TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4176, 8 August 1874, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[Press Telegiiath Agency.] WaNCANUI, Friday. Great satisfaction is expressed in Wanganui at the Premier's announcement re abolition of Provincialism in the North Island. Auckland, Friday. The consignees of cargo by the Miitiades have signed a document requesting the arbitrators to furnish reasons for their large award to the salvors. The award causes general astonishment, the evidence showing that, when she put on full steam ahead, the steamer Lady Bowen could not haul the slack of the warp out of the water, and that the vessel got off mainly through her kedge anchor hauled on by the steam winch aboard. The Woodbine, from Newcastle, reports that intelligence has been received from the Palmer diggings of extraordinary rich alluvial finds, some claims getting several hundred ounces of gold weekly. Napiek, Friday. A boy in the employ of Mr. Kelly, PakiPaki, was stopped and robbed of ss. yesterday, by two men, supposed to be the same pair who assaidted Ashley. They are newly arrived immigrants. The police are on their track. A man named Milne, employed with H. Ellison's survey party, has been missing since Wednesday. He is supposed to have been drowned in the Mangaone River. Grahamstown, Friday. Te Hira, and other chiefs, have not yet been induced to go to the Native meeting at Whakatuwai. Mr. Vogel's speech has caused great astonishment, but is very favorably received. The Advertiser urges him not to delay, but to go to the country at once with a grand scheme of constitutional reform for abolishing Provinces in both islands, and not in the North only. The tributers in the Rose and Shamrock claim lodged sixty ounces of gold in the bank yesterday. In assaying it to-day it was found to contain twenty ounces of lead. This is explained by the assertion that some time ago a person used the shaft from which the crushing stone was taken to make shot, and neglected to take that shot out after casting. Price Brothers have just turned out a large brass casting for Russell's battery. It consists of a cog wheel, weighing four hundred pounds, the heaviest brass casting yet moulded here. A new exchange, provided by the enterprise of William Rowe, was opened this week. New Plymouth, Friday. The Court of Enquiry into the recent wrecks gave its decision yesterday. It attributed the accident to the schooner Eliza Mary to mistaken estimation of the draft of the vessel, or the channel of the river was not so deep as was supposed. The p.s. Paterson the Court considered too large a boat for the river. No one connected with the wreck is accused of negligence. Hokitika, Friday. Mr. W. C. Roberts, for nine years manager of the Bank of New Zealand on the West Coast, takes the management of the Dunedin branch in s. few days. He was presented at a banquet here with a souvenir of plate valued at £250. The banquet was the largest ever held on the Coast. The s.s. Alhambra has arrived from Melbourne.- She could not be tendered here today owing to the heavy swell on the bar. She has passed on to Greymouth. It is doubtful if she will be able to be tendered there tomorrow. Pokt Chaljiek3, Friday. The Beautiful Star arrived about two o'clock this morning. Captain Hart died at a quarter past twelve, five miles off the Heads. •