TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 620, 6 March 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

Auckland, March 4. The Tartar mail steamer arrived at 5 o’clock I his morning, and brings the M‘Gregor'a mails and passengers from Sydney. VheJM‘Gregor is ashore atKandavau harbo.tr, through carelessness of the pilot. Thei Tartar failed to tow her off owing to th e hawaera breaking. The cargo is beinj; shifted to the Star of the South to lighten her. There is still hopes of getting her off The Tartar came on and leaves forSyndey this afternoon. Dunedin, March 5. The Soiztar emigrant ship has anivod at Port Chalmers from Plymouth with four hundred and thirty souls on hoard , she has been iplaccd iu quarantine, there being measles, scarlet .'ever, bronchitis and diarrhmaon board. Twenty-six deaths occurred during the voyage, the eldest being sixteen years 01. I, the next, five years and three mouths ;all the others were under five years. Disease showed itself in the depot before leaving, and two families were sent ashore, who had been ill with scarlet fever. At present then? are six cases of scarlet fever, and three cates of variola. The Sciztar made a fine passage of seven,ty days, though she called at Tristan d’Acunha for supplies. The inquest on the body of Nicolas Macdonald, who was shot at Green Island on Saturday last by a publican named Patrick Long, resulted in a verdict of “ wilful murder.” The evidence was con■clusive. Several witnesses? | say they saw the shot fired by Long, who was committed fir trial.