TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 149, 25 November 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

([Per Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph Agency .) Guahamstown, November 24. The Queen of Beauty has declared a dividend of one hundred and seventy pounds per full share out of the last fortnight’s yield. Wellington, November 24. There are now in the immigration depot) nine families, equal to thirty adults, receiving Government rations, chiefly through inability from ill-health to accept work; six families whose heads have found work, and who have t'ie prospect of being able very soon to find house accommodation; ten families,

the heads of which have, fou.id work, hut are without any immediate prospect of being able to find house room elsewhere. ■ THIS DAY'S TEL EG DAMS. Auckland, November 25. The Fernclale has sailed for London. Value of cargo, £20,411, including £17,378 worth of wool. Tauranga, November 25. Mr Kelly received a unanimous vote of confidence at Opotiki. He denounced provincialism. He will address his Tauranga constituents to-morrow night. Napier, November 25. The inquiry into alleged cruelty by the Captain of the Bedington, to an immigrant girl, is concluded. The result will not be made public as yet. A civil action for damages will probably be brought by the girl. The captain is also said to contemplate legal proceedings. On his side the evidence is said to be contradictory. The girl states that she refused to give up a pocket-book containing a memorandum of incidents on the voyage, and concealed it about her person, and that she was seized, tied up, and stripped, when the book was taken from her. All the immigrants ex Bedington are engaged. Four of the sailors of the same ship were sent to gaol for a month for refusing to work. They pleaded guilty, but complained of bad treatment and insufficient food, but the charges were not proved. Wellington, November 25. In commenting upon the statistics for 1873, just issued, the Times points out that the Government paid the passages, wholly or in part, of 8754 immigrants without colonial experience, 1509 of them children, during 1873; but that for the same period 4761 persons, a large proportion being experienced colonists, left the colony. It attributes the result partly to bad land and mining laws. The estimated population on December 31st, 1873, was 295,946.