WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3378, 20 October 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

/ ... ■ ■■.:'■' Sunday night. A three-roomed cottage at Oriental Bay and occupied by James McNally was totally destroyod by fire last night. It is believed to have been insured, .in the South British for £1,000. Mcls Taliy is unable to account for the fire, which broke, out while he was absent from the house. More Unemployed. , The ship Zealandia With 346 immigrants arrived from London at noon to-day. She left on July 17lb, crossed the Equator

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on August 19, rounded Capo on Soptem* ber 15, and made Cape; Fiirewell on 17th October; Owing to two eases of mild chicken-pox, the ship lias not yel been cleared. Interesting 1 to Maxiasrs. The barque Alesa from Foo Chow with a cargo of ivn and Chinese curiosities arrived this nfternoon. She left on July 2Gtli, and encountered v typhoon on 31st, hut no danvigc was done; Cap!.. liobcrt states : On September Ist sighted a group of islands,,and proved to be-the Catlnrine i group, which aro laid down on the Admiralty chart, 1877. as being in O.leg. | 13niin. JN., and 162deg.]*;. He states the i group numbers six small islands, with water breaking between each, and that their position is BJeg. 57oiin. JN\, and lG4deg. 32min. E. On 7th September he sighted liangerik Is!o, and when he enme near the natives eauio out, but were timid and would not board. They vrera quite nude.