LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1383, 6 January 1873, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

• [NEW ZEALAND PEESS ASSOCIATION.^ Weliinton, Jan. 4. Jonas Woodward is gazetted Pu'plic Trustee. Driver has ceased to be American Consul at Dunedin. At the Secretary of State's request, Governor Bowen will assume the Governorship of Victoria early in March. Chief Justice Arney will administer affairs here. Auckland, Jan. 4. TheTararu Hotel was nearly burned through the upsetting of a kerosene lamp. Several ladies' dresses ignited. The fire was extinguished before much damage was done. The potato crop is a failure owing to the drought. The cutter Victoria, owned by Anthony Martin, with a cargo of lire wood, while ! running up the harbor this uiorninsr, struck on the shoal where the Beau Rock lighthouse i 3 built. While running- j | ashore the vessel Bunk. The crew escaped ■ in the boat. , The son of Wm. Byre, eight years old, received sunstroke., and is dead. The Japanese troupe and Charles's D.orama of the Franco Prussian War closed last I'ag'ht. They intend leaving ; Auckland. In the Acclimatisation Society's garden, china an«d assana tea plants are growing: in the, »>pen air vigorously. Some gentlemen intend to form a horticultural society at the Thames. Chiarini's Circus was an immense success, the pavilion densely crowded. | January 5, 5 p.m. A great thuuderstorm passed over the> city this morning. It began at eleven, and ended at four. A succession of thunderclouds burst over the city, and. the peals were terrific. The rain fall was not enough, the groand being parched.