TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 119, 19 May 1870, Page 6

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(From tlie "Daily Times."

Napier, May 15th.

On the 6th instant 27 men and 38 women, who had been hiding in the Waioeka Gorge since Ropata's success, came to Opotiki and surrendered themselves. They say Te Kooti has not been seen lately, but is either at Wairnana or Lake Waikaremoana. Ropata's progress has been impeded by rains and floods. On the first day out he captured a woman and two children, who have been hiding in the bush since the capture of Ngatapa. Melbourne. Public subscriptions, amounting to .£7OO, have been forwarded to Sydney, in aid of the Floods Fund. The negotiations for the union of the Presbyterian Churches are progressing satisfactorily. A large auction sale of meat preserved at Echuca bas been held. The price realised was 4d. per lb.

Sydney. The severe floods have caused a great destruction of property ; several lives have also been lost. Gundagai was submerged, and Cowra almost destroyed. Extensive land slips have taken place at Maitland. Traffic on the railways has been resumed. The Kate Kearney, from Western Australia, has been placed in quarantine, having three cases of small-pox on board. Thirteen men who escaped from the Walter Hood have reached Sydney, after undergoing great sufferings. A large portion of the cargo has been washed ashore. Five bodies have also been recovered at Shoalhaven. The wreck was sold by atxetion for £95. Thunderbolt has resumed his depredations. A man named Channon, a mining engineer, has shot himself.