STAR TELEGRAMS

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1813, 24 October 1874, Page 3

STAR TELEGRAMS

PER 'ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPH ACENCY.

Neison, This day. There was a crowded meeting at the Provincial Hall last night to discuss the working of the Executive Act and the action of the present Government. Eesolutions in favor of the Government were passed almost unanimously. Owing to the Governor not having refused his sanction within the prescribed time to the Nelson Loan Bill for borrowing £30,000 for harbor works, the Bill has become law. Wellington, This day. Sir Donald McLean goes by the Luna for Napier at noon; "also a batch of the Native Contingent. , The Government has received per Tararua a telegram from the AgentGeneral dated the 7th October, which advises that the following immigrant ships sailed during September:—Cospatrick, for Auckland, with 240 souls ; Geraldine Paget, for Canterbury, with 390; Clarence, fo7 Napier, with 340; Carnatic.for Marlborough, with 290; Crusader, for Canterbury, with 370; Dilbaree, for Auckland, with 370; Margaret Galbraith, for Otago, with 130; and the Nelson, for Otago, with 320. Poet Chalmeks, This day. Arrived —Jessie Readman, from Glas gow, with 267? statute adults. All well. The whaling barque Splendid starts on her first cruise to-morrow. a Auckland, This day. The schooner Fiery Cross arrived this morning 26 days from Napier. She left on the 28th September, and had gales from the start. On the: 6th instant a tremendoua squall hove the vessel on her beam ends; next day the rudder was carried away, the stock breaking in half, leavinJ||the vessel helpless in a heavy cross 'lea. Managed to heave to. For ten days drifted to leeward at an average of three knots per hour.' Made several attempts to ship now rudder but did not succeed. On the gale abating about the 17th rigged temporary steering apparatus ; by this time food ran short, although the crew had been on short allowance nearly all the time. She passed a full rigged ship, but could not make her answer signals. On the Bth she spoke the East Lothian, and obtained provisions. The meg, and officers were by this time weak and exhausted. The vessel is much strained. She bore up for Auckland, not being able to beat up to Tairua, where she'was bound. i