TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4455, 30 June 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PROS! OUlt OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Auckland, Tuesday.

Tairua shares are advancing rapidly, and sold to-day at 755. j equal to £35,000 for the mine.

Turner’s definite proposal for laying street tramways will be submitted to the City Council’s special meeting to-morrow. He guarantees to lay down a double line in Queenstreet, and single lines to all the suburbs ; and as far as Newmarket, three miles distant, guaranteeing that the charge shall not exceed fourpence for any distance. He will keep the crossings in repair, and comply with other conditions imposed upon American companies. He will first endeavor to form a local company, and tailing in that, will carry out the project with American capital. Work on a contract commenced to-day to make another 200 ft. T to the wharf. The Cross has an article based on further telegrams between the Superintendent and Dr. Pollen, published to-day in its columns, specially supplied from Wellington. It deprecates the attitude assumed by the Superintendent towards the General Government. The Herald strongly supports Sir George Grey’s action. At a deputation to Sir George Grey at the Thames, re the Ohinemuri agricultural leases, it was stated that laud had been bought there by W. T. Buckland and J. C. Firth, for sixpence or eightpenco an acre, and had been resold at 40s. Sir George Grey replied that when land might legally be purchased from natives, buyers were entitled to have their rights respected. Dunedin, Tuesday. Several cases of typhoid fever are reported from the Tokomairiro district. The Government have determined to enforce the residence clause among the purchasers of sections under the Deferred Payments Act. The trout introduced into the Arrow River are getting on famously. At the Waitahuna ploughing match, the prize given to the best-looking ploughman was a variegated rosette, the work of a young lady. Whether the young lady and the ploughman are sweet upon each other this deponent sayeth not. The Taieri Derby ploughing match, fixed for to-day, has been postponed in consequence of the inclemency of the weather. Wiltshire, the pedestrian, has been backed at Oamaru to walk 250 miles in 100 hours. By the San Francisco mail, the Superintendent received information that if he charters vessels for immigrants for Bluff Harbor, it will cost £2 per head more than for passengers for Port Chalmers. The criminal calendar for July has been published. There are fourteen prisoners for trial. A Chinaman was brought up at the B. M. Court to-day for vagrancy, and was sentenced to two months.

The Saturday night’s concert is described in the Press as having been a most blackguard affair. Explanations have since appeared in the papers. An hotel has been burnt at Mokomai. The TuapeJca Times tells a good story. It says a man left Lawrence, suffering from rheumatics, to enter the Dunedin hospital. Before he reached Dunedin he got such an awful soaking in the coach that he was thoroughly cured, and at once returned to his wox-k. Mr. Baworth’s sketches of New Zealand scenery are on view at the University Hall. Macassey and Smith are both very quiet at present. (PEE PEESS AGENCY.) Auckland, Tuesday. The chairman of the public meeting held at Otahuhu to urge the Government to reduce the fares on the Auckland and Mercer railway has received a reply that Government cannot comply with the petition. New Plymouth, Tuesday. A number of natives are in from the Mokau. They are anxious to have a steamer sent to trade there. There is plenty of produce there waiting to be forwarded. The Council is likely to close on Thursday. Brennan, who was remanded from Wellington here, was brought before the Court, and remanded again till to-morrow. Chkistchoech, Tuesday.

A lunch was given on board the Union Steam Ship Company’s new steamer Hawea at Lyttelton to-day. One hundred gentlemen were invited, and seventy-five sat down to table. Special carriages for the guests were attached to the 12.30 train from Christchurch, and they were conveyed direct alongside the steamer at the Gladstone wharf. After a half an hour spent in examining the gorgeous saloons, the engine-room, &c., the company sat down to lunch. The chair was occupied by Mr. James Mills, the managing director of the company, and the vice-chair by Captain Malcolm. On the right of Mr. Mills sat his Honor the Superintendent and Mr. Peacock, and on his left Mr. Murray Aynsef, of Messrs. Miles, Hassal and Co., the company's agents. After the usual loyal toasts were duly honored, the toast of “ Success to the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand” was proposed by his Honor the Superintendent. In responding, the chairman stated that the new company, which was being registered under the Limited Liability Act, started with a paid-up capital of £90,000. They would take over the Harbor Company’s steamers on the Ist July, and in addition to the Hawea and Taupo, would add still further to their fleet as the trade demanded it. They had no desire to injure Steam Companies already in existence, but would feel themselves bound to see that the interests of the travelling public received the attention it merited. The manner in which the lunch was prepared by the Company’s providore (Mr. Bennett) excited very favorable comment. _ After a very pleasant afternoon, the visitors returned by a special train, which left the ship’s side at 3 o’clock. •