TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 127, 27 October 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(JEcr Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph Agency.') Auckland, October 26. Sydney papers, per the Hero, state lhat in the outset the Californian service will be carried out on a temporary service, the steamers calling at Auckland en route for Sydney each trip. A private letter intimates that it was known in commercial circles in Boston, U.S., that Mr Forbes’ circumstances were not so affluent as was generally supposed, and it was believed impossible that he could carry out the contract with the Governments of New South Wales and New Zealand. Mr Sheehan addressed his constituents, and expressed his determination to resist the abolition of the provinces. A vote of confidence was passed. Wellington, October 26. A provincial land sale was held here today. The Waitora sections were all sold at a large advance on the upset price, A section on the left bank of the Wanganui, the upset price of which was 10s per acre, reached £2 to £3. Wairarapa land also sold well. The total amount realised was about £12,000. Only two or three sections of the Paraekaretu block are held.

THIS HATS TELEGRAMS. Nelson, October 27.

Arrived—The Chile, with 217 immigrants, all well. One woman and three children died, and there was one birth on the passage. Dunedin, October 27.

Mr Rattray, late president of the Dunedin cricket club, was yesterday presented by the club with a bat, with an ornamental silver plate and inscription. He leaves for Europe to-morrow. The Revs Messrs O’Leary and Walsh, the new Roman Catholic ministers, are passengers by the Calypso, from London, The second half-yearly report of the National Insurance Company shows that the total receipts for the past half year were £29,160 8s 2d, and the expenses £13,518 18s 6d, leaving a surplus of £15,641 9s 8d ; after a deduction of £7588 19s 8d for loses for the half year, this leaves a balance for the year on the profit, and loss account of £23,086 8s 6d ; of which the directors recommend that £15,000 should be set apart for the formation of a reserve fund, and a dividend of 10 per cent on the paid up capital (£2500), and the balance to be carried forward to next half year. The dividend is payable on November 17th, (FROM OUR DUNEDIN CORRESPONDENT) Dunedin, October 27, The agents for the barque Comet refuse to recognise the tickets for passages got by intending passengers at Lyttelton. There will be a Court case on Thursday next in consequence. The early Green Island train this morning ran into some ballast waggons, carelessly left on the line. The locomotive foreman is dismissed therefore. The passengers were much shaken, but none seriously injured.