TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 208, 26 September 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

LATER NEWS FROM FIJI.

[Pbbss Telegraph Agency.)

AUCKLAND.

September 19. The Pacific, schooner, from Samoa, reports the Albion, Auckland whaler, at Samoa, with 160 barrels of oil.

The barque Glimpse, which has arrived with 540 tons of coal from Newcastle, met with a gale on Saturday, which swept away the deck-house and part of the bulwarks. Sargent, a seaman, was thrown against the bulwarks and seriously injured'his leg.

September 20. The s.s. Star of the South arrived from Levuka at noon. Passengers—For Napier: Mr. and Mrs. Fee Yon, and two children. For Wellington : Messrs. Taylor. She brings a full cargo of cotton, maize, copra, and the first shipment of Fijian sugar, consisting of 100 bags. She left on the 13th, and had a fine weather passage. The Fiji Times says the Polynesia scheme is too absurd to merit serious consideration.

The Government receipts over expenditure during July amounted to £290. Through the depression consequent on the change from cotton-growing to sugarplanting, holders of certificates of indebtedness are to have ten per cent allowed on the amount due this month. The Times calls attention to serious defalcations in the Treasury chest of the late Government, and the immense expense of the loans. A great native meeting at Loma-loma is supposed to have an important political significance.

Hostile preparations are, it is said, being made for the purpose of punishing.refractory tribes. War is considered probable unless annexation takes place. GRAHAMSTOWN. September 19. An influential committee was appointed last night to make arrangements for a banquet to Mr. Sheehan, M.H.R., for his services in connection with passing the Auckland Waste Lands Act. The banquet takes place on Tuesday next. A new rifle range provided by the Provincial Government for Volunteers was handed over to-day, and opened by a rifle match. The rifle range gives a thousand yards. TAURANGA. September 19. Thebe has been a deluge of rain inland lately. The rivers are rising rapidly. A remarkable waterspout was witnessed near Opotiki. NAPIER. September 19. The movement to establish a Philosophical Society here, to be affiliated to the parent society in Wellington, progresses favorably. A public baths company, with a capital of £lOOO in £5 shares, is also talked of, and appears likely to be carried out. NELSON. The Nelson Radical Reformers are — rather late in the day—about to seriously discuss the question of the abolition of Provinces. At the Lyell Police Court, recently, Elijah Green was charged by Constable Hunter with having allowed gambling to be carried on in his licensed house. After hearing evidence, His Worship pointed out that the throwing of dice, even for drinks, was illegal, but as it was such an universal practice he would merely caution the defendant to keep a more orderly house in future. The Agricultural Society has resolved to hold a ram show on the 4th of November. Captain Marshall, who arrived from Wellington a few days ago, has been appointed to the charge of the Nelson Militia and Volunteer district. OTAGO. A prospectus has been issued of a new publication to be called the Dunedin Diocesan Journal. It is to be similar in size to the New Zealand Church News. The Dunstan Times states that an analysis by Professor Black of a variety of brandies, resulted in sulphuric acid, in a greater or lesser degree, being detected in each.