TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 3363, 15 November 1872, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

Wt;i,i.i.v.;-n>N, November 14th. The Hon. Mr Ituynolds went on board the Nebraska jnat as f>he was leaving for the South this a turnout!. The Governor did not go in her as was reported he would do. His Excellency aud Lady Bowen leave for Christchurch about December Kith, to open the Exhibition there. Afterwards they wali proceed to Duuodin, and thence to Lake Wakatip ami tho other lakes on the goldf'.elds, a« well as to Mount Cook, and v 11 return in the end of February. Next week fcir George Bowen will visit the European and Native settlements in the Mauawatu district, and the Scandinavian settlement at the Seventy Mile Bush. At the Horticultural Show to-day there was-a large number of exhibits, but the attendance wjis poor, the weather being bad. It will be opened again to-morr<.sr it the weather in fine.

Auckland, November 14th. The Kaihu flax mill, witli ttjti tons of Jlax and five tons of tow, has beenburr.ed. The losb is not covered by insurance. The (ire was caused by sparks from the Hue fulling on the flfix. A hot discussion is going on about the late Captain Freer. The Roman Catholic priests administered the sacrament to him before his decease, but refused to tillow him a Masonic burial in their churchyard. The Grand Master of the Freemasons, and several others, declared that Captain Freer at the last repeated hi.? wish to receive a Masonic funeral. Accordingly, \ at Sunday he was interred in the Scotch burial ground, JWM) Masons being present. The priests wrote to the papers, stating that Captain Freer had renounced Freemasonry, hut the statement was contradicted emphatically by his frienda and by Freemnsuus. The affair is causing conaid rable excitement.

There ia no mining news. The Cure mine is looking well, and shares are at 37s Oi. Caledonian shares ure at £15, and South British Insurance Co/r shares, at ttos. The Arawas threaten to shoot Mr Firth's c ittlo unless ho purchased his run from them, or makes some arrangement with tjtem. Fijuui nev\s Ktiites that H. M. schooner Ethel chased a lleiva scliooner and overhauled her for papers. The I'ewa Times ho|tes the G<jvc-rnt«c-nt will resent this insult to the Fijian Ha«r, and demand a fitting and ample apology from Britain. Captain Hill, of Habi 'Inland, in charged with being accessory t > the murder of gome natives, and bail has been refused him. The Government tax-collectors aro taking india-rubber at :\ {(billing perib., in lieu of money. I

Nklson, November 14th. - Mr Joseph Shephard, M.H.R., ad- | dressed his constituents yesterday at Walcetield. Ha said he voted against Mr Pox because of his designs on the West Coast, and against Mr Stafford been use ho had no confidence in him generally, find wl-itrmtei his t-urnesini's* with respect to p-.iWio works. Ho did not be'.ieve tliaft Mr Fox and Mr Stafford were the only two men in the House fit to .-i.wime the leadership, and he expressed himself O3 without confidence in the present Ministry. A vote of confidence in Mr Shop-, hard wasjpassed, j

I Ahbowtowx, November 14tli. A Chinaman named Ah Chen committed suicide by hanging himgn>lf at Cardrona on tb.o 13th insL At t)vc Coroner's inquest the verdict returned'-wa* tluit the deceased committed suicide wluJe in a state of temporary insanity.