TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES

Dunstan Times, Issue 559, 3 January 1873, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES

Dunedin, Jan. 2.

The Dacctah arrived from San Francisco with the mail. She left San Francisco on the seventh, and brings Chiaroui’a Circus, consisting of forty five performers, also, 20 passengers for Auckland, 29 for Sydney and Melbourne. John .Anderson, jran. and Miss IDsting for I.yttleton, \V. S. Blair, for Port Chalmers, and J. It. Broomhead for Wellington.

Dunedin, Jan 2, 3 p. ra,

The Customs revenue received at Dunedin during 1872 amounted to 223,142/. showing an incieaac of 30,629/. over the previous year.

His Excellency the Governor attended the Caledonian Gathering. The weather was splendid, and over five thousand people were present. James Harper, a storekeeper at Ahurua, was stuck up by a party of bushrangers on Tuesday night last, about three miles from the town, and robbed of throe hundred and nine ounces of gold, besides notes and cheques ; in all amounting in value to 1,600/.

The Dacotah arrived at Auckland yes ter day.

■She left San Francisco on the seventh of December, making the through trip within the contract time.

Kho brings no news of importance.

Berlin letters state that the storm experienced in the north of Europe on the 4ih of November exceeded in violence and destructiveness anything that has occurred wlth-u the memory of living man.

Tlic Baltic Coast Annals contain no account ot inch a destructive tempest for two hundred years. Lines of railway have been broken up. and business has been brought to a complete standstill.

Sea walls have been smashed to atoms. A railway train was swallowed up by the waters. _ Accounts from Siransland, Keel, Oricfswald, and Bwunsiuuiid are of a like description.

A f croud deluge bad occurred on The fob lowing Wednesday. On November the fitli, the greater part of Griefswald was under water to a depth of live feet. The total number of vessels that foundered at Strausland was over ‘eighty. All the fishing boats have gone to the bottom, and __eighty people drowned in them.

All alung the coast the inhabitants are Buffering from want of water, the sea. having flooded all the wells.

The Governor will leave‘Dunedin for the country about the 7th Instant. It is the intention of the”Govcrnment to proceed with the construction of the Winton and Kings!, n line -of railway. MELBOURNE.

December 19.

The Government have accented the responsibility of redeeming and returning to their homes the surviving captives of the Carl atrocities.

The trial of Mount and Morris com mcn.e l ou the 19th ultimo.

A brothel-keeper has been charged with decoying servant girls through the medium of advertisements in the columns of the A rgus.

A carpenter named Mount found his wife in lied with a publican named Jcnkinson. lie stabbed Jeukinson mortally.

Fresh oval discoveries have taken place in the East and West of the Colony:

The schooner Hokitika, from Newcastle to the Mauritius, has been wrecked off Cape Lewin. All hands were saved* '.Shu was not insured.. LONDON. December 11. The National Panic of New Zealand shares have been all taken up, and the directors’ report refers to the unqualified encouragement afforded to the undertaking. December 14. New Zealand flax is at ‘2l /. to 40/, Tallow is dull. Sperm oil is at 90/. Wheat is easier.