BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 240, 5 September 1872, Page 5

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

{SROM GR_VIL__*S TELEGRAM COMPANY.) Auckland, August 28. The Nevada. Arrived afc t_o Heads atSa m. ■ aptaia _Uet_em reports t_ai there is no sickness on board. The Board of Health ia now meeting. The vessel will not be ad k mitted to pratique for two hours. The Nevada was sixteen days ten hours on her vogago from Honolulu. She brines 30 pas* sengers and a large cargo. Dr. Philson considers sixteen days not sufficient time to develop the disease, if there is any existing, and wishes to g?t the opinion of the Board of Health as to admitting the Nevada to pratique. The ship encountered very bad weather on the downward pa' sage, which occupied .sixteen days. She was nine days repairing her paddles at Honolulu. The Boa~d decided that the quarantine of the Nevada should be three days, the mails to be landed. ENGLISH SUMMARF. The latest dates by the Nevada are London, July 15. The English representatives arrived at Geneva to-day, (the 15th). Proceedings are to be conducted in secret. -- _ •: -. London. Lord Chief Justice - Cockburn will be created an Earl tor his services in connection with the Alabama arbitration. There have been fearful storms throughout England, the most destructive being in the Midland and Southern countries. Several people were killed by lightning. The race betweeu Mr J. Gordon Bennett's Sappho and Mr Asbnry's Livonia was won ! by the former by 90 minutes. The City of Southampton is about to give a. grand banquet to Admiral AltLren art_ tt'e officers of the American fleet. The Archbishop of Madrid is dead. Cabecilla'B band of insurgents was defeated, many being wounded and captured. The Epoca energetically scouts the idea of Spain parting with any of her colonies. The Hon. Edward Stanley died of paralysis in San Francisco on July 10. Shipping.— Arrived : Rapido, from Napier. Sailed : Ballarat, for Napier, on June 13th ; St. Leonards, for Canterbury, on June 20th ; Hydaspes. for Otago, on June 2lst ; and Robert Henderson, for Auckland on June 23. Commercial. — The latest wool public sales leave the market with considerable animation. Greasy wools, to Id cbeaprr ; large supplies are offering. Jacoinb and Co. have sold 4400 bales. 2238 bales of which were fr»m New i*outh Wales and Qnpena- ' land. Tallow and cotton dull. Wheat inactive — Australian, 62c. to 65c. per quarter. In the iron trade, the last high prices coutinue, with little < hange in foreign d> maud 1 jirge Hussian orders are being secured. At the kauri gum sales, ordinary, 265 ; fine baled clean, 32s 6d ; low middling, 335 ; good, 435 ; clean pale, 65. Hi les are in ijood demand, and Australian fetch extreme prices. New York. Sh'pping : Sailed — Mrrcury, for Dnnediu and Wellington on June 10 ; Polar Star, for Uieklan'l on the 10th. Loading Dacotab, for Mellxrarne ; and at Boston. Velocipede, for New Zealand. The wool talcs included 30,000 lbs of New Zealand, sold at 374 cents; 30,000 lbs of Australian, at 60 to 65 ceuts ; and 95,000 lbs on private terms. The Boston market is firmer in consequence of the favorable telegrams concerning the London wool sales. San Francisco, July 17. - New Zealand flax, 12$ cents ; retail lots, 134 cents. lia* Stokes's trial for the murder of Fisk, the jury were unable to agree, and were discharged. Stokes' returned to prison. Throe thousand Alsatians and natives of Lorraine, headed by the band of Lafayette, marched to the office of the French consul at New"_ork, and tigned papers of allegiance to France. Grant's return 'as President is counted certain. Forty persons were killed from sunstroke in one day :n: n New York. ' London. The ship Omar* Pasha has been wrecked in the Hoogley river. ' The ship Lapwing, from Liverpool to Rotterdam, collided with an unknown vessel in the English channel and 120 lives were lost. The International Prison Reform Congress has commenced its sittings. Representative are present' from every civilised country in the world. The Earl {of Carnavon presides. A night express train at Belleville, Canada, jumped off the track, carrying death and fearful torture to scores of passengers. 25 were killed, 65 injured, and very few of the injured are expected to recover. A Spanish war steamer has been instructed to seize and sink the American steamers Virginians and Edgar. Passengers by the Nevada, for Auckland — Captain Brindall, Messrs Biffie, A. Saunders, Blackie, ' Kneebond, !K. Penmann. For : Wellington— C: B. Thecker, Rev. W. Booth, W. Strange and wife. For Dunedin— Messrs W.'lnglis, T. M'Kellar, and N. Kelly. Auckland, August 28. A man named Leonard attempted suicide this morning at the Shakespeare Hotel. He hung himself by a comforter to the banisters, and wa3 nearly dead when rescued and taken to the hospital. The schooner Prima Donna has returned from Norfolk Island with the Rev. Mr Dud- , ley, who reports tho safety of the mission schooner Southern Cross. During the voyage to the islands the natives were friendly everywhere. At Florida the chief gave a warm reception to the Rev. Mr Brookes. No suspicious circumstances were observed. • The Caledonian annual meeting was held to-day at two o'clock. The report and balance sheet was submitted and approved 'of. The directors congratulate the -hareholders on the result of another year's operations'. The quantity of quartz crushed during the year was 15,777 tons, which yielded 73J32 ouncss- of gold, or at the rate of nearly five ounces to the ton. The amount paid, in dividends was L 154.440, or at the rate of L 54 per share, thus completing the payment to shareholders of Ll9B 10s per Ll2 share. The total distributed in dividends dining the last two years was. 1 569,710. .The directors* recommend that a sum of LSOO should be awarded for directors' honorarium. The mine manager reports the mine to be in a very satisfactory state, and good' yields are anticipated for months to come. *-—?—■% --• : - - Arrived : Keera, from Wellington. Hokitika, August 28. The Eangitoto arrived from Melbourne to-day. She -sailed for Greymouth witheut being tendered. • Three mobs of cattle were sold' at the" yards t«-day, at L 2 per lOOlbs, prime- quality; and Sob per lOOlbs, medium quality. One mob averaged Ll7 per head. ! . • ' Attckland, August 26. . ! -'-The South British insurance commences ' Dairies. iaßep*eteb*r 2. iMr Alfred Boardm»n hat been Appointed n»_»ger> j 4htXM

will be allotted on Wedae«day^-|i-''extent of half the applications,

The Th&meß Advertiser and Auckland Star publish returns showing the amounts paid by Government for advertising. The Advertiser declares that if free expression of public opinion is to be smothered, by glaring eut— t liberty in the bestowal of advertisement*, there will coon not be aPreaa iirthe Colony worthy of the name. Nelson, August 29. A statement of a crushing from the Perseverance mine has just arrived. 247 ounces were obtained from 361 tons. i Arrived : Alhambra, from Wsllingtoa. ' the Kangitoto from Melbourne is signalled. I | Melbourne, August 22. [The following telegram, which it appears was presented at Wellington at 12 minutes past 12 yesterday, did not reach Dunedin until 48 minutes past 4 in the afternoon, and was consequently too late for publication.] The Post Office notify that in the future no mails will be made up for transmission to San Francisco via New Zealand. An invitation has been sent to the New South Wales Government to hold a conference of the Border duties A conference on the American Postal question has been declined, because the House in session can not spare Ministers. Tookeys, which were offered at L 3 10s, are now obtainable afc L 2. Flour, Ll6 5s to Ll6 15. Wheat, 7s 2d New Zealand, 10,000 bnshels were placed at 6s lOd. Oats, firm, 3s 4d to 3s 6d. Sugars, very ffrm. Advices from Mauritius state that no ships are loading for the Colonies. Sydney. The Australian Steam Navigation Company called a meeting oi shareholders to consider the advisability of starting a Cali foi nian z__il line. . In the trial of Armstrong of the brig Carl, the evidence of Murray disclosed horrible atrocities. News from Fiji states that the Government carried a motion by 12 to 8, to effect the security of the promised privileges of the land and banking power to the Polynesian Company. Flour rules 10s dearer. , Adelaide. The telegraphic cable is still interrupted ; probably the gap of the trans continental line will be finished before the present line. It is proposed to hold a public demonstration to celebrate the connection of the wires-. The Banks have reduced the rate of -is 1 count to six per cent. Overdrafts 8 per cnt Flour, Ll2 15s to Ll4. Wheat 5s lid to 6s. Qr/EENSC-IFFE. The Somersetshire leaves oo Saturday. The mast of a large ship was passed on the west coast of Australia. Maryborough, Queensland. The boiler of the Union saw mills burst and killed eight men. Auckland, August 29. The Nevada will be admitted to pratique, the passengers were landed this morning. Sailed. -—The Wellington, from Manakau, with mails from the West Coast. Mr Hoskins and Miss Colville are passengers. Shipping : Arrived— The Countess of Kintore, from London, ninety-three da\s out, with twenty-five passengers, all well. She lost a steerage passenger, named Davis, overboard. Frowning beauty, from Newcastle, much, damaged. She encountered dreadful gales, and threw part of her cargo overboard to save her. She went ashore on coming up the harbor. The Wonga Wonga sailed. this morning with the Suez mail and fifty passengers. A man fell from the gangway as she was leaving the wharf and received injury and immersion. Hs was conveyed to the hospital ' IThe Herald's leader to day cuts np the estimates and stigmatises the item "gpneral contingencies" as really a secret service vote, and asks for a return of the expenditure. Auckland, August 311 Detective Kett has made a seizure at Maketu of twenty stand of arms in course of repair, and in the possession of William Dorkley, an European, who has been arrested. Arrived : Moa, from Tahiti ; Star of the South, from Napier ; Kalahome, from Newcastle.