TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 424, 9 January 1875, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(From the Dunedin Dailies. ) Wellington, January 4th.

A new Presbyterian church is about to be erected in Willis-street, at a cost of £3270. It is reported that a seam of coal 18in thick has been discovered near Featherston. on the Masterton railway. From its hardness it is thought to be anthracite or nonbitummous. January 7. An influential and well-attended meeting was held last night at the Pier Hotel, his Worship the Mayor in the chair, when it was resolved that the anniversary day should be celebrated by a regatta and a dinner in the evening. A considerable sum of money was collected in the room, and it is expected that financially the forthcoming regatta will excol any previous one. Tbe|idinner will not, as formerly, be a regatta dinner, but an auniversary one. y January 6. Arrangements have been made with the NeWj Zealand Shipping Company for the conveyance of the prize firing representatives from Port Chalmers and intermediate ports to Manukau and back in oue of their vessels leaving 1 ort Chalmers on the 15th January, Lyttleton on the 17th, Wellington on the j 19th, Picton on the 19th, Nelson on the 21st, and Taranaki on the 22nd, arriving in Manukau on the 23rd inst. The Company have agreed to take extra representatives at the same rate as those for whom passages are paid by the Government, viz., 10 per cent, off the usual return ticket fares. The Macgregor will proceed to Sydney and complete her voyage. The outgoing mail will be taken by the Ciiy of Melbourne. Napier, January 5. Arrived : Clarence, from London, with 343 immigrants, all well. There wer« 21 deaths on the voyage, chiefly of infants, from diarrhoea ; and two births. The passengers .are now being laaded. They are a promising looking shipment. Two settlers of Poverty Bay intend starting up the coast on a prospecting tour. They commence at Tukurangi. Major Ropata is supporting them warmly. Auckland, January sth. Thompson, Mr. Quick's absconding manage^ was sentenced to four years' imprisonment with hard labour. The ship Glenlora has arrived from London, after a passage of one hundred days. January 6. The agents for the Australian Steam Navigation Company here have received definite iuformation^hat the present arrangements for the Californian service*will continue for six months longer. Mr. Hugh George, manager of the Melbourne "Argus," will prohably accompany the Rev. Mr. Clark, as a companion, on his lecturing tour. At the Supreme Court, Henry Devon, several times previously convicted, was sentenced to four years' imprisonment for horse stealing ; Thomas Morris, for forging an order, to two years ; George Moss, for illegally pawning, to nine months. January 7. At the settling of the summer meeting of the Racing Club last Evening, the following were the winnings of the first horses : — Mr. Delamainek Templgtpn, £400 ; Belle, £60 ; total, £460. Mr. Watt's Ngaro, £40 ; Toi. £125 ; Tui, £50 ; Parawhenua, £60 j total, £275. Mr. Crummer's Never Miss, £100. Mr. Mark's Rarey, £100. Mr, Buckland's Kate, £50. Mr. Walter's Yatterina, £40. Mr. Abbott's Stranger, £15. Mr. Leonard's Warwick, £10. Mr. Taylor's Warwick, £10. Mr. Kelly's Dainty, £10."— Total, £1,070. Mr. Alexander Saunders reports: — Sales: Bank of New Zealand, £18 4s ; National Bank, cum div,, 68s ; South-» British, 48s ; City of London, 28s. — Buyers : Bank of New Zealand, £18 4s ; South British, 48s ; Beach, 6s 6d. Sellers : National Bank, 70s ; Fiji, 62s sd. January sth. ,Mr. W. Swanson, M.H.R., is 1 taking round a petition for signature to Sir George Grey, requesting him to stand for Auckland City West — Mr. Gillies' seat. It is being numerously "and influent iallr signed bj- centralists and provincialists alike, and, should he consent, there is not likely to be any opposition. Hokitika, January 6. Numerous applications have been made to the Provincial Government by persons desirous of taking up land under the special settlement regulatious at Jackson f 4sßay. Several applicants proceed to the settlement by the steamer Waipara next week. Tnere is a considerable inquiry for land in the southern portioiPof the province. Chbistchtjrch, January 6. At the Supreme Court, George William Price, for robbery from the person, was -sentenced to three months imprisonment ; Alex ■Glark, for an unnatural offence, to two years', and for an indecent assault, to three years'; William Rich, for larceny as a bailee, to two years' imprisonment. The trial of Whittnore, for embezzlement of the funds of the Lyttelton Lumpers' Society, is occuping the whole day at the Fupreme Court, and will probably last over to-morrow. ThbAbeow, January 7th. A serious accident happened this afternoon to the coach at Patterson's Hill. The horses shied, and the coach upset. The driver, T. Parsons, is reported to be seriously hurt, but tbe extent o£ his injuries is not yet known. The onhr passenger was Mr. Sprout, of Monut Ida, out" it is not yet known if he escaped unhurt.