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

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 434, 27 February 1875, Page 2

SPECIAL TEL EG RAMS

(Per Anglo-Australian Agency)

{From the Daily South ern Cross.)

Auckland, Friday. The rs'j'usifckn to Sir'G. Grey to stmd for the Superiutendency is to be immediately proceeded with. The Southern Cross has arrived, she reports that 150 tons of saml have been taken oiit»of the Pretty Jane- * Mr Mtcl: ay is in town concluding the revision of the Oaiaamuri Mining Rsg'ija-tionk

Wellington, Friday. The N.ipier, s.s., h>s s-ule I with 33 Armed Cbnstabulary f jr New Plymouth. ' S ):n^s l ie^p have I»e3 it ikon by 'som^ Pdrihaka Natives, .as they were bein^ driven up the caast. \ Parrishas bea,n omunicitei with, and is expected , t) pnt the m itter rig' it, the c.il( j»rit4 sire a bad lot ! and tiot supported in the act by T<rwhiti. •

Christclinrch, Friday. j Jit a meeting of the Ci MnbB.i^fv.C3nirnerc6 ye 1?- . terdov^ the Chairman said he ha}l conferred wfrh i the Minister of Jfisticf) respecting ~a' teiutions in! Bankruptcy laws. Mr Bowen concurred with most j of the proposed alterations!, and promised that the i sftbjecu should h&vj his earnest consideration ; the Minister of Justic? also u^re.'d with the necessity of providing some tmvtns of bringing back absconding debtors and promised to attend to. it. The vi.in Mercer is committed for trial on the charge of murdering the girl Isabella Thompson.

Port Ch ilmers, Friday. j Arrive I—-The ship Wellington from Plymouth, with 201 steerage p isssri^ers. Passage 83 days.

NapifT, Thursday. v Mr. Cliarles Birney was fined £10 at the K.M. Court this morning for assaulting Julins Mathewa hy iioi'^9-whij)jxii),ij him in a public street ye3terlay.' | The parties are commercial men. Barnes whs pay- ] ing bia a-Klressss to a yonu^ iudv iv Auckland, aiiil Muthews t-old th^ parties that B trues had got 110 unneynnd was nob an eligible smtoK-« The match wan broken oiY, Btme» handed what had been wild, iviil cta3.j to N i^'ei* JIl purpose to thrash M.ithews. lie bruuglifra whip ajid waited for Liin at the corner of tae fitreat alicttt:Wished him, leaving sjveral m^rks Oii.liij.ariß siud shoulder.

Welli-.^tja^ Thundar^

, S9otiioa^ wjrs exceptionally high. The total result lofthes-iIS was .£4,691 ss. | The G moral Government have chartered the dteiraar Fipier to tike 25 or 3$ troupers to bpwa vke whera the n.itive disturbance h is beea reported. S'la 13 to,leave to-mo:Tow morniag. TelejrwH -says the iV. Z. 7 trigs, have baeri rei c^ive.l fVorai - the Ageiit-Ganeral by the General Government, ia the early part of the week, but no news of fie Premier. Fi^sh regulation are to be is^ii3d with regard to th-3 racenb alterations ii th,a (jintorn^ Simulations, is to tha duilnWe g^U Ti^ 0 jni.uisiJiori'lj' of Oastons sail the rfiliations would We mo'litied, a'i I wis intense I to aijply only in cases where pfc'xigj? of dutiable good * had been opanei on the vova?-). J T/ieUizUte extiuoiUmry critiiiis a ]>rdolamv I ti m further proroguing of Parliamant to the 3lst Miy. ■ i

C!iristchurc\ Thursday. A-iotH-ir uiiriiitei- for the Presbyterian Extension has rrrived trora Scotland. Tie Ou^erbiiry Ro^in^ C ub has iinpoiteJ four aidition-il bo its and a lar^e qmmtity of oara^&c. f The Ohmteh'irea Pigeon Flying b.ub wa\tinally> established list ni^ht, and the rules of the London dub have b3ensenfc for. Saveral who b^cimemarnher3 have alraalv unporbsd birds from Melbourne. The District Lodijfe of Foresters has offered a scholarship to bs competed for by the sons of Foresters at the usuxrexamiriition for provincial scholarships. I The Hon S. D. H istin^s obtained permission to preach in the Wesleyan Oiiurch on Sunday last, and niany of the membsis of the (Jhurch are greatly irritated at him for doing so. The Strathnavar schooner sailed on Tuesday from the Waikato Heads for Lyttelton with a cargo of timber, she had been bar bound for a considerable time.

D uned i n, .Th ursday. The Bench and the Btr have had a rather smart passage of arms in Court to-day. AMr Haggitt called a Mr Barton "no gentlemin," and refused to hold any coftiniuni&tiion with him, except in Court, and it was achnlly i^ecfissary. On the other side, Mr B.irton accused J^rrfECaggitt of calling him a "d 1 soJu:idre!,' r<*>lfiCT-%ccttsation Mr Haggitt denied. Mr Bathgate, the H.M., then interfered, and endeavoured to remind the counsel of their position and dignity, but without much advantage to himsetf, as Mr Burton sajd he could find twelve merchants in the town witn as much intelligence as Mr Bdtbgate.