TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES

Dunstan Times, Issue 530, 14 June 1872, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES

(Per Greville & Co.) Dunedin-, Juke 12, 5 p.m. The Independent says, that dispatches from the Agent General have been received via Suez, which state that the order for the piles, and girders for the Waitaki bridge have been completed, and will be shipped, with the, whole of the remaining material in the Napier for Dunedin, she brings likewise a considerable quantity of materials for the Canterbury railway. The ship Benmore has sailed for Lyttleton with a cargo of rails and other iron work. The ship William Davy sailed on the 10th of April for Dunedin with assisted immigrants- English labourers to he . employed by Mr. Brogden on the Picton and Blenheim railway. The Celestial Queen, with ninety immigrants for Auckland, sailed on the 19th of April. Dr. Featherstono has forwarded to Wellington live hundred rooted vines, selected from vineyards on the Hhine, with special reference to the climate of New Zealand, and with a view of facilitating a small settlement of vino-growers. It is proposed by Mr. Ormond to form a settlement at Buataniwha, and hopes io bo able to send- a dozen families of experienced vine dressers from the Rhine, and a similar number fromMtber vine districts. The Inpependent states that no minister of any Protestant denomination was present af the funeral of Bishop iViard. The yield of gold from the Thames for the mouth ending the 11th of June was 8,925 oz., anil the amount of dividends was 12,311/. Mr. M‘Kay has succeeded in buying one hundred and fifty thousand acre of land on the Upper Thames, Mere Kuri being among the sellers. —o— Dunedin, June 13, Cp.m. Monro's majority, 171—Monro, 232; Preston, 44 ; Webster, 58 ; Cutteu, 7 ? Hutcheson, 25 ; Thompson, 4. Being a fast day, it is a holiday. The City of Melbourne has arrived at Auckland, she brings the Suez Mail, but the telegraph wires are down. There was a fire in Dunedin yesterday, Three cottages were destroyed. Insurances cover losses to the extent of 500/.. The losses not covered by insurance are trifling. The Government firmly refuse to take on the cld Police.