BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
(PEB GBEVII,LE'STEIiEOBA..\I COMPANY.) WELLINGTON. July 15. Shares in the new insurance company am being rapidly taken up. At a public meeting on Saturday, it was recommended that the Governinent quarantine all Auckland vessels. The Government has declined to do so, and declined to adopt the recommendation of the Board of Health. In consequence of this, two medical members of the board have res'gned, Sailed—Albion. The following tenders by Brogden have been officially accepted : —llutt railway, £28,610; Invercargill Mautaura raiiway, £80,697; Auckland and Waikato, £10,9-1-1.. Applications to the extent of £20,000 have been received under the Goldfiekls Water Supply scheme; others to about a similar amount are expected in a few days. This is exclusive of the Thames and other works undertaken by the G-overnment. The Government consents to advance £ISOO to the Greenstone and Hohonu Company, and to take second mortgage over the raco. They are unable to grant the full amount in consequence of its being required to pay the bank overdraft, and not for work constructed. Brogden's navvies, per the Schiehallion, have struck for higher wages, they were originally engaged at 5s per diem, and are now promised a minimum rate of 6s.
DUNEDIN. July 15. A meeting has passed a resolution iu favor of the Permissive Bill. The Chamber of Commerce has resolved to call the attention of the Government to the great delay and irregularity attending the transmission of the mails via San Francisco, and to request that arrangements should be made, to connect New Zealand with the Suez mail. A petition, with 2000 signatures, has been forwarded to the Governor from the Goldfields, asking a free pardon for Ewing, sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for shooting a Chinaman. CHRISTCHUKCH. July 15. Dr Haast has discovered a lot of moa bones. HOKITIKA. July 15. Mr White the member in the House of Representatives, has been presented with a purse of sovereigns at Kanieri. Arrived—The Tararua. AUCKLAND. July 15. M'Gregor the hospital patient, has died from small-pox. The Caledonian claim is promising. Bich specimens are coming to grass. There is a great panic on the share market. Green Harps have fallen from £ll to 17s 6d, owing to a rumour that iron and copper had been passed through the battery with the quartz, to swell the quantity of amalgam. It is not known if this is a fact or a mere dodge to depress the market. No one is allowed to see the mine. Mark Sheehan, the manager of the mine, and five of the original shareholders, were arrested on a charge of conspiracy to defraud. The assay of retorted gold from the mine showed 61 per cent of base metal. Eerguson charged with conspiracy to defraud the shareholders of the Green Harp Claim, has been committed to bail. Mr M'Gann, ledger-keeper in the Bank of New Zealand, died, not from suppressed variola, but from malignant typhus. It is reported that the Government intend to prosecute the captain of the Nebraska, for not disclosing the existence of the disease on board his vessel. It is reported that another hospital patient has been attacked with smallpox, but the report is unconfirmed. The Hospital is put is quarantine. i
The Board of Health have meet to consider the advisability of declaring Auckland an infected district. A collision between the Hibernians and Orangemen at the Thames is imminent ; 2000 of the former paraded the streets. The Government has sent a force of Constabulary to preserve the peace.
AUSTRALIAN TELEGKAMS. July 5 Tho Dido has arrived to relieve the Itosario: A disastrous fire at Kaitnu village, Guningong, has laid it in ruins, many families are homeless. Mr Duffy ascribes his defeat to sectarian feeling aroused by the press.
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Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 987, 16 July 1872, Page 2
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