TELEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 3383, 31 May 1881, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(FROM OUR OWN COKTCKSPONDENT),

THAMES, this day NEWS FROM WAIHI.

A letter from Waihj to-day states that richer stone than any hitherto obtained was taken out of the Prospector's mine yesterday. SLY GROG SELLING. Clotworthy, late of Te Aroha, was fined £20 aud costs at the Police Couat, Paeroa, yesterday fur sly grog selliug at Waihi. Over £3000 are being spent on drainage works in Waitoa and Piako districts. NKW MINING FIELD. Stodart, Coiner, and others, pegged out a portion of Grahanistown township this morning as a claim. It is believed English capital will work it. Nkw Golden Crown.—The return for tho month is 324 ounces from about 300

Tho manager of the Waiotahi is retorting and will have a return about equal to hint month's yield.

COROMANDEL, thia day,

SUCCESS.—Mr Peter Moid is getting on gold again. He has iaken twelve ounces out since Satvrday.

RICH STONE FROM BLACKMORE'S.

Fifteen gentlemen were at Blackmore'H cluim yesterday morning, and during their stay a'lot of stone was broken out of tho big reef, which was very rich with gold, Mr Dobson, manager of the Bismarck, and Mr Macdouald, manager of the Corby Battery, took out some of the reef themselves, and wore much astonished at its richness. The dirt mixed with the quartz is also full of loose gold and small rich specimens. The show is most astonishing, and surpassed the highest expectations of the critical mining gentlemen who went out purpo-iely to assure themselves of the accuracy of the reports current. The Home Rule also obtained some rich atone during my visit. Three quarters of a share in I'dnckmore'a claim was sold yesterday lor £450.

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HAWERA, this day,

Walter Sannard has been committed to take his trial at the (Supreme Court, New Plymouth, on a charge of stealing a mare lrom a native named I'oki.

Charles Williams has received six months for stealing money from Win. Shearer, at Manaia, on Queen's Birthday. RELEASE OF PRISONERS. Major Parris 1 X hero on Monday for the purpose of liberating another batch of Maori prisoners. Tamatawa, Chief of the Taiporoheuui tribe, died suddenly at au advanced uge. No chief on the Coast was more respected.

N ELSON, this day.

THE NELSON ELECTION.

Mr Levestam addressed a crowded meeting of electors last night, nnd said the class to "which he bolouged would never be properly represented till it returned men from the masses. He claimed for their children. as a right a liberal aud secular education, but said the administration ot tho education system was too extravagant. On the laud question ho thought it better to give land away, in. order to make it productive. He was opposed to the property tax and beer tax, advocating income and a land on a sliding scale with advalorem duties. He advocated slight protection rather than bonuses. Ho would support a capitation tax. He thought modified Provincial Councils without power of legislation would give better local government. He applauded Sir George Grey's Liberal measures, but censured him for certain actions. He said the preseut Government were no 1. Liberals and did not deserve credit for economy, and charged them with being dishonest regarding the District Railway Bill. He was opposed to redistribution on population basis. He would support measures he believed to be good, but lacked confidence in Ihe leaders on either side. Ho received a unanimous vote of thanks, with an addition expressing him a proper person to represent the constituency. Mr J. C. Richmond in the morning papers says he did uot roundly declare himself a socialist, but in common with the great Liberal party, he sympathisd with tho aims of the socialise, which he understood to bo to secure to the working man a fair share of the fruits of his labour and mitigate as far as possible the inequalities of his lot.

GISBORNB, this day THE PAKAFFINE TEST.

The Sydney assay by Mr Dixou (Public Analyst, of the paralltne mineral, gives 305 of solid parafiine. The balance iB k«rosiue and 23 per coot, intermediate oils, 14 having oil, 52 carbou, and loss 11.

WELLINGTON, this day. SHORTNESS OF WATJSK.

In consequence of the low depth of water iv the reservoir, it has bceu decided to placo tanks at several of the springs in the vicinity of the city s-> that the main portion of the spring will How into the tanks, and from the latter branch pipes will bo led into the mains.

CIIKISTCIIURCH, this day

At the Magistrates' Court to-day, R. Richardson, lor attempting to commit suicide by taking strychnine, was committed for trial at the Supreme Court. FIRING A PISTOL. A boy named John Shea, charged with firing a pistol in the public street, was dismissed with a caution. The evidence was to the ellect that the bullet from the pistol passed between two men walking alou^ the street together. AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. The agricultural statistics for the coun. ties of Akaroa, Ashurst, and Selwyn, are published to-day, and give the following averages :—Wheat, 23 bushels per acre ; oats, 27 bushels per acre; barley, 25 bushels per acre; potatoes, 4 tons per acre. WEST COAST RAILWAY. Mr Thornton, engineer, has replied to Mr O'Connor's report on the proposal for v West Coast Railway. He asserts that the latter is wrong in several vital points, and that O'Connor's estimate of the cost is at least £500,000 too high. ANOTHER SPEECH BY THE PREMIER. The Premier addressed his constituents at Halkett last night. The only new point in the speech was a reference to the alteration in the railway freight. He said that whilst some parts of New Zealand had not had a share of the benefit of public loans, but had nevertheless contributed their proportion of loss iucurred ou railways, it was tue duty of the Government to endeavour to make the railways pay interest on the cost of construction. The Government had endeavoured to accomplish this by a reduction in the working expenses, by reducing the number of trains run upon sections on which there was comparatively little traffic, aud by a readjustment of the tariff, when the present Government came into office and excessive reduction in tariff was made in the hope that a largely increased amount of tiaffic would be thereby developed. This hope, however, was not borne out by the results, and they had to retrace their steps and some extent to revise the geneial tariff. In some parts of the colony people had been told the treatment they were at preaeut receiving contrasted unfavourably with that which they received under the Provincial Governments ; but, on enquiry, | it was found that in the single article of grain, the tariff was from 12 to 15 per cent, lower than when the railways wore under provincial management and this, in spite of those madeatithe beginningof the present season. He had been anxious in an agricultural community that this point should be explained. On the conclusion of his speech a vote of confidence was uuanimiously passed. |

ASHBURTON. this day.

THE RACE-COURSE CASE.

"The man Goldbury, after being dismissed on Saturday on a charge of swindling at the races, was arrested immediately he left the Court on a charge of vagrancy, viz., having no lawful visible meaus of support, and brought before the K.M. and remanded till to-morrow.

DUNEDIN, this day.

THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

The result of the enquiry into the accident near Anderson Bay road, on Queen's Birthday, is, that the pointsman is dismissed. The iuquest on Bell resulted m a verdict of "accidentally killed," with a rider urging the necessity for a city morgue. PKINCE PUIICHASES MATA. Prince has purchased Mata for £SOO, and intends briugiug him to New Zealand. NEW LICENSES. The Licensed Victuallers object to 35 applicants for now licenses on the ground, not wanted.