SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 107, 26 February 1870, Page 5

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

London, January 11th. Various emigration socities are offering to co-operate with the National Emigration League. A Committee of colonists forward a temperate letter- by this mail. Mr Beaumont's resolution was adopted at a subsequent meeting, and the National and Colonial League formed. The wool sales will commence on February 10th, The stocks are small. A man named George Dyer has surrendered himself on self-accusation of having murdered another man named George Wilson, twelve years ago, at the diggings in Victoria. He has been remanded for further enquiry. Australian securities are firm. January 12th. The last series of wool sales was concluded on the Bth December. They comprised 133,943 bales. An animated tone characterised the biddings for the better kinds ; but the prices were unchanged. Inferior sorts were to Id per lb higher. Victorian fleece and lamb fetched Is to 2s 6d ; scoured, &c, Is to 2s ; unwashed, 7d to Is. New South Wales fleece and lamb, 10^d to Is ; scoured, 3 s to 2s 3d ; unwashed, 5d to 9d. The entire capital for the Australasian Submarine Telegraph Company to connect Signapore with Port Darien has been subscribed in London. The line is to be completed and ready for work in 1871. There is an increase in the exports to New Zealand over the last month of L 45,283. An unpleasant affair has caused great excitement in Paris. Prince Pierre Bonaparte challenged M. Henri De Rochefort, for attacking him in the Marseillaise. M. Noir, a journalist, and a friend of Roehefort, waited on the Prince to arrange preliminaries. A quarrel arose, and M. Noir assaulted the Prince ; on which the latter took a pistol and shot M. Noir dead, M. Ollivier, with the Emperor's approval, ordered the arrest of the Prince, and imprisoned him at Mazas. The Prince will be tried oefore the High Court of Justice. At Noir's funeral intense excitement prevailed. Immense crowds assembled in the evening paraded the streets singing the Marseillaise, and pelted the police. There was, however, no serious breach of order. The obnoxious newspaper, the " Marseillaise," been seized and the Chamber of Deputies has authorised the prosecution of M. Roehefort made a violent speech in the Chamber, demanding that the Prince should be tried before an ordinary tribunal. M. Ollivier defended the proceeding, as being conformable to law, and remarked with respect to the popular excitement that he would defend the law by force if necessary. Mr Bright, at Birmingham, said that the difficulty of the Irish land question had increased with the examination of it ; but that he had hopes of a satisfactory solution being arrived at. A steamer drawing 17£ feet of water has passed successfully through the Suez Canal. _

By advertisement in another column it will be perceived that the Bishop of New Zealand (Bishop Harper) will perform service to-morrow at the Blue Spur in the morning, and at Lawrence in the evening. By advertisement in another column it will be seen that Madame Carandini, with her two accomplished daughters, accompanied by Mr. Walter Sherwin, will give an entertainment in Basting's Assembly Booms, on Tuesday and Wednesday next, the Ist and 2nd of March. In our last week's issue we mentioned that the Clutha Ferry and Switzers race meetings would be held on the 4th and sth March, and Tokomairiro on the 9th and 10th March. We now find the dates should stand thus— Switzers and Clutha Ferry 3rd and 4th instead of 4th and sth March, and Tokomairiro 10th and 11th instead of oth and 10th March. Thehe is some talk of starting the Athenaeum Readings the week after next. The days are now gradually shortening, and something is required to relieve the dull monotony of the long nights. We believe the Readings would prove successful if commenced soon,