NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4488, 1 April 1876, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.] ' THAMES, Friday, j The Dauntless and Sink-to-Rise (Johnston's tribute), realised 39ozs. Cdwts. 12grs. imelted gold from 25 tons. , The Watchman tribute (Mears and party) obtained 16ozs. lOdwts. melted gold from" 15 tons. The Middle Star (Peterson's tribute) crushed 36 tons for 67ozs. gold. • ' The Alburniai*. tribute realised IGozs. 17dwts. 12grs:'from 1 cwt. stone. The Tookey (Aitken v and party) obtained 7ozs. 5 dwts. gold from 7 tons. ~ - . The Red Queen lodged 4Sozs. 6dwts. gold. . ! Driving on the New Exchange reef has been continued. The winze has been cut through.. ..-.-,.,. I ' Baling out the water from the' Crown Princess well is still going on. j The Bright Smile engine has been started," and is found to be ready for work as soon as a few requirements are finished in the shaft. Mr. T. Lawlor, who has been appointed as second engineer to the' Ajax, Tairua, returned to Grahamstown this day, having sustained severe injury to his hand by the engine crank striking it, the key of the crank entering the back of his hand and tearing;it open to the.fingers. . ..., , . . • ..

COROMANDEL, Friday.' The Union Beach have had another rich haul to-day of 4Slbs of specimens, making 1711bs in hand, and the general crushing stuff is showing up splendidly. Shares have hardened considerably, . ■ [PRESS AGENCY.] . . ! - RUSSELL, Friday. . A deserter from the barque Matilda Sears, in swimming to shore, was drowned on Wednesday night..: The body, has not been recovered. i WELLINGTON, Friday.; The whole of the capital of £50,000 for the Fidelity Guarantee Society has now been subscribed. Tbe £10,000 reserved for Auckland was all readilly taken up.' Nearly double the amount has been applied for. A meeting of the Wellington promoters will be held forthwith, and the formation of the company will be duly declared in a few days. DUNEDIN, Friday. 1 Grain Market: wheat, prime milling, sales, 4s Cd; middling, • 4s 3d, to 4s 4d. Ttere is but small export demand, and millers ate not buying heavily at curreit rates: ' In oats the demand for export exceeds the present supply; good new feed, Is 9d to Is 10d ; milling, Is lid. Barley, nominal quotations,, prime, 4s 9d to 5s ; ordinary, 4s 3d to 4s Gd. Share market: buyers. Bank of New Zealand, (new), £17. New Zealand Insurance, (new), 555. National Insurance, 245; Standard, 11s 6d. Sellers, National Bank, £3 14s ; Standard, 12s6d. N.Z. Shipping, £4. Sales: Colonial Bank, 33s 4d to 33s jlOd; Standard, 11s 6d. ,;; ;.•■.. The Star's correspondents supply the/following.:—'' WANGAREI, Friday. Mr. Speight, W.G.T., held forth last evening to a large and sympathising audience. WELLINGTON, Friday.

Political rumours are becoming more plentiful, every day. The latest is as ingenious as' it is circumstantial, and is good enough to be true. It is to the effect that Parliament will positively meet on the loth of June next, not in May, as has been given out, and th.-,t when the House does meet, nothing more will be done than pass the Local Government Bills, and at once prorogue. Parliament will of course be re-assembled in a few days, when the position will be this : The Abolition Bill will then be law indisputable, and the Government will have no diffidence at all in submitting their financial proposals respecting the altered condition of the colony. It it only fair to say that those who ought to know o£ this pretty little scheme, i£ it existed at all, assert that it is a villanous fabrication.

Jacob Josephs to-day refused a thousand pounds upon his bargain in purchasing wreck and freehold of the Empire Hotel. It is not certain whether Moeller will have anything more to do with the hotel business ; he looks on it as slavery that he is tired of, and is likely to strike out in a new line of business. J. M. Perrier has, under the new arrangements, virtual control of the editorial department of the New Zealand Times.

Mr. Creighton has for a good while been talking of going to some other part of New Zealand, and has made up his mind at last to go. He was rather well liked. : The Terpsichoreimmigrants are progressing slowly. Over £200 has been presented to the different fire brigades from residents who either suffered or were endangered by the late fire.

One of our. evening papers 'is agitating that three or four of our crack shots should be sent to Philadelphia. Mr. Morley, a Wesleyan minister, being about to leave Wellington, has been presented with a time-piece and address by hie congregation. Nothing is known as yet to hare been done regarding the liberation of the couple sentenced for improper conduct.