TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 401, 20 September 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondent.) NAPIER. September 13. English Church Diocesan Synod opens here ou the 26th September when the Revs. Townsend and Robinson matter will be investigated. It is hoped here that Ormond will yet join the Ministry ; his absence from it is much regretted. A skating rink in the Oddfellows' Hall opened on Saturday ; a bowling alley also opened in Hastings street. Trade is dull. Your article re N.apier Telegraph is much appreciated here. September 19. Troubles are anticipated at Omaranui. 150 natives occupy Sutton’s land refusing to quit though judgment has been obtained againstthem’, the Sheriff will eject them shortly. The Napier Corporation cannot obtain Swamp loan of £5OOO from the Union Bank. AUCKLAND. September 18 A respectably connected young woman named Fanny Hynes has been apprehended on a' charge of infanticide ; the child was found in a cesspool at Parnell; it is supposedto have been deposited there two months ago, and is difficult to prove whether it was still born or not. A drayman has been killed at Onehunga by falling over a precipiece. The first cattle fair held in this province is expected to be attended with success.. The Bay of Islandsand Waikato natives have severely censured (sic) Native Minister for introducing the Native Land Bill which is obnoxious to them, Sir Donald McLean is in great disrepute with them just now. A public meeting is to be held in Waikato this week to consider the present political situation of the colony. Rees’ conduct is condemned in Auckland as obstructive. Good accounts have been received from the Nickel mines in New Caledonia. More Communist prisoners have escaped to Australia. Colonel Haultain has been offered the appointment of Sheriff of Auckland and declined. The members of the Turangauui Road Board are gazetted. At a recent fire at Cambridge a man named Shaw lost his life. Mr Oreighton has received an appointment on the literary staff of a leading evening paper in ’Frisco, and intends residing there. The Opera Company have left, and Hall has taken the Theatre Royal, Business is exceedingly dull. Later, 3 p.m. Auckland is in favor of supporting application from the Pacific Mail Company to discontinue the New Zealand coastal service. Great indignation has been expressed at the Indemnity Bill being passed while the writs were printing. No sign of the Pretty Jane yet. WELLINGTON. September 19. lu debate Rees spoke for sixteen hours till the gas was turned off. On the Executive Councillors Indemnity Act, the Opposition was defeated on every point, and Grey complains bitterly of not being fully reported. At Dunedin on Saturday last Roberts played Weston 1000 up in Ih. 2m, 12m. shorter than ever known, and winning the game by 109 points;