COLONIAL TELEGRAMS

'PER PRESS AGENCY. Port Chalmers, Dec. 1-1. Macandrew addressed the electors last night and was warmly received, and award© 1 an unanimous vote of con fidence. -His-' speech was merely a amplification of views already expressed in a pamphlet, The spirit breathed is uncompromising hostility to what he calls the centralistic upas tree beneath whose pestiferous shade all life died and death lived, Bluff, Dec. 18. The Tairoa has just sailed for Dun edin. She has been temporarily repaired Lloyd's: agents granting her a certificate, the Customs allowed her to sail. An inquiry was held this afternoon re stran ding,^ when it was decided to have a judicial inquiry when the vessel arrived at Dunedin, Captain Logan, Captain Sinclair, and the Dunedin Harbour master are passengers. .Gkahamtown, Dec. 13. \ Queen of Beauty claim stopped work ing. Another 200 men thrown out of employment, in consequence. Mini a" in the Waiokaraka is now confined to a couple of mines, employing but few men. The position of the district is now criti cal. Alexandra, Dec. 13. Floods committed great havoc a mongst the Kingite settlements. A large amount of cultivation has been destroyed, and whare and personarprb pcrty losf, the owners being absent at Tawhiao's meeting at Hiku'rangi. The meeting j S now over/Messengers leave (or all parts with instructions as to the new religion.-.' No political questions wete discussed. Spirits are forbidden in. future; all Kingitcs to be Good Templars. Plood now subsiding. Waipa bridge carried away. Wellington, Dec. 12. Sailed—Janet Ramsay, for.Wano-a -uui, with 30 bars of iron for Minister of Public Works, New Presbyterian -Church in Willis street opened to day. The congregation numbered about 600. The Rev. Mr Elmslie announced that there was still a debt of; £'2000 upon the building. Fiteherbert issues to-morrow morn ing a lengthy address: to the Hutt constituency. He refers to his 20 years .Parliamentary; career, most of the time as member for the Hutt, but does not appeal to their sympathies against their judgment, but rather as one whose interests arc. identical withthcirs. Last session ho belonged to a small minority who, successfully defeateddhe 'Govern ment in their proposal to impose fundamental: changes without; first appealing to the people. 