TELEGRAPHIC.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1201, 8 March 1895, Page 38

TELEGRAPHIC.

Auckland, March 1. The R.M.S. Alameda, from San Francisco, arrived at G a.in. to-day. The following is her list of passengers for New Zealand: —Mr and Mrs Cappel and child, Mrs Cash and 2 children, Mrs Bastledine, Mr and Mrs Walker and 2 children, Rev Mr McCray, Messrs Balfour, Lees, Noyes, Hammersley, Rasori, Crowley, Aminson, and 10 in tho steerage. The Alameda’s European dates aro to Bth February. Auckland, March 2. The warship Royalist has loft for Melbourne. The National Association is starting a monthly journal called Liberty to further its objects. The Harbour Board has authorised Mr A. H. Nathan, as chairman, who is going to England, to make enquiries relative to the proposed conversion of loans of 1874 1 and 1882. Auckland, March 4. The master bakers have raised tho price of bread to per loaf. For the Maori Parliament to be opened at Rotorua on Thursday next, a dining hall about 330 ft long has boon built. Tho local Natives expect about two thousand guests. Auckland, March 5. Mr C. E. Button, M.H.R., addressed his constituents at the City Hall to-night. In tho course of his speech, he said he considered the Attorney-General had acted wrongly m not issuing his fiat regarding a test case over the Shop Hours Act. 110 received a vote of thanks and confidence. There have been 470 factories registered in Auckland. Christchurch, March 3. An open-air meeting under the auspices of the Progressive Liberal Association was held in Cathedral square on Saturday night, when addresses on the State Bank question were .given by several local champions of tho movement.

Tho following resolution was carried : That this meeting regards tho establishment of a State Bank for tho issue of notes and for Government business of vital importance to tho people, and trusts that tho Government will deal with the question at an early date; also that each member of tho House of Representatives be supplied with a copy of tho resolution, and bo urged to move in tho House next session for tho appointment of a Royal Commission to deal with tho question, and that this meeting is of opinion that depositors in the Post Office Savings Bank should bo granted tho right to withdraw their money by means of cheques. At tho University Senate a committee submitted the names of tho students who passed tho law and medical examinations, and it was agreed that tho students reported as having passed be recorded accordingly. Christchurch, March 4. Tho following entries have boon recoivod for tho annual Polo Tournament for the Sav.ile Cup: Auckland, two teams; Warrengate, one ; Ashburton, two ; Christchurch, two; North Canterbury, one: Manawatu, one; Rangitikei, one. All tho beat clubs in New Zealand aro entered. Christchurch, March 5. A public meeting at Kaiapoi last evening passed a resolution asking tho Government to purchase land in the vicinity of the borough undor the Land for Settlements Act. The annual Congress of tho Now Zealand Modical Association was opened to-day. Tho President, Dr Jennings, delivered an address on bacteria and bacilli. After a long discussion a motion that tho resolution passed at tho Napier Congress affiliating the Now Zealand Association to the British Association should lie considered with a view to its being rescinded was lost by 7 votos to 4. Dunedin, March 2. James Simpson, late assistant clerk at tho Magistrate’s Court, was picked out of the water at Ocean Beach this afternoon.

Ho was resuscitated on being taken to tho Racecourse Hotel. Tho man lias boon intemperato of late. Wanganui, March 4. Louis El,trig was tried for attempted suicide at tho District Court to-day, before Judge Martin. Tho jury, after long deliberation, returned a verdict of not guilty. Reeeton, March 5. At the ordinary meeting of tho Licensing Committoe to-day the inspoetor stated that sovoral person? against whom prohibition ordors wore issued wore continually drunk in the proximity of certain hotels. The committee docidod to act as tho offence dosorvod towards hotelkeepers supplying such persons in future.