TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4291, 21 December 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[J?bess Telegraph Agency.] Auckland, Saturday. The City of Melbourne will probably take the next outward mail instead of the Cyphreues. Miss Christian, the best contralto singer that has yet visited the colonies, has arrived per Wouga Wouga. She makes a tour of New Zealand. • « Gkahamsiown, Saturday. .At the native meeting to-day a number of the most influential chiefs said they were agreeable to giving up the land for gold-mining, as agreed upon, at Ohiuemuri. Four others, amongst whom were Te Hira, and Moanauui, objected. Sir Donald McLean addressed the objectors, and told them they ought to be glad to let their land for gold-mining, to pay off thentribal debts. The discussion was conducted with the greatest good feeling. A public meeting, convened by the Mayor, on requisition, takes place this evening to consider tho opening of Ohinemuri question. New Plymouth, Saturday. The first pile of the Waiwaikaiko bridge has been driven. Nai’lee, Saturday. A meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Agricultural Society was held at Hastings yesterday. Arrangements were made for a cattle show on the first Wednesday in February. Good news comes from the Poverty Bay oil springs. Tho shaft is down forty-five feet, and the oil welling up from the bottom. In theinterval between the men leaving work on Saturday night last and resuming at ten o’clock next morning, three feet of oil had accumulated. It is estimated that from eight to ten barrels per day are now being obtained without pumping. It is calculated that twenty times that quantity will be obtained by pumping. Dunedin, Saturday. Tho tender of David Mclntyre for the Forbury contract of the Ocean Beach railway has been accepted. A fire occurred in one of the immigrants’ cottages on. Anderson's Bay Road, occupied by one Mossery, this afternoon. It was confined to the building. The fire originated from live ashes blown out of a barrel against the side of the house. A shocking accident occurred in Princessstreet to-day. A horse bolted, throwing his rider, breaking some of his ribs, dislocating his shoulder, and doing other damage. A man named Hartley followed the horse, hoping to

stop it, when a cart wheel knocked ovex lamp-post, breaking Hartley’s leg. Both men had to be taken to the hospital. Cobb’s Nox'them coach was upset near Blueskin yesterday. None of the passengers were seriously injured. Port Chalmers, Saturday. The new steamer Egmont had her trial trip to-day from Dunedin to Port Chalmers. She did the distance in sixty-five minutes. She is a fine boat, and works well. Arrived: Maori, from the Bluff, at 11.30 a.m. ; Wellington, from Lyttelton, at 4 p.m. ; Endeavor, schooner, from Oamaru. Sailed : barque Ccesarewitch, for Port Esperance. GREYMOUTH, Saturday. Volunteer Heaphy, of the Greymouth Rangers, having made the highest score (89), will represent Westland in the forthcoming colonial prize firing. Invercargill, Saturday, At the Supreme Court to-day, John Brennar, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of murderously assaulting the gixl Mary Hall, was sentenced to penal servitude for life.