LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVII, Issue 3356, 27 November 1871, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[PEE GBETILIiE'S TEL. CO., BEUTEB'S AGENTS.] Port Chalmers, Saturday. Arrived, 6.45 a.m., Alhambra, from Bluff; 1.30 p.m., Claud Hamilton, from Oamaru. > Sunday. The Alharabra for Lyttelton, and the Claud Hamilton for Bluff, sail to-mor-row afternoon. Auckland, Thursday. The Provincial Council opened yesterday. The Superintendent in his speech referred to the reduction of the Provinces Capitation Allowance. He said the £d<ooo granted as a special allowance alone represented the amount of aid accruing to the province from the Colonial revenue, and no doubt this sum would be required next year to pay the interest upon money spent by the Colonial Government in the province under the Public Works Act. He was happy to say that the scheme of public works submitted by himself and Executive to the General Government, although not wholly adopted, was to a large extent embodied in the scheme of the Minister of Public Works. The Waikato and Kaipara railways were to be proceeded with, and the Government was pledged to spend £15,000 annually for four years in opening up the country at the north. He drew attention to the fact that the Auckland Harbor Board Act could only be made operative by the Council foregoing its claims upon the revenues of the Board for interest on the provincial loan. He congratulated them upon the prosperity of the Thames goldfield, and thought there was a good prospect of Ohinemuri being opened up at an early date. The expenditure on the Thames had exceeded the appropriations. He had endeavored to secure the co-operation of the Colonial Government in securing the freehold of the auriferous land on the foreshore, and he hoped to succeed. The trigonometrical survey of the province was being proceeded with. Bills affecting roads, highways, licensing, education, and educational reserves would he introduced. The financial position of the province was satisfactory. There is great excitement about Tookey's shares. A party of speculators chartered the Coomerang, and left for Sydney last night to try and buy up shares. The shares yesterday rose from £30 to £40, and stood to-day at £12 10s. The City Council loan of £20,000 at 0 per cent has been floated at parIt is secured on a special Od rate. Caledonians, £90 ; Thames, £19 ; Shotover, Bs. An amended Licensing Bill has been introduced into the Provincial Council simplifying the permissive clause, by making one signature a sufficient attestation to the signatures to a petition It also increases the wholesale license fee to £30. The Multum in Parvo case has been decided against the jumpers. Share market — Caledonians £90; Tookey's, £42 10a; Inverness, 325. Ohihstchuhch Saturday. A match with 12-pounder Armstrong guns between detachments of the Christchurch Volunteer Artillery and the crew of the Basilisk, was won by the latter by ten points. Napier, Saturday. The Napier Rifle Club has just fired a match with the Greymouth Rangers — 10 men each side, five shots at 200, i 400, and GOO yards. The Napier total is 371. Nelson, Sunday. 25th, 0.40 a m. — Arrived, Wellington, from the North. j Hokptika, Sunday. Arrived — 25th, Lady Don from, Lyttelton. Sailed— Jane Hannah, for i Dunedin.