Telegraphic Despatches.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 377, 29 July 1874, Page 2

Telegraphic Despatches.

■ {From ounoion Correspondent.) Dunedin, July 28th. Thd sailing of the steamer Cyphrenes has beeti postponed till to-morrow (Wednesday). Mails close at 1.30 p.m. A comet has been observed on the horizon before dawn the last day or two. The Shotover Company directors have received a telegram from the working manager, stating that good gold had been struck in Eagor'e portion of the claim. July 29. The convict Fratson who was found guilty on the ICth October, 1862, of the wilful murder of Andrew Wilson, and sentenced to death, but afterwards commuted to imprisonment for life has petitioned the authorities for his discharge from custody. A Wellington correspondent states tliafc captain JFraser*s name is stLfostifcxitecl for Major Richardson on the Ward Chapman Correspondence Committee, also that Mr. Yogel intends to bring forward a proposal to make the whole of the North Island one Province, and the seat of Government to be in Auckland, and that on this and other proposals it is intended to force a dissolution at the end of the session. The Albion arrived at the Bluff yesterday with the Suez mail, after a quick possage of 4 days 12 hours. Melbourne, July 23rd. The Navigation Board suspended absolutely the certificate of the captain of the ship Oakworth, which ran down a j fishing vessel in the channel. It was proved in evidence that although cries for assistance were made an utter disregard was shown to them. Government inquiries have elicited the fact that no kidnapping occurred on board the Daphne in the South Seas. . Cable teleyrauis from Paris, dated 20th July, state that the Assembly, with the view of giving the Cabinet time to deliberate, postponed the constitutional debate for a few days.