TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1022, 12 January 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(FROM oun OWN CORIIKSPONDENTS)

Auckland, January 11. The ’Frisco Mail Steamer Zealandia arrived *t Auckland yesterday, and has been quarantined, having.smallpox on board. It is expected that the Gisborne portion of tho mail will reach its destination on Friday by Te Anau. TWO QASES OF SMALLPOX ON BOARD. There are two cases of smallpox on the Zealandia. They broke out after leaving Honolulu, one on the 3rd, and other on the 7th instant; both sufferers are steerage passengers. They are doing well. A steerage passenger named Kerr, for Adelaide, died yesterday morning, of coAsumption. The Auckland cargo will be transferred to to the schooner that lies been sent down with coal, and Auckland passengers will be sent into quarantine. The Government is attacked by the bulk of the newspapers for its continued inattention to the representation made by the postal authorities and the public for the better fumigating appliances here. Although the mail steamer arrived at noon yesterday, the fumigation will, probably, not he completed till midnight to-night. Steamers have been delayed for the Southern mail. Great public inconvenience and loss is suffered throughout the Colony which might have been avoided by a trifling expenditure upon a proper smokehouse. When the English mail steamer was last quarantined, two clear days elapsed before the mails were delivered in Auckland, yet no attention was paid to the representations then made to the Government about the inadequacy of the fumigating facilities. DIRECT STEAM SERVICE TO NEW ZEALAND. Mr Milts, the Manager of the Union Steam Shipping Company, was met at Venice by Mr Darling, the Company’s Superintending Engineer. When the mail left London, Mr Mills was conducting enquiries re direct steam service to New Zealand; and Messrs Denny and. C 0.,. were preparing plans to be submitted to the London Directors, while Mr Mills was there.

The Manipouri leaves at the end of February. t At the half-yearly meeting of the New Zealand Insurance Company the Directors report showed the amount brought forward from last year to be £9,725 ; net premium, £78,563 ; interest and rents, £11,146; expenses, £22,477; losses, £52,855 ; and balance, £24,102. A dividend of 15 per cent will be declared, absorbing £1500(1

Reefton, January 11. A fire broke out at 5 o’clock this njorning in an unoccupied building adjoining Kater’s Exchange Hotel, Broadway. The fire got a good hold of the building, and extended to the . Exchange Hotel, and with the latter was burnt to the ground, together with all the contents, the occupants of the Exchange Hotel losing everything. Wellington, Jan. 11. The Secretary of the Post Office states that, the Health Officer in Auckland has ordered that every letter by the Zealandia shall be separately fumigated. Her mail consists of about 25,000 letters. Officers will be kept continually at work with the view of despatching as many of the southern letters as possible by the Penguin which leaves Onehunga at 11 o’clock this morning via Nelson, and is expected to arrive here on Friday. The Auckland mails will not be fumigated until the southern letters are done, and it is hoped that the whole of the letters may be ready for the Penguin. If not, they will be sent by the Te Anau, leaving Auckland on Thursday, and the newspapers will probably come by the same vessel. The Magisterial enquiry into circum stances connected with the Wakatu striking on Torris rock is proceeding. Opunake, Jan. 11. Two abandoned stations, Kaikahi ■and Ngakunukunui, were to-day occupied by the constabulary .for road making purposes, and to facilitate settlement ■ on lands about being opened.