TELEGRAPHIC.

Waikato Times, Volume II, Issue 80, 2 November 1872, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(From the Daily Southern Ckoss.) | LATFST THAMES NEWS. ! Grahahauistown, Wednesday, 8 p.m. [ The gold returns for the month amount to | Stone crushed. Return of Gold. I Thames ... 7722 tons ... 7SM-oz: j Coromandel ... 799 tons ... 1020oz: Total ... 8521 tons ... 886-Aoz. —showing a decrease 16200z., as compared with last month. A crowded public meeting is now proceeding at, the Theatre Royal. Mr Swan is in the chair. The object, of the meeting is to consider the localisation of the police. One resolution condemnatory of the measure has been passed. LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS. I Christ-church, Wednesday, A slight shock of an earthquake was felt at ten o'clock hist night. Thursday. The further extension of the Northern railway Irom Southbrook to Rangiora, will be opened on Tuesday. Peeress is the favourite for the Canterbury Cup. Dunedin, Wednesday. The Cantabie's cargo is damaged through springing a leak. Mr Charles McTaggart, of Palmerston, has committed suicide. Thursday. A meeting called to arrange for a connection with the Vienna Exhibition fell through. Lyttelton, Wednesday. lI.M. 9. Dido lias sailed for Akaroa to inspect the harbour and report thereon. Hokitikn, Wednesday. The steamer Wallace has returned from Southern ports and West Coast-. The captain reports the settlers ,at Martin's JBay out. of provisions and starving. ' The females and children have undergone great -tillering from want of the necessaries of life. Nine settlers have started overland to Queenstovvn. The steamer took one person aboard from Lake McKerrow. Several settlers who came off in boats to meet the steamer, including one family, father, mother, and six'children in a most wretched condition, were taken on board and supplied with food. Dried seal, parched corn, and fish Mere the only provisions they had. The daughter and son of one settler remained on the roeks all night,, several miles from home, gathering shell-fish to supply the wants ottlie frmily. Boiled fern was their only other food. The steamer supplied all the settlers with provisions. Thursday. A punt and boats were swept away at the junction of the Marsdcn and Greenstone roads by floods yesterday. There is now no communication with the district. Napier, Thursday. Fat cattle, 15s to 17s 6d per 1001b; sheep shorn, Gs to 10s. Cattle have a downward tendency owing to the farmers desiring to stock with sheep. A large sale of store cattle is advertised for Saturday. .. The first female tent of Rechabites in New Zealand was opened here last night.—The Dunedin University session closed yesterday. — Gabriel's Gullv- Quartz Compav's ten-head battery is nearly completed.—A few South British Insurance shares have changed hands at Dunedin. —The Clyde coal pit has been swamped; the damage is very extensive. —The tender of £5250 for the extension of the Bluff railway to the wharf has been accepted.—Star. v ADDITIONAL ENGLISH TELEGRAMS. London, October 23, 2.22 p.m. Sir Houston Stewart succeeds the late Sir Thomas John Cochrane as Admiral of the Fleet. —The threatened lock-out of the colliers in Wales has been averted bv the submission of the men. —T'>e signature of the French Treaty of Commerce has been delayed in consequence of efforts put forth to re-adjust the duties. The duty on cotton goods is more favourable to England.—The emigrants despatched to New Zealand 3a-t quarter numbered 1785 —125,000 tons of Californian wheat are on route;to England.—Preserved meats are scarce. —There is great slackening in the orders for iron in the coal districts. —The coal and iron masters of Cardiff" have resolved to meet the claims of'the to en by combination, and to close their - work within four weeks. —The colliery proprietors of Oldham have advanced the price of coal.-—Coal-masters in Glasgow have reduced the price from 32s to 31s for shipping.—Darley Weir Colliery, Barnsley, is on fire, and has been closed. —The revenue of Britain for the quarter ending 30th September, .1872, is £16,000,000.—The National Debt ' is; reduced by £4,000,000,—The exports to the colonies for the quarter amount to £8,000,000: —Sir Charles Djilke, in a speech delivered at Glasgow, denounced class legislation.—There is a threatened lock-out of 5000 colliers in Staffordshire.: —The evacuation of' the Marne has commenced, —The fault in the Java cable was discovered in about 1000 fathoms water 220 miles" from here. The cause of the breakage is still unknown. —A new Atlantic cable from England to New jtork is "being manufactured, and will be laid .summerfrom the 1 Great- Eastern.' In the manufacture of this cable the cause of the original fault in the French, ca3j]e has tefen removed. —The 1 Australasian" Navigation Company have purchased the steamer ' Syi*acuse,'—There is likely t<"> be an extensivexexnigration of the inhabitants of Alsace and Lorraine, on the expiration of' the period wherein -they- have option of- deeidmg_on. choice of nationality. 4000 labourers at Liverpool have struck, j —The Italian Ministry have prepared a bill for the j suppression of religious orders in Ita3y. Four directors

of clerical schools have submitted to the- civil law**, ami the schools were reopened; one bisnop submitted ami received tho royul signature—Tno Government have taken possession ol luc house of tuo oinef d.rejior oi h.io .tenuis tor^iruhwwypurpoae^—Uai-djttal Autonolh had a violeut dieeiWßiuiMWLu fcue I'ope, ami threatened U» resign, for not treating with fci»©J.lial ion. Government.—A rosiden<&/10r the jPctjdfe proparbd'in Pans, and tuOetnuta urgiShii rMpbrol tuituet. Ttuno am-now 00 red bain |w*aut.-gap Italians ptdgoso Upojrau A Berhu oagjne fa<MVy inclosed,as ttifruptn MTUolc ibr 20 per cen*. adjunct'.—A preiustoric eongu«Sß"W»w held at-JBriUM'U:, ami a stan&ticak cOug»e** at St. Petersburg;—A Ucotr.hjUve % iiro occurred m a cotton niaimiaciory tu Switzerland, winch tnrowa SOU workmen out of employnieTO:'-—The contruct for St. Uuthard Kail way" tunnel has been ratiiiod. The accession of rnncu limluu,.u t ;cd 17, to tuu turone.ol Soma was celebrated with great lestrntUM.—KKuasia i» preparing a new expedition against the Khan of Tart airy.—An. invasion. of> 'Abyssinia by .Egyptian, troops is expected.