INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 249, 6 December 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondent.) Hampden, Dec. 5. An accident happened to the express train from Christchurch to Dunedin near this station. The engine and two vans ran off the line. |No one was hurt.

[PER PRESS AGENCY.] Auckland, Dec. 5. A vessel was discovered on fire in the Firth of Thames, supposed to be "the brigantine Oamaru. She was built for the timber trade. Loft Auckland Nov. 19, to load at the Hauraki mills with timber for Lyttelton : took in 150,000 feet. She is owned at the Thames, and is worth about £3000. She is insured in the New Zealand Company and also in the South British. Wellington, Dec. 5. The opinion of the Attorney-General having been taken as to the validity of the late Mayoral election, he says, as regards the first aud principal point, that the members of the constabulary have a right to vote at municipal elections. Mr Gilligan's Taueru estate in Wairarapa has been sold for £18,000. There are 2,818 acres of laud, 8000 sheep, and a few horses. Mr Hadfield,, of Canterbury is the purchaser. A circular letter has been issued from the Immigration Office with regard to resuming foreign immigration under certain conditions. Foreigners must be nominated by their friends in the colony, and present themselves at the AgentGeneral's office in London, and he will provide them with passages from Plymouth, provided they pass the necessary medical examination and find their way on board. They must also sign an undertaking to conform to all regulations in force on board ship during the voyage. Foreigners who are nominated and find their way to the colony as' ordinary passengers without coming through 1 the Agent-General's office department may have their passage money refunded.' Due notice must, however, be given to the local Immigration officer at the port at which Foreign immigrants are to arrive, ami-they will*be required to pass a medical officer for inspection of immigrants on arriving in the colony. Great care is to be exercised as to the eligibility of immigrants before they are certified to. The mail steamship Oity of* Auckland with the November colonial mails, arrived at San Francisco on the 3rd inst., two days in advance of due date. The prayer of the petitioner against the use of steam tramways has not been acceded to, but the Tramway Company will be required to adhere in future strictly to regulations, especially as regards speed. A Royal Commission has been appointed to enquire into the condition of the settlement at Jackson's Bay. Tha. Commission is to visit the settlement in the early part of January. Market quotation^—Flour, _Sl7 to £17 10s; colonial, £10 10s; oats, 4s 6d ; hams, B|d to 9d ; bacon, 8d ;, cheese, 8d ; potatoes, lis 2d; butter, lOd. . Dunbdin, Dec. 5. The Postm astervGeneraL arrived at Dunedin yesterday, having completed his official visit to the country districts. The harvest at Taeri, Plains this year promises to be an abundant one. A farm of 150 acres on the Plains sold for £2150.