TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1058, 6 April 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[From oub own Cobbrspondrmts]. Wellington, April 5. The Captain of the barque Onyx, which arrived from Newcastle yesterday reports passing a top gallant and lower mast yesterday, about 10 miles east of Stephen Island. The masts, to all appearance, belonged to a vessel of about 400 tons. Auckland, April 5. The Following weights have been declared for the Easter Meeting:— Tradesman’s Handicap, 1 mile — Maid of Honor, 9st lib; Virginia Water, 9st ; Mischief, 9st; Slander filly, Bst 21b ; Grand Duchess, 7st 121 b ; Tim Whiffier, 7st 121 b ; King Quail, 7st 101 b ; Soukar, 7st 101 b , Mavis, 7st 81b ; Kennilworth, 7st 61b. Larry, 7st 61b ; Paramena, 7st 51b ; Othello, 7st 41b ; My Dream, 7st 41b, Lara, 7st ; Rocket, 6st 71b ; Luckpenny, 6st 71b ; Scotch Mist, 6st 71b ; Vampire, 6st 51b ; Tenambra, 6st ; Diver, sst j!2lb ; Little Nelly, sst 101 b. Hvrdle Race, 2}miles — Lone Hand, list 71ba ; Angler, list 51b ; Grey Momus, list 41b; Harry Mount, lOst 121 b ; Harkaway, lOst 121 b; Matau, lOst 121 b ; Te Whetu, lOst 101 b ; N or M, lOst; Catch ’em, 9st 121 b : Rakau, 9st 71b ; Wild Dayrell, 9st 71b. O’Connor and O'Brian, the Australian pedestrians remain here under engagement. Intelligence has been received to the effect that North, the Wellington sweep levanter, is running a barber’s shop at Santa Cruz, 90 miles from

San Francisco. He is doing well, but ruining his business by intemperate habits. The Auckland division of Colonial Defence Forces have preferred 300 claims to be heard before the Royal Commission. Hokitika, April 5. Prospects of the new rush at Woodstock continue favorable, and the populatian keeps steadily increasing. With one or two exceptions all claims bottomed are on payable gold. Six sections at the rush which were sold by auction for business sites fetched from £l5 to £22 each, others were sold privately at from £25 to £5O. Estimated there are nearly one thousand men on the ground. The agricultural statistics for the Taieri district show an increase of 60,000 bushels in wheat this year i a decrease of 44,000 bushels in oats. The wheat shows an average of 40 bushels to the acre, the oate 38} bushels.

From a Dunedin paper we learn that Mr. J. P. Hydes, the well-known actor, is delivering a series of lectures in the Queen's Theatre, on his stage experiences of thirty years’ duration. It is spoken of where it has been delivered as being of a most amusing and interesting character. The New Zealand Times says:—A project is on foot in Victoria to form a Company for the purchase of desirable station properties, also for the purpose of taking up new lands for wool growing. The object of the Company is to enable persons of limited means to invest a portion of their money in the production of wool. The capital of the proposed Company is a million sterling, in 200,000 shares of £5 each, the first issue to be 50,000 shares, of which 30,000 have been already applied for. The prospectus is very favorably regarded. The Wanganui Chronicle relates that recently Major Kemp sent a meaenger, with a party of 100 men, to the Tuhua country, where Moffatt was murdered, and|demanded the surrender of the murderers, telling his hearers that “ the law never dies that, sooner or later, they would suffer for it if they continued to shield these men ; and that not improbably, if they continued obstinate, the Government would confiscate their land. Ono chief seemed willing to make the surrender, evidently influenced by the intimation that the Government could enter the Tuhua country with an armed force by way of Taupo. Other chiefs refused their assent, saying they would rather fight if necessary. Kemp’s emissary, however, obtained the names of three men who were personally concerned in the deed, vis., one who shot Moffatt, one who cut off his head, fsmashed it, and threw it into a pit; and one who dug out Moffatt's heart, and (as the messenger believed) eat it, as was done by Titokowaru on a like occasion. The following appears in the London Times of the 27th January : —“ On the recommendation of the Lords of the Admiralty, the silver medallion of the Royal Humane Society has been unanimously voted to Lieutenant T. P. Trench, of Her Majesty's ship Miranda, for saving life under the following circumstances : When off the Island of Upolu, Samoan Group, the vessel going at the rate of four and a-half ■ knots an hour, under steam, Albert Billett, whjjLengaged in securing the anchor, fell overboard, and being unable to swim was in imminent peril. A cry of ' Man overboard ’ being raised, Lieutenant Trench, without a moment’s hesitation, jumped off the poop, a height of 15ft., into the sea, swam to the man, and supported him until the ship’s boat picked them up. Both were then very much exhausted, and it should be added that the danger incurred was very great, from the fact that numerous sharks were observed surrounding the vessel both before and after the occurrence.