LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 1562, 9 April 1872, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, April 6. Mr "Walker's flax mill at Tuakau has been burnt. April 8. London dates of February report that the flax market is active, and that the supplies are inadequate to the demand Sales have been made at from £30 to £32 10s. The Luna takes the mail south in consequence of the detention of the Nevada for repairs to her boilers. There has been a severe gale at Norfolk Island. - Kati Kati Caiup/ April 8. The telegraph line to Auckland will be completed about the end of the month. Napier, April 8. The Nevada's boilers are in such a con--dition that she will not go down the coast, but remain at Auckland for repairs. A man named Millett has met with an extraordinary death. A blood-vessel ia his leg burst, and he bled to death ia tea minutes. . Caledonians, £20, sellers ;- Otago's £1. "V^^LLiiJaTpiT, April 8. A number of the Scandinavian immigrants have proceeded to the Forty-mile Bush.

Tabajsaki, April 8. The Superintendent, in opening the Provincial Council, said that despite . commercial difficulties, the population U was increasing, and progress was being made. Nelson, April 8. Arrived — Tyrol, from London, 128 ! • days out. Greymotjth, April 8. During a terrific gale which raged at Hiidnight, a whirlwind swept through a portion of the town, injuring every building. It struck the following buildings and very seriously injured them : — Joyce's kerosene dep6t, Taylor's, Hoonan's, North's, Dickson's private houses, Police Camp buildings, Watson and Week's large timber yard, Miss Eevell's and Mrs , Hurdley's houses, the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel, and Wilson's boat-building shed. Many other houses are slightly injured, and many verandahs and fences levelled. Cheistchtjech, April 8. Mr Brogden has visited Lyttelton and inspected the new harbor works. Timaetj, April 8. John Clarkson has been apprehended on a charge of smuggling cut tobacco. The barque Jolliba has been seized by the Customs for a breach of the Customs Act. Dttnedtn, April 8. A young man named Janverin, connected with the Occidental Hotel, who went out snipe shooting to Papanui Inlet, was overtaken by the tide, and swam ;until exhausted, when he was drowned. His companion, Harris, escaped by swimming. A new. site for the immigration barracks has been fixed upon at Caversham. '•-•; The Halkboliday Association is a ■ success. The shops were all closed on x Saturday.