ARRIVAL OF THE TARARUA AT HOKITIKA.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 85, 18 April 1870, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE TARARUA AT HOKITIKA.

LATER AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

HoKITIKA, April 11

The s.s. Tararun, Hagley, commander, arrived from Melbourne at 3 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, after a passage of 4 days and 22 hours. She left Sandridge Pier at 330 p.m. on the 4th ; cleared the Heads at 6"15 p.m. The first three days she experienced a light easterly breeze, and the latter part strong northerly winds and'thick weather.

She brings 19 saloon and 63 steerage passengers, and 186 tons of cargo for all ports. The Claud Hamilton arrived at Melbourne at 2 p.m. on the 2nd. Passenger List — Mr. H. Sewell, Mrs. Sewell, Mr. James, Mr. Dodson, Miss F. Dodson, Mr. H. Dodson, Miss B. Hackett, Mr. Wade,. Miss Usher, Mr. Ulph, Mrs. Ulph, Mr. McDavis, Mr. Bridges, Mr. Woodridge, Mr. Jolmstone, Mr. Charles Wright, Mr. J. E. Knapp,-—and sixty-five in the steerage. MELBOURNE, April 4. Mr. Charles Mathews has been entertained to a dinner at the A thenseum Club, and made a characteristic speech. Charles Gilbert, a venetian-blind maker, has swallowed a dose of green paint poison. Mr. McGregor moved a vote of want of confidence motion in the McPherson ministry on Tuesday, which was carried by eleven of a majority. The ministry resigned, and Mr. McGregor is endeavouring to form a ministry. McCulloch promised co-operation. The Volunteer Easter Encampment takes j place at the Little River. 'J he cattle salesmen are shortening the butchers' credit. William Meikle has been appointed railway overseer of the Williamstown workshops. Harris and Bird have arranged a quarter of a mile race for £200. The Warrenheip Distillery Company meditate winding up. They have lost, during the I past six months, £54C0. The Somersetshire has arrived. Judge ' Chapman and wife are on board. John Chatfield Tyler has been appointed Assistant Commissioner of Customs. A carrier, named William Jewel, has been killed by a gunpowder explosion near Mansfield. A dray and five horses were destroyed. A fire was discovered in the fore hatch of the Claud Hamilton while steaming up the bay on Saturday. The pumps extinguished the fire. The cause is supposed to be spontaneous combustion among the wool or flax.

Sailed.— Sarah and Mary, for Hokitika; and Magnet, for Greymouth ; Our Hope, for Wellington.

SYDNEY, April 3. Ashdown, accountant in the Railway department, has been arrested for embezzlement.

Large arrivals of sugar have taken place. The Paterson is rising. Floods have taken I'laee at Tam*orth, Dubbo. The Richmond River district is flooded. Nearly all the corn growing on the left arm has been destroyed. Two thousand cattle have been destroyed at Anugunabba. Wool sales brisk. A wreck has been seen in Jarvis Bay, in the shape of a ship's round-house, painted red. Messrs. Hussey, Kelly, and Holly, Christy Minstrels, are insolvent. Prenderga9t, at Brisbane, has been hanged. Arrived—Harriet King, from Auckland. At Newcastle—Sea Q-ull, from Auckland. Sailed—Cantero, for Auckland. ADELAIDE, April 3. The Governor intends visiting the neighbouring colonies shortly.

The elections are going on favourable to the protectionist candidates. Wheat ss.

The Hunt Ciub is defunct. Mrs. Tomlinson has com jutted suicide by strychnine.

The Government offer a subsidy to a tele graph company, provided a line is erected from Port Darwin to Port Augusta.