TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 236, 12 March 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Press Telegraph Agency.") Auckland, March 11. A meeting of the Auckland Steam Packet Co. to-day, resolved to increase the capital to £150,000 by the issue of 10,000 shares of £lO. Opunaki, March 11. The natives have left Baley's mill and have gone back to their own settlement to prepare for a meeting at Parihaka on the 17th. They say they will not return if Tewhiti does not support the movement. It is believed they only want an excuse to retire gracefully, and will now let the matter drop. Wellington, March 11. The Gazette notifies that the ConsulGeneral for Italy, at Melbourne, has nominated Alexander CracroftWilsO', Esq, to be Consular Agent at Christchurch for his Majesty the King of Italy, and that his Excellency ihe Governor will accept such nomination provisionally. Mr C. VV\ Wright, postmaster at Southbridge, has been appointed Depositary of Duty Stamps; Fortunatus Evelyn Wright, Esq., has been appointed Superintendent for the Industrial Branch of the Government Insurance office at Christchurch, Tenders are advertised to-night for additions to the Wellington Gaol, consisting of twenty new cells and rooms. This will enable the authorities to complete the classification of prisoners. Each class will be provided with baths, &c. No communication will be allowed between the different classes. J. McKenzie's tender has been accepted for the new Union Bank of Australia. The total cost will be about £SOOO ; the material timber. The banking-room will be nearly 40ft square. Plans of the new Provincial Hospital are uow being prepared. The new buildings will cost about £25,000. They are 220 ft long, and extend over 600 ft square, including detached wards for fever and infectious diseases, The material will be brick,

The new General Government Buildings are proceeding vigorously. A large number of piles are already driven. The new buildings will contain 200 rooms and 150 fireplaces. Tbe material is timber, and it will cost about £40,000. The committee of the Chamber of Commerce has elected as secretary Samuel Carroll, secretary of the old Chamber. Mr M. Mosley was presented with a handsome honorarium for his services in resuscitating the defunct Chamber, which was mainly due to his exertions. The amount in round numbers of the money in the savings banks of the colony is as follows :—Auckland, £86,661 ; Thames, £21,543 ; New Plymouth, £13,t14 ; Napier, £26,930 ; Wellington, £102,401 ; Blenheim, £12,762; Greymouth, .£19,308; Hokitika, £13,699 ; Christchurch, £155,547 ; Dunedin, .£190,325 ) Invercargill, £27,226. It is understood that Mr Fox to-day posted his resignation as member for Kangitikei to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The Trust, Loan, and Investment Society paid £I6OO as dividend to-day to share holders. Port Chalmers, March 11. A fall of earth took place this morning on the cutting known as Cameron's on the Moeraki and Port Chalmers railway. One hundred tons are estimated to have slipped. Two men employed at the works were buried by the fall, and only escaped death by a miracle. They were dug out, one unhurt and the other seriously crushed about the chest. Dunedin, March 11. At the Supreme Court sitting in banco this morning, Justice Chapman mentioned that the Government had accepted his resignation as from March 31st. The business was unimportant, and the Court adjourned immediately. The Superintendent has sent a memo to the Waste Lands Board, complaining, in severe terms, of the conduct of the Board in appointing persons to inquire into the sale of certain lands at Reidston. The burden of the complaint was that the Board had, without consulting the Government, attempted to examine Government officers in a matter reflecting on their conduct. The Government decline to allow their officers to be examined. The Chief Commissioner remarked that he thought the inquiry would not result in any reflection on the officers, but in a different way of conducting the land sales. At a Government land sale of twenty-five sections in Lee's Stream Hundred yesterday only five sections were sold at the upset prices and a little over. The land is hilly. WRECK OP THE GOTHENBURG. The following are detailed particulars of the disaster to the Gothenburg:— Brisbane, Friday. The survivors from the Gothenburg, wrecked on 24th February on the Barrier Reef, have landed at Port Denison. The names are J. Griffith, Richard Bilts, Geo. Cover, R. Brazel, J. Marks, W. Fack, J. Reynolds, David Wylie, Salve Ner Magni, Wm Burns, Joseph Hudson, Hy. Nelson. The above are part of the crew. Passengers saved are Wm. Thomas, Wm. Romers, James J. Campbell, S. Andrews, J. Kranger, T. Cockburn, P. J. Hogan, J. Cleland, W. Roberts, J. Fitzgerald, D. Harris. The passengers drowned are Judge Wearing, Mr Pelham, Associate ; Whitby, Crown solicitor ; Dr Milner, wife, and family; Mrs Prier and family, W. Durand Mackay, Cartwright and son, W. Floyd, W. Easter, Mr Hart and wife, Mr Nation, wife, and child, Mrs Vigor, Mr Hunt and wife, Mr and Mrs Cox and family, Mr Shoobridge, R. McKnight, S. Lesser, J, Rung, J. Pring Johns, J. McCarthy, J. Mitchell Wells (editor Northern Territory Times), T. Sims, Cameron, Radford, W. Farhall, J. Kean, William Goulder and son, W. Lieden, Mackie, Stone, C. Peters, C. Cleve, J. Crain, H. Hassell, Graham, H. Hearce, Thomson, Blades, Glenister, C. Fry, J. Newcombe, McCallum, Fogarty, C. Mus> grave, J. Griffiths, Mackay, Ross, and others whose names are not remembered. There is a boat containing aix or seven persons from the wreck not picked up yet. The names of them are not known, A boat is in search of them still. The following had just been received from the harbormaster at Port Denison:—" All the hands are known to be drowned except twenty-two brought in here, and about seven men who drifted away in the lifeboat. The Bunyip has searched the islands to the leeward seeking the missing boat, but unsuccessfully. She has now gone towards the wreck. The other boats whicK went in search have returned unsuccessful. The following has been received via Rockhampton from Mackay;—" The boata picked up fifteen more of the Gothenburg's people, and brought them in yesterday. The Bunyip has been sent from Townsville. There are several, some men said, to be adrift somewhere in a damaged lifeboat, and three on Holborn Island. These latter will be brought on to-day. It is feared that few, if any more, will be heard of." The Townsville agent sends the following: —•' I have just come into Port Denison in the steamer Bunyip, chartered by the Government to search for the survivors from the wreck of the steamer Gothenburg. We picked up th»ee men off Holborn Island. They report that the Gothenburg struck the reef when under all sail and full steam; The captain lightened the ship forward by filling casks. She swung off, and came broadside on to the reef. Two boats were lowered with four men in each; but the sea was too heavy to keep them alongside, and they went astern, where they broke adrift and reached Holborn Island, where they were found The four men who had been driven away in the port quarter boat, which was smashed, have lived on seabirds' eggs and shellfish. All then went off towards Bowen except three—J. J. Fitzgerald, David Wylie, and William Roberts." The vessel finally settled down in three fathoms of water. The two quarter bcat« were capsized by a rush of passengers. The last time the lifeboat was seen she was driven to the east of the reef. Her stern was split and some men in her. Fourteen men were clinging to the masts till Friday, when they succeeded in righting one of the capsized boats, and the men are now rescued by the Bunyip. There is no news yet of the rest. All the officers, stewards, and engineers are supposed to be lost. The Adelaide mail-bag is lost, but the Sydney mail is saved. Adelaide, Friday. Mr Todd interrogated Burns, one of the men rescued from the Gothenburg, by telegraph this morning. He states that there was no confusion on board, and that everything was done in order. Dp to 11 p.m. the captain entertained hopes of getting the steamer off, but after 11 preparations were made to supply the boats with provisions,

tarpaulins, &c. No attempt was made to construct a raft. The chief mate of the Leichardt says that when they visited the wreck everything betokened that the passengers and crew had left in the boats. *