TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5354, 11 April 1879, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[By Cable.] [reciter's telegrams.] LONDON, Undated. The Board of Trade returns of imports for the past month amount to £29,875,500, showing an increase of £3,343,750 compared with the corresponding month of last year. The return of exports for the past month amounts to £16,157,500, showing an increase of £593,850. The Brindisi mail was delivered in London on April 7. April 8. New Zealand five per cent, loan, 102. LONDON, April 7. The Secretary of State for the colonies, in reply to a question in the House of Commons, said that the sincerity of Cetawayo in his peace proposals was doubtful. Complete submission would alone satisfy the British 'Government. He added that General Pearson had made a road shortening the distance to Ekowe three miles. The House of Commons has adjourned for the Easter recess. LONDON, April 8. The second call of the City of Glasgow Bank is £2250 per share. ALEXANDRIA, April 8. The Khedive has dismissed Mr Rivers Wilson, the British Finance Minister, _\vho, however, refuses to accept the dismissal; A~aew Ministry has been formed under the Presidency o? Sherif -Sashfi^ comprised exclusively of natives. When dismissing Mr Rivers Wilson the. Khedive also dismissed Monsieur Blymeres, the French Minister of Public Works in Egypt. MELBOURNE, April 7. Mr Berry telegraphs to Six* Brian O'Loghlen that he will have another interview shortly with the Secretary of State for the Colonies. MELBOURNE, April 9. The Cabinet have telegraphed to Mr Berry their opinion in favor of accepting the offer of the Orient line, coupled with cheap passages for immigrants, not necessarily sotting aside the P. and O. Company, but accepting both if possible. SYDNEY, April 7. Owing to a difficulty having arisen between the Lambton and Associated collieries, disturbances are expected tomorrow. April 8. The steamer Menmuir has arrived at Port Darwin from Hong Kong, with 556 Chinese, including 26 for New Zealand. Another steamer with Chinese is expected at Port Darwin in a few days. j An uproarious meeting of Lambton colliers was held at Newcastle to-day. The majority of the men are inclined to continue work. A large body of police 1 were present in consequence of apprehensions of a riot. [special to the press association.] LONDON, April 8. An insurrection has broken out in the Transvaal amongst the Boers. Proposals of peace have been made by Cetawayo ; but it is believed they are made to gain time. LONDON, April 8. The Exhibition Commission has met. The Prince of Wales presided. Manufacturers and producers are urged to aid in the undertaking. The Khedive dismissed the Ministry, in spite of English and French remonstrances, defying both. SYDNEY, April 9. Adelaide wheat is worth 4s 8d ; Adelaide country flour, £10 ss. [By Special Wibe.l AUCKLAND, April 8. The English Opera Company, at the Theatre Royal, under the direction of Signor Pompei, are not meeting with much favor. Thers is general disappointment at the quality of the artistos. Season tickets have been offered freely for somo time past at a very large discount, their original owners having lost all interest in the performance. The case of Thomas Fitchott, alias Sheldon, charged with arson, occupied the Supreme Court all to-day. He was found guilty. Sentence was deferred. A subscription is going to be raised at Helensville to institute legal proceedings against the Government in order to obtain compensation for the widow and children of the stoker killed on the Kaipara line by the falling of a watertank. He is described as having been very steady. CRISTCHUHCH, April 8. All the cases heard at the Supreme Court to-day ended in acquittals. The Court was occupied till a quarter to eight to-night, hearing the cases of Alex. Fitzgerald and Esther Carr charged with larceny, and that of Peter James Fowler, a railway guard, who was charged with embezzling money received for tickets sold on ti'ains. The arson case will probably come on to-morrow. A meeting of the committee appointed to carry out the arrangements in connection with the approaching chess congress was held last evening in the clubroom. The secretary reported that subscriptions for the prizes wore coming in satisfactorily. The following weights have been declared for . the Free Handicap : — Fishhook, 9st 71b ; Templeton, 9st 41b; Maritana, 9st ; Foul Play, Bst 101 b; Mata, Sst 101 b; Titania, Bst 61b ; Middleton, Sst Gib ; Natator, Sst 31b ; Camballo, Sst 21b ; Chancellor, Sst ; Lara, 7st 131 b; Nemo, 7stl2lb; Laertes, ~st 111 b; Longlands, 7stlOlb; Vampire, 7st 101 b; Ratcatcher, 7st 51b ; York, 7st 21b; Orange Lightning, 7st; Randwick, Tat ; Naiad, 6st 121 b; Undine, fist 101 b v Numa, Cst 101 b; Eversley, 6st 71b ; The

Agont, Gst 41b ; Te Whitu, Gst 21b,; Huntingdon, Gst 21b; Robin Hood, Gst; Moose, fist ; Black . Prince, fist ; Blue Ribbon, Gsfc; Fakir, Gst; Iv.anhoo, 6st. Handicap Steeplechase-- Agent, 12st 71b; Te Whotu, 12st81b; Eversloy, list; Ivanhoe, lOst 121 b ; Fakir, lOst 71b. • CHRISTCHURCH, April 9. The privileges for the Autumn Meeting, sold yesterday, reached £106 10s, oi ? nearly double those of last year. John 8011, assistant shunter at Ashburton when the collision with the express train occurred, who was brought up at the Police Court yesterday, charged with wilfully neglecting to close the points, was remanded to Ashburton. The work of constructing the Malvern water race, which was commenced by the late Provincial Council, is making good progress under the Selwyn County Council. , ■ A private trial of one of Fowler and Son's traction engines took place yesterday on the Cashmere estate. The engine drew five tons one mile in twenty minutes, including a short stoppage to take in water. Mallock and Lance's string of horses for the Autumn Meeeing, consisting of Foul Play, Nemo, Marie Antoinette, and On Dit, arrived in Christchurch last night from the owner's place, Horsley Downsj the two latter, Champagne fillies, looking splendid. DUNEDIN, April 8. Messrs Oliver, Driver, and Bastings have sent by telegram a strong remonstrance to the Minister of Public Works against the acceptance of tenders for the erection of extensive railway workshops at Addington, near Christchurch, and urging that Dunedin is the proper centre of the railway arrangements for the Middle Island. It is said that the workshops arc to cost £100,000. Mr Conyers, Commissioner of Railways for the Middle Island, has returned from Queenstown, via Invercargill, much improved in health. At the Supreme Court criminal sessions, to-day, Timothy Flaherty, charged with burglary, was acquitted. William Thomas Salomon, forgery and uttering, was found guilty, and sentenced to four years' penal servitude. George Ansely, convicted of burglary, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. Alexander M'Leod and Alfred Shears, stealing from the person, six months' hard labor. John Moon, for rape on a girl seven years old, was found guilty, and sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude, with two private whippings of 35 lashes each with a cut-o'-nine tails. William Hay Wallace, stealing from the person, was sentenced to twelve months' hard labor. At a meeting of bookmakers', held recently, it was unanimously resolved to post defaulters of the last Autumn Meeting, without any exception, forthwith. At the Milton Police Court, before E. H. Carew, R.M., John Alexander Duthie and James Davills, for unlawfully hunting hares out of season, were each fined £30, with costs. Half the amount of the fines goes to Ranger Burt, who prosecuted. GREYAtOUTH, April 9. The inquest on the body of William Pitt, solicitor, was held to-day. After hearing additional evidence, the jury returned the following verdict :— " That the deceased was accidentally drowned in the Arahura river on the 13th of March, and that every exertion was made by those on shore to save him." NEW PLYMOUTH, April 9. The Taranaki Kifle Volunteers paraded in review order last evening, when Captain H. Eyre Kenny took his farewell • -jporjo leaving for Napier. The Macandrew arrived at Hawera -last evening, whlrnirrfepttt-afcion., of settlers waited on him respecting local matters. They also urged the expediency of organising a powerful and efficient force for the protection of the settlement, but at the same time advocated that the Government should be careful to avoid any action calculated to provoke hostilities. They asked the Government to push on rapidly such public works as are especially calculated to open up the country, and' can be proceeded with at the present time. Mr Macandrew promised to further the views of the deputation to the utmost of his power. The Herald's Hawera correspondent telegraphs: — "There is nothing new about the Waimate Plains. Major Brown is here. The settlers are looking upon the difficulty more hopefully, and coming to the conclusion that there will be no war. A good many natives from Rangitikei and Waitotara have passed through Hawera lately en route to the Waikato meeting. Mr Macandrew was expected to be at Waipaka about noon, and a special train was to go up that portion of the line not yet opened to meet him. Ho is expected in town this evening. Mr Mackay has been to see the natives at Ureniu, who are all imbued with Te Whiti's views with regard to their land. Mr Mackay told them not to leave it in Te Whiti's hands, as they had done ; it was best to see Mr Sheehan when he came here. The natives complained of not having grants given them for their land." WELLINGTON, April 8. At the Supreme Court to-day, Ernest Wagner, architect, on two charges of false pretences by means of valueless cheques, Avas sentenced to twelve months on each, concurrently. John Shearer and Peter Newton were tried for robbing a drunken man in a publichouse. Shearer was acquitted, and Newton convicted. Sentence was deferred. The apprentice of the Loch Fergus, John T. Jones, who killed Henry Banks, the cook of the same vessel, was acquitted, the Judge telling the jury that if they thought Jones considered he was in danger of his life when he picked up the capstan bar and struck the cook, they must acquit the prisoner. In the course of the evidence Dr Diver said that the skull of Banks was the thinnest he had ever seen during 22 years' practice. Dr Keating gave similar evidence. It appeared from the evidence the blow inflicted on tho head of the deceased would not have injured a skull of ordinary thickness. An affecting scene occurred at the lock-up after the prisoner Ernest Wagner had been removed to the cells. It appears that Wagner was engaged to bo married to a lady who was present in Court during the last two days, and after he received his sentence to-day she was permitted to see him for the purpose of saying " good bye." A law students society has been formed here. A robbery took place between Saturday night and Monday morning from the Athenseuui. The librarian reports that on Saturday night he left a cash box containing £23 14s 6d in cash, notes, and cheques in his desk, which, between the times mentioned, was forced open and the cash-box and contents removed. The Govoriinor will leave here in the Hinemoa on the 15th inst. for the Bluff, and from thence will proceed overland to Southland, Otago, and Canterbury, spending about three weeks on the tour. Tho Hinemoa has not yet returned from Opunake, but is expected to-night. She will leave again to -morrow with Mr Sheehan. WELLINGTON, April 9. A despatch of some importance was received from Taupo yesterday, showing the condition of affairs there and at Takanui. It appears that Topia Turoa's proposals to the native meeting were the opening of the country towards Wanganui by roads, railway, and telegraph lines, laying aside a block of land for a township at the south end of Lake Taupo, calling for surveys of and adjudicating their land claims, and permitting the lease, and in some cases the sale, of lands This pi'ogramme, we are told, was received by the Kingite party with surprist •and some indignation, but Topia- haying

explained ih at ho did not oxpect^6;cfeW^B through all the proposals at pres6ni|m^S| that : ho 'was. willing to let^a conimitt^|^ decide- upoji liis proposals, they gradu|lly v^ cooled down . and eventually gave tfiefr'v ■; '^ consent to the most important,.iteni ,m\- ; the scheme, viz., the survey of the tribal^, boundaries, in oi'derto havo each hapu-.s „ '; claim brought before the Court. „^ten'j * this is done all the other mattorsVwillC*. follow. At the meeting assurances -of steadfast loyalty to law and order/ were. ? ". given by both parties. This despatches , .' ■ considered highly satisfactory. . . '.-..'m, .-;•'. A statutory mooting of . ratepayers to-, night carried a resolution by a coniiderf^ ; able majority in favor of, borrowing." £100,000 for street improvements.- - „/. /