LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3096, 10 January 1871, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

— » [From Grevillb's Telegram Company. • Reuter's Agents.] BLUFF, Monday. The Alhambra arrived at 4 p.m. today. She experienced light winds the first day, then strong east gales ; arrived off Milford Sound at 10 p.m. on the 7th instant ; left at 12.30 p.m. on the Bth; leaves for Dunedin afc 4 p.m. to-morrow. Passengers : For Dunedin— Messrs G. C. Neill, Coote, Russell, M'Neichol, Neill, and 94 tons cargo. For Lyttelton— Messrs Short, Young, and 104 tons cargo. For Wellington— Mr R. Taylor and 34 fcons cargo. Melbboubne, January 2. Parliament was prorogued on Thursday, with the usual formalities, - to thirty-first January. Little business outside auction rooms. • Breadstuff's firmer. Large parcels not obtainable under £15 10s; bakers' lots £12 15s to £13. Wheat steady, 5s 6d to 5s 3d. A parcel of New Zealand feed oats sold at 3s 6d ; more demand. Superior milling sorts are worth 3s 7d. Maize, improved ; 500 bags were sold at 4s 3d. Sugar, firm ; 9000 bags Mauritius, and 5000 Bourbon and Java sugars were sold by auction, and prices fully sustained ; market showed an advance for find whites. Equal to 600 chests tea, ex Galilee, were sold on private terms. An immense, number of candidates are 'likely to como forward at the nexfc generalelections. The holidays have been very generally kept. The weather was hot, until early this morning, when there broke,out a heavy storm of wind and rain. Ifc is still squally. The Io arrived from Westport; she reported .sighting a large vessel outside fche heads, baying lost three top-gallanfc masts ; name unknown. Arrived — 10, from Westport. The races to-day were nob well attended owing to the weather and the mail. Three Year Old— Roysfcon, Middy, Ashore; Handicap — Doubtful, Amethyst, Endeavor ; Midsummer Handicap — Tim Whiffier, Niinblefoot, Melancholy Jacques ; Bteeple<?hase— Narcissus, Monk, Ballarat;; Canterbury Stakes— Tim WhifHer, Trump Card; One -Hundred Pounds Plate — Blondin, Rambler. Sydney, Jan. 1. The insurance companies have accepted the fact; that the Dashing Wave, from Foo Choo, is lost, and will pay insurance on the Ist of March if nbfcin then. The hull and cargo is insured for about £23,000. The schooner Uncle Tom, in ballast, has been wrecked. A man named Nichols, passenger, drowned. A new daily, called the " Mercantile Advertiser," appears on Monday. Wool— Prices easier. The weather is still boisterous. The Banks have reduced the exchange on London to one per cent, premium. The wreck of the Rialto was sold for £71. The Queensland Parliament has voted a subsidy of £10,000 towards a direct Californian mail service. Tho steamer Hunter reports sighting a topsail yard floating off Porfc Hackling, apparently belonging to a vessel 600 or 700 tons. The Ellen Stuarfc loads 800 tons of Now South Wales wheat for England. The schooner Missie has been wrecked at the North Head. The Forward has arrived from a whaling voyage with 200 barrels of oil. Sailed — Kate, for Auckland. Arrived at Newcastle — Velocipede, Southern Crbss, and Engrica from Lyttelton. Adelaide, Jan. 1. Another vessel has been laid on the berth with wheat for England. The Government have called in alb outstanding Volunteer arms. The foot police' are being drilled daily in the use of the rifle. Wheat is a little easier, sales at 4s 4£d. It is raining steadily. CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. A horrible tragedy was committed here this afternoon. Simon Cedench, a native of Pauama, and butler to Mr Robinson, station owner, stabbed two. of his. fellow-servants. Margaret Burke received a fearful wound, penetrating the heart, and died immediately afterwards. The other girl was stabbed in vaTions places, but her life is nofc in danger, lt appears fche girls had heen chaffing Cedench about a girl to whom he was about, to be married. Tbis. was all the provocation. 'He will be brought up before the Police Court tomorrow morning on the charge of wilful murder. HOKITIKA, Monday. A horrible rape and murder has been committed here (supposed) by a colored . man named Noble, on Saturday night, on a child of eight years of age. The girl was left in the house by her parents, who, on returning found the bed covored with blood. They traced and found tho child behind the house, violated, and with her throat cut. There is great excitement. Noble, is in custody; he had jusfc done two years for an attempted rape. . The evidence is very strong. Monday. The Supreme Court held its criminal sittings to-day. Edward Walsh, charged wifch . fraudulent insolvency, was acquitted. Frederick Lydall, of Ross, pleaded guilty to embezzlement ; he was sentenced fco eighteen months' hard labor/ The inquest on the child murdered on Saturday is -still going on. Noble, who is suspected, of the crime, is almost sure fco be committed. , AUCKLAND (via Wanganui), Saturday. . Telegrams from Alexandra to-day report that forty natives under Topihana and twenty under Whitiora, are within ten miles of the confiscated line. The friendlies say that the Hauhaus express a determination to light a fire afc Alexandra. -The latest tele- . gram reports fchem building a pa. The Government believes there is no oause for

serious- alarm. -The -.party-- threatening isunsupported by the King. Kehana, a Waikato friendly native, says that unless the Government commence, there is no danger of war. The natives of Patatere are prospecting with a view of throwing open the land for mining. The Prince patronised the annual races. Tbo Maiden Plate waa won by Marine ; I Epsom Plato, Slander ; Auckland -Handicap, 100 soys, Yatterina ; Maiden Produce, Sultan ; Innkeepers' Purse Handicap, Orlando ; Ladies' Purse Handicap, Kuma ; Farmer's Plate, Yatterina. The Caledonian gameß were a success. The Amateurs of fche Galatea gave a sue cessful performance in aid of the sufferers by the loss of the, Captain. Arrived— Airedale ; fche Hon. Mr Yogel is a passenger. January 6th. The latest telegrams from Alexandra state fchafc the forces of Tapihana and Whitiora are joined, and encamped near Kapua, and -that they have sent a letter to Colonel Lyon, saying : — " You are now on tapu ground. Go fco Maungatawhiri. A second warning is sent. The road is now closed. The messenger is not to return." Another message says tha,t Tapihana stales thafc the King will not recognise any other boundary than Maungatawhiri, and thafc he did not recognise confiscation. Colonel Lyon has been reinforced. The settlers and their families are in a redoubt. Orakau is garrisoned. Mr M'Lean arrived in the Phoebe to-day. The Prince leaves on the 14th. He visits K^wau to-morrow. Sailed— Countess of Kintore for London, with a cargo worfch £71,000. Gold export, 16,000 ozs. • Malfc, 7s to 8s ; wheat, inferior, 4s to 4s 6d ; prime do, 5s to 5s 3d ; oats, 3s 2d— no sales ; maize (Sydney), scarce, 4s to 4s 6d ; New Zealand do, none ; southern flour, £13 to £15, bags included ; butter, dead, 5d fco 6d ; cheese, 5d to Is 2d. AUCKLAND (via Tauranga), Sunday. The s.s. City of Melbourne has- just arrived from Sydney with forty-fire passengers for California. The barque Rialto and several other vessels have been wrecked off fcho coast of Sydney. Thp Australasian Steam Navigation Company have offered to charter three steamers for the projected new mail service between San Francisco and Sydney, contingent upon expected subsidies. The Queensland Assembly have passed a resolution affirming that the authority of the Government; to authorise the negotiation with any parties for a mail and passenger service via Fiji to San Francisco, or Sydney, Auckland, and San Franciaco at a cost to the Queensland Government of nofc exceeding £10,000 per annum. TAURANGA, Monday. The " Thames Advertiser," through Greville & Co, congratulate Southern contemporaries upon the opening of daily mail communication overland between the Thames and Tauranga. Thus enabling thorn to receive telegrams from all parts and forming the connecting link with Auckland. The yield of gold for tbe month of December was 13,088 ounces from 28,991 tonß crushed. . His Eoyal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh is to visit the Thames on Wednesday next, and will probably take leave of Auckland two days afterwards. Tbe amount of published dividends paid during the month of December is £10,098 dividend amongst twelvo companies. This is independent of the large number of dividend paying claims worked under miners rights, of which no record is kepfc. The newly appointed Catholic bishop arrived here yesterday, and was presented with a congratulatory addfess by his church. The rumors from Alexandra are alarming, and fiffcy of the best riflemen amongst our volunteers have offered their services to the Government for active dufcy. The latest telegrams just received from Alexandra, and dated Friday, 9 p.m., intimate that the panic is subsiding and all is quiet in Waikato. The Government store at Mercer has been burned down, and £200 worth of wool, flax, &o, stored there were destroyed. A man named Dunn, living here, has been committed for trial on seven distinct; oharges j of robbery and burglary. A miner named George was seriously injured this morning by a fall of about six tons of earth while working in a drive. He is scarcely expocted to survive the injuries. NAPIEB, Saturday. A tea meeting was held at the Odd Fellows' Hall last evening to welcome the Rev. Mr Redstone, who bas come to found a branch of the United Methodist Free Church, Mr Joseph Rhodes in the chair; 250 were present, and fche affair was a greafc Buccess. A fire was discovered in the malthouse of the White Swan Brewery yesterday evening, and was extinguished with difficulty. The building was uninjured. A greafc quantity of malt was destroyed. t The nomination of candidates in the Assembly for Napier, is notified fco take place on the 19th ; Clive on the 26th. A poll, if demanded, on the 24th January, and on the 4th February. Monday. The successful launch of the Star of the South took placo early this morning. The Rangatira towed her to porfc, and she now ( lies inside the Iron Pot. Specimens of Kaimanawa gold have been received by Mr Tiffen from prospectors, but no information of importance.