TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Southland Times, Issue 1333, 8 November 1870, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Hokitika, Nov. 7. Three boys were drowned whilst bathing in the roadstead yesterday. Mr Fraser, Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands for Westland, bas been appointed Surveyor- General of Western Australia. Wellington, Nov. 7. News from Auckland says Mr Yogel ) lately met 800 electors of Auckland City, east. The meeting was a most enthusiastic one, and tbe candidate made a speech of two hours' duration. At its close, a vote of confidence was carried by acclamation. During bis address, Mr Yogel compared the averages as to time of tbe different •mail services. Taking Dunedin as the basis of calculation, he said the homeward trip via San [Francisco averaged 57, Panama 57, Suez (via Marseilles) 59, and via Southampton 65 days. The outward passages were — San Francisco 59i, Panama 55, Suez (via Marseilles) 56, and via Southampton 61 days. He said, further, that in two months hence he believed five days would be sared. on tbe San Francisco route. Mr Yogel visits tbe South early respecting the Californian mail service, &c. Her Majesty's ships Clio and Galatea are to arrive in New Zealand waters in December, when the Duke will remain a month. Arrived — Auckland, and Kate, from Sydney, Sailed — Strathnaver, for Lyttelton. A petition, signed by 100 of tbe unemployed, bas been presented to tbe Superintendent. Tbe Council bas censured tbe "Executive for the manner of its settling Mr Busby's land claim, declaring the liability a Colonial one. The Southern Cross, schooner, reports the Ear! of Belmore at Norfolk Island ; also that a severe earthquake bad occurred at Sunday Island, almost rending it, and forming a new harbor by tho upheaval of / two new islands. Hundreds of wild cats rushed down from the mountains, and the inhabitants were in consternation. Southern wheat, 5s 6d to 5s 9d.