INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 127, 5 October 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

(Fuom the Press Agency.) G-rahamstown,' October 2. The allotment of shares in the Union Insurance Company received to-day ha*, not given satisfaction. Several applicants, inert of capital slid -position, able to put business in the "way of the Company, have received no shares at all. The shares were quoted on Change today—buyers," 15s. . Welltxgton, October 2. The agents for M'Median's steamers received a telegram from Melbourne stating that the Tararua, which broke down and was towed into Port Philip by the Claud Hamilton, will be unable to come over to New Zealand this month. The Albion was to leave Melbourne yesterday for Hobart Town, Bluff, &c, and may be expected here about October 12, The Claud Hamilton is expected to sail from there to-day for Hokitika. She is timed to arrive here on October 10. Dunbdin, October 2. An opposition morning paper.-to the Daily Times will,.in all probability, be started without delay. Auckland October 3. The Union Insurance shares fell today to 12s 6d sellers. At the City Council to-day, the Mayor was authorised to advertise for subscriptions for the Indian famine. Otaki, October 3. A house caught fire last night, and a Maori man and woman were burned to death. l ' '

Napier, October 3. Four hundred Union Insurance shares were sold by auction to-day, and realised from 16s 6d to 18s. Twenty-five National Insurance shares fetched, cumdividend, 355. The Hawea will bring this month's mails from Auckland via East Coast. She will wait for it till Friday night, but should the mail steamer arrive on Thursday night the Hawea will start immediately after she has got the mails. Wellington, October 3. Notice has been given that Jas. M'Dowell and Joseph Paul, well known drapers here, have filed a deed of assignment for the benefit of their creditors.

Daniel Cooley, employed as a gardener at the Hutt, by Nathaniel Valentine, cut his throat to-day, nearly severing the head from the body. Hokitika, October 3. Two young men, Thomas Wiltshire and George Greaves, were drowned in the Hokitiki river.