PER ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1902, 6 February 1875, Page 2

PER ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.

Auckland, This day. Telegrams have been received stating that the steamer Pretty Jane is ashore, having knocked a hoi a in her bottom, at Big River, Gisborne. The Southern Cross will call for her passengers." The large yatch race to-day did not eventuate —Daphne, Secret, and Good; Templar declining to sail. Napibb, This day. The total sales at the Earn Fair amounted to over ten thousand pound*. Koutledge, Kennedy and Co., sales, £500; Mr M. R. Miller, £400, and a few other transactions. It is reported that the Pretty Jane is on the rocks at Poverty Bay—passengers all saved. Full particulars not to hand. Further particulars of the pretty Jane are to hand. The vessel was loading grass-seed at the Big Biver, and got on a sand bank. The pilot in charge, with the anchor down, gave orders to steam ahead, and the vessel overran her anchor, which knocked a hole in her bottom, and she sank. The passengers are right. Vessel and cargo partially insured. Wellington, This day. Referring to McLean's interview with Tawhiao and the opening of Ohinemuri, the New Zealand Times regrets the signs of impatience the telegrams shew as existing amongst the miners, and says Sir Donald McLean cannot be in two places at once; he cannot attend to two different negotiations at one and the same time. Therefore, we say, the Thames miners should wait patiently for the slow but sure development of the Native Minister's policy. •„...-

Hokitika, This Day. Superintendent Bomar opened the third session of Provincial Council yesterday. He stated that the land revenue had fallen short by £700, but as the third of the General Government's special grant was available, the total liabilities from the past year was only £2,000. During the year £18,000 had* been spent on public works, against £10,000 in the previous year. He referred to the promising prospects of Jackson's Bay settlement, regretting that no practical benefit to Westland had from the general system of immigration. He stated that it was the intention of the Government to amend the license laws. He sugges ed that the Council should settle the amounts to be paid to tramway companies, and the General Government would be asked to introduce an act provide compensation. On the Provincial question he said his firm conviction was that the time had arrived when the sys of double governments should cease. So long as the present Provincial system continued, so long would the weaker subdivisions of the colony continue to suffer. Dunedinv This Day. -; A Queens town telegram states that a party of miners, in crossing from the j branches of the Shotover to the Headland at Waitaki, made a discovery of very rich quartz leads.