TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 211, 15 February 1872, Page 6

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(From the " Daily Times." ) Wellington, Feb. 10th. The Colonial Prize Firing is fixed for April 2nd and the following days.

Auckland, Feb. Bth. Via Napier, "Feb. I'ltli. Haley has been committed for trial on a charge of tiring Mr. Russell's haystacks, for an attempt to commit murder, and for sending threatening letters. He has been remanded on the other charges of arson. The weather is changing at last, there being a strong wind blowing.

with rain. The brewers have held a meeting to consider the redaction of the price of Auckland beer, so as to enable it to compete with that imported from Nelson and Dunedin. Mr. John Reid reports that^he Cleopatra, from Lyttelton, has brought 3500 bushels of new oats. Sellers demand 3s. 3d., but buyers offer only 3s. February 9 th. Car f wrighb, who was charged with incendiarism in Wakeneld-stroer, has been acquitted. The All Nations claim is yielding woll, and shares are at £4< 10s. Other shares are much depressed. Caledonians are at £14 10s., and Tokateas are at £2 Us. GIVEYMOUTH, Feb. 10th. A fearful flood has occurred here. Ifc is the greatest calamity that has ever befallen the place. The protective works gave w^y, and the water burst in at the top of the town, sprending destruction everywhere. Houses, bridges, and one-third of the entire frontage of Quay Road, with stores and hotels, were carried to sea. Over 50 buildings have gone ; some were rolled over each other, while others are a mass of ruins. Hundreds of tren. women and children have been rendered homeless. People were taken off the roofs of houses by boats. The water is now subsiding. Only one person, a boy named William Hall, is known to be drowned. It is feared that the township at the Little G-rey Junction has disappeared in the flood. News has been received that the whole township at the Twelve Mile, except one store, has gone to sea. A man was seen going down the river on a snag, yelling for help, which it was impossible to afford him. . ""' All the roads and tracks in the Grey Valley have heen swept away. All communication with the reefs is thus suspended, and the population there is in danger of starvation.

Nelsox, Feb. 10th.

Mr. Lowther Broad is appointed Resident M.tgistr.ite, Sheriff, &c, vice Mr. Sharp, resigned.