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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 121, 7 June 1876, Page 3

A Medical Society has been formed at Oamaiu, and appointed its officers. Scarlet fever has been discovered in the Maori hostelry at Auckland. Steps for the isolation of those attacked,, or likely to he attacked have been promptly taken. As a practical illustration of the force of the wind at Wellington, the New Zealand Times mentions that last week a goodly sized ship’s boat was blown right off the Reclaimed Land into the harbor. It cost the owner ss. salvage to have it restored to him. A-* gentleman informs us (says the Lyttelton Times) that he placed a telegram in the Christchurch Telegraph-office at 3.10 p.m., and it was received in Hull, Yorkshire, at 7.7 a.m. next day, and found on the office table of the addressee when ho went to his place of business at 10 a.m. The European Mail says : —“ It will bo interesting to Australians to hear that the Brotherly Love, the vessel on board which the great navigator, Captain Cook, served his time as a ship’s apprentice and obtained Ins certificate as mate, is now afloat and trading on the Tyne, having just left South Shields for the Baltic. When we consider it was in the year 1748 that Cook learned his first lessons of seamanship on board the Brotherly Love, and that the vessel is still sound in her timbers, it would bo a gracious act on the part of the British nation to preserve this fine old cnxft as a grand memento of ®ne of her early explorers.”