TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume X, Issue 2029, 19 September 1883, Page 2

TEL EGR AMS.

[Pkii Usitbd Prims Association.] AUCKLAND, this day. Messrs. Walsh and Rodinond have left for the West Coast. It was intended by the Auckland footballers to have left the dispute in reference to tho Wellington match to the Canterbury and Otago footballers. The Union Petition is being prepared by Mr. Tole for transmission to Samoa, for tho signature of the Samoans, the prayer of whicli is that the islands be annexed to New Zealand. King Kilakoe, of Hawaiia, will visit the Australian colonies next June. His Government have sent a protest against the Polynesian annexation soheme to all the European Governments, as well as to America. It lays stress on the results that have been achieved here through the islands being guaranteed in their political independence by England, Prance, and America, and claims for the kindred people of Polynesia a similar opportunity. TAURANGA., this day. Letters received at Tauranga from Vesey Stewart state that the Tauranga-Rotoiua Railway Company is being successfully floated id London, and there is no doubt of the project being accomplished. Letters from Mr Bodell also state the construction of t!i» railway is a certainty, and that the s.a. Northumberland, 2000 tons, leaves direct for Tauranga this month, and will be followed by a sailing vessel of 600 tons, bringing navvies, immigrants and material for the railway. THAMES, this day. The Prince Imperial mine promises to produce another magnificent return this month. There are already 15 cwt. of rich specimens on hand, with every prospect of large additions, and the fortnight's crushing of general dirt, with 37 stampers, has given 1,4870z5. of amalgam. A fire has been raging in the Caledonian mine since Sunday, among the firewood wood utilised to fill up the stopos. It is likely to burn somo time, and operations are suspended. Seventy men are thus thrown temporarily out of employment. DUNEDIN, this day. A ten-year old son of Mr. Chandler, lighthouse keeper at Cape Saundera, to-day fell over the cliffs, a distance of 100 feet. The only injury sustained was the breaking of oue of his legs. CHRISTCHURCH, this day. An elderly man named Anderson Baker committed suicide yesterday by taking spirits of salts. No reason is assigned.