SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1785, 10 April 1874, Page 3

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

(Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Press Ageney.) Wellington, Thursday. Tenders are invited for the purchase of £50,000 worth of New Zealand Government debentures, under the Westland Loan Act, 1873,—The three vessels which' dragged ashore are all afloat again, undamaged.— Ihe s.s. ' Mongol' sails to-night,—The Hon, J„ D. Ormond has been appointed Government Agent at the Napier and Wairoa Confiscated Lands Commission.-"Henry Driver's appointment as Commercial Agent for the United States, at the Bay of Islands, has been approved of by the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Chbistohuboh, Thursday. In the Supreme Court the oalendar shows an average number of cases, and includes laroeny, forgery,_ perjury, bigamy, concealment of birth.—John Wilmsher, late surgeon of the ship 'Isle of the South,' was convicted of larceny as a bailey during the voyage out. Sentence deferred.—The Maori meeting at Kaiapoi is still going, on. No decision has been arrived at.—Francis Walstab, son of a Melbourne auctioneer, has been committed for trial on three charges of obtaining money under false pretences. He was arrested at Oamaru while en route ..for Melbourne by the s.s.' Albion.'

Dunedin, Thursday. : In the Supreme Court to-day John Blair, a Government clerk, charged with stealing £100, the property of the Government, pleaded guilty; sentence was deferred.—The trial of Long, the murderer, has been fixed for the 22nd instant,—A dividend of £2 10s per share was received by the dan Fr'ancidco mail for the proprietors of the Bank of Otago.—A passenger brought an action against the agents of the ' Surat' yesterday to recover the value of lost luggage, but was nonsuited.

Napieb, Thursday. The population of the province is 9,236, The town of Napier shows 3,648. There has been an increase under, all heads since the last census of about 50 per cent, 43 nominations were sent by the last mail.

< Nelson, Thursday. The weights for the Nelson Jockey Club Handicap have been published as followsYatterina, Bst 81b; Calumny, Bst 81b; Kakapo, Bst 21b; Parawhenua, Bst; Castaway, 7st 101b; Dead Shot, 7st 101b; Casts,not, 6st7lb.