LATEST SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 188, 16 May 1872, Page 3

LATEST SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS

RUMOURS CF GOLD IN TARANAKI. BREAKDOWN OF THE S.S. OMEO. FLOODS AT BLENHEIM. MAN DROWNED AT WESTPORT. Wellington, Wednesday. The Captain of the ship England has claimed compensation fiom the Government on the ground that, owing to the absence of .proper quarantine arrangements, much unnecessary delay was caused. The matter is likel}" to be brought before the Law Courts. In the Court of Appeal the Smy.liies case has been adjourned in order to make an amendment in the petition. The Attorney General is opposing. New Plymouth, Wednesday. The Provincial Council have passed another resolution, requesting the Geneial Government to commence the construction of the Waitnra railway immediately. 'The Provincial Government have aUo offered a reward of £IOOO for the discovery of a goldfield within the province. Gold is said to have been brought in by the natives. Nelson, Wednesday. Mr Saunders has arrived, and the nomination has been fixed for the 25th, ibe polling if necessary to take place on the 27th inst. It is rumoured that ,\lr Richmond intends to resign in favour of Mr Saunders. This rumour is disbelieved, and it is expected that Saunders will attack both sides. Blenheim, Wednesday. The rivers are flooded, and have risen higher over the streets than has been known since February 1868. Bridges and other modes of communication are stopped, and the Express cannot publish to-day. No damage, however, has been done. Westport, Wednesday. E. De Carle was found drowned in the river this morning. It is supposed that he fell overboard from one of the steamers at tiie wharf. The river is flooded, and there is a heavy fresh on. Lyttelton, Wednesday. Sailed : The Drover and Elmo Grove, for Auckland. The s s. Omeo leaves Port Chalmers for here about Saturday. (It will be seen by our Port Chalmers telegram that the Omeo has inet with au accident, and is detained in consequence.— Ed. T.G.) The Canterbury Prqyincial Council hav e . passed a resolution re in le ring the motion relative to the reduction in the pay of the Police applicable only to those members of the force who have joined since the Ist of January last. Dunedin, Wednesday. Mr Young remains in a precarious condition. Mr Smith, of the Australasian, lias been presented with a purse of fifty sovereigns by the society under whose, auspices he delivered Ins lecture on Spiritualism. A number of ladies met to-day, for the purpose of devising measures for the commemorating of t the admission of ladies to scholarships in the University.

A proposition to extend the subscriptions to the other provinces, and to make the scholarships open to the whole colony, was negatived. The Provincial Council has voted an endowment of 50,000 acres of land for the endowment of Common Schoo's. The balance-sheet of the Provincial Council shows a reduction on the overdraft of £53,000. During the debale upou the Education Bill", Mr Holmes moved an amendment in favour of a purely national system. Port Chalmers, Wednesday. The s.s. Omeo sailed for the North yesterday evening, but in going down Port Clialmeis she touched on the rocks at Observation Point, and disarranged her rudder. She put back, and goes into dock to-morrow morning for repairs. The s.s. Taranaki will be undocked tomorrow morning, and take on the Omeo mails. Sailed, the Glencoe, for Hobartown. Tlie s.s. Stormbird has been taken into the floating dock.