, 115 f; New South Wales fives, 107; New Zealand consolidated, 104; New Zealand sixes, 113 ; Bank of New South Wales shares, 41. March 25. Unofficial correspondence from Khiva, in relation to military expeditions sent by Russia, is authoratatively forbidden. According to the latest Russsian accounts, the Khivans have attempted, but without success, to incite Kirghiz to revolt and to assume a hostile attitude towards Russia. The full equipment of the Khivan expedition has been completea. The insubordination of troops at Catalonia, in Spain, is causing considerable uneasiness. London, March 26. Mr. Gladstone has intimated that the Geneva award would not be payable from the present surplus revenue. SYDNEY. March 27. Governor Bowen arrived here on Monday night, and remained the guest of the Governor till Wednesday. He then sailed in the Victorian Government steamer. Earl Kimberley telegraphed to tho effect that the Government intends introducing a Bill for removing obstacles to intercolonial commercial reciprocity, which was recommended at the late Conference. A new fatal cattle disease has broken out in the Groydir district. A Bill making the Upper House elective has passed the Assembly. MELBOURNE. March 27During the voyage of the Buckinghamshire Mrs. Grieve, wife of one of the saloon passengers, was injured and died. A child of Dr. Fairthome was also swept overboard. The prospectus has been issued of a new banking institution, to be called the Industrial Mercantile Bank of Australia. Capital £25,000. A large number of cattle have died suddenly. Their deaths are attributed to a poisonous plant called Lobelia, Praiicides, which cattle eat. The rowing clubs are doing good work. The Sydney men are daily increasing in public favor. The Customs revenue shew the imports to amount to £13,689,000; exports, £13,871,000. The revenue amounts to £1,678,000. DUNEDIN. < April 1. The result of the City elections was as follows: —Fish, 612; Prosser,. 534; Reeves, 155. Mr. M'Glashan, M.H.R., is about to proceed to England to obtain plant fora paper manufactory. , WELLINGTON. April 2. At an extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of the Wanganui Steam Navigation Company, resolutions in favor of the voluntary winding up of the affairs of the company were carried by 23 to 5. The steamers wiH accordingly be sold. Mr. Houghton, of Dunedin, offered £8,150 for -the Wanganui.'

There will be a full choir practice in the School-room on Thursday evening *t half-past 7 o’clock. Mr. Salomon. —We have been a»ked to draw attention to the “ startling news ** HrenUr posted in the town. Mr. Salomon is now in Napier and promises an early visit to Gisborne. Our Petroleum Springs.—“ Homeopathic Pharmacy, 63, Queen-street, Auckland, March 11, 1873. —To Messrs. Preece and Graham, Auckland.—Gentlemen, —Herewith I forward report upon a sample of petroleum oil and saturated earth from Poverty Bay, received on the 22nd ultimo, from your office. On receipt of the sample of oil, about 30 oz., I regretted to find that at least four-fifths was water, and the small quantity remaining has militated against my making an exact analysis. The appearance and scent-of the oil were very favorable, resembling closely the best Pensylvanian crude petroleum. The sample wt.j mixed with a rather large portion of organic matter, in the shape of decayed vegetable substance. The specific gravity of the crude oil was 875'5, which is rather heavy for the quality of the oil, but this is in consequence, I believe, of its being exposed for some time to the action of the sun and atmosphere, while floating on the surface of the water, and the effect of which has been to remove all the lightest and etherial properties, and consequently to render it of greater specific gravity. When the oil is obtained from the spring, I confidently anticipate that its specific gravity will range from 790 - to 805' The mineral turpentine which will then be obtained from it will be a very soluble product for mixing with paint,. Ac. I forward herewith two ounces of the refined oil, which has been chemically treated to remove as far as possible the color. This sample is a light lemon-colored oil, specific gravity about 805' (not sufficient quantity to obtain exact gravity with hydrometer) ; burns with a bright white flame, and would be classed at home as an A oil. The flashing point is at 107 Fahr.—three degrees below the Government standard. This is rather in favor of the oil, as a much larger running would be obtained from the crude oil for the purpose of illumination. I consider that about 70 per cent, of the oil (of sample received) would be a good illuminating oil, classed under two heads, A and B, while tho the residue would yield about 15 per cent, of fair lubricating oil, and 15 per cent, of antifriction grease, or if the latter was not marketablo it might be pushed to about 22 per cent, of lubricating oil, and eight per cent, of still bottoms, graphitic matter, use in starting fires distilling, &c. The saturated earthy matter I found to consist chiefly of organic matter saturated with water and petroleum oil, in the following proportions:—Water, 52'7 ; graphite, 14.16 ; oil and organic matter, 3313—100. I estimated the oil and organic matter to be in about equal proportions, thus giving only 17 per cent, for the oil contained, and precluding the distillation of the earth for a financial success.—l remain, Ac., J. A. Pond.”— Weekly News.

Sir George Arney, in proposing the health oj the Governor, at the farewell ball and supper given to his Excellency and Lady Bowen, thus feelingly alludesto this district: — . . . “I don’t think we sufficiently recollect the past. I recollect that in my studies at the college at which his Excellency likewise received his education, I learnt from the Stagyrite to forget the evil of pain and sorrow and to cling only to the consciousness of present enjoyment. 1 do not think we sufficiently recollect what was the state of the colony at the time when his Excellency arrived on these shores. It did indeed happen to myself that on the first occasion of my coming to the coast of New Zealand I witnessed some of that sorrow and that desolation that was at that time befalling some portions of the colony, and I have not forgotten the singular and affecting scene of the schooner Tawera when coming out of Hawke’s Bay I saw her bearing down and evidently trying to cross the course of the steamer in which I was a passenger. I have not forgotten the peculiar sensation which I felt at the first time seeing signals of distress hoisted from her little mast, nor have I forgotten the aspect of affairs when she came across our path and I saw huddled in her hold miserable women 1 bereft of their children, and a few little sticks of furniture collected together on board that vessel. I have not forgotten the scene we witnessed on the deck of that vessel, or what we heard afterwards when we inquired of what has been called the Poverty Bay massacre. But I recollect likewise, of course, the active measures which were afterwards taken, and I contrast that state of things with the condition of the colony now.” The following is a portion of his Excellency’s reply:— ... I would also observe that it is a great consolation to me that I leave this colony tranquil and prosperous, and in a condition which, as the Chief Justice said, is very different from that in which I found it five years ago. (Cheers.) , On this point the Superintendent of Otago, at one of the forewell dinners given to us on our recent tour in that province, made rather a good hit. He said: “ Sir George Bowen is now promoted to Victoria, but now that peace is established here New Zealand will go ahead so fast during the next six years that when Sir George Bowen’s time has expired in Melbourne he will be promoted back to New Zealand.” (Cheers and laughter.) ... Of course the duties of a Governor in a colony possessing Parliamentary Government are social as well as political. Socially, we have always endeavoured to make Government House what it ought to be—that is, a neutral ground on which meh of all parties can meet in harmony ■nd forget their differences for a season, and we can say for ourselves that we leave New Zealand without the cnnsrirnisneiMi of a single duty ne g* lected, or a single enmity wilfully provoked. (Cheers.) We know that we leave behind us thousands of warm friends, and not a single enemy. At least, if reciprocity is necessary to enmity, then certainly we can have no enemies. (Cheers.) If we have say enemies, then, as the Irishman asy* “ The reciprocity must all be on one side.” (laughter and cheers.) As thia is

St. Patrick’s Day, perhaps the allusion to the Irishman is not altogether inappropriate, but I do not feel in a temper to address you in festive e’rains to-night, for the sad word “ Farewell !’* must soon be spoken. In a few hours my official connection with the people of New Zealand will have ceased, and be assured that you will not pass away from our hearts. We shall remember you not as a great community from which I have always received the most loyal support in my public capacity, but rather as a host of personal friends from whom we liave always received the greatest kindness and hospitality, and in whose happiness and prosperity we shall always rejoice. (Cheers.) Ladies and gentlemen—or rather on an occasion like this let me say my dear friends —i»y wife and I bid you an affectionate farewell. God bless you, and God bless the dear land in which you live. (Loud cheers.) However gratified I may be by my promotion to what has been called the blue ribbon of the colonial service, and which is one of the highest posts in the service of my Sovereign, I assure you my heart will always turn back with proud and S rateful remembrance to this great colony of lew Zealand, in which I have spent the five happiest years of my life, and to the welfare of which I have devoted all my energies, and with the history of which my name as that of the Governor during a critical and important period must be for ever and inseparably connected. (Loud cheers.)— Weekly News.