TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 370, 19 August 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Press Telegraph Agency.') ♦ THIS DAY’S TELEGItAMS. Wellington, August 19. Arrived—The Wellington from Lyttelton. [Press Agency.] Auckland, August 18. Arrived Allumbagh. She brings 400 immigrants, fourteen children, and two adults died from measles and diarrhoea. All well on board now. Bhe reports passing an iron ship dismasted and deserted in latitude 26deg, 29min south ; longitude Bldeg, 18miu. Passed close enough to see that fire had been the cause of her abandonment. Her stem was too much charred to read the name. The Allumbagh made the voyage in 100 days. A man named Jacob Jones, employed on a ballast train of the Auckland and Mercer railway, was killed on the line to-day. He was seated on the ballast truck coming down an incline from the gravel pits when he fell off the truck, the wheels passing over the body. It laid bare his heart, and crushed and scattered his brains about. Wellington, August 18 The Agent-General, under date August 7th, telegraphs following shipment of emigrants during July : —Empire, with 343 for Auckland ; Adamant, with 267 for Bluff; Zealaudia and Auckland, with 669 for Port Chalmers ; Himalaya, with 182 for Lyttelton ; Howrah, with 303 for Wellington. Mr F. A. Krull, German Consul, has been appointed Companion of the Order of the Inn Crown —a Prussian order. Port Chalmers, Aug. 18. The s.s. Phoebe having made the passage from Onehunga to Port Chalmers in three days eighteen hours, including fifteen hours detention, the ' directors > of,. the N.Z.S.S. Co telegraphed to Captain Worsp an expression of their satisfaction, and presented him with a handsome pair of binocular glasses.