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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1227, 10 November 1874, Page 2

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[SPECIAL TELECHtASI.] NELSON. November 7, 3.3 A p.m. No information about Kennedy, but believed to be still in Bay owing to continued S.W. gales.—N. Edwards & Co. [Received too late for publication on Saturday.] (eeoji a coehespondent.) AUCKLAND. November 7. A new paper, to be called the Echowill appear on Monday. It will sup, port the Government. «. [Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Agency.] REEFTON. November G. The cleaning up of Anderson's crushing has resulted in 3911 ounces retorted gold. The Energetic cleaned up after first days crushing with result of 178 ounces of melted gold. DUNEDIN. November 7. _Mr J. E. Gillies, M.P.C. addressed his'coustituents at Tokomariro last night, received vote of confidence after which a presentation of purse containing 75 sovs. by Mr Clark, M.P.C, on behalf of constituents. Mr Gillies admitted the necessity of abolishing provincial institutions. Action has been taken on behalf of the Government re prosecution of the locomotive fireman who caused the late railway accident. The case is to be heard on Tuesday next. WELLINGTON. November 9. The N. Z. Times publishes the Governor's reply to Sir George Grey's petition, the substance of which is he does not agree with the views expressed in the petition, does not accept its arguments, and declines to act independently of responsible advisers by transmitting petition to her Majesty. He declines also to telegraph. He knows, he says, that the Government do not intend to ask the Imperial Parliament for any measure affecting representative institutions of this Colony and the General Assembly has ample power to make any changes .already authorised. The schooner Elderslie sailed for Westport on Saturday. AUCKLAND. November 6. Arrived—The Tlydaspes from London after 77 days voyage. She brings 400 immigrants, eleven deaths from Scarlatina occurred on the voyage. Sir George Grey publishes another long petition, in which he sets forth the injustice done to the North Island, and especially Auckland, by action of the General Assembly in 185G, injallowing the provinces to control Crown lands. The petition"sets forth that the Imperial Government in IS-15 gave the Governor £IO,OOO for purchase and creation of a landed estate for the colony, by extinguishment of the native title and subsequent sale of acquired lands at a profit, and maintains that as these were acquired by British money they were the property of the British people. He considers the principle which guided the action of the Imperial Government in dealing with the colony was that the more flourishing parts should assist the poorer parts. The object of the petition is to get the Superintendent to prevent the Imperial Parliament taking hurried action in the matter. November 7. G. M. O'-Rorke has joined the Provincial Executive, taking ollice made vacant by the death of Mr Bcveridge, Provincial Solicitor". MrO'Rorke does not take the title, but it is understood will do the Solicitor's work. The Coronet, from Tahiti brings the intelligence that two American ships, one named the Mogul, the otber unknown, has been burned to the water's edge in the Pacific ocean. The two calamities, as reported, present very extraordinary feature. Both vessels belonged to the same firm and were loaded with coals at Liverpool for San Francisco, and both were burned within a day or two of one another. Both crews found shelter at the Marquesas Islands. All hands of the Mogul were were saved after being nearly seventy nays in an open boat. 'The captain, mate, and one baot's crew of the oiher vessel are lost, but the second mate brought the other portion of the crew safely to the Marquesas, after 22 days' privation and difficulties, having been all that time without instruments or charts. A small piece of cardboard, on which their course was marked off, was their only means of keeping their reckoning. The vessels when burned were nearly 2000 miles from land. The first crew arrived at Tahiti on the same day as the Coronet, the last one arrived seven days afterwards. LATER EUROPEAN NEWS (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) WELLINGTON. November 9. The barque Planter, from Sydney, has arrived bringing later English news.

LONDON. October 23. The British representative at the Vatican has been withdrawn. SINGAPORE. October 24. The Government officially confirm the report of capture of Nana Sahib by Mahajarah of Scinde, in Qwalpore. It is reported that Prince Bismarck will, on behalf of Germany, send a note of remonstrance to France if complaints of Spanish Government at French interference with Spanish affairs are unsatisfied at the end of October. Money is easier. Corn market quiet and easy. Home deliveries small. Foreign arrivals abundant. Wool market Prices slightly given way as manufacturers are stocked. Few Zealand hemp has sold at full prices. Arrived—The Glencairn, Saladin, and Jane.