SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 6, 14 May 1872, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

The steamer bearing- the English Mail ! has arrived at the Bluff. J_he latest London i date is April 14th. ■ | The wool sales terminated on March Ist. - ] Unexampled animation prevailed throughout 1 the series. The highest prices obtained I diinn-g the present generation, and the prosI pects.for next sale are excellent.; r ' One thousand bales of New Zealand hemp passed the hammer at full prues. ' Hides sold freely at -|-d per pound advance, i The Beih Shan and" Countess -of Ivintore s had'arrived from Auckland. f. The Tichboi'ne claimant waa st<U in New- " ! gate ; a letter has been published jippealind A ; to the public to subscribe for hi* defence, anr e | solemnly declaring that ha is the real bid J | Roger Tichborne. He was arraigned and I pleaded, not guilty. The case is to be trieg y : in the Queen's Bench in June. e i Cambridge wort the University Boat Race; II I it was pulled in a snow storm. | Eleven thousand" Flax-mill '".hands " are on. >£ | strike Leeds. >r Chaffers, an attorney, has published some infamous details of the early, life of . Sir ; Travers and Lady Twiss. He is being pros' : seen ted for libel. Sir Trarers fias since ■ r ; resigned the Queen's Adrocacy. i 3jk\ Gladstone says that the British Governi's j men! will fully maintain their position in the ti Alabama case. 5 - The Financial Statement has been'made; the expenditure is less, by-one .million, than the money voted, -

Til!• Queen is at linden, and the Prince ami ; Pi". nCe?"S of Wllll'S fit li'LIl". j 'The Ijaster M .uuliy.Voluuteor Rbriuw was j a success. j i An explosion:has taken place at |he Hartstone Colliery ; twenty-eigUt persons were kil!l ' <l : . . The Miiii-cipaliiies of S, >ain waist the> restoration of Uib'ral'ar. 1 The ship Quayuta, frpm Adelaide Lgr London. has been si rankled neai* ''>alog* e ; tin' : (•few and passengers wvre .-lived ; toe were <'Ut away'. A dostrnetivo earthquake has taken place i in California ; many pe "sons were killed and . wonaded. ; O'Connor, for insulting- the Queen, has j been sentenoed ' to twelve "mouths' imprison- j meat and' twenty lashes. _ ! (Special telegrams from San Francisco i explain the delay, in the Sun I'Yaneisco mad j to have arisen from the Moses Taylor j having broken down on the first day our. ; she j cracked her steam chest on the 2divl Marcn. j The Nebraska has pr -.babiy gone through, | as there was no boat to meet her at Honolulu, j