TELEGRAMS,

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 399, 14 October 1874, Page 3

TELEGRAMS,

(From the Dunedin Dailies. ) Wellington, October 9th, Arrived : The Cartvale, 102 days from Falmouth, with 118 immigrants, including 79 families, 31 single girls, 30 Germans and Danes. Produce prices : Flour, £12 10a ; Canterbury and Oamaru, £13 2s 6d. Oatmeal, £22 95., to £23 10s. Wheat, chick, 4s to 4s 6d. Bran, Is 3d to Is 4d. Cheese, BJd. 'Hams, 9d to lOd. Bacon, B£d to 9d. October 10th. The Resident Magistrate gave a decision to-day on the question of the liability of mail coaches to pay tolls. He maintained that the Legislature had exempted mail coaches from the payment of tolls. The Cartvale was' towed into liarbour last .night. Sho had ninteen children on' board with the measles and diptheria. She has gone into quarantine. Dr. Johnston and the Immigration officer have gone off to Q'urantine Island. Auckland, October 9th. Mr. Saunders reports : — Sales : Fiji Bank, £2 14s 6d. Buyers : Bank of New Zealand, £17 17s 6d ; South British, £2 10s 6d ; Caledonian, £6 5s ; City of London, £1 2s 6d ; Cure, 7s 6d. Sellers : National Insurance, £1 9s; Standard, 10s 6dj Long Drive, £5 10s. October 10th. Mr Buckhrad reports ; — ■ Sheep, moderate supply, irregular pricos — 4£d to 5d per lb ; fat cattle, £35 4s | ewe lambs, 15s 6d to £1 3s each. Napier, October 9th. The bones of a moa, sufficient to make up a complete skeleton, excepting the lower jaw, have been found in a landslip at Maerakakakaho. The railway will be opened on Monday to Hastings. Chbistchtjech, October Oth. A complimentary dinner was given by tho Philosophical Institute to the members of the Transit of Venus Expedition last night. The toast of " The Guests of the Evening " was proposed, hy Dr. Haast, Major Palmor responding. After referring to. the greak importance of careful observations of the transit of Venus, as affording means of perfecting the lunar theory, and improving the science of navigation, he eaid : "On Friday last we began operations on the ground, aud I hope that early next week we shall havo our transit instrument and clock erected and adjusted. The other three principal instruments — namely, the altazimuth, the equatorial telescope, and Mr, Darwin's particular pet, the photoheliograph — will follow in a few days, bo that I hope to be in full working order in about a fortnight hence. The instruments, though of but moderate size, aro the beat of thoir kind, and give evidence of the remarkable preparation, care, and foretho'ughb which the Astronomer-Royal has bestowed upon the English part of the undertaking. For the actual observation of the transit, I am in hopes .that we shall have a chain of at least four or five stations, extending from Wellington to Dunediu. Lieutenant Darwin and I, with the three non-commissioned officers of engineers who have accompanied us. will operate at tho main station at Burnham. Lieutenant Crawford will take a transit instrument and telescope to probably Timaru or the Waitaki. lam in communication with Mr. J. T. Thomson, of Dunedin, with tho view of establishing a third station at Rockyside, for which he appears to have the necessary instruments. Archdeacon Stock will, I hope, be able to observe the transit at Wellington ; and if I can only find one or'two persons in the colony willing to lend me a pretty good 4in. telescope, I trust to nave a fifth Btation on the Hurunui plains, or elsewhere in that vicinity, and possibly also a sixth station in the immediate neighborhood of Ghristehurch. All these stations will bo in direct telegraphic communication with me at Burnham, and I again shall connect with the American station, under Professor Peters, probably at Clyde or the Bluff. Then, looking seaward, there will be, according to present arrangements, the Americans at Chatham Island, the Germans at the Auckland Islands, and the French at Campbell Island ; and I am in hopes that, with the assistance of H.M. ships, we shall be able to undertake chronometric expeditions to these points for accurate determination of differences of longitude. You see, therefore, that by these means full provision wil have been mado in this region for successful observation of the transit of Venus. The whole group of stations will have been connected together, so that direct comparisons may be made between the various observations ; and, lastly, you will have secured a fundamental longitude for New Zealand, which, it can be no offence to say, is likely to exceed in accuracy your previous absolute determination." Quotations f .o.b. at Lyttelton : Wheat 5s to 5s 3d; oats, 5s 6d to 5s 9d ; barley,£l2 10s : bran and pollard, £6 ; sharps, £7' ; cheese, Bd. -Wheat and oats continuo scarce Several hundred bags Californian oats have been sold here to arrive from Wellington. Lyttelton, October 9th. . The Phoebe sailed for the South at 2.15 today. Tho Ladybird sails to-morrow at 2*