AUCKLAND.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 22, 3 January 1877, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

December 30: Arrived — City of Sydney, with the San Francisco mail, a day before due date. i The Australia also arrived this morning. The Australia was^quarantined, a passenger having died of small-pox yesterday, t. ■ ' The City of Sydney will proceed to Sydney after the mailsffrom Australia are transhipped. The iouthern mails will be sent on by the Taupo to day. The " Cross" and?" ' Herald" announce that m future they will be published as one journal.. The. "Crois" states that the Company lost £8,000, and that there was no possibility of making the papers pay while workmgin opposition. Messrs "Wilson, of the " Herald," and Mr Horton, of the '" Cross " hive entered into partnership. LATBE. Both the mail steame rs proceed on to Sydney after landing tie ITew Zealand mails and passengers a : the Quarantine Station. Arrived — Go-ahead, from Gisborne and Napier. The City of Sydney Baves for Sydney at noon to-morrow^; :anU the Taupo for South at 5 o'clock- to-j^rroV. The race between ifttill's Gladstone and Edgar's Dan, for |4O a side ; half a mile ; weights, 9st, reiSlted ma' win for Dan, by half a length.!. Time— s3 sees. The City of Sydney and^AWtralia arrived together. 1 The Australia reached Kandavau. on the 16th5 and was quarantined. . The .commander not deeming it ■ advisable to transfef the mails, both" vessels came on to JJ ew Zealand together, and reached Auckland this mora'ing, the Australia/ anchoring at the quarantine groundi She ; brings 139 mail bags, 28 cabinj46 steerage passengers, names not , yet known. , Lady Gordon and family/are passengers from

Fiji, also Kerby, the^agent for the Georgia Minstrels. Both\ vessels are awaiting instructions. Thk Australia left 'Frisco on the Bth, AucKJand time,haying had to put back for a day through a collision with a ferry boat. \