TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4196, 1 September 1874, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[PkeSs Telegraph Agency.] 'Alexandra, Monday. Rewi has returned the cattle taken 'from Orakau, less three, which died in the possession of the Natives. Upwards of 100 shares were taken up in a flour mill company at a meeting on Saturday. Napier, Monday. The opera troupe is drawing crowded houses, and will evidently have a very successful season here. : ■ A correspondent, writing from Morsewbod, in the Seventy Mile Bush, says, "People are leaving that settlement in large numbers for Wairarapa." --..■'. Grahamstown, Monday, Dr. Brown, who waji charged with lunacy some time ago, has been fined £5 for a breach of the Medical Practitioners' Act, not being duly registered. The total gold return for the month is reported to be 10,0000 z., of the value of £27,500. ~ " Christchurch, Monday. A thunderstorm on Friday night was not heavy in Christchurch, but reports from the northern parts of the Province show that houses and other property have, been" slightly damaged. No lives were lost. It is rumored on good authority that the Mayor of Christchurch intends; before the expiration term of office (November), to invite the Premier to a banquet. , Lyttelton, Monday. The Cathcart was seventy-nine days from Gravesend. She brings 479 souls. There were five deaths and four birtb.3. -The St. Lawrence wa3 101 days out. She brings 404 souls. There were eight deaths of infants during the passage. The Canterbury, which has arrived from Glasgow, is said to have 400 immigrants. Port Chalmers, Monday. The barque Splendid, which is intended for the whaling trade, has arrived, having had a passage of 128 days from St. Thomas. <; -, , The barque Columbus, from London, has also arrived. -. ■-■■-. ,-i|