TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 20, 23 June 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Per Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph Agency.) Auckland, June 22. Caledonian, £9 17s 6d ; Beach, 18s. Buyers : National Bank, 67s ; Thames Gas, 33s ; Crown Trince, 18s ; Queen of Thames, 5s 6d. Sellers : South British, 50s ; National Insurance, 30s. All doubt regarding the fate of the cutter Agnes, with three raeu on board, has been settled by the discovery of portions of the wreck.

The contract for the completion of the Kaipara railway to Rivcrhead was signed today. It amounts to £13,000. It is to be completed in six months. Mr Falloon is contractor. The "Star" publishes three columns of a statement re the escape of the Communists from New Caledonia, tending to show that they were expected aboard the barque P.C.E., and that the captain and mates went ashore the night before sailing. The Communists going aboard in their absence indicates complicity on the part of the French authorities. Alexandra, June 22. The Kingites have written to the Government refusing to allow vessels to enter Mokau as agreed by Wetere. Produce is being brought here daily by the Kingites for sale. Wellington, June 22. The " Tribune" circulates a rumor that the Government have sold the steamer Luna to a Sydney firm, for £12,000, and that a new and large vessel, to replace her, is now on the way from England. Invercargill, June 22. Mary Hall, who was murderously assaulted on the 15th, having recovered full possession of her faculties, another deposition was taken to-day, She identified Brennan. She saw him take the adze from behind the kitchen door. The day before the assault, Brennan said he would be the death of M'Carthy's house before he left. On one occasion he had attempted to take liberties with her. THIS DA TS TELEGRAMS. Auckland, June 23. Arrived —The Loch Awe, from London ; 77 days from port to port; 367 immigrants. All well. Wellington, June 23. The barque Condor, bound for Tahiti, twenty-eight days from Newcastle, has just put in short of provisions. Greymouth, June 23. On Monday, the steamer Waipsra, bound to Hokitika, while waiting to cross the bar early on the tide, took the ground on the South Spit, where she remained till the evening. After high water she floated off, but drifted amongst the breakers to the southward and eventually was driven ashore on the south beach, about half a mile from the river mouth. The. position of the vessel is a dangerous one, as there is a heavy sea rolling along shore.