PER ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1868, 29 December 1874, Page 2

PER ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.

. „. '„ AjTCKLA^p r . This day^. ' Thomas' Hervey, steward -of tiie Eosario, has beer, fined £100 for smuggling tobaccoj and, which Cdiileyj a waterlaan, was convicted for having in his possessidh. Conley's wife informed. . j . Welpngton, Monday/ '* ' Messfa MicMecldiin ar-d Blackwood have formally intimated to the Victorian Gbvfernmtnt that -they will riot £ive Sullivan a passage in one of their steamers. .•■'-*■:; >'■■' '■^'■' ■ "• ''~: ■ - This day. A jiidgeshipjh New Zealand has been offeretl to Mr Higginbotham of-Victoria* It is not thought likdy he will accept it. It is reported that the Customs authorities will proceed against a steam company for carrying too many excursionists yesterday. ; „ ...... Poet Chalmees, Monday. '-■--A.rriVed-: ship Araby, 112 days' from London. . IJ. S. Swajtara, frpm JJobartqn, via^ Auckland Islands. THe German scientific party there obtained both the ingress and egress of Venus, and 120 photographs. ; , '.<*." Dfnedin, This day. A private company has been formed to 1 construct a line five miles in length to connect the Kaitangata, coalfield., with the Main South Dine at Balcluiha. Other private.railway companies being formed.