SPECIAL TELEGRAMS (Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Agency.) (From the Daily Southern Cross.)

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 426, 9 February 1875, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

(Per Anglo-Australian T elegraph Agency.)

(From the Daily Southern Cross.)

Auckland, Monday. The Wbngn Wonga and Hero have arrived together. They bring intelligence of the defeat and resignation of the Parkes Ministry on the vote of censure re Gardner's minute. A large number of Australian diggers were passengers en, route to Ohinemuri. A rich lode of manganese was discov red on George Grahams property at Waheke on Friday in a convenient place for shipment. Mr and Mrs George Darrell were passengers by the Hero.

Lyttelton, Monday. The Rakaia arrived yesterday with 19 saloon passengers and 363 immigrants, 81 days from Plymouth. 11 deaths have occulted on the passage. There are 55 cases of ineii^ies and 8 of scarlatina. She has been placed in quarantine.

*-* %\ Sydney. The mail steamer Ceylon arrived at Galle on the 22nd ult. Thompson, the sole survivor of the Hume expedition, has arrived at Borneo.

Melbourne. Victoria has applied by telegraph for 15,000 ft floor space and 7500 ft wall space at the Philadelphia exhibition.

London, January 26. Bright, in the course of a speech to his constituents at Manchester, spoke strongly in f.ivor of the disestablishment of the Church of England. Garibaldi has taken his seat in Parliament. The Emperor of China died on 12 January. 12,000 men have been locked-out in Sjuth Wiles. The Emperors of Germany, Austria, 'and Russia have received an envoy notifying that the Spanish Crown has been accepted by Alphonso.

Rotorua, Saturday. Mr Mitchell, land purchase acenfr, with Captain M.iir, has just returnedLfrom RaWitakia country, where they have acquired nve extensive bloc s of 'forest and open lands for th^Governraent, with an area of over three hundred\h(s*sajjd acres. The meeting, which was he|d <ti tralatea, was a very large and important one,** and j>assed off most successfully. Mi- Mitchell leaves for Taupo im mediately. The natives are expecting Sir Donald McLean at Tanranga early.

Tauranga, Saturday. Mr O'Siillivan, after inspecting the 1 aur.mga ami Whareo schools, has proceeded to Opotiki. His report of the former school was unsatisfactory, and te school-masfer received notice to leave. The s.<3. Pretty Jane, of Auckland, is ashore in Big River, where she had gone for a cargo of giass seed. The pilot was in charge at the time of the accident. She giounded on the bar, and the anchor being taken out, the order was given to steam a-liead ; in .doingS£his 1% *&&s v over-run the anchor, which knocked a hole in her'hottom, and the vessel sank. The passengeis were all saved. Ihe vessel is partially insareJ,-«aiicl also the cirgo.

I x N.tpier, Saturday. .The total sales at the ram fair amounted to £10,000. Messrs Boutledjje, Kennedy, and Co, nnd M> W. B. Miller disposing of the greater number.

Wellington, Soturdny. On the representation of the Warden of the G IOI the Superintendent has given instructions to nuke considerable additions to the gaol buildings. The Customs revenue for the week amounted to £4,520. Mr Krull, the German consul, who is going home for a short time, has been entertained at dinner by merchants and tesidents. The N. Z. Times, rqfer^ng to Sir D. McLeans interview, and the openQg^f Ohinemuri, says Sir Donald cannot be in two placed at once, and therefore the miners should exercise their patience and trust to the sure development of the Native Minister's operations. % 'v^jf

Hokifika, Saturday. I The third Session of the Westland Provincial fcCouncil was opened yesterday by Mr Bonar, the ■Superintendent. Hte stated tint the land revenue kad fallen short by £700 ; but as the third of the Bfeneral Government especial jrrant whs available, |the total liabilities for the pist year were only £2,000. During the year £18,000 has been spent on public works, against £10,000 in the previous year. He referred to the promising prospects in the Jackson's Bay Settlement, regretting that no practical benefit to Westland had resulted from the general system of immigration/" Be stated that it was the intention of the Government to amend the j license laws. He suggested tfiiit the Council should settle the amount to be paid to the Tramway Company, and the General Government wonld be asked to introduce an Act to provide compensation. On the Provincial question, he said his firm conviction was that the time had arrived when a system of | double government should cease. So long as the j present provincial system vVas continue 1, so long would the weaker subdivisions of\the colony continue to suffer.

, D.unedin. Saturday. I Further works are proposed in connection with | the City water works, and the Corporation have . purchased 32 acres of land to form a reset voir for supplying the higher portions of the city. A special meeting is to be held next week to consider \ to consider the erection of gas w,orks. I Mr Rainford met with a\et\y cordial reception on his re-appearance with the Banish Operi Com1 panv. ! The criminal assault ca^oprainst an old man on I a child of tender years, rVdhls^ amount of tle- | praiity without parallel. Thp evidence iy horrible, and showb that the prisoner has had improper relaj tions with nearly all the female members of the . family, by one of whom he has had children. His i council declined to carry on the case, and threw up the brief.

Queenstown, Saturday. Some very rich quartz leads have been discovered bv a party of miners crossing from Branches, at Shotover, to Wai'aki.