TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 468, 29 October 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from the press agency.) WELLINGTON. October 29. All the Zealandia's passengers are in excellent health, and ashore at the quarantine station. The crew remain on board, and all of them are well and at work. The services of the doctor is not deemed necessary, but the vessel will have to remain the regular time in quarantine—about a fortnight yet. It is understood that the division on the. no-confidence motion will be taken some time to-night. Parties are sanguine of winning by a small majority of one or two. Over LIOOO are now collected here towards the Indian Famine Relief Fund, L9OO being lodged in the New Zealand and Union Banks. Subscriptions are still coming in. * TAURANGA. October 29. Subscriptions in aid of the Indian Relief Fund are coming in satisfactorily.

HOKITIKA. October 27. Mr. Peter Purcell, a member of the Grey County Council, committed suicide by hanging himself in his store this morning. No cause is known. Mr. Purcell was universally respected.

LYTTELTON. October 29. Captain Renner, of the Hannah Barrett, reports that, at 4 p.m. on Friday, when about 15 miles south of Kaikoura, and some seven miles off the mouth of the Conway river, he passed a derelict vessel. On bearing down, he found it to be the schooner Clan Alpine, of Auckland, floating with her stern eight or ten feet out of the water, almost perpendicularly. The Clan Alpine, Captain James Smart, left here for Hokitika, on Tuesday, with a cargo of potatoes, bacon, cheese, and other produce. She was owned by Messrs. J. M'Galium and Co., Auckland. There were three hands on board besides the captain, all young men. The mate was a native of Port Glasgow. It is feared that all hands are lost.