LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 2199, 6 May 1874, Page 2

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

PROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS. ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL IN AUCKLAND. MORE DEATHS PROM TYPHOID FEVER IN AUCKLAND. LATER NEWS FROM FIJI. HEAVY GALE AT OAMARU. (ANGLO-AU3TBALIAN PRESS TELEGRAM AQENCT.) AUCKLAND. The 'Cyphrenes/ with the English mail, arrived on Saturday last. Tbe •acceptances for the Autumn Handicap and Autumn Handicap Steeplechase of the Auckland Racing Club are as follows :—: — Autumn Handicap. Mr. J. Watt's eh m Calumny, 5 yrs lOst. 51b. Mr. J. Watt's b g Parawhenna, 4 yrs 9st. 51b. Mr. J. Watt's b m Batter, 4 yrs Bst. 51b. Mr. Owen McGee's eh g Golden Crown, 5 yrs Bst. 51b. Mr. H. C. Yonng's g o Tattler, 3 yrs 6st. 121 b. Mr. R. Wynyard'g ob m Discord, 3 yrs 6st 101 b Th c Autumn (Handicap) Steeplechase. Mr. It. E. Mcßea's b g Rustic, aged list. 71b. Nr. R. Kirkwood's blk g Sultan, aged lOst. 71b. Mr. A. Murray's oh g Mount, aged lOst. 51b. Mr. J. Bank's b g Costello, aged lOst. 51b. Mr. J. Thorpe's gg Rarey, aged lOst. 51b. Two more deaths from typhoid fever have called attention to the drainage. It is alleged that the construction of the silt basiu at the mouth of tbe main sewer by collecting the bulk of the solid sewage matter and allowing water to flow away, causes the whole stench of the sewer to be driven up the gratings into the city. The Fiji news by the ' Cyphrenes' is important. A public meeting was held at Levuka which endorsed the previous action urging tbe British Commission to remove Thurston from any office under the Government, or a war amongst the races would probably be tbe result. Missen and Maunsell's establishment at Lavira has been burnt by tbe natives, Mr. Alexander Saunders reports sates of Caledonian, £10 ; Whau,£4. 7s. 6d. ; Alburnia, £2 7b. 6d. Buyers : South British, £2 10s. ; National Insurance, £1 13s. ; Caledonian, £10 ; Tookey, £6. Sellers : Sons of Freedom, 87s. 6d. A traveller arrived at the Thames from Ohiuemuri on Saturday afternoon, and reports that natives are arriving in large numbers from the Piako, Sandspit, Wahe, Kirikiri, and other parts, no less than seventy arriving on Friday. It is uncertain whether they will side with the anti-Kingite Te Moananui, who is opposed to the sale of the Komata block to the southern representatives, or for Mataia and his friends, who have sold the land, and is looked upon hero as a staunch Queenite, and in favour of opening the country. Around Mataia's Jcainga, on the 26 tb, armed sentries were placed, and his people were engaged in moulding bullets. A telegram from Alexaudra states that Tawhiao and his family are at Oto* rohangi, and will return there shortly. The Gross correspondent at Rotorua telegraphs that on Tuesday, the chiefs (not Arawas) expressed the wishes of their respective tribes on the three questions under consideration. After which Timuera te Araohoua rose, and calling npon all the tribes present as bis children, explained Ibe real meaning of this great assembly, and the solution of the three problems. Tbe bidden meaning of the three questions, he alleged, were nothing better than a land league, which, if carried out, would place those districts under the proposed Assistant-Governor, in a similar position to those under the Maori King. Mr. Mackay spoke long and well, and was ably seconded by \fi Kepa Wairoa, Rice, Waikato, Hopepa, Ngataerangi, Poihipi, Taupo, Whikiriwhi, and Matata. The speakers on the side of the Arawas were Timuera to Ainohau, Rotohiko, Haupapa, and Taraati Haperaana. As not one of the other assembled tribes agreed with the propositions, the meeting was a miserable failure, and closed at 2 a.m. on Thursday morning.