TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4211, 18 September 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[Press Telegraph Agency.] Auckland, Thursday. The Gem has arrived from Warmambool, with a hundred tons of potatoes, which were all sold during the day at an average of £D per ton, bags extra. The Good Templars have formed a Benefit Society, in order to participate in the Government new proposals as to life assurance. Grahamstown, Thursday. The drainage case of the Pumping Association against the Imperial Company was concluded to-day, after five sitting days and as many adjournments. The Warden considered that the defendants were benefited, the point ■on which the case seemed to hinge, and the amount of contribution was left, by consent, to three arbitrators. A case by the same complainants against the Otago Company was called, but was adjourned to a future day. Napier, Thursday. The new manager for the Poverty Bay Petroleum Company has furnished a very encouraging report as to the Company’s prospects. New Plymouth, Thursday. The delivery of telegrams twice a day, between Opunake and Stoney River, is being arranged. A meeting, at which a large number of Natives are present, is being held at Parihaka. Mr. Harris has gone thither. It is reported that a Native there has been wo\mdedJ.>y the accidental discharge of a gun.

Dunedin, Thursday. It is understood that the Dev. Hr. Snhnoml, Tree Church Minister of Barry, Forfarshire, Scotland, lias been offered the Professorship of Theology in the Otago University. Smith’s Combination Troupe is drawing crowded houses. v Is ve i; ca n a it. l, Thur sday. Hr. Cuthbertson, M.H.R., addressed his. constituents last evening. After detailing at some length the work of the session, he entered into the question of the resolutions for the abolition of the Northern Provinces, explaining that his audience knew something by experience of the working of Provincial institutions under adverse circumstances, and could judge whether the continuance of impecunious Provinces in the North would bo beneficial either to the Colony, or the outlying districts of these Provinces themselves. The parrot cry of “ Middle Island laud fund in danger” would not impose upon his constituency, who could see that there was no connection between the two things. It was a cry raised by Provincial officials, as a desperate expedient, for the purpose of enlisting the sympathies of the SouthAfter Mr. Cuthbertson’s address, a motion was proposed, thanking him, but regretting his action in supporting the Government resolutions. This motion met with no support, and an amendment was proposed, expressing cordial confidence of the, constituency in Hr. Cuthbertson as their member, and was carried on a show of hands, with only five dissentients.