LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1997, 31 December 1874, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[ANGLO- AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.]

Bluff, Dec. 30. The Otago left Melbourne on the 23rd, and called at Milford Sound on the 28th, and landed passengers until 2 o'clock, and sailed for Bluff. Had fine weather all the passage. 47 saloon, 24 steerage passengers, and 250 tons cargo for all ports. Sails to-night. . Port Chalmers, Dec, 30. Arrived— Ship Florence, from London, 115 days out; seven passengers. Vire, from Campbell Islands. No transit of Venus observation was made. Sailed — Swatara, for Chathams. Grahamstown, Dec. 30. Thirty diggers with swags left for Ohinemuri with the intention of waiting on the spot until the opening is proclaimed. Samples of coal shown in town to-day are said to be from out of a seam on land between Hikutai and Ohinemuri. Auckland, Dec. 30. The whaler James Arnold has arrived at. the Bay of Islands with 250 barrels of sperm oil, the produce of a seven months cruise, and reports boarding a waterlogged ship on the 6th December last, in latitude 25deg N., longitude 30deg W. The ship was 998 tons register, laden with yellow pine timber. Owing to the fact that the stern was all smashed away, it was impossible to decipher the name. The crew had evidently abandoned the vessel some time before, as all the boats were missing. The vessel was apparently an English one. It is reported that the A.S.N. Company will carry on the San Francisco service six months longer. The Cyphrenes sailed at one o'clock. Mr Andrew goes as mail agent. Arabella Goddard is a passenger. _^