TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 356, 16 May 1874, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

. (From the Dunedin Dailies. ) ■ Rbeeton, May 12. The Fiery Cross's crushing of 236 tons yielded 2020z. lOdwt. of melted gold. Abbowtown, May 9. The three miners' associations of this district have adopted resolutions expressive of confidence in Mr. Bastings as Secretary for the Goldfields. Good Templarism has extended to the Shotover, and application is made for a charter for a lodge there. The miners complain of extensive sheep trespass on the Shotover commonage. Wellington, May 13. For the Clutha plate-laying contract, Mr. A. J. Smyth's tender, £7279, was accepted. The want-of-confidence debate in the Provincial Council concluded last night. The hostile motion was negatived by three votes. The tender for the Greymouth wharf of Mr. E. Butler, of Greymouth has been accepted. The amount is £10,709. May 14. The sixth general meeting of the Synod of the Church of England of New Zealand was formally opened to-day by the Right Rev. Bishop of Christchurch. The Provincial Council will be prorogued on Saturday next. A telegram from the Agent-General, dated May 4. announces that dnring April the following emigrantships sailed forthe Colony: — Miltiades, for Auckland, 780 souls (but this number s«eins to be too large for one vessel) ; Winchester, for Napier, with 400 souls ; Euterpe and Conflict, for Wellington, with 840 souls ; Hereford and Monarch, for Lyttelton, with 990 souls ; Caroline, Sussex, arid Peter Denny, for Port Chalmers, with 1.200 souk; Carliok, for the Bluff, with 200 souls ; Adamant, for Nelson, with 330 souls. There were shipped during April — 1,500 tons of rails : do carriages, trucks, vans, and boxes; 4 engines, 3 cranes, 40 switches, 50 cases of rifles, and. 560 tons of bridge-work. The Agent-General adds, that he expected to forward 6,000 emigrants during May and June. Hokitika, May 18. The Claud Hamilton has arrived. She left Melbourne on the ?th inst., but brings no later Australian news than by the Wonga Wonga. Cheistchtjbch, May 13. At the adjourned licensing meeting yesterday the renewal of the license of the Dunedin Club Hotel was refused, as it had no public lodging accommodation. Edward Dudley, the applicant, had only recently purchased the goodwill of the house, and had spent several hundred pounds in renovating it. A petition, signed by 522 persons, including Justices of the Peace, merchants, bankers, &c, was presented to the Court praying for a reconsideration of its former decision refusing a renewal of the license to Tattersall's Horse Repository, but the Court declined to do so. Great sympathy is felt for the proprietors of Tattersall's, who had promised to provide good public accommodation if the license was granted. Auckland, May 13. The Wonga Wonga has arrived. She left Sydney on the 7th.