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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1672, 28 June 1875, Page 3

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(Per Press Telegram Agency.) Damages at Sea. **"**' The Collector of Custems has held en Sa.*ita£SSS topeedweJl. Ihe captain stated that the vessel, on a voyage from Newcastle to Lyttel ton, had sustained damage through stress of weather to the amount of £300 The barque Fleur de Maurice: la this case the captain stated that, on the voyage from Newcastle to Lyttelton the vessel had su* tamed dsmage through stress of weather to the amount of £4&. The barque William Giflord : The captain stated when the gale commenced on June 5 the vessel was lvin 2 at Oamaru, and was obliged to put to sea s^t3ned: £ rm 6 Sale Lytt6lton '> damage Hebrew Memorial. Members of the Jewish persuasion intend forming a local committee to obtain subscrmt ™OnS. *owards the memorial to S ir Moses MoDtenore, which originated in England Sir Julius Vogel. ±he £ress this morning has a coarse article on the knighthood of Vogel. It says the Order of St. Michael and St. Georrs was originally invented to distinguish people for doing nothing in particular, and has recently been furbished up for colonial use, and being cheap and nasty, may be awarded to colonists without apprehension, and in a quantity that may atone 'for its deficiencies. It says Vogel long hankered after this flimsy distinction, and has perpetually pestered the Colonial Office. To get it, from first to last he has secured the services of journalistic touts and cliquers. The article concludes as follows: "There are some who will be disposed to think that if in future it should be necessary to send to England a public representative for the colony, it will be better represented by a man of education and a gentleman, than by a travelling tuft-hunter, with the tastes and habits of an itinerant showman ; and we do not hesitate to say that we should heartily agree with them " City Valuation. The total value of the city property this year is estimated at £150,620, which, with the usual rate of Is in the pound, will yield for general purposes £7531. The increase in the value of property during the past twelve months was £37,621.