SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1880, 1 August 1874, Page 2

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

(Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Press Agency.) j Wellington, Friday, 8 p.m. ' Sailed: The mail steamer 'Cy phrenes' at 4 o'clock for Auckland.—Applications fop shares in the Co-operative Cattle Dealing Butchering Society have already beea made for no fewer than 1,287.—-The New Zealand Steam Company's steamers were put up at auction at noon, in one lot. John Martin started an independent bid of £55,000. There was no other, and tho company bought them in at £75,000. LyiTELTON, Friday, 8 p.m. Arrived: The ship 'Syrene,' frojp London. Napier, Friday, 7.50 p.m. A seam of lignite 10 feet thick, of good quality, has been discovered in Forty-mile Hush by the General Government survey;, party. The spot is about 30 miles from Allardice's store, towards the main road from the Ruahine rango. , Bluff, Friday, 7.15 p.m. A survey of the brig ' Carl' reported that 35 feet of her keel was broken from the stern, and that the water flows in and out of her hold. Considerable damage has been done. It is recommended to be sold for the benefit of all concerned. » New Plymouth,- Friday. An inquiry into the wreck of the p.s. 'Paterson' concluded yesterday. The Court handed back to the officers of the 'Paterson' and tho•'Eliza Mary' their certificates, and intimated that judgment would be given on Thursday next.—A second comet 'was visible at sunset last evening in a westerly direction, the tail of which was about two degroes in length. —A rata tree twenty-two feet in diameter has been found on the road at the baok of the mountain, about fourteen milos front