SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1908, 2 December 1874, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Press Agency.)' • Auckland, Tuesday, 5 4 p.m. Notwithstanding the fresh case of scarlet fever at the quarantine station, the single men and women will be brought up to-morrow in the 'Pretty Jane.*—The Public Works Department have intimated to the Farbour Board that they cannot permit- the substitution of a hydraulic lift for a dock under the Loan Act. £50,000 of debentures of the dock loan have been sent to Sydney, the rereports from there favouring the possibility of negotiating it.—Cecilia Allen's confession indicates that the girl possessed a monomania for fire raising. She attempted several fires in Auckland Bome time ago, but was stopped by neighbours. —Arrived: The s.s.' Taranaki' from the South with the Suez mail.—Thomas White, while bathing at the Solid Rock Bath, met with a serious accident. He was diving from a spring-board, and struck his head on the bottom of the bath. He was lifted out of the water bleeding at the head and injured in his back. He was conveyed to the Provincial Hospital.—Operations at the Government training ship at Kohimarama were commenced to-day. Several children from the Neglected Children's Home were placed on board. Others will be obtained from the benevolent institutions in various parts of the colony. The training vessel, the 'Southern Cross,' will make a cruise along the coast at intervals. Coeojiandeli, Tuesday. The Plutus battery will be finished at the end of the week. The Who'd-have-thought-it will crush 10 tons at the Nil Desperandum on Thursday. The Harbour Yiew tributers will crush 15 tons this .week. The report of the East London having cut a golden leader on Paul's' Creek road is not true.