COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume X, Issue 2705, 14 February 1876, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

[press agency].

Wellington, Feb. 14.

The Hon. Dr. Pollen will resign the Premiership in favour of Sir Julius Vogol, and the Ministry will be reconstructed before the Governor leaves for the north. The Hero brings news that the Grenada took the N. Z. mails and passengers from Kandavau to Sydney, notwithstanding a strong protest of our mail agent against the proceeding. A good deal of discontent over the insurance cases per Border Chief; they have been four months in hand without any settlement having been arrived at with regard to the general average statement, and a meeting of consignees is called for to-morrow to consider the matter. Bryce is here at present. It is understood that his principal object is to urge upon Yogel the necesssty of taking the earliest opportunity, say after the banquet, to personally address his Wanganui constituents. MeKirdy and Oakes, railway contractors, have written to the Colonial Secretary asking 1 whether the Government will not grant free passages to Wellington to those men out of employment at the Thames and willing to come to We lington to seek it in the same way as newly arrived immigrants are forwarded from one part of the colony to another. The contractors urge that there is not the abundance of labour they were led to expect, and that they incurred seriona loss in conSequence, and would probably be unable to complete the contracts in time, it the Thames men were allowed to go to New South Wales.

Hokttika, Feb. 14. Cox, the geologist, has since returned from the South. He declines to confirm reports which preceded him, and and which as regards iron and slate are unreliable. He reports only to the head office of the department. Auckland, Fob. 12. The Waikato Times states that the murdertr Winiata, was at M.orangi settlement on Wednesday last. He slept at Wharepapaon Sunday night, and arrived at Kuiti the followingevening, keeping Pueko, Waikato, on ! the way up. The King's orderly, who I brought word to the settlement for ' telegraphic transmission to the Defeuce Minister of these facts, says he saw Winiata at Kuiti on the day he left ; Winiata was then about to leave Tuhua. The Kinp, 1 refused to give him shelter, and the King Natives have no sympathy with him, but say there is no claim upon them to act as constables in enforcing laws. j Feb. U. Arrived— Hero, lrom Sydney. Bluff, Feb. 14. Arrived — ftingarooma, from Mcl bourne.