Telegraphic Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1551, 17 February 1874, Page 118

Telegraphic Intelligence.

PEK ANGIjO-AUSTUAUAN PBISSS TELIiGtIAM AGBNCT. INTERPROVINOIAL SUMMARY. AUCKLAND, 13th February. Mr Binney reports flour dull ; Oamaru, £l4 ; Canterbury, £l3. Oats, 4s 3d to 4s 6d. Southern wheat, 5s 9d. Hams and bacon scarce, lOd ; cheese, 8d ? butter 9d; grass seed, (is ; bran, 5s lOil; pollard, 6s: maize' 7s ; malt 10s. Mr Bucklartd reports fat cattle, good, 2;s to 27s per lOOlbs.; inferior, 20s; fat sheep, 3£d to 3Jd; loug-woolled ewes, 17s ; lambs, los to 21s. In reply to the deputation against Sunday trains, the Colonial Secretary said that the line was entirely in the hands of the conmotors till April. 16th February. In consequence of a protest made by the American Consul here, and an objection made by (he passengers by the Mikado, Captain Moore refused to take the murderer Sullivan to Sim Francisco, and turned him off the ship at Auckland. Great indignation has been expressed here regarding his libera, tiou. The proposal to ship him to America has been condemned by all the papers. The Mikado leaves at four this afternoon. WISLL.NGTON, 13ih February. The members of the General Assembly did not meet yesterday. Flour, Oamaru, £l3 10s to £l4; Canterbury, £l2 to £l3; Duuedin, £L3 to £l4; oats, old, 4s 9J to 5s ; new, 4s t > 4s 6d ; oatmeal, 22s lOd to 245; bran, Is ; pollard, Is Id ; maize, 6s; eggs, Is 6d; butter, lOd ; cheese, 8d; potato-s, 6s; fowls, 4s 6d per pair : geese, 4s each. 14th February. The New Zealand Steam Company has decided to withdraw the Phoebe from the Sydney sud Mauakau trade, and to again place her in the interproviucial trade. It is said that the Government have arranged with the abjve company for the conveyance'to and from Napier of the Volunteers for the Colonial Firing. 16th February. The C.G. p.s. Luna left here on Saturday night for a trip round the Middle Island, with the Inspector of Lighthouses, and other officials on board. On their return, they will report lo the Government the most eligible sites for lighthouses. Messrs Brogdeu's steamer Patersou arrived here to-day. and leaves for Napier and Poverty Bay at 4 p.m. to-mo.'i'ow. She has on board a magnificent bull for Colonel Whitmore. The suspension of the Provincial audi o r is said to be causing serious inconvenience) thorough putting a stop to all proviucia l Treasury payments for the present. NELSON, 14th February. Dr Turnell, the Warden and Resident Magistrate, has been drowned in the Takaka river. His bo'y is not yet found. GREYMOUTII, 14th February. The Brunner Mine men, who were on strike, have resumed work. OHUIBTOHOUOH, 14th February. Royse. Steal an i Co. report wheat easier since latest Australian telegrams; 4s 4d to 4s 6d now offered. Oats coming forward ; prices very uncertain. Barley, fair supply at 4s to 4s 7d ; butter scarce, 8d; hams and bacon, 9|d. DUNK DIN, 33th February. Sullivan, the Nelson murderer, who turned Queen's evidence, is on board the Mikado He has been pardoned by the Governor, and is to be landed at California. The Athenaeum subscribers have resolved by 262 to 242 that the reading-room shall be open for four hours on Sunday afternoon. The whole matter is now to be left in the hands of the committee, but it is uot thought (hat w'th such a small majority the resolution will be carried out. 14th February. The Mongol was 40J days from land to land. She only brings a mail for Wellington, which hus been fumigated. In the Resident Magistrate's Court,yesterday, James Huut sued Dr Sorley for malpractice, claiming £IOO damages for the alleged improper treatment of his leg. A number of me ieal witnesses were examined, and the case was adjourned. Mr Holloway, who comes in charge of the immigrants per Mongol, purposes to remain for some time in New Zealand, to make himself practically acquainted with the wants of the country. The following items of English news have been received by papers per ship Mongol:— Mr Henry Harrison, sculptor, is executing a bust of the Claimant in marble. A large army conscription is taking place in Russia aud Poland. The Danes have addressed a petition to the King of Sweden, to allow them to construct a tunnel under the Sound. A Kaffier war has broken out ftt Natal' The outbreak occurred through a chief having refused to register some fire-arms. He was followed by a detachment of carbineers, who were surrounded by the Kaffirs in the bush, and three were killed, one being the son of the Colonial Secretary, the Hon. Major Erskine. In a subsequent encounter, 90 Kaffirs were said to be shot. The Scimitar, which sailed the same day as the Mongol, is crowded with passengera. She had the seeds of sickness on board when she left, Great activity prevails in German arsenals. The guards are being rapidly supplied with the new Manser arm. New field-pieces are also being turned out. In a recent ease the Lord Chief Justice said that the manner in which English witnesses were brow-beaten by lawyers was simpiy disgraceful. 16th February. A number of gentlemen who fe> 1 strongly on the subject of Sullivan being sent to America by the Government, have subscribed, and sent a telegram by tne Gothenburg to San Francisco, apprising the local govern, ment of that feet, It is generally thought

that Sullivan will not be allowed to laud there, and it is hoped that the Government will not allow him to proceed. PORT CHALMERS, 13th February. The gteamship Mougol from London is coming up the harbor. 7 p.m. Disease is reported on board the Mongol, There are 67 cases, and four deaths from scarlet fever; 8 cases and 5 deaths from scarlatina; ]8 cases an 3 deaths from bronchitis ; 1 death from diarrhoea, 1 from inanition, 1 from sunstroke, and 1 f'oin ulcer; all the cases- of measles have now ceased. The disease has been confined to one compartment amoust the married people. It broke out shortly after leaving England. There are only 12 passengers for Dnuediu, the rest are for Lyttleton, Wellington, and Auckland. llth February. The Otago porton of the Mongol's passengers were put on Quarantine Island this morning. The remainder of the passengers will be taken there, half to-day, and half tomorrow. One child died last night from abscess, the effects from measles. , The Gothenburg is fitted up again, and sails for Melbourne to-day. INViaiCARSILL, 16th February. On Saturday last, the first section of the Invercaigill and Mataura railway (12 miles), was formally handed over to the Government by Messrs Brogdeu. An excursion train carried 500 persons to Woodland, where a luncheon was provided by the contractors. F. A. Weld, Esq., formerly Premier of New Zealand, and now Governor of Western Australia, was a passenger by the train, and was present at the luncheon. The weather was magnificent. BLUFF, 14th February. The s.s. Otago arrived fiom Melbourne at 10 a.m. this morning. She left Melbourne at 4 p.m. on the Bth instant. She is the bearer of the English Suez mail, and 63 saloon and 3 steerage passengers, and 403 tons of cargo for all ports. She sails for Dunedin at 4 p.m. She brings no later English news. AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. MELBOURNE, 7th February. Commercial.—Wheat is firm ; 900 bags were cleared at 6s Id. Central Vineyard brandy, in quarters, 6s 6d ; Associated Vineyards ditto, in hogsheads, 6s IOJd. A large sale of Java sugars was held, when full rates vterc obtained. Teas, ex Tartar, 1,800 packages, realized Is 3d to Is 9d ; maize, 6s. The market is bare. EUROPEAN SUMMARY. AUCKLAND, 13th February. The Phoebe has arrived, having left Sydney on the 7th instant. She brings 13 passengers for the South. LONDON, 2nd February. The struggle between Bismarck and the Ultramontaues is increasing in bitterness. Germany has warned France and Belgium that it is their international duty to repress the attacks of the Ultramoutanes, whether through the Press or the clergy. The members of the Ministry who are at present elected are—Messrs Gladstone' Cardwell, Stansfield, Lowe. Childers, and Harcourt. Viscount Hartington was defeated at New Radnor. The members elected up to the present are Liberals, 10 ; Conservatives, 136, Advices from Cape Coast to the 19th January state that the Ashantee King sent a German missionary to treat with Sir Garnet Wolssley for peace. Eleven hundred seamen and marines were within a day's march of Cooraassie. The 23rd Regiment did not disembark, the natives employed having deserted. The Macgregor has left California, with the English and American mails. sth February. The King of Ashantee has agreed to pay £'200,000 to compensate the British troops to stop a short distance from the capital. Blarshal McMahon, in addressing the French merchants, asked their full confidence in the stability of the Government' and expressed his intention of maintaining it. SUEZ SUMMARY. LONDON, 14th January. At the opening of the new session of the Royal Colonial Institute all present supported the sentiments in favor of a united empire on a federal basis.J Captain Glover, who occupied a conspicuous place in connection with the Ashantee war, is a sou of the Rev. Mr Glover, who lost two sons in the New Zealand war. The Eclipse, a screw sloop, Captain Erskine, sailed for the Australian station. The monument in memory of the officer s who were killed iu the New Zealand war is rapidly approaching completion in Greenwich Park. The Church Missionary Society has opened a fund for the relief of the sufferers by the Bengal famine, which is more serious than was at first supposed. The Dutch have taken several Ashantee villages, and arc successfully operating against Kraton. Baron Reuters agents have surveyed upwards of eighty miles between Hoost and Teheran. Earthworks are being continued towards Rustamahed, and the site of the terminus has been fixed at Gazelli. The Scimitar has sailed for Dunedin, with 350 emigrants.