TELEGRAPHIC. Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Agency. (From the Daily Southern Cross.) Wellington, Saturday.

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 341, 21 July 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC. Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Agency. (From the Daily South ern Cross.) Wellington, Saturday.

Captain Cleland, adjutant of the Wairanipa Volunteers, is reported to have been killed at that | place to-day. He was thrown from his horse, and a coach also passed over his body. The underwriters refuse to recognise the insurance , upon the s.s. Paterson. They assert that she had no right to enter the Waitara, and accordingly declind to accept notice of abandonment. The affair is likely to result in an appeal to the law. It is proposed to form a co-operative butchering establishment, in consequence of the rise in the price of beef Wanganui, Saturday. The Eesident Magistrate has decided that a billiard room connected with an hotel may be kept open all night. Nelson, Saturday. Over 3500 new Colonial Bank shaies have been applied tor, and they are still going off freely. limani, Saturday. Shares to the number of 1800 in the new Colonial Bank have been taken up here. Dunedin, Saturday. The new Colonial Bank have secured the services of Messrs Beal and Warren, long known in connection with the Bank of New Zealand. It is understood Mr A W. Morris will also join the new Colonial Bank. Hokitika, Saturday. The Claud Hamilton has arrived from Melbourne, which port she feft on Friday, July 10. Melbourne, July 10. The Local Government Amendment Bill introduced does svway with the.main road subsidies, and establishes a system of endowments. The question of the payment of members is to be again submitted, on the question of going into committee upon it. The majority of the Assembly is understood to be in favor of it. The Railway revenue for the .past year, ending June, has bejn .£95,000, being 10,000 over the estimate. The Hifle Association has telegraphed to England, to ascertain what inducement, or what matches ai*e open for a team from all the colonies : twenty men to visit England. New Zealaud has been asked to join. The portrait of M. P. Fawkner is to be painted for the public library, out of proceeds of a public subscription. Mr E. O. McCoy, late principal of the Ballarat Presbyterian College committed suicide by sticking his throat yesterday. The Pera left Galle with the mails three days before the contract time. She is expected to be here on Saturday, July 25. Blondin is expected here after visiting Sydney. A cablegram from London, dated July 6, reports hemp dull of sale ; New Zealand, middling to good, £17 to £20. & ° The Melbourne market is very dull, and very few transactions of any importance. A fair trade in teas, mostly for private consumption. London telegrams report a rise in sardines of 15 per cent. Liquids falling. Oats offering more freely at 5s 3d to 5s 4d. Large sales of candles at 9d in bond. Kerosene freely x dealt in at a slight advance Breadstuffs very dull. Brisbane, July 10. Four Bills for increasing the salaries of the Governor a,nd Ministers have been introduced, but negatived. Adelaide, July 10. A question of privilege now exists between the two Houses, owing to the Council inserting clauses in a money Bill. The revenue ifor the half-year exceeds half a million.