Telegraphic Despatched.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 325, 28 January 1874, Page 2

Telegraphic Despatched.

: (from oufovm Correspondent^ Dttstedik, 27th January. ' Mr. Ho'skins and Mws Cdville-were married at St. John's Church, Christchurch, to-day the proceedings being on-;*' grand scale, and the church crowded to excess, James Warren, the man charged withr having brutally assaulted two Chinamen, wa» remanded till to-morrow. January 28th, 9.15 a.m. There is now no possibility of the Surat being got off. The further hearing of the case against Captain Johnston, of the SJurat, has been post' poned till to-morrow, A special session of the Nelson Provincial Council opened yesterday. The Superintendent proposed to obtain permission to borrow £250,000 for Public Wotks, _ A prisoner in HoMtika gaol yesterday n^^l tempted to cut down overseer Ferguson wathr an axe when cutting firewood. The -warder* dodged the blow, and the prisoner was sub' sequently brought up at the Resident Magistrate's Court. Telegrams from Wellington give details of the new mail contract between this colony and New South Wales. Owing to the inability of the contractors to procurPtwelve knot vessels in less than twelve months, two contracts have been entered into — one " temporary and the other " permanent." The first extend* to the 27th November next, and the second to six years from that day. As regards the permament contract, the mails are to be conveyed between San Francisco- and Sydney in 600 hours; between San Francisco and Auckland, in 546 houra ; and to Port Chalmers, in 671 hours. The minimum speed to be twelve knots per hour. The Omeo arrived at the Bluff yesterday from Melbourne.