TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 411, 25 November 1874, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(From the Dunedin Dailies. ) Wellington, November 20th. It is intimated in a Gazette notice that th e ITon. Mr Reynolds has been appointed t° have charge of the administration of th e Naval Training Schools Act. The Post suggests that the Government should arrange with Mr Holloway to act as lecturer and. sub-agent in the agricultural counties, arguing that othei-wiae his experiences, paid for by the Go vernment during the past nine months, will be unproductive. Mr O'Shea reports flour advancing, £13 5s to £13 10s. Wheat, milling, none ; chick, 3s 9d to 4s 6d. Potatoes, £9 10s to £10 ; cheese, lOd to lid ; bacon and hams, scarce, Is Id to Is 2d. November 21at. The privileges for tho races were sold by auction to-day. The gates fetched £310, the grand stand and refreshment booths £50, and the cards and betting books £50 ; total, £410. The Halciono, tho first wool ship of the season, sails to-morrow, and takes 3333 bales of wool, besides hides, leather, tallow, and meat. The cargo is valued at £77,000. Nov. 23. Tho case of the Otago and Southland Investment Company v. Burns occupied oil day in the Court of Appeal. In the Supreme Court the Strathnaver salvage case also occupied the whole day. Two witnesses only out of 49 being examined. Four men, who were missing, having left in a boat that was blown out of the harbour, were picked up at the light house. The barque Zebu has arrived. She left the Mauritius on the 26th September. Until within a few hundred miles of the New Zealand coast she experienced nothing but gales. -Tour vosspls were loading with sugar when she left. One sailed on the same day for Port Chalmers and Lyttelton. The Hon. M. Reynolds has leased the Auckland Melanesian Mission buildings and ground for naval training-school purposes, and purchased the Southern Cross, with the intention of having her brig rigged. Lieut. G.B. Breton, R.N., has been appointed manager of the Kohimarama School, but the preliminary organisation of it is left to Commander Tilly, R.N., who is^w r ell-'kn<»T-Q-iT» eon-_ nection vritli the Melanesian Mission. It is also intended to appoint a boatswain or instructor, a schoolmaster and a gardener. A start will be made with 20 boys from the industrial schools who have not been convicted of any crime. Auckland, November 20th The Police proceeded to the Quarantine Station in consequence of a reported disturbance and found all quiet. The Immigrants were orderly, although dissatisfied, with the release of the saloon passengers. The saloon luggage was brought up. Mr Buckland reports :— Fat cattle, full supply, prices lower, £1 2s 6d to £1 10s per lOOlbs ; sheep in wool, 44d ; shorn 3d j lambs, 10s to 16s ; cross-bred sheep, mixed, 9s to lls each. At a meeting of citizens this afternoon, convened by the Mayor, it was resolved to have a ball in honour of the Marquis of Nor- ■ manby's arrival and Sir James Fergusson's departure. INov. 23. The Marquis of Normandy is expected to to arrive on Monday. The morning papers publish the correspondence between the Superintendent and Governor, in which the latter declines to forward Sir George Grey's petition on the land question to the Queen. Reeitom, November 20th. The Caledonian claim at Inangahua has yielded 73 ounces from 103 tons of quartz. JBLokitika, November 20th. The brigantine Sarah and Mary, from Wellington, laden with iron pipes, is ashore on the beach. She may possibly be got off next tide, though this is doubtful. Two thousand three hundred ounces of gold were shipped for Melbourne by the Otago. The Superintendent, with a survey party proceeded South, by the Waipara on Satur-

day, to determine on a tract of country for special settlement, and a sight for the first depot. All the immigrants who lately arrived at Westland found remunerative employment. Napier, November 20th. At the adjourned meeting of Stuart and Co's creditors many expressed their willingness to accept 15s in the pound. The Bank of New Zealand and some other large creditors were unwilling. As the alternative of non-acceptance of the offer is bankruptcy, the offer will probably be accepted in the end. November 21st. Arrived, Bhip Bebington, from London, 26th July, via Plymouth, with 317 immigrants, all well. A complaint has been lodged on behalf of a single woman named Lyclia Phillips by her brother of alleged harsh treatment. A court of inquiry will be held in a day or two. The "Bebington brings 60 single women. CHRISTCHtJKCH, NOV. 20th At a meeting of the unemployed, called for the Cathedral Square this afternoon, only about forty labouring men attended, and nothing at all was done. The meeting originated, fron the City Council having recently discharged a large gang of men employed on the street improvements, subsidised by the Provincial Government. There is said to be plenty of work up-country. Quotations (free onboard) : — Wheat, 5s 6d; oats, 6s ; flour £12 10s to £13 10s ; bran, £6 10s ; pollard, LG 10s ; sharps, L 7 ; cheese, B^d ; hams and bacon, lid to Is 2d ; wheat and oats, scarce. Nov. 23. Major Palmer has almost completed arrangements at the Burnham Observatory for observing the transit of Venus ; also for the establishing of sub-stations of observation. The sub-stations are five in mumber.