SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1870, 6 October 1874, Page 3

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS

(Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Press Agency.) .—<► Wellington, Monday, 7,55 p.m. Mr Foster, chemist, while driving aloDg the Ngauranga road to-day, was run into by a trap. He had his lege badly crushed, which was afterwards amputated.—Mrs Vogel and family will proceed by the ' Otago' on her next trip to Melbourne.—The New Zealand Steam Shipping Company have decided not to break up their fleet of steamers. They have sent home for specifications and estimates for putting new compound engines into the 'Taranaki' and ' Wellington,' but if the work can be done reasonably in this colony, they will have it done here. Christchurch, Monday, 5.1 p.m. Mr De Bourbell reports the sharemar-kefc-buyers: National Insurance, 20a Cd; National Bank, 80j ; South British lusur - ance, 50s; Standard Insurance, 10s; Colonial Bank, 13s. Sellers: National Insurance, 31s; National Bank, 80s; British, 525; Shipping Co., 10s; Standard Insurance, 10s 6'd; Colonial Bank, 15s. — The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court opened this morning withsaventeen cases. All are ordinary ones, except three against Captain Crawford, of the ship ' Cafchcart,' for -shooting two seamen during a disturbance on the voyage out. The only case heard to-day was for forgery and uttering against Thomas Thomson, who was sentenced to one year's hard labour.—The Press this morning contains the following paragraph :—The correspondent who sent us a communication lately describing the capture of two moas has forwarded another letter, which reports the birds have escaped. That is just what we expected, to hear. Mr E. M. M. Smith may find it very easy to catch moas somewhere near Browning's Pass, but the difficulty is to bring them to Christchurch or to some inhabited region, and we feel pretty sure he will never succeed in accomplishing that.

Littblton, Monday, 7.45 p.m.

Sailed yesterday, the ' Auriga,' for London, with 4<Jt3 bales of wool, 333 of flax, 1,558 cases of meats, 21 of skins, 2,126 sacks, 300 casks of tallow and pelts, and 170jpackages sundries. Dunedin, Monday. Captain Duncan and the chief officer of tho 'Christian McAusland' were assaulted by four seamen while crossing tho equator. The passengers prevented a mutiny. The mutineers will be given into custody.—Dodd, the second male of the ' Oneco,' was charged on Saturday, at Port Chalmers, with the murder of ono of tho seamen on the passage from New York. The charge was adjourned till Thursday.—Tho criminal session commenced to-day—eight prisoners for trial. Pour Uhalmebs, Monday.

The ' Christian McAusland was towed in on Saturday. She has 35G souls, equal to 283| adults on board. There were seven'deaths on the way—nil children— also three births. One seaman died from consumption; one was lost overboard; he fell from tho main royal yard, the ship going thirteen knots. Tho disoasos wore only whooping oough and chicken pos,