TELEGRAMS.
SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
(from the press agency.) WELLINGTON. December 3. Mrs. James Griffin, better known as Miss Cassey Matthews, once a popular actress, and who has been in ill-health here for some time past, died in the Hospital yesterday. December 4. The following ships have left British ports for New Zealand : —Opawa, from Plymouth for Lyttelton, September 27, with 290 immigrants ; Renfrewshire, from Plymouth, for Napier, September 20, witli 299 do. ; Canterbury, from Glasgow for Otago, with 202 do. ; Apelles, from Glasgow, October 10, for Auckland, with 248 souls. The following also were to have sailed with immigrants, but the number in each ship are not given : Oamaru, from Glasgow for Bluii', about (Jet 20 ; Hereford, from Plymouth for Lyttelton, about October 19 ; Gainsborough, from Plymouth for Nelson and Wellington, October 24 ; Wanganui, from Plymouth for Lyttelton, October 31 ; ship's name unknown, from Plymouth for Otago, about November 9 ; do. do., for Lyttelton, November 16 ; and the Wellington, from Glasgow for Otago, about November 21. ASH BURTON. December 3. At the special meeting of the Ashburton County Council to-day, the members unanimously resolved to bring the Act into operation. <» HOKITIKA. December 3. James Morris, tilias Smith, pleaded guilty to the larceny of a saddle and bridle, and was sentenced by the District Court to 18 months' imprisonment. — Annie Spencer, for unlawfully wounding, was sentenced to four months. The Hon. A. Bonar was presented by the Mayor, at a public meeting in the Town Hall, with a silver epergne, valued at two hundred guineas, from the inhabitants of Westland in recognition of his long and valuable public services. PORT CHALMERS. December 3. Sailed—The Albion Company's siiip Invercargill, for London, with .1(5 passengers, and the following cargo : —4IS2 bales wool, 3852 cases of preserved meats, 12 casks tallow, 15 bales rabbit skins, 21 bags bones, 25 kegs butter, 229 sacks wheat, 4 boxes gold.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 499, 4 December 1877, Page 2
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312TELEGRAMS. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 499, 4 December 1877, Page 2
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