BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1104, 5 September 1873, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

[Anglo-Australian Press TelegraphAgeney]

WELLINGTON.

September 3. The following estimates have been passed for West Coast, Nelson: — Clerk to Commissioner of Stamps, £IOO. Returning and Registration Officer for Buller, aiso Resident Magistrate, £SOO. Sheriff, £25, and fees ; Sheriff, Returning and Registration Officer for Westport, £ll 10s. Resident Magistrate and Warden, £500; Coroner, nil; Clerks at Westport and Charleston, also Clerks to Resident Magistrate's Courts £3OO and £275 ; bailiffs at Westport and Charleston, also bailiffs Resident Magistrate's Court fees only ; Postmaster, Westport, also Telegraphist, £2lO ; Telegraphist, £135 ; assistant ditto, £7O ; Messenger, £4O ; Customs Deputy Collector and .Purveyor, also Licensing Officer under Arms Act, £340; Clerk and Landing Waiter, £220; Landing Waiter, £210; Cadet, £9l; Goldfields allowance, 10 per cent on fixed salaries up to 30th September, Js73, and five per cent from that date to thirtieth June, 1874.

The general estimates for public works will not be considered for ten days.

Sept. 4 In the House last night the Coal Mines Regulations Bill was read a second time to affirm the principle.

The Gold Mining Districts Rill has passed through Committee with trifling amendments.

The Grey River Coal Reserve Bill has been withdrawn, on the understanding that some provisions be introduced in the Province of Westland's Bill.

The second reading of Murray's Disqualification of Justices Bill was negatived on the voices.

Protection of 'Animals Bill has been committed.

Captain Underwood, of the Alhainbra, Captain Stewart, of the Lennox Castle, and the carpenters of both vessels, have reported that the William Tapscott is sea-worthy, but they recommend repairs, The chief-engineer of the Alhambra also made a survey, aud reported to that effect. Captain Chillis, of H.M.S. Ttosario, reports her unseaworthy. Regarding the inquiry into the revolt, the Governor has resolved to commit the men for trial, aud send them for trial to the United States, unless the Supreme Court steps in within fifteen days. Notice of appeal to the Supreme Court has been notified, and a public subscription is to be raised for the further defence of the men. The Government have received a telegram from Mr Gisborne, East Coast, announcing that the sittings of the Native Lands Court has been resumed.

The inquiry regarding the grounding of the Ladybird is proceeding. The ship Electra, from London, arrived on Sunday. At Wanganui there is a split among the Presbyterians, owing to the passing of a resolution by a majority of the body in favor of instrumental music in churches. The Government will take their stand on the Provincial Loans Bill, and if defeated will ask the Governor to grant a dissolution. Twenty-one of the Armed Constabulary have proceeded to strengthen the posts on the East Coast. AUCKLAND. Sept. 4. The ship Berar brings 301 immigrants. The Tui Takuaki has been seized by H.M.S. Conflict for carrying laborers without a license. Tauranga has been declared a port of entry. CHRISTCHUHCII. Sept. 4. Twenty thousand shares in the National Bank have been applied for. A prospectus of the Lyttelton Gas Company is issned, capital £7ooo. The wheat market is firm, owing to Melbourue advices. Prime samples, ss. Flour unaltered, Oats, 4s 2d. DUNEDIN. Captain Baldwin and Mr Howden, directors of the National Insurance

Com pan, proceed North to visit the provinces. 30,000 shares have been applied for in Dunediu. Flour, £l2 10s to £l3 ■ wheat, 5s to 5s (sd, and in demand ; oats, 4s 3d to 4s 6d. TIMARU. At the inquiry regarding the wreck of the Duke of Edinburgh the Captain was The accident was attributable to a heavy sea, and the vessel being deficient in cable. The hull of the Fairy Queen was sold by auction, and was bought for £l3O. 1 LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. The Wonga Wonga, from Sydney to Auckland, brings London dates to the the 22nd u]t., and inter-colonial to the 25th. SYDNEY. August 25. Another case of supposed infanticide has been reported, the remains of a child having been found in a hole near the Barracks, on Saturday night. The Hon. Henry Parkes has returned from his trip to the frontier of the colony. tie has travelled 050 miles since he left Sydney about a fortnight ago. MELBOURNE. Aug. 25. Detective Powell, who has been for a very long time in the Victorian Detective Police Force, died suddenly at Geelong on Saturday. The passengers by the ship Dallam Towers have sent a long report to the press concerning the disaster to the ship. They will be sent on to Dunedin by the s,s. Albion. The coursing match between the Victorian celebrity and the imported Scotch Meg Merrilies, for £IOO a-side, was won by the latter, which scored two out of three. It is believed that R. W. Wardill, whose extensive defalcations have lately been reported, has succeeded in getting out of the colony. A strict search has been made for him in all directions, but without success. •

Hannah Regan, charged with childmurder, has been acquitted. Red pine shows a reduction in price and is uow quoted at from lis to 12s 6d.

A claimant has made his appearance here from Wngga Wagga (famous for the production of the Tichbome bnronj), for the estate of the late P. C. Buckley, or Coady, who died intestate in Gipps Land, leaving au estate worth »'over £50,000,

The Ace is a great favorite for the Cup. Shipments of horses from Melbourne to India are going on at present on quite a large scale. . Four vessels were loading ten days ago, at Williamstown and Sandridge, for Madras and Calcutta, and the horses for them are of a superior class.

An effort is being made to wind-up the London and Australian Agency Company.

The sum subscribed for the widows of the men lately drowned in the pilot-schooner Kip, now amounts to close upon £IOOO. The Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company contributed the handsome sum of £25.

A subscription has been commenced in Melbourne for the widow and family of Captain Irving, who, with his vessel, the schooner Cousins, and all hands were lost in the Strait in the same gale which was nearly fatal to the Rip. Tie was one of the oldest shipmasters out of Hobson's Bay. The flour-mill and stores in Flinders street, Melbourne, belonging to Mr VV. Degraves, were sold by auction a few days ago, and brought £i2,250, the buyer beiug Mr Moncklon Synott, of Geelong.

ADELAIDE. August 25, Adams and M'Lean, two seamen, have been convicted of the murder of the master of their ship, Captain Wittacombe, and have been sentenced to imprisonment for life.

Wheat is steady at 3s ; breadstuffs unchanged. ♦ LATER ENGLISH NEWS. VIA CABLE, LONDON. August 22. The new breakwater at Holyhead has been formally opened by the Prince of Wales. Prince Arthur narrowly escaped from drowning at '1 hionville, in France, in saving the lile of a French waterman. The wheat harvest is nearly finished. There is a falling off of twenty per cent in the yield. The ship Crusader has arrived from Canterbury. The Carlists have been completely defeated near the town of Bcrga. A later telegram, dated 23rd August, states that the Carlists claim the vie tory. In Catalonia there are 28,000 Carlists in the field. The Tichbornc case is nearly finished. Mr Kcneally has conlnded his address He deplored his inability to produce Arthur Orton. Intimation has been made that the Government will pay the expenses of conscientious witnesses for the defence. The trial of the bank forgers is proceeding. A plan has been discovered by which, had they been able to carry it into execution, they would have been

üblo to escapo from Newgate. It was foiled, however, by the warders. A very extensive lockout has taken place in the North of England.

The minimum deficit in France amounts to fifteen million hectolitres and the estimated deficiency in England as already stated, has been ascertained to be correct. Of the prizes awarded to Ihe exhibitors by the Vienna Commissioners, a very large per-centage goes to British colonial exhibitors, who have achieved great distinction. The marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh takes place in January. Arrivals from New Zealand—Warwick and Palmerston. PARIS. August 20. Nothing fresh has transpired as to the movements of the Monarchical party. The French Government appears to be unconcerned. Regarding the capture of the English yacht Deerhound by a Spanish man-of-war, it appears that the vessel was seized near the French frontier, but it is not considered that the national rights of France in regard to French waters are affected.