NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6269, 20 December 1881, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[.FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] THAMES; Monday. McGivan, the man who attempted suicide yesterday, is almost convalescent. The prospectus of the Thames Printing and Pnblishing Company is published. It has for its object the purchase of the Thames Advertiser. This company is apart from the one Mr. Speight's friends proposed to form for a new paper, CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. It now turns out that the man who was drowned on Friday from the Penguin at Akaroa was drunk, and so were the two who - went in after him. The boat lowered, and for which no rowlocks could be found, was not the Penguin's own, but one l<cing brought back from the regatta, and which was slung to the davits for convenience. The Times drops heavily on the captain for net looking after his men tetter, seeing that the lives of several hundreds of excursionists depended on the sobriety and attention to duty of the crew. [press association.] TAUPO, Monday. The ascent of the volcano of Tongariro was successfully made by Mr. Mmson, an American tourist, who, with five guides, climbed to the summit of the crater of Otiwa on Wednesday last. He describes the volcano as being an active geyser, throwing streams of boiling mud fully five hundred feet high. The interior of the cone is surrounded by some thirty or more boiling springe and sulphur steam holes. The altitude on the summit of the cone is 7650 feet; thermometer registered six degrees below zero. They were compelled, through a snow storm, to remain on the crater all night, and were nearly famished with the cold. This is the first pakeha whom the Ngatitamas have permitted to make the ascent of the sacred mountain. Others have attempted it, but were captured by the natives, and, indeed, the natives have named it Manson Tongariro. The burning mountain is in the King country, and this concession to a pakeha is strong evidence of the>r good feeling and gradual break up of animosities which have hitherto existed between the two races. NAPIER, Monday. The nominations for the Napier Handicap, Railway Stakes, and Handicap Hurdles, Hawke'a Bay Jockey Club's Autumn Meeting, close to-morrow night at S o'clock. WELLINGTON, Monday. It is expected that the erection of a new post-office and telegraph office will be commenced early in February. The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court open on the 3rd of January. Only five cases as yet are set down for hearing, and none of a serious nature. Mr. and Mrs. A. Morey and Stewart were to-day committed for trial on a charge of stealing a watch and a bum of £6 17s 6(1. A meeting will he held to-night to consider the advisability of forming a new gas •ompany. HOKITIKA, Monday. Bain, the Corporation messenger, lias been missing since Thursday List. All efforts to discover some trace of him up to the present time have proved unavailing. There is no reason for his disappearance. The sharcmarket has been active during the last week. Wade and Sponce report sales :—Golden Fleece, l~s 6d ; Fiery Cross, 16s ; Ross Gold-miniug Co., 20s. Tho Murray, stranded on the South Spit, is expected to get oIF to-morrow. REEFTON Monday. The Christchureh and Grcyiuouth Kailway Commission arrived here last night, and are gathering information upon the coal, timber, and land resources of luang.ihua. CI-IR.ISTCHUR.CH, Monday. The second series of local wool sales was commenced by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's place to-day. Prices only came to within a halfpenny of last month's. The City Surveyor has examined tho public buildings, and states that very little damage, less than was supposed, has been done by the recent earthquakes. The New Zealand Company's ship Waimate arrived on Saturday evening from London, after a passage of 91 days. She brings 68 passengers, a Clydesdale entire, a trotting entire, six Leicester sheep, and other stock. She experienced remarkably fine weather during the passage. On Saturday, the 4th, a man named Jtadclifl'e, while out shooting, was dangerously shot in the body by the accidental discharge of his gun. The champion prize for most points in the recent anniversary sports has been, awarded to F. Woods, of Wellington. Thirty-four cricketers have been selected for practice for the match with the English Eleven. DUNEDIN, Monday. Messrs. A. and T. Burt have receired the following cablegram from their London agents: —"Prices are advancing for copper sheets, gas tubes, bar iron, and galvanised iron." The New Zealand Mercantile Company have received the following telegram from Melbourne: "Oat market still declining, Suspend shipment." The barqnentinc Fairlie, drawing 13 feet 6 inches of water, came up the Harbour Board's newly dredged channel today, to Dunedin. The s.s. Penguin will make the attempt on the 20th instant. William Lawn, at the Police Court to-day, was committed for trial for a brutal assault on his wife. The evidence disclosed very brutal treatment. He locked the doors on her, and struck her severely about the head and face. He was drunk, but knew what he was doing.