TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 226, 10 March 1874, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] —: *, D U N E D I N. Wednesday, 1.18 p.m. The steamer Tartar arrived at Auckland this morning, with the MacGregor's mails and passengers from San Francisco for Sydney. The MacGregor is ashore at Kandavu, the stopping place for coals, through the carelessness of the pilot. The steamer Star of the South will endeavour to tow her off, after transhipping a quantity of her cargo. Thursday, 11.25 a.m. The Scimitar has arrived at Port Chalmers from Plymouth, and has been placed in quarantine. She ha 3 430 passengers. The diseases are : measles, scarlet fever, bronchiuis, and diarrhoea. Twenty-six deaths occurred during the voyage ; one being sixteen years old, one five years and three months, and the others all under five. Disease showed itself in the depot beforo leaving, and two families were left on shore who had been ill with scarlet fever. There are six cases of scarlet fever on board at present, and three cases of variola. She made a fine passage of seventy days, though she had to call at Tristan d'Acuhna for supplies.

Friday, 2.5 p.m. The Omeo is at the Bluff. The following are her chief items of English news : The Ministry is now officially constituted. Disraeli is First Lord of the Treasury ; Lord Chancellor, Lord Cairns ; President of the Council, Duke of Richmond ; Lord Privy Seal, Earl Malmesbury ; Foreign Secretary, Earl Derby; Secretary for the Colonics, Earl Carnarvon ; Secretary for India, Marquis of Salisbury ; Secretary for War, Mr Gathome Hardy ; Home Secretary, Mr R. A. Cross ; Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Northcote ; Postmaster-General, Lord John Manners ; First Lord of the Admiralty, George Ward Hunt. Karslake is Attorney-General; Baggally, Solicitor-General; Duke of Abercorn, Viceroy of Ireland. Shirley Brookes, editor of Punch, is dead. The British troops in Ashantee had to fight two battles before reaching Coomassie. Ourlosses are severe; 300 killed and wounded. The King has promised to come in and sign a treaty of peace.

Tuesday, 9 a.m. The schooner Mary Van Every became a total wreck when attempting to cross Port Molyneux bar on Friday evening. She was in tow of the steamer Lady of the Lake, when

tho tow-rope broke,.and the schooner, .was driven ashore. '

The Mongol arrived at the Heads last night. Her pasaengerß and mails will he brought up this mi lining.' Tho Qfa'ud Hamilton and the Omeo arrived on Saturday, the latter having among her passengers the, Royal. English Opera Company. ■ v •■ : ■ ■ v ' The sick peopjo arid their families' wore refrOni'* tho 'Scimitar to 'Quarantine Island yesterday.' • '' The Wellington Tribune says the health of tho Hon. John Hall, now in London, has quite given way. During a terrific gale at Wellington on Saturday, tho ship Wellington and barque Cyrus (colliers bound for Newcastle) ,were lost between Lyell's Bay and Sinclair's Head. Several lives were lost. At the Police Court, Auckland, on Friday, Captain Holtnan appeared in answer to "a summons respecting the stranding of the barque Anazi. He blames the second officer for the accident, and declined answering a question as to whether he was intoxicated. The case was adjourned for a week. The election for a member for the city in the Provincial Council resulted in the return of Mr Reeves ; tho numbers being : Reoves, 588; Cargill, 428 ; Isaacs, GG ; Chapman 50.