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| ANGLO- AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.] Auckland, March 31. The schooner Marion Renny, has arrived from Levuka, Fiji. The captain states that the steamer Macgregor has been floated. H.M.S. Pearl tried to get her off for several days, but was compelled to desist through the warps breaking. Meanwhile 200 tons sugar and a quantity of coal were thrown overboard, there being no means of landing it. The Macgregor floated off on the 7th instant by herself, and was taken to a safe anchorage in Galoa Bay. She has a hole 12ft by 3ft in one of the forward compartments, which is full of water. Otherwise tbe vessel is uninjured, and will be temporarily repaired as circumstances permit, after which she will be taken to Sydney to be completely overhauled. At the nomination of candidates for the Franklin district, Messrs Gootlfellow, Woodward, May, Dargaville, and Troupe, ; were proposed. The show of hands was in favor of Goodfellow. A poll was demanded. The proposed annexation with Fiji is negotiated by the King. The leading chiefs have assembled at Bau. Fresh elections are expected. The Auckland Evening Star's London correspondent states that the free passages to emigrants has resulted in the shipment! of an inferior class of emigrants, and instances . the passengers by the ship Dore I te, which left London on January 21st for Auckland with 340 emis;rants. These, he states, with the exception of single women, are much below the average class. . . Dpnedin, March 30. One hundred and thirty more passengers by the ship Scimitar will be admitted to pratique to-morrow. The journeyman bootmakers last night formed themselves into a trade union. •Wellington, March 31. A Gazette Extraordinary was published this afternoon, further proroguing the meeting of Parliament till the 11th May. The Tribune will appear to-morrow as an eveuing paper, instead of a morning as heretofore. The Woodlark's immigrants were landed to-day. Two young children died while in quarantine.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1765, 1 April 1874, Page 2
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