BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3592, 27 August 1874, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Greytown, August 27. The Whareka Hotel, kept by Mr Gillies and ojmed by Mr Haggerty, was burned down at three o clock this morning.' The origin of the fire is unknown. This is the third hotel destroyed by nre at the Wairarapa this year. .. .. Chbistohtjbch, August 2C. At a meeting of the Acclimatisation Society yesterday afternoon, the Curator announced that upwards of 10,000 ova had been obtained from the trout gardens; alsothatforty-two young salmon were alive and doing well. A large number of trout, varying from eighteen to thirty inches in length, have been lately jfeen in the Biver Avon, An additional section of the Great Southern Railway, eighteen miles in length, being from

TU’kaia to Ashburton, was opened for general traffic yesterday. The length of the line now of ei} from Christchurch is fifty miles. _ Auckland, August 26. The presentation of a valuable locket and necklace was ma le to Alice May at the concert last night. The company proceeded to Napier to-day. The agent of the A.S.N. Co, has received a telegram from Sydney that the City of Melbourne, wh'ch leives there for San Francisco on the 20th, will probably call at Auckland, leaving here on the 4th September. . Lyttelton, August 26. It is still blowing furiously, with a heavy sea running into the harbor. Every ship has driven. All work has been suspended, and serious damage is done to the harbor works. The entire portion of the contractor’s work on the eastern mole has disappeared.