TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4213, 21 September 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

LATER NEWS FROM FIJI. [Press Telegraph Agency.] Auckland, Saturday. The Pacific, schooner, from Samoa, reportsthe Albion, Auckland whaler, at Samoa, wil.li 160 barrels of oil The_ barque .Glimpse, which has arrived with 540 tons of coal from Newcastle, met with a gale on Saturday, which'swept away the deckhouse and part of .the bulwarks. Sargent, a" seaman, was thrown. against the bulwarks and seriously injured his leg. . - Sunday. The s.s. Star or the South arrived from Levuka at noon. Passengers—For Napier ; and Mrs. Fee Yon, and two children. For Wellington : Messrs. Taylor. She brings a full cargo of cotton, maize, copra, and the first shipment of Fijian sugar, consisting of 100 bags. She left on the 13th, and had a fine weather passage. Great interest was taken in Fiji in Sir Hercules Robinson’s expected visit. The Fiji Times says the Polynesia scheme is too absurd to merit serious consideration. The Government receipts over expenditure during July amounted to £290. Through the depression consequent on the change from cotton-growing to sugar-planting holders of certificates of' indebtedness are to have ten per cent, allowed on the amount due this month, Mr. James Jack, late of Nelson, died at sea near Levuka on September 7. The TiTr.es calls attention to serious defalcations in the Treasury chest of the late Government, and the immense expense of the loans. A great Native meeting at Loma-loma is supposed to have an important political significance. Hostile preparations are, it is said, being made for the purpose of punishing refractory tribes. War is considered probable unless annexation takes place, The Argus recommends all desirous of annexation to co-operate with the Native chiefs. Grahamstowh, Saturday. An influential committee was appointed last night to make arrangements for a banquet to Mr. Sheehan, M.H.R., for his services in connection -with passing the Auckland Waste Lands Act. The banquet takes place on Tuesday next. A new rifle range provided by the Provincial Government for Volunteers was handed over to-day, and opened by a rifle match. The rifle range gives a thousand yards. Tauranga, Saturday. There has been a deluge of rain inland lately. The rivers are rising rapidly. A remarkable waterspout was witnessed near Opotild. , . Napier, Saturday. The movement to establish a Philosophical Society here, to be affiliated to the parent society in Wellington, progresses favorably. A public baths company, with a capital of £IOOO in £5 shares, is also tallied of; and appears likely to be carried out.

JS’jsw Plymouth, Saturday. Wet weather hog prevented the meetlug at Parihaka ton commencing. There are-}6OO Natives there. The Superintendent has issued a notice, offering to buy up Volunteer land scrip at ten shillings in the pound. Major Atkinson - addresses his constituents on Saturday evening next. Pieces of wreck still, continue-to he picked up on Harriet Beach.