LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1420, 18 February 1873, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, Feb. 17. The ship Charlotte Gladstone will be admitted to pratique on Wednesday. The sick and convalescent have been shifted to the Quarantine Island. During the passage sixty cases of sickness, mostly typhoid, occurred. Mr Bills has brought out 35 rooks, in excellent condition, for the Canterbury society. No other particulars are getable. The Board of Health calls attention to the incomplete state of the buildings on the Quarantine Island. The Scottish and City Guards fired against the Napier Club and Westland Rifles. Scottish v. Westland mado 403; Guards, 381. Over 8000 shares in the new Bank are applied for in Dunedin. Wellington, Feb. 17. The Provincial Government's proposals for, an alteration of the Hutt Railway, involving an extra expense of upwards of L 20,000 is declined by the Government. The Public Works Department is preparing large topographical and geological maps of the Colony for tbe»Vienna Exhibition. Proposals are made by Mr O'Neill for laying tramways through the city. The Chief Surveyors of all Provinces are invited by the Government to meet here in April to consider the state of the surveys of the Colony. A meeting of the Grey Coal Company was held to-day, when Provisional Directors were elected. Lyttelton, Feb. 17. Arrived — Glen Moss, from Mauritius, with sugar ; part of the cargo is for here and part for Nelson. Auckland, Feb. 17. A great sensation was created here by the Gross publishing an imaginary account of an attack on Auckland by a Russian ironclad. New Plymouth, Feb. 17. The binnacle lamp of a large vessel has been found on the beach.