Telegraphic.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume IV, Issue 339, 8 December 1875, Page 3

Telegraphic.

(feom? ode OWN cobbespondent.)’ Auckland, Tuesday evening; Mr Robert Graham has declined to stand *as Mayor for the Thames. _The Star's special at Napier wires that £5,000 will be spent by the Land League at Hawke’s Bay to prevent Sheehan getting into Parliament. Eleven out of 16 have accepted for the Auckland Gup, and eight have entered for the Steeplechase. A son of one of our most influential citizens, a clerk in the Bank of New Zealand, disappeared last week. He is supposed to have shipped in the Julia Bryce for Norfolk Island. Rees has announced his candidature for City East, and Francis Hull for Marsden. Prime and Tonks are the only two eandidat for Mayor. The election takes place on t 16th. The schooner Kate McGregor caught fir.! alongside the wharf yesterday. Damage, £lO. A great native meeting is taking place at Hikurangi. Europeans are not allowed up. Christopher Qreenway has again been fined for allowing privies on his properties to over# flow. The MacGregor arrived with the English mail on Sunday. She left for Sydney on Monday, Tne Auckland Steam Packet Company have held their half-yearly meeting, and declared a dividend of 10 per cent. At the Works Committee meeting of the Harbour Board it was resolved that, “It is expedient to construct a dock at once not less than 300 ft, and 12ft deep on sill, and that Mr Errington, 0.E., be asked to prepare plans and specifications." The Licensing Coart was held to-day. An address by the Earangahape Board was presented to Mr Swanson, last night.

(feom an occasional correspondent.) Tho object of the Superintendent’s visit is to consult re road between the Kalikati and Ohinemuri, which is in the goldfields. Mr Ularke, Under-Secretary of the Native Department, visits Tauranga per Rowena, thence proceeds to Napier* Mr Sheehan is spoken of as an intended candidate for the East Coast district.

[pee peess agency.] Assaulting a Judge. Geahamstown, Tuesday eveningAt a special meeting of the Resident Magis l trate’s Court held to day, Kapana Munganou was charged with assaulting Judge Munro. The Judge had just delivered judgment in the Native Lands Court case in which Kapana was concerned, and’adjourned the Court. On attempting to leave the Court, Judge Munro was met by Kapana, who pushed him back repeatedly j the Judge said he had only two alternatives —“ To knock Kapana down, or send' for a policeman j” he chose the latter. Kapana, in reply to the charge, said he was “dark” about his land being taken away, and they could now take him. The Magistrate said if Kapana had been a blustering native ho would have sent him to prison without the option of a fine, but as he was generally quiet and peaceable, he would fine him £lO or a month’s imprisonment. The fine was paid, although Kapana said he would not pay. Hovell Williams, a well known tradesman, formerly a Captain of Volunteers and a prominent orangeman, died to day after four hour’s illness. He made a proposal for insuring his life in the Government Office a short time back, but neglected or declined to pay the premium charged.

(feom cue own correspondent.) Gtsbobne, Monday afternoon. The long expected Maori feast took place here yesterday. There was a large assem • blage of natives and European and native visitors from all parts. Fully £6,000 worth of goods, consisting of flour, fish, grog, clothing horses, bank notes, and sovereigns, were piled up in endless variety, and presented to the visitors. War dances wound up the first day’s festivities, which will likely last two or three days. Wilson’s requisilon is published in to-day’s Standard. He replies favorably. McDonald funks, and has resigned. Morris is heard of as being on the road. Kelly is also looked for. Their arrival will cause some stir. Wilson intends to vidfc Tauranga if possible. The Pretty Jane is detained. She will leave at five to*day, PEE PRESS AGENCY. Issue of Parliamentary Writs, Wellington. Tuesday evening. A Gazette dissolving Parliament was published yesterday. It also contained notification of the issue of the writs for elections returna* hie on the 2nd February; writs abolishing old and appointing new polling places; and proclamation summoning Parliament to meet on the 2nd February,

PEE PEES 3 AQENCr. Arrival of the ’Frisco Mail. Disastrous Floods. Auckland, Tuesday evening; The Macgregor arrived on Sunday. She left San Francisco on Nov. 8, and brings a very largo mail and news to November 8. She left for Sydney yesterday; The Turkish Government offer Gladstone £50,000 per annum to take charge of Turkish finances. Disastrous floods have occurred in India, 20,000 people have been rendered homeless* 900 workmen were fatally injured by an overflow of molten metal at Walsam ironworks. The plot to place ex*Queen Isabella on the Spanish Throne has failed. The explorers on board the Pandora discovered the graves of three of Sir John Franklin’s men on Beachy Island. The Russian Government has published an edict compelling all Polish proprietors in the provinces of Wilma, Grodur, Koonas, Minod, and Vilcpok to sell to their Russian tenants the farms now retained by the latter. Davis and wife, of Toronto, the abortionists, have been sentenced to be bung. The Crown Prince of Germany is to visit the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. A German squadron will form an escort.

Toronto is in the hands of ruffians who are committing depredations in every direction. Ton Arnim’s sentence has been confirmed. His family are asking for bis pardon. The Times reports that a Manchester firm have had to import calico from the United States,

Recent storms on the English coast have been terribly destructive. The King of Greece decorated all the Prince of Wales’ party during their visit to Greece. Mrs Black, the original of Byron’s “ Maid of Athens,” died in Greece, aged 76, Latest mail advices from England contain gloomy reports of the recent floods in the Midland counties. At Nottingham twelve persons were drowned, and more than 3,000 housas were inundated. 50 factories have stopped work, Hear Oxford the rails on the lines were all inundated with water, and the village of Bathuring was entirely flooded. At Burtonmn-Trent, six persons were drowned, and at Derby the water is still several feet deep in the streets. Above Gainsboro’, the Trent has burst its banka, and all the surrounding country is flooded. The loss of property is enormous, The line of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Rail* road is washed away. All traffic was stopped for a time.

Over 200 sailors were lost during the recent gale in the North Sea. The French ironclad Magenta has been destroyed by fire. The German arsenal at Bendersburgh has been totally destroyed by fire. The Congregationalist Church, to the disgust of the world, are about to renew the Beecher scandal by a sacerdotal enquiry. Colonel Cowen, of New York has been asked by the British Government to undertake the work of raising the Vanguard, Letters received from Stanley have been exceedingly interesting. They are dated at Ugatta, in Uganda, and give elaborate and picturesque accounts of the continuation and conclusion of his examination of the shores of Victoria Nyanza. They confirm Speke’s view that the great lake is one large body of water,, and not a series of small ones, as held by Livingstone. Howard Glover, the well-knwn composer, is dead.

A great demonstration was to take place in New York on the 23rd November in honor of of Fenian prisoners hanged at Manchester, The steamship Pacific was lost south of Cape Hattery, with the loss of all on board except one, on the 4th November* Jelly, the survivor, states he took passage on board at Victoria, British Columbia, for San Francisco, with about 200 on board. Between 8 and 9 o’clock she came into collision with a vessel, and shortly after sank. Lashing himself to a piece of wreck, ho floated about for some hours, when ho was picked up by the ship Messenger, and landed at Port Townsend, Tho general impression is that Jelly labours under a delusion in stating that tho Pacific came into collision with a sunken vessel, but it is more likely she struck on a sunken rock. There are but faint hopes of any other survivors. Jelly, when picked up, was in a very low state, with his limbs horribly bruised from bufletting on the sea while on tho raft for thirty six hours,