SPECIAL TELEGRAMS To "The Waikato Times." (From the Anglo-Australian Telegraph Agency.)

Waikato Times, Volume V, Issue 295, 2 April 1874, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS To "The Waikato Times." (From the Anglo-Australian Telegraph Agency.)

Auckland, Wednesday, 9 a.m. The Mongol has arrived without the mail ; tho City of Melbourne not having reached Kandavu when ahe left. Tho cause of her non-arrival i* unknown. The McGregor i« still at Kandavu, being pumped night and day.

11 a.m. Ths Rangatira has arrived with European newa tj 22nd March. Parliament had met. Tho Queen congratulated tho members oji the assuran-jo that there was a continued pcauc. Disraeli has announced it to be tho intention of the Go verument to advise the Queen to release the Fenian priwueri. Sir Garnet Wolealey hat returned from Asbantee.

7.30 p.m. ■The City of Melbourne has arrived. Sho will leare for Syduoy at miduight with the Australian mail via San Francisco. The Mongol will proceed South to-morrow morning. The Now Zealand m*il arrired whollj unaortod. It has oaused great delay iv tho puat-offic«, Auvklund. Loiter* are uofc iot »!i«!i^er.'l.

The Presbytory, after a long diacusstou, negativod a motion jroteoting againit Sunday trains and iteamert, substituted m amendment to tke effect that as Government would shortly taka over tho railways, tho BresbyUry would take no action in tho matUr at present. Sailed— Phcubo, i.i. Tho enquiry into the finanoial poaition of Fiji by the Comuodore and Consul showed that the expenditure for the last two years was £12,400, while thererenue was £42,000, and that there wai nothing to ■ho* foe the expenditure but public officoi which oo»t about^£l2Qo, and the etxt for a lew hundred nflci. The interest on debt of Fiji » stated to be £-124 per month, and no prospect of payment. The chiefs have formally requested that Her Majtsty will take OTer the gorernmont of Fiji. Tho Commodore an'd Foreign Consuls are consulting rejpeutmg tho establiihmsnt of a provisional ftavornuient.