LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 1725, 8 April 1873, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, April 7. Judge Johnston, in charging the Grand Jury, denounced the prevalent share mania A party of min«rs kave gone to the Whangarei goldfields. Geahamstotvn, April 7. Two men have been arrested on a charge of stealing Caledonian specimens. Taueanga, April 7. An overland coach to Napier has been started. Napier, April 7. Eich quartz has been discovered in the Uriwera country by the Natives. Tabanaki, April 7. A telegraph wire will be immediately extended to New Plymouth. Wellington, April 7. The Nebraska sails for the south at midnight. It is not known whether she returns from Dunedin or proceeds to China direct. Ministerial arrangements remain unsettled. A Cabinet meeting will be held to-morrow to finally decide. If unsuccessful, it is probable that Mr Yogel will ask for a dissolution, having already obtained the promise of one from the Acting Governor, Sir George Arney. Mr Gieborne will probably be offered the leadership of the Upper House. Offers are being made to some members of the Wellington party to join the Ministry.

The Chief Surveyors of the various provinces are assembling here to consider the surveys of the Colony. Messrs Brogden and Sons have telegraphed home with the view of stopping further shipments of emigrants. Dunedix, Anril 7. The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court were opened this inorniug, whea ex-Sergeant Ryan was arraigned on a charge of shooting Detective Farrell. The case is quite sensational, and is likely to occupy several days. Letters were read from Mrs Farrell to the prisoner to prove that there had been an illicit intercourse between them for some considerable time. On one occasion Ryan wrote to Mra Farrell, asking her to dissuise herself and meet him at Palmer^ton, where he was stationed. The Crown Prosecutor delivered a lengthy address at the close of Farrell's examination, and the Court thereafter adjourned. Mr Barton defends the prisoner. The crushing of 118 tons of quartz at the Toung Australia claim, BenJigj, yielded OSoza of gold. Mr Hallenstein denies the mnnr that he intends to resign his seat iv the Assembly. The Dunstan Times says that Arthur Orton has been living at Mr Campball's station, Wanaka, for the last few years, and has just passed through Clyde en route for England. A man who left Jamestown, Martin's Bay, on the 22nd ult., says that no vessel had arrived there up to the time when he left, and the settlers were on the point; of starvation. Arrived. — East Lothian, from New York. Sailed. — Duke of Edinburgh, for Newcastle, and Alhambra for North.