TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 337, 12 July 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Press Telegraph Agency.) New Plymouth, July 11. Re the wreck of the Paterson, Messrs Billing have been fined £SO per day for twelve days, for allowing the wreck to remain in the Waitara. The defendants gave notice of appeal to the Supreme Court. Wellington, July 11. Arrived—Easby and Wellington, from Southern ports ; William Frimg, barque, from London, with general merchandise ; ship LammersLagher, from Hamburg, with 400 German immigrants, all well. She has been boarded by the health officers. The voyage occupied 102 days ; there was one death and five births on the voyage. Ship Collingvvood, from London, making the voyage in 8G days ; eighty-four from pilot to pilot. She brings 268 immigrants. There oas been a great deal of sickness throughout the voyage from typhoid fever, measles, diphtheria, and scarlatina. Twenty deaths occurred ; fifty are still in the hospital. The doctor has not long recovered from an attack of fever, and the second mate is still ill with it. There was one suicide on the voyage. The vessel is in quarantine. It is announced that a glue factory is about to be established near the Hutl-, nnd that more than one-third of the capital has been already subscribed. OAMArtj, July 11. The seven mile walking match between Edwards and Macgregor of Dunedin and •Salterly of Oamaru, the former giving the latter 400 yards, resulted as follows:—In the first fifteen laps Edwards collared his man, and then Macgregor spurted, and went ahead in two laps about fifty yards. From thence to the last mile the match was a close one. Edwards thence showed magnificent speed, and eventually won by about 100 yards, Time—l hour 7 min..

DUNEDIN, July 11. The little boy Scott has accomplished the task of walking 100 miles within twentyfour hours, and also beaten Edwards for time, viz., five minutes under the twentyfour hours. He did this by eleven minutes and a half. The theatre was crowded, and the excitement was immense, and lots of money changed hands. The boy finiphed with a splendid spurt, completing tho last mile in eleven minutn and a half. The result gave great satisfaction, all sympathy being with the boy. He was carried shoulder high. There were 550 applications for land on the Heriot Hundred, against the opening of which the Supreme Court has issued an injunction. THIS DAY'S TELEGRAMS. Wellington, July 12. ■ Arrived this morning, the Hawea from the North. She sails South at 4 p.m. The Ladybird sails South about the same time. Sailed, at 1.20 p.m., the Easby, for Newcastle, full of passengers. She was obliged to refuse a number here owing to insufficient accommodation. She takes £120,000 in sovs., shipped by the Bank of New South Wales for Sydney. [FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, July 10. Miss May Howard was a passenger to San Francisco per Mikado. The Highway Board elections are the sole absorbing topic. A suburban meeting fought over the election of trustees from seven o'clock last night till six this morning.