SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1786, 11 April 1874, Page 3

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

(Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Press Ageney.) . e— — Wellington, Friday. The number of nominated immigrants sent home for .by the' Mongol' is 118.— it the. request of the Government, Messrs Brogden have agreed to work the Hutt line of railway till the end of the present month.—lt is proposed to invite Mr Yogel to a public dinner in Wellington.—The 'Mongol' was detained till eleven o'clock this morning.—The' Mongol' Commission has not resumed its labours. The evidence of the ship's surgeon is all that is now required.—The population of Wellington province is almost thirty thousand, the returns'being all in. There is an increase since 1871 of twenty-five per cent, on the last census. —The West' Coast lines have been down two days, and are not expected to be up for two more.—When the ' Alhambra' was off Bokitika signs of an unusually heavy flood were seen. The river was swollen and. banked up by the high sea. Something similar was seen at Greymouth. New Plymouth, Friday. McGee's racehorse Quicksilver, on the way to Auckland per 'Go-ahead,' got killed.-Sailed: 'Go-ahead' for the Manukau.-The 'Lady Bird' leaves at 4 p.m. for Manukau. 1 Dunedin, Friday. The City Counoil are about to raise the salaries of all its' officers.—ld the Supreme Court, John Blair, Government clerk, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.—At Wm May's (opera, troupe) benefit, Dr, Mewoll presented her, on bohalf of the citizens, with a pair of braoelets, and gold watoh and chain.