TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 21, 24 June 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Pet Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph •■■ »•■■ Agency.) Auckland, June 23. ' Messrs Brogden and Sons have purchased the schooner Clio from Mr J. S. Macfarlane. She is to be employed in the coasting trade. ": The Flirt has cleared'for Lyttelton, with sixty thousand feet of timber. '., Wellington, June 23. The tender t ,of Daniel Fallon, Auckland, has been accepted for the formation* ballasting, and laying the permanent way of the Riverhead contract of .the Kaipara railway. 7 amount is £11,487. ~ Poet Chalmers, June 23. Sailed —Otago, for Lyttelton, at five p.m. A casp of, crimping was tried in |Court today. The accused was only proved to have aided and not to have persuaded. The Act only provides for persuasion, and the case was consequently dismissed. THIS BATS\ TELEGRAMS. J, Wellington, June 24. The Governor and Lady Fergusso'n were at Alice May's benefit, there were over 1000 people present ; the greatest house ever seen in Wellington. 500 people were sent away. They-; refused to sell more tickets at 7.20. An enthusiatic audience showered bouquets, the demand fof which. exceeded supply at the 1 florists* ■. \ The Luua proceeds north.to-day, and will bring back the northern members of the General'Assembly. , •The Fiji' trader Star of South arrived last night, she sails South to-day. She will go alongside Duncdin wharf. .. Alexandra, June 24i.' Aukati now broken produde coming in fast. Great competition amongst storekeepers. The Maoris are reaping the benefit of obtaining 6s Od per bushel for. maize.