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

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 336, 9 July 1874, Page 2

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

. 11l |tlie Houso of Representatives, the Government agreed upon authority of a resolution to produce all telegrams, and correspondence i*elating to the charges made against Judge Chapman in a telegram published in tho Ota go- Daily Times. The following Bills were read for the first time, viz : — Kegulation Miners Bill. Qualification Electors Bill. Municipal Keserves Bill. Electric ;' Telegraph Amendment Bill, (which deals with the question of producing telegrams in Courts of Justice.), Post-office Bank Amendment Bill. An address to her Majesty conveying congratulations on the marriagd of the Duke of Edinburgh, "and assurances of loyalty, to the throne and person, was moved by the Premier, and agreed to unanimously. Upon Mr Curtis moving for the House to go into Committee to-morrow to consider his Bill. The Premier hoped the House would not allow .any Bill of that kind to pass a second' reading before the financial statement was brought down, which would be laid before the members in the course of ten- days. Thomas Russel, Esq., is to be called to the Upper House, with, a seat at the Government Benches. The schooner Dauntless, from New Caledonia, brings news of the wreck of the schooner Mary Stewar,t. The crew were picked up at sea. Admiral Bitourt arrived at Noumea from France to enquire into the escape of Rochefort. A number of Communists have been sent to the Isle of Pines without a. warning, and. others wilLbc sent to another island. Duelling has become very- frequent, no less than three took place on the 27th June ; one between Lieutenants Derancanc and Guilh.un, ended in the Litter being killed on the spot. Tho. Governor attended the funeral, and addressed tho soldiers on the nsccssity of upholding* their honor by means of tho sword ;- even at the cost of iifo.-|- __• _ — . The schooner Herald from Eiji, brings news of another victory for the Government troops, in whiuh eighty mountaineers were killed'