SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 277, 26 June 1874, Page 3

SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

\The following appeared, in our issue of Saturday last .- —J Dunedin, Friday, 8.30. Of the Atrato's immigrant,:, the girls have been engaged at from £25 to £36 a year. The ploughmen have been engaged at from £45 to £SO. The deputation for the Sailor's Home waited upon the Superintendent to-day. It is understood that it will be built in Dunedin. The schooner Kate .Brain was sold by auction for £2530. WELLINGTON. The Collector of Customs is about to-hold an official inquiry into the statement made by the sailor Chevert,. which has since been corroborated by others of the crew. It appears, however, that Captain Chevert did report the man's- loss to the ipFeneli Consul* The officers of the barque, say he rounued to immediately, but the man sank like a stone.

The ' Gazette' proclamation announces that telegraphic messages originating in the Colonies of JSew South Wales, Tasmania, and Queensland, may be transmitted through the post for delivery in New Zealand without charging postage. Also, thai letters addressed to any officer in .charge of a telegraph station, and containing no writing other than necessary, directions for transmission,;be also free.

The Provincial Government are about to follow the example of the Otago Government, viz., to build cottages for the immigrants, on account of tiie scarcity of the house accommodation. Kenilworth arrived at Auckland from the South Sea Islands, bringing Samoan passengers. They report the first intelligence of gold discovery at Samoa to have been conveyed ;o residents there. The New Zealand papers two months ago did not even know that Consul Williams took specimens from the Islands. There is no truth whatever in the allowed discovery. The Ofcago is at the Bluff. M£LBOIOiyE. June 13. The Constitution debate is likely to conclude this day. It is probable that the Government will have a majority of ten on the second reading. The three Governments of Kew South Wales, Queensland, and New Zealand, now rate pej- agreement for second cable. ■

the wreck of the Britioh Admiral was sold for £2,150. Arrangements are pi ogresamg to. save tlie cargo. A\ Sydney the debate in reference to the release by the Governor of the bushranger, Gardiner, after several days' continuance, resulted in an equality of votes, the casting vote of the Speaker alone saving the motion of disapprobation being carried. Lady Biwen proceeds to England in September. The Governor follows in December or January, accompanying her back.