TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 276, 29 May 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from our special correspondent.) LONDON. May 15. The wool market is quiet; prices improved as the sales progressed. The report that the Hon. W. Fox was drowned in the Schiller has not been confirmed. England has sent a note to Germany urging the advisability of maintaining peace. France has thanked England for her friendly attitude. NAPIER. May 27. Mr. J. Sheehan has advertised Mr. Canning's run alTPoranguhan for sale. The native owners have since published a notice denying that Sheehan had any authority to do so.

Messrs. Barker, M‘Donald. and Cable, have sold their lease of 75,000 acres in the VVaiica to the Government. Mr. Robert Price, the editor of the Napier Telegraph, has instituted proceedings against the Herald for libel, for calling him a “paltry trickster,” on account of his having headed a press agency telegram containing Sir George Grey’s speech “from our own correspondent,” in order to preclude the Herald from the right to make use of it. The Supreme Court opens on Monday. Prendergast presides. The Heretaunga arid Maungatere case will not come off. The Municipal Council has adopted a Waterworks scheme involving the sinking of two artesian wells, and the construction of a reservoir on the hill above the English Church. The water is to be raised by hydraulic rams, to be used for extinguishing fire only. The ordinary water supply will be conveyed direct from the wells. The undertaking will cost about £6,000. The Council have approved the adoption of the earth closet system, and have recommended that all vessels be quarantined for a week, whether sickness is on board or not. Alay 28. A deputation waited on Sir Donald McLean yesterday and presented a memorial praying him us member for Napier in the House of Representatives to use his best endeavors to obtain from the Colonial Government a grant of £5OOO in aid of the erection of a bridge across the harbor at the Spit. Sir Donald promised to confer with the Minister for Public Works on the subject, and to give his best support to the prayer of the petition. The Telegraph exposes the management of the Napier light-house, showing that only one man is in charge, whose v»tcli extends from sunrise to sunset, all the year round, in contravention of Marine Board Instructions; it also says there is no fire place in the light-house and that the keeper lives some distance off, and has two hours’ work during the day cleaning lamps, &c., making sixteen hours’ work, for which he gets £l2O a year, which the Telegraph declares to be a case of great cruelty and hardship.