SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1851, 7 September 1874, Page 3

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

(Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Press,! Agency.)

New Plymouth, Saturday, G. 50 p.m.

The acceptance of a seat in tho Ministry by Major Atkinson is well received and generally approved of here.—Tho trout ova has hatched, and tho fish are lively, Gbeyjioum, Saturday, 5,55 p.m. The harbour works deputation waited upon the Government to-day, and received a written reply from the Minister for Works to the effect that the Government intended to carry out such works as may bo necessary for the improvement of the port and to facilitate the shipment of coal. The additional vote of £10,000, taken during last session, is to be spent during the nest twelve months in carrying out plans already decided upon. The Government will give the closest attention to the subject, so that they may be jn a position, before next session, to ascertain to what extent it will bo desirable, and then to ask for a further grant.

Poet Chumus, Saturday.

The 'Parsee,' ship, from Glasgow, briugs 4M souls, equal to 332§ statute adults, who are the first batch of Mr James Adams' selection. The ship had a great deal of trouble on the voyage— about 200 cases of measles, besides diarrhoea and other troubles commenced fourteen days after leaving. There were fourteen deaths, two of which were adults, and three births. The ship' Tweed' was towed into harbour last night. She brings 639 souls, equal to statute adults. Sho had thirteen deaths. The diseases were—diarrhoea, measles, brain fever, convulsions, consumption, whooping cough, which are all now bad. Sue is a splendid ship, and was only 70 days from port to port.