BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 224, 16 May 1872, Page 5

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(from oreville's telegram company, reuter's agency.)

Auckland, May 7. Mr Yogel leaves here to-day for Wellington. Six vessels have arrived here with grain and breadstuff's, including the Cleopatra, from Oamaru. The imports so received are —855 sacks of oats, 2310 sacks of wheat, ! 1200 bags of wheat, 100 sacks of flour, 30 i tons of flour, and 105 sacks of bran. I The Auckland Herald says a special messenger from the Maori King to the Governor is on his way to Auckland. The messenger following will be the bearer of a request to the Governor to attend the great Native meeting at Waikato.

Wanganui, May 7. The Grand Jury threw out the bills against M'Coy, charged with murder and man* slaughter.

Napier, May 7. Mr Ormond has left for Wellington.

Hokitika, May 7. The Tararua, Rouse commander, arrived here at 6 p.m. on the 7th, after a passage of five days two hours. Passengers ; Mrs Nutt, Mrs Howard, Mrs J. A. Taylor, Miss Taylor, Mrs Fraser, Miss Fraser, Messrs H. Hewitt, George Evans, J. H. Goodberten, Howard, and 31 steerage. Mr J, H, Heaton, purser.

Melbourne, May 2. Parliament met on the 30th. Parties are fairly divided. The Opposition proposed an amendment to the reply on the Governor* address, on the ground that the Governor's speech did not contain any reference to an important subject, viz., public instruction. The debate is still proceeding. Great anxiety is expressed in reference to the Magnet from Greymouth, because of the report by the captain of the King Oscar that he saw a vessel bottom up, and also some wreck. Mr Casey is introducing a Permissive Bill. The Governor's speech proposes to subsidise the postal service via San Francisco and New Zealand, also by the Cape and Ceylon. Tookeys have sold at L 7 and are wanted L 6 15s. Commercial— Flour firm at Ll6 ; wheat, slightly easier and auctioned at 6s 6d to 6s Bd. Sugars unaltered. Oats good, feeding 3s. Shipping — Arrived, Northern Light from Westport, Prosperity from Hokitika, Eleanor and Gleaner from Greymouth. Sailed, Hector for Napier. Sydney. The Martin ministry has resigned. ! There are great reports from the Tambaroora gold mines. A crushing of seventeen tons yielded 5, 630 ounces Bluff, May 11. The Rangatira was off Glenelg at four on the morning of May 4th. The Baroda \ left the Sound for Melbourne at eight on the | morning of the 29th. Dates : London, 22nd | March; Telegrams, 10th April ; Galle, 13th. Passengers. — For Australia : Sir Valentine Fleming, Sir George Verdon, and Mr Gordon, water engineer for Victoria. Wool sales terminated Ist March, and were characterised by almost unexampled animation, prices reaching higher than ever known in this generation. Prospects of next sales excellent. One thousand bales of New Zealand hemp auctioned at full prices. Tallow sells freely ; mutton, 425. to 42s 6d beef, 41s 6d to 42s 3d ; mixed, 42s 6d. Hides sold freely at an advance of one i farthing per pound. Leather less active ; 13,000 sides sold. Sydney oil, 34a to 38s ; sperm cleared at L9B. Australian wheat, 48s to 61s. Preserved meats considerably lower. New Zealand consolidated fives, January, April, July, October, 103 to 103| ; ditto sixes, 1891, March and September, 112; ditto January and July, 111 ; Consols, 7-92 Bths ; money abundant ; discount moderate, at bank rate. General rise in stock ! markets ; joint-stock {undertakings very numerous.

SHIPPING.

Arrivals from New Zealand. — Beth Shun, Countess of Kintore, Halcyon ; Mercop ; Otago. Sailed for New Zealand. — Agamemnon, Bulwer, Ironsides, and May Queen. Ten vessels are loading for New Zealand. COMMERCIAL. The exports for February and March show a moderate increase. To New Zealand the increase over the previous month is L 22,300. A supplement to Stables's circular reports three more departures for New Zealand. GENERAL SUMMARY. Chaffers, an attorney, by statutory declarations published infamous details of the early life of Sir Travers and Lady Twiss. Chaffers was prosecuted for libel, and in court he tortured Lady Twiss by putting filthy questions. The libellous statements were disproved, but Lady Twiss suddenly left London, and the case collapsed. Sir Travers has since resigned bis position as Queen's Advocate. The total contributions from the United Kingdon in aid of the Chicago Relief Fund, amounted to L 162,000. It is expected that the Lords will pass the Ballot Bill. The French military expenditure has been reduced by twenty-eight million francs. The protracted visit of Prince Frederick and Count Moltke to Italy alarms^and irritates France. Publicity has been given to the attempt of the Commissioners of Sewers to seize two thousand cans of Australian meat, which has seriously prejudiced sales. Mr Macarthur will move an address to the Queen for the establishment of British protectorate over Fiji. A great meeting was held at Oxford to honor the memory of Bishop Patteson. Eleven thousand hands engaged in the flax mills at Leeds are out on strike. Four thousand silk weavers are locked out. Mazzini died suddenly at Pisa, and was buried at Geneva. His^funeral was attended by 80,000 persons. The Russian Government has determined to reopen Sebastopol as a military and commercial harbor. An influential committee has been formed at Bombay to raise funds for a memorial to Lord Mayo. LATE TELEGRAMS. April 10. In replying to Earl Derby (?), Mr Gladstone said the Ministry would fully maintain its position on the Alabama case. Mr Lowe kasjmade his financial statement. Last year's expenditure was one million less than the money voted, while the estimated expenditure for the coming year was seventyone millions odd. The estimated revenue was [nearly seventy-five millions. He proposed amongst other things to reduce the income tax to L6O, and apply the abatement to incomes of L3GO ; to abolish the tax on warehouses, &c, where rentals are under L2O, retaining the remaining surplus, L 362,000 as a reserve. The National debt has been reduced since 1869 by L 12 ,742,000. Lord Dufferin succeeds Lord Lismore in the Governor-Generalship of Canada. Cambridge won the University Boat Race by one and a-half lengths. The Queen is at Baden-Baden, and is in strict privacy. The Prince and Princess of Wales and family have arrived at Rome. The Prince had a lengthy audience with the Pope, who congratulated him upon his recovery, and expressed his thanks to Queen Victoria for her constant evidences of her sympathy with him, and also praised the religious feeling of the British nation. The Easter Monday review at Brighton is considered a success, notwithstanding the wet weather. By a colliery explosion at Atherton twentyeight persons were killed. The laborers in Warwickshire have struck, and formed a union. The Tiehborne claimant remains at Newgate. He has published a letter appealing to the public for subscriptions to aid his defence, solemnly asserting that he is the real Sir Roger. Mr Disraeli was enthusiastically received at Manchester. Numerous addresses were presented to him by the Conservatives throughout Lancashire. At a monster meeting, Mr Disraeli defended the throne as the source of all blessings which the British enjoy, demonstrated its cheapness, and also spoke in defence of the House of Lords. M. Thiers, on the occasion of closing the Assembly for the Easter recess, said, "Order in the interior and peace abroad, assured to France that Europe was well disposed towards us, True revenge would be to recon-

stitute France, with a regard to alliances with Europe, holding itself in reserve should no power wish to bind itself." Washington, April 2. The Republicans have carried the State elections, thereby increasing the chances of Grant's re-election. The republicans carried the^Rhodes Island elections. LATKST. The House of Commons rejected Mr Vernon Harcourt's motion to reduce the national expenditure. The English Press comment on the absence of any programme in Mr Disraeli's speech at Manchester. A Washington telegram, dated April 4, says that the Foreign Committee of Congress recommended the suspension of action in re the Fishery Bills, owing to the condition of the Washington Treaty. The University boat race was rowed during a snow storm. The ship Yatala, from Adelaide, was stranded near Boulogne. The crew and passengers were saved. The masts had to be cut away to save the ship. The Nebraska's mails were delivered in London on the 25th March. London, 12th April. The Tichborne claimant was arraigned, and pleaded " Not guilty." He has been removed to the Queen's Bench for trial, which commences in June. The boy O'Connor, who insulted the Queen, has been sentenced to.one year's hard labor and twenty lashes. Bluff, May 11. The Omeo left Melbourne on the sth, after waiting twenty-fonr hours for the mail, which arrived before she left. She will sail for Dunedin to-night. Passengeia for Dunedin, etc : — Mrs Roberts and six children and two servants ; Mrs Walker, two Sisters of Charity, Mr Hall, Mr Mackey, Mr Liggins, Mr Kirkpatrick, Mr Janverin, and twelve in the steerage. Melbourne, May 4. The debate on the reply to the Governor's address has been adjourned till the seventh. The Opposition proposed an amendment, tantamount to a vote of want of confidence, because there was an omission in the address to any reference to public education. The Ministry will probably be defeated, and will ask for dissolution, if the amendment is carried. A boat, believed to be the longboat of the brig Magnet, has been picked np by the Mary Cumming, of Adelaide. Feeney's sentence of death for shooting Marks has been confirmed by the Executive. The Legislature has adopted a congratulatory address to Her Majesty on the lecovery of tne Prince of Wales. Arrived. — Alhambra, from New Zealand. Commercial. — Tookeys are wanted at L 7. Flour is firm at Ll6. Wheat, 6s 9d to 7s. Oats, 2s 9d to 3s. Sugars are very firm, especially whites ; since advices per Kassa state that two ships are loading at Mauritius for the Colonies. Iron is dearer. Wellington, May 11. Arrived, the Albion and Tararua. The Albion leaves at 10 p.m., without the outward mail from here for Melbourne, and leaves Nelson on Tuesday. Timaru, May 13. At about 3.30 this morning a fire was discovered by Constable Veitch proceeding from the staircase leading to the billiard-room of the Ship Hotel. He at once raised the alarm. The building was ?oon enveloped in flames, and the fire proceeding right and left, extended from the Gazette office on the one side, to the empty shop used as a spirit store by Messrs Green and Morrison, and the Square and Compass Hotel, on the other. The following are the 'places consumed : - Queen and Morrison's Ship Hotel ; Tt. Taylor's Restaurant, Gazette, effice, Price and Bertman's Photographic Studio ; Button's grocery store; Sheen and Co.'s, sailmakers ; Cockrofts, watchmaker. The amount of insurance unknown.