UNPUBLISHED TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 261, 30 January 1873, Page 5

UNPUBLISHED TELEGRAMS.

Sydney, Saturday. Great floods prevail in Northern Queensland. The neighborhood of Charters Towers is inundated. Flour is f.60 per ton, and <-ther provisions at almost famine prices. The Marine Board ha 3 suspended the certificate of the captain of the steamer Sir Charles Cowper for six months, for the collision with the schooner Titam'a. The secular education debate was adjourned to Tuesday. Adelaide. Sales of wheat, 4s 5Jd afloat ; not much doing. Wellington, January 23. The Farly Colonists' Association dinner was very largely attended by the early settlers in all parts of the Colony. Mr Carrntheis reports that the branch line from Kaiapoi to Eyreton will not pay working expenses. The Government consequently have decided not to construct it at present. A telegram from Dr Featherston, dated the 10th inst., announces greater activity in immigration, and the shipment of railway material. Every facility has been provided for the shiprrent of Otago emigrants from the Clyde. Rail* for 135 miles of line have been snipped up to the present. In reference to the change of contract for the conveyance of emigrants, he warns the Government against the danger of entrusting it to inexperienced hand*. The Superintendent of 'Kelson offers the Gover ment to accept liability foi half the cost of the railway to the Brunner coal mines, if the oth«»r half be secured on the coal reserve on the Westland side of the river. The tender of the Auckland Packet Company for a monthly service from Auckland to Fiji, at LIOO per trip of 28 days, has been accepted, subject to the approval of the vesselto be envloyed, by the Superintendent of Auckland. The contractors propose the Star of the South, "he N.Z.S.S Company's tender for a Fiji service, starting from Port Chalmers, and calling at all the ports to Auckland, was L6OO p?r trip. A \vomin in the Lunatic Asylum, who has been confined for the last thirteen years, has given birth to a child. Stewart, formerly one of the watder3, has been arrested on a charge of rape. Regulations for the conduct of public business are gazetted. All appointments to the Commission of the Peace, or to offices above L2OO a year, are to be made by the Governor with the advice of the Executive. All paid appointments are to be made under the Civil Service Act, and gazetted. New C vil Service Regulations, and regulations for the conduct of criminal prosecutions, are also gazetted. At a meeting to-day of gentlemen interested in the proposed company to work the Grey coal mines, the Committee reported they were unable to get any satisfactory reply from the Superintendent of Nelson, who was sti'l negotiating with the General Government on the subject. Grahamstown, January 23. Thirteen of the Thames Volunteers have already qualified as representatives, and eighteen have yet to fire. Grundy, with 81, is the highest scorer. A number of men left for the Upper Thames yesterday. Others leave to-day The eagerness for the official opening of the district is intense. The 'Ihsnaes Advertiser published a letter from .a miner who was warned off, and bad his tools taken by the natives sent by Mr Mackay to warn off trespasser?. It announces positively that the country -will be open- in ten days, and would now have been open but for the de'ay of the General Government in giving the purchase money to the natives. Auckland, Jannary 23. 2,000 natives have assembled at Maungatautari. There has been no speech-making, bnt simply the giving of presents and foo 1, waiting the arrival of the Ngatipoa. One native was kill d by a fall from his horse. 203 Ngatiraukawa3 arrived, and were received with a dance. '• he Arawas arrived later, while the war-dance was going on. Important speeches are expected to-morrow. The Dakota sails for Honolulu at 2 Seventeen watermen hay« struck, owing to the ferry steamer taking visitors to the Dakota. The latest from Maungatautari is that Pakehas have all been summoned to attend. The natives are waiting the arrival of Mr Commissioner Clarke. Tawhaio is supposed at present to ba near at hand. Hone Tnap tea, offended at something, left the Maungatautari meeting, which will not last long. Napier, January 23. A settler, named Alley, leaves to-morrow overland for the Thames with 2,200 Bheep. The Land Enquiry Commissioner has arrived. The Court aits on February 3. Meisn Blake and TJenouf are .the rifle representatives for the Province at the Colonial prize-firing.

Melbournb. The English mail has been telegraphed from Adelaide.