LATEST TELEGRAMS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 74, 27 March 1877, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS

[Press Aoencv.] INTERPROVINCIAL. Onehunga, Monday. Sailed: Wellington, for New Plymouth, at 3-55 p.m. Passengers for Nehon : Messrs Rushforth, Kyle, M'Kenzie, Madwell, Small*; shaw, aud Sheridan. Auckland, Monday. The steamer Go-Ahead has gone round the East Coast with boiliug-down machinery to carry out a Government contract for tbe destruction of scabby sheep. The German war-ship Augusta bas left for Samoa. Tuesday. The Rotorua has arrived from Sydney, which she left on the 21st inst. The Rotorua goes South immediately after the arrival of the English mail. Ltttelton, Monday. Sailed: Maori, for Nelson, at 3-30 pm. Passenger: Mr W. Penny. '6 , „ Grahamstown, Tuesday. The Moanatiri yield . turned out 6164 Ounces of pelted gold from five cwt of" specimens yesterday. This morning 15 cwt : -were broken .down, one stone, weighing abbot 501bs, being>euormously rich, and estimated•to be about half gold. Shares are rising, i ' _. •„-. i- •• Dusedin^ Tuesday. ,:.: - A large and influential 'deputation waited upon the-Mayor and Mr Reid this morning :with reference, to the shig;. Gloucester. Greatdissatisfaction ds expressed at the action of the Government in the matter, and of the proposal to land the Chinamen on the Quaran•tine^lsland. - The Mayor, said if this ' was .done small pox was sure r to be introduced the colony. Mr Reid. promised to_take ' the off 'medical men in the 'matter. \ •"*. >'■ Wellingto^ Monday. .- Dr Hector has received a letter from Dr Parr, of Christchurch, informing bim that all the. white fish have been' lost by being washed through the openings in the netting aud carried away by the stream. The netting •is the same as. that used for hatching out the salmon trout, but as the white fish ova is .much smaller than trout ova it washed -through. , The barque Herman, just arrived from New York, brings back from Philadelphia all of the New Zealand exhibits except such as were exchanged for other articles She also brings a number of show cases of American articles, which were fitted up iv America by order of Dr Hector. Christchoucii, Tuesday. Captain Petherbridge, who for a long time has been marine superintendent in this colony for Shaw, Saville, and Co.; and who is now returning to England permanently, has been presented by the merchants pf Canterbury with a purse of sovereigns to purchase plate with when in England. The collections iv St Andrew's Presby^ terian Church ou Sunday, in aid of the building fund, realised ,£26. T The Yeomanry Cavalry commence six days 1 encampment and drill on Saturday next. ' Port Chalmers, Tuesday. Sailed: The Albion Company's ship Marlborough, for London, with 3o passengers and a cargo valued at £106,436.