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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 282, 31 July 1874, Page 3

We are often puzzled to decipher the telegrams as supplied us from the Telegraph Agency. This morning one comes about a schooner being wrecked in the south Seas, but. whether her name was Tanner or whether the vessel was wrecked at Tanna Island, is a matter of speculation. However, we give the latter construction the benefit of the doubt. Newspaper writers are not always spoken of in the best of terms by the compositors for their accomplishments in the art of caligraphy, but we... immagine telegraph clerks would meet with very rough treatment at the hands of the '* compos." if those worthies had to interpret the meaning of some of their electric conundrums —' Wellington Tribune.' India telegraphic reports relative to growing crops are favorable. A " special" to the ' Times' says the Government continue to furnish assistance to 500,000 natives. There can be no crop in Testool until December, and the Government admits that some people may die before assistance reaches them.