TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4520, 15 September 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PKK I’KESS AGENCY.) Auckland, Tuesday. The following are the latest arrangements for the football tour : —The team of twenty leave Unehunga. at 3 p.m. to-morrow per the Hawea, and arrive at Taranaki at 8 o’clock the following morning. They play the Taranaki match from 11 to 1, and embark at 4 p.m. Arrive at Nelson the following morning, and pass on to Wellington, being due there on Friday night. They play the Wellington team on Saturday afternoon. Passing Lyttelton, they arrive at Dunedin on Tuesday, the 21at, and play the local team on the following day. They leave on their return journey on the 23rd, arriving at Lyttelton on the 21th. They play the Christchurch match on the afternoon of the same day, leaving in the evening. Nelson will be reached on the 26th, and the Nelson match played on the 27th. The team arrive back in the Manukau on the 29th. Should the weather prove unfavorable for lauding or playing at Taranaki on the way down, this match will be played on the return. Father Boibeux, Catholic priest, died today from a complication of diseases, after a long illness. He arrived here in 1860, and was for many years actively engaged in a Maori mission.

New Plymouth, Tuesday.

The Deputy-Superintendent has requested the harbormaster to report on the course of the Haloione proceeding to Wellington without landing her passengers. Captain Holford reports ;— Firstly—lt was prudent to get the ship to sea. Secondly, that the master directs the course of his ship, and the interests of his owners directed him to Wellington. Thirdly, that there was not sufficient despatch in getting the passengers off the ship. If proper despatch had been given, the greater portion of the immigrants might have been landed, but without their luggage, although they would not have reached the shore without being drenched. Boswell, the lighterman, writes to the Budget, and says he doubts if ever Captain Croker was in any roadstead where there are the same appliances as in Taranaki for landing passengers and cargo. He says he came running in with a gale of wind following him, which compelled him to put to sea again, and never expected to laud his passengers, as he had nothing prepared to do so, and the immigrant women were dropped into the boats like so many dogs. The rails are now being laid in the town, and locomotives are travelling through it. Men are working day and night, and all Sunday, so the finishing of the line is looked for at an early date. Money is very tight here. Borrowers are in excess of lenders. Good securities are going begging. Good rates of interest are offered. Nelson, Tuesday. A large meeting was held at the Provincial Hall last night, to consider the extension of the railway to the Foxhill timber district at one end, and to the port at the other. There was some strong speaking as to the injustice to Nelson in saddling it with the cost of a railway that at present is useless, and a resolution was passed accordingly. A petition setting forth the facts of the case is to be drawn tip, and will be extensively signed. The last resolution passed was as follows : —“That the present Government will be no longer worthy of the confidence of the electors of this province if they so systematically neglect the interests of this part of the colony.” The Bishop of Nelson, who was present, protested against the introduction of such a resolution, as he considered the meeting of a non-political character, or he would not have attended; but in the course of his remarks he said that if the Government handed over to the province the railway as at present laid out, they would be perpetrating a farce on the people of Nelson. The resolution was carried with only three silent dissentients.

■ Dunedin, Tuesday. The Otago Employes’ Benefit report shows a balance of £ll3. There are great complaints at Lawrence about the non-opening of the courthouse, which has been finished these two months.

The Duneciiu football team is a very strong one, and includes the names of our best players. Our men are very sanguine.